tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46161548498524971652024-03-13T23:05:40.509-05:00The Picket: The American Civil War 1861-1865Lesser known stories, events, and people of the American Civil War, North and South.SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-83849320325056487212013-12-14T13:20:00.001-06:002013-12-14T13:21:02.654-06:00Hello
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Wow! Another year already? My mother
use to say that as we grow older, time moves faster. I have found
this to be true. She never did say how one could slow time down
though! I suppose that is impossible. Now The Picket is two years
old.</div>
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This is the point where I should launch
into a self congratulatory oration extolling my many milestones and
seek the applause from my readers but I can't.
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Although the number of hits here has
grown tremendously and some of my posts show up more frequently in search
engines, I am ashamed of the lack of this years posts. I feel I have
let my regular readers down.</div>
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What started as a brief hiatus to
explore other eras of history has now stretched into a nine month
absence. If I had known this I would have posted an explanation at
the beginning rather than leave the readers hanging. So now I offer
my humble apology with the hope you all will pop in from time to time
in the future.</div>
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So what is in store for The Picket? I
am glad you asked! (… well maybe you didn't …) I have been
thinking about this for the last month, trying to figure out what to
do with it. I like what I do here, and the format of the small story
is very enjoyable to me. So I will not be changing that. The thing
that concerns me is the number of posts. Like I said, I am ashamed of
the number of posts this year and that aspect needs to improve
greatly. I just need to buckle down and do it. In fact, this post is
actually my way of beginning to get back into a rhythm of writing.
So, yes, there will be a <i><b>Year Three!</b></i></div>
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It also gives me a refresher on how to work the buttons on Blogger! I
<i><b>have </b></i>been away too long!</div>
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<b>Other
Stuff</b></div>
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Since most of the US is covered in snow and ice, I would like to
share this story on <i>A Snowball Fight</i> <em>at Dalton Georgia, </em>at the
Mississippians in the Confederate Army blog written by Championhilz.</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://mississippiconfederates.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/a-snowball-fight-at-dalton-georgia/">http://mississippiconfederates.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/a-snowball-fight-at-dalton-georgia/</a></div>
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I recommend you bookmark this blog as it is quite interesting. I have
been checking in on it for about a year and I enjoy it.<br />
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My story on the same battle can be found here:<br />
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<a href="http://wwwthepicket.blogspot.com/2012/03/battle-in-snow.html">http://wwwthepicket.blogspot.com/2012/03/battle-in-snow.html</a></div>
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And in the spirit of the season, I offer a rerun of my second post, <i>A
Christmas Conversation </i>here:<br />
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<a href="http://wwwthepicket.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-conversation.html">http://wwwthepicket.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-conversation.html</a></div>
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<br /><b>One
More Thing...</b></div>
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Did you think I wasn't going to post a picture??? In keeping with the season...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"A Christmas Dinner. A scene from the outer picket line." Edwin Forbes</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>So
Merry Christm</strong><strong>as !</strong></span></span></div>
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The Picket<br />
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Drawing from the Library of Congress:<br />
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http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.20741/?co=drwg</div>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-23198371274136163862013-03-09T22:18:00.000-06:002013-03-09T22:18:12.383-06:00OP-ED: Coloring Civil War Photos<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As
the title of this post suggests, this is merely my opinion. It is in
no way intended to offend or to judge anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
have mixed feelings concerning the colorization of Civil War era
photos or for that practice to be applied to images made prior to
color film. This is my personal taste. To me the black and white
picture has less distraction from other things beyond the true
subject, whatever that may be. I do realize that coloring can be
helpful to some in their study. It can be looked upon as a
progression of history and the study of it. </span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Colorizing
photos is not new and has been around in some fashion for nearly as
long as photography itself. Numerous examples can be found in the
Library of Congress Photo and Print Collection, as well as state
archives and historical society collections. They are generally
limited to tinting the faces of the subject to add more life or
adding some gold to a uniform. Over the last couple of years there
has been a trend to digitally colorize the photographs of the
American Civil War. Colorizing the old photos can, if done correctly,
bring out subtle features that may be difficult to see in the
original black and white. Folds in a uniform, texture of the cloth,
or a button lost in the shadows are enhanced by adding color. Even
the ground of a battlefield can be better appreciated with color
added. While not quite three dimensional, color seems to sharpen the
little things in a photograph. It is an art in its own right.</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Photography
of the mid Nineteenth century was a relatively new and interesting
art form. The photos generally had a central subject, or focal point,
that was intended to draw the viewer into the scene. The peripheral
objects such as grass, trees, tables, and tents were just that. They
just happened to be there. People viewing the photos at that time
knew what color the uniforms were, that the grass was green and the
sky was blue. Those things were taken for granted as they were not
the subject. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
Twenty-first century removes us from the color of 150 years ago, and
colorizing some of the portraits can be helpful to re-enactors,
modelers, and just plain folk. It is interesting to see uniforms with
rows of shiny brass buttons, or smoke curling from a campfire. Still,
much of the coloring is based on educated guess, especially when
dealing with Confederate uniforms. Now we can see, if not perfectly,
what the soldiers were wearing, the color of the tents, tables,and
what not. That is if the viewer does not get lost in the photograph
by taking in everything. A scene with a group of officers in front of
a tent now becomes the tent, what is in it? What is that lying on the
ground next to it? What kind of tree is that? Is that a dog in the
background? The officers suddenly become superfluous, lost in the
jumble of what once was the background. A good example of this can
be seen in the following image.</span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7rIhv8sW8lc/UTwB32TQFnI/AAAAAAAAAWU/2fIA4X9NCi4/s1600/Burnside+and+Staff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="392" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7rIhv8sW8lc/UTwB32TQFnI/AAAAAAAAAWU/2fIA4X9NCi4/s400/Burnside+and+Staff.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burnside with aides near Warrenton Virginia 1862</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">One
must look beyond the subject to the background to find the extra
soldiers inside the tent. The main subject, Ambrose Burnside and
aides is not appreciably lost. With color the men in the tent will
become more obvious and then become the subject. I have not seen this
in color, but it may come along. There are some photos that would
lend themselves well to color, such as the following. I believe it
has been color enhanced but I could not find a link to it.</span><br />
</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JKvMqOrldZc/UTwCeNkhNZI/AAAAAAAAAWc/E1XnGIpPKYs/s1600/110th+Pennsylvania.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="252" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JKvMqOrldZc/UTwCeNkhNZI/AAAAAAAAAWc/E1XnGIpPKYs/s400/110th+Pennsylvania.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">110th Pennsylvania Infantry near Falmouth, Virginia, December 1862</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In
this image the subject is the soldiers, so color can enhance it
without destroying the original intent of the photographer. So yes, I
am all aboard for colorizing images such as these, although with the
first example it can be a trade off between the original intent and
the modern need to harness the images for newer interests and
purposes or just pure curiosity. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Adding
color to the images of casualties, some of which are quite grisly,
seems to be the new order of the day. Copyright considerations do not
allow me to add colored versions of images such as the following, but
they are beginning to appear. A color version of this image can be
<span style="color: black;">seen <a href="http://images.historyinfullcolor.com/p970207249/h11a0489#h11a0489" target="_blank">here </a> .</span></span><br />
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</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pnyDIbu5Qd8/UTwDq36mmOI/AAAAAAAAAWk/9_Y7BD2Jfhc/s1600/Antietam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="323" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pnyDIbu5Qd8/UTwDq36mmOI/AAAAAAAAAWk/9_Y7BD2Jfhc/s400/Antietam.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dead Confederates at Antietam</td></tr>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Casualty
photos were new in the Civil War. The imagery of the conflict was
largely sanitized and bloodless until after the battle of Antietam in
the Autumn of 1862. Then things changed. The photographer Alexander
Gardner had been there and soon his images would be on display at
Matthew Brady's studio in New York City. The world outside of the
immediate vicinity of a battlefield would soon see what war was. Many
families had already been touched by the war prior to Antietam and
knew of death or brutal wounds but even they were not familiar with
the stark reality depicted in Gardner's work. As a New York Times
reporter wrote on October 20, 1862:</span><br />
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Crowds
of people are constantly going up the stairs; follow them, and you
find them bending </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>over
photographic views of that fearful battle-field, taken immediately
after the action. Of all the objects of horror one would think the
battle-field preeminent, that it should bear away the palm of repulsiveness. But, on the contrary, there is a terrible fascination
about it that draws one near these pictures, and makes him loath to
leave them. You will see hushed, reverent groups standing around
these weird copies of carnage, bending down to look in the pale faces
of the dead, chained by some strange spell that dwells in dead men's
eyes. It seems somewhat singular that the same sun that looked down
on the faces of the slain, blistering them, blotting out from the
bodies all semblance of humanity, and hastening corruption, should
have thus caught their features upon canvas, and given them
perpetuity for ever. But it is so.[1]</i></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Perhaps
it is this same <i>“terrible fascination” </i>that is leading to
the coloring of the casualty images. This is where I become
uncomfortable with the work. Some of it is well done with only some
darkening on the uniform around the wounds. They are not much
different than the original. It is my opinion that these images
should not be modernized with color, especially some of the more
ghastly ones. My opinion may be influenced by the distance of 150
years between the event and today and I have seen the images for many
years. The originals are quite terrible enough as they are. The
distance of time and my familiarity with the images does not lessen
the terrible aspect of the images. The original purpose of them was
to show the horrors of the battlefield. They did, and they do, that
quite effectively without addition. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Perhaps
I am missing the intent behind coloring the dead. Perhaps, but I do
have to ask: what benefit can we derive from coloring them?</span></div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">As
you see, I do see the benefits of coloring portraits and camp scenes
but it is the dead that I have reservations about. If it advances the
scholarship of history I will be all for it. For now though I just do
not see it. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I
will stick with the black and white, for you see, I know grass is
green, the sky is blue... And blood is red.</span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Picket</span><br />
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For
images from the 19<sup>th</sup> century to the present, including
Civil War casualties, see the following link. Images colorized and
for sale.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://images.historyinfullcolor.com/allphotos"><span style="color: blue;">http://images.historyinfullcolor.com/allphotos</span></a>
</span>
</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">For
other color Civil War images and discussion of them, see the forum at
Civil War Talk. Com. Ones marked as “GRAPHIC” are casualties. By
looking through the other threads in that forum one can see the value
of color for people looking for authenticity in their re enacting or
modeling endeavors.</span><br />
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://civilwartalk.com/forums/colorized-period-photographs.139/">http://civilwartalk.com/forums/colorized-period-photographs.139/</a>
</span>
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<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">1-
New York Times, October 20, 1862, from
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1862/10/20/news/brady-s-photographs-pictures-of-the-dead-at-antietam.html?scp=84&sq=matthew+brady&st=p">http://www.nytimes.com/1862/10/20/news/brady-s-photographs-pictures-of-the-dead-at-antietam.html?scp=84&sq=matthew+brady&st=p</a></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Images
from the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Burnside
“Warrenton, Virginia, General Ambrose E. Burnside and staff
officers” from <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003004807/PP/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003004807/PP/</a>
Alexander Garner, photographer</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
“<span style="font-size: small;">Camp
of the 110<sup>th</sup> Pennsylvania Infantry, Near Falmouth,
Virginia, December 1862 from </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011645181/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011645181/</a>
photographer unknown</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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“<span style="font-size: small;">Antietam,
Maryland; Bodies of Confederate dead gathered for burial” from</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000134/PP/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000134/PP/</a>
Alexander Gardner, photographer </span>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-55343078082141424222013-02-27T11:31:00.000-06:002013-03-03T09:14:05.531-06:00Other News For February, 1863<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
<i>Adams Sentinel </i><span style="font-style: normal;">(Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania) was not unlike other newspapers in that its pages were
filled with news of the present conflict. On this evening of February
3, 1863, they could have no inkling that the town it served would
become the headline. Here is what the paper brought its readers in
Other News:</span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Locusts
Coming This Year</b></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Joseph
Harris writes to the St. Clairsville (Ohio)Chronicle that the locust
will be on hand this year, it being the 17<sup>th</sup> since their
last appearance. He says:</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Pharaoh locust made their first appearance on the wing May 19, 1846;
on the 23<sup>rd</sup> commenced singing;on the 31<sup>st</sup>
commenced boring the trees and laying eggs. June 6, commenced dying;
the males first. On the 25<sup>th</sup> all dead. (Taken from notes
taken at the above dates.)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
year there will be locusts in abundance. Prepare your small trees by
tying them up with straw for 25 days and you are safe, if you do it
right.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">[1]</span></span><br />
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Sentinel also reported of an interesting, yet disgraceful episode
that occurred in the United States Senate. Under discussion was a
bill pertaining to political arrests and the suspension of the writ
of habeus corpus. This short article is a followup to the main
disturbance and bears no headline: </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, Mr. Clark of Rhode Island, introduced a
preamble and resolution,stating that Senator Saulsbury had behaved in
a turbulent and disorderly manner when called to order by the Vice
President, and had drawn a pistol and threatened to shoot the
Sergeant at Arms, and that such conduct being disgraceful to the
Senate, and destructive of all order and decorum, that said Senator
be expelled from the Senate. The resolution was laid over.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>On
Thursday,Senator Saulsbury, having apparently returned to a sound
state of mind, apologized for his conduct in the Senate on Tuesday
last. It is probable that the resolution for his expulsion will not
now be called up.</i></span><br />
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
account of the tumult is related across the page, and the tirade is
full of anti- Lincoln venom. Statements from Saulsbury include:</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>(Saulsbury)
stated that Mr. Lincoln was the weakest man ever placed in high
office. He said he had been in conversation with him, and knew he was
an imbecile.</i></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>(Saulsbury)
if he wanted to paint a despot,he would paint the hideous form of
Abraham Lincoln.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">[2]</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
entire scene seems to have played out over several hours with the
disgruntled Saulsbury being escorted from, then returning to the
chamber several times. He was finally removed once and for all.
Willard Saulsbury Sr. was a Democrat from Delaware. The resolution to
expel him in fact was never taken up and he remained in office until
1871.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BOIbT1te6d0/US47kFjJZRI/AAAAAAAAAVc/I7-nNADLR44/s1600/Saulsbury2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BOIbT1te6d0/US47kFjJZRI/AAAAAAAAAVc/I7-nNADLR44/s400/Saulsbury2.jpg" width="337" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Willard Saulsbury Sr.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pittsburgh
Gazette </i>Reports some mischief on February 26:</span></div>
<br />
<div align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Snowballers
Arrested</b></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Two
boys named Edward Fennity and – Howard were yesterday arrested for
throwing snowballs at a man who was driving through the streets of
Allegheny. The man declined to prosecute, and the boys were let off
on paying the costs.</i></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The paper also warns of a scam
that the authorities feel may be in its early stages:</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
few days since a rather good looking girl was engaged as a domestic
at the residence of a gentleman on Penn Street, and worked well until
the evening of the second day, when she suddenly disappeared,
carrying away a set of fine furs, some dresses and some other
clothing belonging to the lady of the house – together with her
jewelry box,containing a valuable gold watch, three sets of jewelry,
and other articles , worth probably $250. It is now believed that the
whole affair was a well arranged scheme of robbery – that the girl
had a confederate in the business, and that she will endeavor to play
the same game upon others.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">[3]</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span> </div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">George B. McClellan was seen in Boston, Massachusetts and the <i>Boston Evening Transcript </i>of February 6 reported two instances:</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lMrkNieLtdM/US48Ny4I_aI/AAAAAAAAAVk/Rdnj_1iL_K8/s1600/McClellan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lMrkNieLtdM/US48Ny4I_aI/AAAAAAAAAVk/Rdnj_1iL_K8/s400/McClellan.jpg" width="321" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>General
McClellan visited the Everette School today, and was of course
enthusiastically received by the little folks, to whom he was
introduced by the teacher as <b>“the savior of his country.” </b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mac
being Mac. [4]</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Another sighting found him at 11
o'clock on a special train bound for Salem.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">At
Lynn a large concourse of people were gathered to see him and a
salute of 13 guns was fired. On his arrival at Salem a salute was
also fired, and the pressure of the crowd at the railroad station
made a passage through it very difficult. He was driven at once to
the Essex House, and was there introduced to a large number of the
prominent citizens. Col. Goodrich of Gen. Burnside's staff, and other
soldiers who had seen service, were also present. Gen. McClellan was
afterward entertained at the house of Geo. Peabody, Esq., and
returned to this city </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">[Boston]
</span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">during the
afternoon.</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Last
evening Gen. McClellan was presented with a very handsome sword, with
a richly chased hilt containing a diamond. The sword was purchased at
a cost of several hundred dollars by some of his friends in this
city, and was presented by the Citizens Committee. No speeches were
made, but a letter from the Committee requesting his acceptance of
the weapon was read by one of their number. The General afterward
attended a soiree at a private residence.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">[5]</span></span><br />
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">McClellan at his finest no
doubt. He may have been cultivating prominent citizens in an effort
to return to command of the Amy of the Potomac or to the army in some
other capacity. It surely appears that way.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The <i>Daily Journal </i>at
Wilmington North Carolina got wind of the story and offered this in
the February 7 issue, via the <i>Richmond Whig. It</i> questions
McClellan motives:</span></div>
<br />
<div align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Yankee
Generals</b></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
two dismissed Yankee heroes, McClellan and Burnside, are having a
pleasant time down East. McClellan is in Bosting, hob-nobbing with
the cod-fish aristocracy of the ancient Burg. He has been honored
with a series of grand receptions,by Ed. H. Elridge,</i><span style="font-style: normal;">(Eldredge)</span><i>
Esq., Wm. Gray, Esq., Mr. Wolcott and Mr. Lawrence – 800 invited
guests, refreshments. He had visited Cambridge, attended by that
prince of flunkies, the Honorable Edward Everett, and was promised a
grand demonstration in Faneuil Hall. “Those who have had the good
fortune to meet the General (says Jenkins) are uniform in their
commendations of the man. Though not a brilliant conversationalist,
he is unmistakably a sensible man – which is much better.”</i></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
motive of this visit to the Puritans is yet a secret. These are the
people that had McClellan dismissed, and have persecuted all
connected with him. Does he seek to humiliate them by extorting
ovations, or is he seeking a restoration to the command of the Army,
by a public <span style="font-size: small;">acknowledgment
of the supremacy of the genuine Yankee?<span style="font-style: normal;">[6]</span></span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This
was only half of the short article reporting on the trip, and it was no more flattering to Burnside in the other half. </span>
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Boston trip was made at the invitation of conservative Republicans
there. Perhaps the article in the <i>Daily Journal </i>was correct in
its assumption that McClellan was gaining a measure of satisfaction
at the Boston elites, and the Republican Party's, expense. The
Republicans may have found themselves with their collective heads in
a noose. If they could cozy up to McClellan, the soldiers might tend
to vote for their party. Affection for Mac was still high in the Army
of the Potomac. After the Battle of Fredericksburg, Francis Blair
Sr. wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln dated the December 18 urging
him to give McClellan a high command, preferably the Army of the
Potomac:</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
must look to the army as a great political as well as war machine.
The soldiers are to give us success in the field and at the polls.
McClellan is dear to them. He will bring them to the support of the
country & you.” </i>[7] The Republicans needed Mac.</span></div>
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</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eZXh-uqN9bk/US49cSZ7tzI/AAAAAAAAAVs/Erz6-0udtfc/s1600/Mac+Campaign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eZXh-uqN9bk/US49cSZ7tzI/AAAAAAAAAVs/Erz6-0udtfc/s400/Mac+Campaign.jpg" width="315" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Democratic Presidential Campaign - 1864</td></tr>
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<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
</i><div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">McClellan
may have began nursing his political aspirations during the Winter of
1862 – 63, and the trip to Boston was a way for him to gain some
traction. It is interesting that McClellan was living in New York
City (Manhattan) and was often seen in company of several prominent
conservative Democrats, including John Jacob Astor who had been a
volunteer on his staff during the Peninsular Campaign as well as
other friends, old and new, who were influential Democrats. It would
not be uncommon to continue long standing relations with those men.
Still, it may have given the Republicans pause. New York City
newspapers followed his movements as did numerous other papers around
the country.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
</span><br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">And
there was :</span></div>
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</div>
<div align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The
War</b></span></div>
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</div>
<div align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Scientific American </i><span style="font-style: normal;">of February
21 brings news of a new implement of devastation:</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VVJUVjMu5tE/US4-WUyv0iI/AAAAAAAAAV0/THOU3hG4jjk/s1600/machine+gun+1863.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="307" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VVJUVjMu5tE/US4-WUyv0iI/AAAAAAAAAV0/THOU3hG4jjk/s400/machine+gun+1863.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crozier's Patent Automatic Battery</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><em>All that is necessary, then, in this battery, is to work the handle up and down,and the battery vomits forth a discharge of bullets which is truly terrible to contemplate in its destructive power. </em><span style="font-style: normal;">[8] </span></span></div>
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</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MkezPocbem8/US4-4ZZxUAI/AAAAAAAAAV8/lqy0FdlOjJ0/s1600/recruit+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MkezPocbem8/US4-4ZZxUAI/AAAAAAAAAV8/lqy0FdlOjJ0/s400/recruit+poster.jpg" width="280" /></a></div>
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</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
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</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Although
the Seventh Indiana (119<sup>th</sup> Regiment of Volunteers) did not
muster in until October 1863, news of the Enrollment Act was being
spread in the Northern press in February. The act was signed by
Lincoln March 3, and posters like this would blossom across the
country during the late Winter and Spring of 1863.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
The Picket</div>
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</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<strong>Sources</strong></div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">1-The
Adams Sentinel, February 3, 1863 (image 2) from Google news</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SDNreWq1RjYC&dat=18630203&printsec=frontpage&hl=en">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SDNreWq1RjYC&dat=18630203&printsec=frontpage&hl=en</a>
</span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">2-ibid</span></div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">3-
The Daily Pittsburgh Gazette, February 26, 1863, images 2 and 3 at
Google news,
<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=TNEldfgDb5MC&dat=18630226&printsec=frontpage&hl=en">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=TNEldfgDb5MC&dat=18630226&printsec=frontpage&hl=en</a>
</span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">4-Boston
Evening Transcript, February 6, 1863, image 2 from Google
news.google.com
<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=sArNgO4T4MoC&dat=18630206&printsec=frontpage&hl=en">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=sArNgO4T4MoC&dat=18630206&printsec=frontpage&hl=en</a>
</span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">5-
Ibid, image 4</span></div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">6-
Daily Journal, Wilmington North Carolina, February 7, 1863 image 2
from Google news.google.com
<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Cew3JUE5alsC&dat=18630207&printsec=frontpage&hl=en">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Cew3JUE5alsC&dat=18630207&printsec=frontpage&hl=en</a>
</span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">7-
Sears, Stephen W., <i>George B. McClellan The Young Napoleon, </i>1988,
page 351</span></div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">8-
The Scientific American, February 21, 1863, page 1 and 2 from
Internet Archives,
<a href="http://archive.org/stream/scientific-american-1863-02-21/scientific-american-v08-n08-1863-02-21#page/n0/mode/2up">http://archive.org/stream/scientific-american-1863-02-21/scientific-american-v08-n08-1863-02-21#page/n0/mode/2up</a>
</span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Broadside
from Indiana Historical Society, Civil War Materials collection,
<a href="http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/dc008&CISOPTR=202&CISOBOX=1&REC=9">http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/dc008&CISOPTR=202&CISOBOX=1&REC=9</a>
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">McClellan
and Saulsbury from the Library of Congress</span></div>
</div>
SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-65262346554249270142013-02-23T19:28:00.000-06:002013-02-23T19:28:14.202-06:00The Soldier of Indiana- The Teeple Boys<span style="font-size: small;">Indiana sent over 200,000 soldiers to war between 1861 and 1865. They served in all arms, including the Indiana Legion and the United States Navy. Many of these men would have there photographs taken to send to the folks back home. Striking warlike poses, these images are frozen in time and quite often in eternal youth. Some would be the last, perhaps the only visual reference to the individual. Such may be the case with the following soldier.</span><br />
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OvvFfwz-S2s/USlnDtKDyqI/AAAAAAAAAU8/wb-9E3vPWXo/s1600/Elias+Teeple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OvvFfwz-S2s/USlnDtKDyqI/AAAAAAAAAU8/wb-9E3vPWXo/s640/Elias+Teeple.jpg" width="553" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elias Teeple Company C, 11th Indiana Cavalry, likely 1864</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Elias
Teeple, Company “C”, Eleventh (126 Regiment) Indiana Volunteer
Cavalry was perhaps 18 years old at the time of this photograph. He
was enrolled as a recruit in April of 1864.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Eleventh began mustering in September 1863 but would not be filled
until March 1, 1864 at which time the regiment was mustered into
Federal service. Their first movement outside of the state began May
1, when they were transferred by rail to Nashville, Tennessee, with
the majority of the regiment without mounts. They would remain at
Nashville, in camp of instruction until June 1, when they <i>marched
</i><span style="font-style: normal;">to North Alabama for duty along
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. In mid October the 11</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span><i>marched </i><span style="font-style: normal;">back to
Nashville and finally received their mounts. They were to be employed
as scouts, couriers, and chasing guerillas. On November 21 they were
officially attached to the Fifth Cavalry Division, (Brigadier general
Edward Hatch). At some point in the ensuing weeks, young Teeple was
wounded, and he would succumb January 5, 1865. It is unknown where he
received his wounds as official records are largely silent on the
actions of the regiment during its time of service, and no regimental
history is available. The Adjutant General of Indiana states that the
regiment was involved during the Nashville- Franklin campaign(the time frame
Teeple was wounded) and participated in the pursuit of Hood's
retreating army. The Eleventh would again be dismounted and placed on
duty near Gravely Springs, Alabama, in January 1865 and remain there
until February 7. At that time it removed to Eastport, Mississippi
and remained there(presumably still afoot) until mid May. At that
time they transferred to the Trans- Mississippi, and were remounted
for duty in Missouri and Kansas. The men were mustered out of Federal
service at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, on September 19, 1865. Their
final muster out, receipt of payment due, and discharge was at
Indianapolis on September 28, 1865. The boys were home again but they
left behind them 174 comrades, 13 killed or died of wounds. The
remainder, including Henry B. Teeple, who died at Indianapolis, April
2, 1864, (before the Eleventh left Indiana) and Samuel Teeple, who
died March 6, 1865 at New Albany, Indiana died of disease or other
causes. They may have been near cousins to Elias. The 1850 census
lists them in different households and they are quite a few years
older than Elias who was 5 years old in 1850. A fourth man, James B.
Teeple, almost assuredly the brother of Henry and Samuel, survived
the war. All four soldiers were offered up by the town of Pleasant
Mills, Adams county. They are listed by the 1850 census as being
either farmers or laborers ranging in age at that time from 5 (Elias)
to 24 years (Samuel).</span></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uCwBuMfvdzo/USloAQBqPkI/AAAAAAAAAVE/GZ4Efjefy24/s1600/James+B+and+Samuel+Teeple+small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uCwBuMfvdzo/USloAQBqPkI/AAAAAAAAAVE/GZ4Efjefy24/s640/James+B+and+Samuel+Teeple+small.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James B. Teeple (left) and Samuel Teeple Company C, 11th Indiana Cavalry</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br /></span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
is the beginning of a side project to be known as The Soldier of
Indiana (catchy, huh?)which will be accompanied by two others. They
will be The Soldier of Illinois and the Soldier of Kentucky, CSA/USA.
There are several goals for the projects. First is to bring the
individuals to light as a way to honor them and the regiment they
served with. The Eleventh had not been around long enough to garner
everlasting fame outside of their own communities. They are being
lost to history. That is the case with many regiments from all states
North and South. </span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Another
goal is to gather as many of the photos to one place as possible, so as to save
time chasing around <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">different
sites. In that way I hope to aid genealogists in finding photos of
their relatives. I also hope to help other researchers in finding
photos of the men from these states. </span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Finally
I hope to make some of these regiments more interesting than Fred
Dyer offered in his Compendium. The photos are the basis for this. Of
course information is limited in many instances. I hope to find
something to enhance the history of the “lost” regiments however.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">They
are lofty goals, but hopefully in time they will be achieved. Your
help would be greatly appreciated. Any repository with digital
collections will be a great asset to the project, so pass along any links.
If you have a photo in your collection you can scan, that would be
great too!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And
I am always looking for diaries and letters!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
Picket</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Elias
photo from The Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of
Civil War Photographs, <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010648765/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010648765/</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;">James
and Samuel photo from Find A Grave</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=17695579&PIpi=5126138">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=17695579&PIpi=5126138</a>
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Regiment sources include:</div>
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Report of the Adjutant General of the
State of Indiana, Volumes 3 and 7 at Google books
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Dyers Compendium (1908) from Hathi
Trust <a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000451327">http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000451327</a>
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Census information from the USGenWeb
Free Census Project/ Indiana Adams County at
<a href="http://usgwcensus.org/cenfiles/in.htm">http://usgwcensus.org/cenfiles/in.htm</a>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-1513177909015938802013-02-14T21:48:00.000-06:002013-02-14T21:48:36.928-06:00Appearing On Another Blogroll! And Thank You!
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I
would like to thank Steve Light, the author of the “Battlefield
Back Stories” blog for adding <i>The Picket </i><span style="font-style: normal;">to
his blogroll. I am honored to be listed on such a fine site!</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
actually found “Battlefield Back Stories” about six weeks ago and
immediately placed it on my blogroll. It usually takes me a while to
“size up” a blog but this one took no time at all! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">For
those of you who have not found it yet, I encourage you to click his
link in my blogroll, especially if you enjoy reading and studying the
Battle of Gettysburg. Mr. Light focuses on the battle, and as the
name implies, the Back Stories of the men who fought there. It tells
their story in relation to the larger scheme of the battle, and they
are the focal point of the story. It is quite a refreshing change to
see the individual brought to the fore, and the generals, strategies,
and statistics are pushed to the background. That does not mean it
will be of little interest to the hard core aficionado or scholar.
The stories are always set in context which enables the reader to
follow the battle in the larger sense if they so desire. Mr. Light
also gives news of events that are happening today, but this is a
secondary concern. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
would also like to say that it is not a “morning coffee” blog. It
does get involved at times, so with this one you should allow
yourself some time to enjoy it. Lunch, perhaps? </span></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> Since
I found this blog too late for inclusion on my last Blogroll Update
post, I hereby give official notice and review of this fine blog.
Longtime readers will know that this is not a “trade” just
because I was added to the Battlefield Back Stories list. I <span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><div align="LEFT" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">regularly
call attention to the blogs on my roll and this is nothing unusual.
It will be a while before the next update though so to thank him I
bumped it up a few months.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Here at <i>The Picket, </i>plans are in the works for
quite a major undertaking. I am going to try and highlight some of
the Indiana regiments service, infantry and cavalry, during the Civil
War. If anyone knows of good sources for the artillery, please let me
know. I would like to include them as well. I have been working on
the Third Cavalry, Sixth and Twenty- fifth infantry. There is a lot
of work finding sources so this project may never see the light of
day. You never know. I am also going to focus in on the Carolina's
for a post or two especially late '62 early '63. And the usual stuff
will continue. Monthly installments of Other News, poetry, and
interesting individuals will still make an appearance. And Adam
Rankin Johnson is about due for another post! </span>
</div>
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</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Writing for school tends to take time away from the
blog, and I work for a living, so the frequency of posts is slipping
somewhat. I am still here though, so bear with me and stay tuned!</span></div>
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</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Check out Battlefield Back Stories!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The Picket</span></div>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-41911817521666585772013-02-01T14:12:00.000-06:002013-02-01T14:13:36.934-06:00A Word From The Picket<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This
is a bit off topic but I wanted to pass it on to you , loyal reader.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I
added, with some hesitancy, <i>The Picket </i><span style="font-style: normal;">to
Networked Blogs.</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
am glad I did for the following reason: I found that this is a great
resource for finding ACW blogs! </span></span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Many
of the well known blogs are listed but a lot of lesser known blogs
are represented as well. A few from my blog roll are on the list.
There are literally hundreds of blogs to dig through, but be
forewarned, some of the blogs are no longer active or are seldom
posted to. That does not mean they are useless places to check out
though. By way of example, </span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Picket </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">comes
in at #52 through a search for “American Civil War”. Blogs above
that are generally active and those below were inactive, at least those I looked at were. So I guess I am at the bottom of the barrel!</span></span></span><br />
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
thing I like most about it is the search function. Just type in
“American Civil War” or “Civil War” and there you have a long
list of blogs and some websites dedicated to the war or a peripheral
aspect such as genealogy or living history. I am sure you will find
something worth bookmarking! You do not have to stay on Networked
Blogs to read them, links directly to the blog are provided. </span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
also like the ranking system, if it can be called that. Blogs with
more followers list higher for more exposure. If one does not have a
lot of time to browse, the high placement shows what other people
like and you can read them during lunch or before you head to work.
Bear in mind that there are lots of blogs on the list that do not
rank high up but are still fine places to stop and read. </span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Civil
War Saga </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and
</span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">My Civil War
Obsession </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">spring
quickly to mind. Another good thing is that activity plays a part in
placement on the list. There are some good blogs that have numerous
followers, but due to inactivity they have slipped down the list,
even below me! The combination of the two points of reference give a
fair exposure to lesser known blogs that are active. One does not
have to wade through a bunch of blogs that have many followers but
have not been posted to in months or even years to find the unknowns.
It helps them tremendously.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There
are drawbacks with the list. Sometimes a “stray” will creep in. I
found one blog dealing with gardening through a “Civil War”
search. With that same search I also found blogs dealing with modern
civil wars like in Syria. The more specific the search the better
result.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Other
drawbacks are the fact that it is linked to Facebook (I thought long
and hard about adding </span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Picket </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">to
the list simply for that fact) and you have to join Networked Blogs.
</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">After
seeing that several of the blogs I read are using it I decided to
give it a try. I was surprised that once I signed in using Facebook I
was not really on Facebook (I don't think) so I did not mind so much.
I do wish they had another way in though. You do not have to author a
blog to join. I would imagine most of the people there are just
followers, much like Google Friend Connect. </span></span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
do admit that I joined with the hope of increasing my number of loyal
readers. Even if that does not happen I at least found a decent list
of blogs about the Civil War.The added bonus of so many blogs was a pleasant surprise! The five minutes it took to join was
worth that. And that makes it worth sharing with you. I hope this is
not “old news” to you all.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
would say it is the “Mother of All Blog Rolls”! Try it out!</span></span></span></div>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L3wcu-QQh4I/UQwfmXwsOEI/AAAAAAAAAUk/OdY5xCbklq8/s1600/Burnside+Reading+paper+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L3wcu-QQh4I/UQwfmXwsOEI/AAAAAAAAAUk/OdY5xCbklq8/s400/Burnside+Reading+paper+2.jpg" width="391" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ambrose Burnside reading the blog of the 19th century.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Picket</span></span></span><br />
<strong>Photo:
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ambrose
E. Burnside and Matthew Brady (near tree) June 11 or 12, 1864 from</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/cwp2003000159/PP/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/cwp2003000159/PP/</a>
</span></span></span><br />
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-62178009617264472412013-01-30T22:26:00.000-06:002013-01-30T22:26:38.439-06:00Other News For January, 1863
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
new year brought much the same story as the old. The battles at
Stone's River and Fredericksburg still commanded much space. Letters
from soldier correspondents were beginning to reach hometown
newspapers and the sad lists of dead and injured brought much sadness
to the reader. The war had long before became an all consuming
feature of nearly every American’s life. The signing of the
Emancipation Proclamation vied for space with the battles and
casualty lists. The following is some of the “Other News” that
did find its way into print.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The
January 22 issue of <i><b>The Highland Weekly News</b></i><i>,</i>
(Hillsborough,Ohio) belatedly reports of the admission of “Western”
Virginia on January 1, giving some particulars of admittance.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Forty-eight
counties of Virginia constitute the new state,which, in 1860 had a
population of 350,000, including 13,000 slaves. All children born of
slave parents after March 4, 1863 are declared free, and all under 10
years of age to be free at 25,no slave hereafter to come into the
state for permanent residence.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">[1]
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q2wKoCGM2Eg/UQnoKapGaCI/AAAAAAAAATM/3H3uLiRtTlU/s1600/1st+Reg+West+Va+V+Vols.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q2wKoCGM2Eg/UQnoKapGaCI/AAAAAAAAATM/3H3uLiRtTlU/s400/1st+Reg+West+Va+V+Vols.jpg" width="388" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flag of the First Regiment, West Virginia Veteran Volunteer Infantry</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
paper did indicate the wrong date for newborns to be considered free
as it was actually July 4, 1863 and the date it was signed into law
was December 31, 1862. </span><span style="color: #7e0021;"><span style="font-style: normal;">**</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">Thus West Virginia would soon
join Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, and Missouri as a slave state in
the Union. Gradual emancipation is mandated however. The state did
not technically receive statehood at the time this was written. It is
reporting that Abraham Lincoln had signed the statehood bill into
law. A vote of the citizens on March 26, 1863 approved the bill and
West Virginia officially entered the Union on June 20, 1863. <span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This paper also informs its
readers that a new bridge being built across the Ohio River between
Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky will cost $500,000 and take
15 to 18 months to complete. [2]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The <i><b>New York Daily Tribune</b></i><i>
</i>(extra edition)<i> </i>describes the arrest of a man for the
assault of another:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Brutal
Assault-- </b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
man named James Dalton was arrested yesterday, charged with
assaulting Daniel Scott, at the residence of the latter, No. 159
South Second Street. It appeared upon an examination, that the
parties were engaged in a fight, and that the accused bit Scott's
nose completely off. He was held to answer. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">This
occurred in Brooklyn, and it was front page material. [3]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>
</b></span><i><b>Tiffin Weekly Tribune</b> </i><span style="font-style: normal;">(Tiffin,
Ohio) on January 2 issues a call for firewood, by offer and by
warning:</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wood
or Money!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Those
subscribers who promised to bring us wood in pay for the </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Tribune
</span><i>will have to bring it in soon, or we will be obliged to pay
out money for wood, and of course will require pay in money. Now is a
good time for those who have not yet taken our paper, to fetch us a
load of good wood,and we will send them the </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Tribune
</span><i>for one year. We are entirely out of wood-- the last stick
is in the stove-- so don't let us freeze.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">[4]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span> </div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The <i><b>Richmond</b></i><i>
</i>(Virginia) <i><b>Daily Dispatch</b></i><i> </i>of January 16<i>
</i>tells of an Illinois soldier, a deserter, foiled in his flight
toward home: via <i>The Louisville Journal</i></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nicely
Caught</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>An
Illinois soldier deserted from his regiment in Kentucky, and, forging
a pass,succeeded in passing the guards at this city, and arrived in
New Albany on Wednesday as a paroled prisoner. </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There,
however, as we learn from the </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Ledger,
</span><i>he was overhauled by the Provost Guard and asked for his
pass. “I've got a parole sir,” he replied to the guard, “here
it is” showing him the forged document, which was signed “ <b>Curby
</b>Smith”.The guard carefully examined it, then turning upon the
sucker he said: “No you don't, old fellow; that parole is humbug.
Kirby Smith has pretty much quit spelling his name <b>Curby</b>.”
Illinois [acknowledged] the corn and said he had paid ten dollars for
the parole, but thought the man who wrote it knew how to spell Kirby
Smith's name.-- He was sent to the barracks in this city.</i></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
</span><i>Dispatch </i><span style="font-style: normal;">also gives a
bit of good news in the city:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lucky
Escape</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>On
Wednesday, about 2 o'clock, as a small lad named George Burgess, aged
five years, was playing hide-and-seek on the premises of Mr. Geo. L.
Earnest, on 25<sup>th</sup> Street,Union Hill, the boards covering an
old well on which he happened to be standing, gave way, and
precipitated him to the bottom, a distance of thirty feet. In his
descent he fell against and broke a stout scantling placed across the
middle of the well. The water was five feet deep,but by some means he
managed to secure a foot hold and just keep his head above water. The
occurrence caused a large and excited crowd to assemble, none of whom
volunteered to rescue the lad,till a small boy named Jimmy Wright
appeared, and generously offered to undertake it. A rope being
secured to a bucket he was let down and he soon appeared [at the] top
with Burgess, a fellow passenger. He was not only thanked, but
rewarded by the overjoyed parents of the imperiled lad.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">[5]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
January 8 edition of the </span><i><b>Fayetteville Observer</b>
</i><span style="font-style: normal;">(Tennessee) reported a smallpox
outbreak at Chattanooga and some east Tennessee counties. The paper
urges the city officials of Fayetteville to implement vaccination, to
“render it comparatively harmless” should the disease reach their
city.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">And from across the waves, <i><b>Punch </b></i><i></i>gives this conversation from “Spirit- Land” in the January 10 issue. This accompanied a short sketch of a longer conversation between the ghosts of George Washington and King George III discussing the“revolution in America”.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YMnrB_5y3UY/UQnqkbOakgI/AAAAAAAAATk/uapEICfR9GQ/s1600/Punch+Jan+10+1863.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YMnrB_5y3UY/UQnqkbOakgI/AAAAAAAAATk/uapEICfR9GQ/s640/Punch+Jan+10+1863.jpg" width="472" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>And as always...</strong> </span>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lqst_jX5Tlc/UQnrFwH3f_I/AAAAAAAAATs/9NC8-51t3LA/s1600/Hospital+Mortality+list+Jan+1863.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lqst_jX5Tlc/UQnrFwH3f_I/AAAAAAAAATs/9NC8-51t3LA/s400/Hospital+Mortality+list+Jan+1863.jpg" width="336" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Partial list of 2nd Corps soldiers who died in hospital near Falmouth, Virginia. Dateline January 4, 1863</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b9B8N4fDPCI/UQnu9wzaBXI/AAAAAAAAAUE/MwdwlTi0FAU/s1600/Casulty+list+Jan+8+1862.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="295" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b9B8N4fDPCI/UQnu9wzaBXI/AAAAAAAAAUE/MwdwlTi0FAU/s400/Casulty+list+Jan+8+1862.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Washington, Dateline January 6, 1863</td></tr>
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The Picket</div>
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<strong>Sources</strong></div>
<strong></strong><div align="left" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">1- <i>The Highland Weekly News,
</i>January 22, 1862, page 1 column 2<i>
</i><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov</a>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2- Ibid, page 2 column 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3- <i>The New York Daily
Tribune, </i>January 2, 1863, page 1, column 2. Library of Congress,
<a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov</a></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4- <i>The Tiffin Weekly Tribune,
</i>January 2, 1863, page 3 column 2, Library of
Congress,<a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87076793/1863-01-02/ed-1/seq-1/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87076793/1863-01-02/ed-1/seq-1/</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5-<i>The Richmond Daily
Dispatch,</i>January 16, 1863,
<a href="http://dlxs.richmond.edu/d/ddr/browse.html">http://dlxs.richmond.edu/d/ddr/browse.html</a>
</span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6- <i>The Fayetteville Observer,
</i>January 8, 1863, page 2, column 1. Library of Congress,
<a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033395/1863-01-08/ed-1/seq-2/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033395/1863-01-08/ed-1/seq-2/</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7- <i>Punch, </i>January 10,
1863, volume 44, page 15
<a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015055217163;page=root;seq=25;view=2up;size=100;orient=0;num=3#page/14/mode/2up">http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015055217163;page=root;seq=25;view=2up;size=100;orient=0;num=3#page/14/mode/2up</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7e0021;"><span style="font-size: small;">**<span style="color: black;">From</span>
<span style="color: black;">West Virginia Division of Culture and History,
West Virginia Archives and History at</span>
<a href="http://www.wvculture.org/history/statehoo.html">http://www.wvculture.org/history/statehoo.html</a><span style="color: black;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7e0021;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Flag
of the First Regiment West Virginia Veteran Volunteer Infantry, from
</span><a href="http://www.wvculture.org/agency/press/battleflags.html">http://www.wvculture.org/agency/press/battleflags.html</a><span style="color: black;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Casualty
Lists from Library of Congress, Chronicling America Collection</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7e0021;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">New
York Daily Tribune, January 7, page 3, column 2, Second Army Corps,
near Falmouth, Virginia
</span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1863-01-07/ed-1/seq-3/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1863-01-07/ed-1/seq-3/</a><span style="color: black;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">New York
Daily Tribune, January 8, 1863, page 3, column 6, from Washington,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7e0021;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1863-01-08/ed-1/seq-3/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1863-01-08/ed-1/seq-3/</a>
</span></span></span></div>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-49913941503706951962013-01-25T21:49:00.000-06:002013-01-25T21:49:12.410-06:00Dogs Of War- Fredericksburg<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">From
the <i>Tiffin Weekly Tribune, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">January
9, 1863 via the Philadelphia</span><i> Enquirer </i><span style="font-style: normal;">comes
a heart wrenching story of one of the many pets that “served” in
the armies of both sides during the American Civil War.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>A
Dog On The Battlefield</b></i></span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>On
Monday last, as Hon. John Covode, in company of other officers, was
passing over the battle-field beyond Fredericksburg,their attention
was called to a small dog lying by a corpse. Mr. Covode halted for a
few minutes to see if life was extinct. Raising the coat from the
mans face he found him dead. The dog looking wistfully up, ran to the
dead mans face,and kissed his silent lips. Such devotion in a small
dog was so singular that Mr. Covode examined some papers on the body
and found it to be that of Sergeant</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
W.H. Brown, Company C, 91</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">st</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
Penna.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
dog was shivering with the cold, but refused to leave his masters
body, and as the coat was thrown over the face again he seemed very
uneasy, and tried to get under it to the mans face. He had, it seems,
followed the regiment into battle, and stuck to his master, and when
he fell remained with him, refusing to leave him or eat anything. As
the party returned an ambulance was carrying the corpse to a little
grove of trees for interment, and the little dog followed, the only
mourner at the funeral, as the heroes comrades had been called to
some other point.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">[1]</span></span><br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0360WBp7n-8/UQNN0Sal95I/AAAAAAAAASk/Apw3f64SBOE/s1600/civil+war+dog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="393" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0360WBp7n-8/UQNN0Sal95I/AAAAAAAAASk/Apw3f64SBOE/s400/civil+war+dog.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Civil War Dog</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The 91<sup>st</sup> Pennsylvania
was organized at Philadelphia between September and December, 1861. </span><span style="font-size: small;">At the Battle of Fredericksburg
they were part of the First Brigade (Tyler's), Third Division,
(Humphreys') Fifth Army Corps (Butterfield) of Major General Joe
Hooker's Center Grand Division. They were destined to be hurled
against the stone wall at the base of Marye's Heights the late
afternoon of that terrible December 13, 1862.</span><br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DFeOzhyT7rk/UQNORbf0xuI/AAAAAAAAASs/tfH0MXVu7l0/s1600/Stone+wall+at+Fredsburg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="515" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DFeOzhyT7rk/UQNORbf0xuI/AAAAAAAAASs/tfH0MXVu7l0/s640/Stone+wall+at+Fredsburg.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What Brown and his comrade faced.<br />
<br />
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">W. (William) H. Brown enrolled
in Company C of the 91<sup>st</sup> on September 13, 1861 at
Philadelphia as a private. He was later promoted to sergeant. The
card on file at the Pennsylvania state archives does not give any
particulars about him other than his age, 25, at the time of
enrollment. He may have also served in the 9<sup>th</sup>
Pennsylvania Infantry (3 months) prior to enrolling in the 91<sup>st</sup>
, a 3 year regiment. A William H. Brown enrolled in the 3<sup>rd</sup>
at Chester (very near Philadelphia) on April 21, 1861 and mustered
out with the company on July 29, 1861. Again, no information given
other than the age, which was the same. Given the close proximity of
Chester to Philadelphia it is a possibility they are one and the
same. [2] The roll of Company C of the 91ST lists his last rank held,
which was Sergeant.<span style="color: maroon;">***</span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">What of
the dog? One can speculate but nothing further is known of the poor
creature. He is just another of the forgotten pets that served their
masters during the war. Perhaps he attached himself to another
regiment, or he later caught up with his old comrades. Or perhaps he
rested on his masters breast until he, too, departed life and from that bloody
field.</span></span></div>
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</div>
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The Picket</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sources</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;">1-<i>Tiffin Weekly Tribune</i>,
January 3, 1863, page 1, column 7 </span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov</a></span><br />
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">2- Veteran's Card File,
1861-1866 Indexes, Pennsylvania State Archives
<a href="http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveItems&ArchiveID=17&FID=1096850&LID=1096899&FL=B&Page=4">http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveItems&ArchiveID=17&FID=1096850&LID=1096899&FL=B&Page=4</a></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: maroon;">***</span>Muster
Roll of the 91<sup>st</sup> Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, at the
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
<a href="http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r19-65RegisterPaVolunteers/r19-65Regt091/r19-65Regt091%20pg%2023.pdf">http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r19-65RegisterPaVolunteers/r19-65Regt091/r19-65Regt091%20pg%2023.pdf</a>
This is just one hand written muster roll of the Pennsylvania
Volunteer units, in 16 volumes, from 1<sup>st</sup> to 215<sup>th</sup>,
3 month, 9 month, Militia and 3 year regiments. It is written in a
very legible hand and should be helpful to those interested in
Pennsylvania regiments. This link is for the main index.
<a href="http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r19-65RegisterPaVolunteers/r19-65MainInterface.htm">http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r19-65RegisterPaVolunteers/r19-65MainInterface.htm</a>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Drawing Credit</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">A.C. Redwood – circa 1894</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004669996/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004669996/</a>
</span><br />
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</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Photo Credit</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">Dalmatian belonging to Rufus
Ingalls </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/cwp2003005041/PP/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/cwp2003005041/PP/</a>
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-81528759478524548342013-01-20T18:40:00.000-06:002013-01-20T19:39:30.981-06:00A Letter From Vicksburg<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">As
a nice bookend to the Gettysburg letter, this one was sent from
Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 10, 1863. It gives a Western flavor to
July of '63. Written by Adjutant Edward P. Stanfield, 48th
Indiana Volunteer Infantry to his brother Howard. He is in the
process of paroling the numerous Confederate prisoners that Ulysses
Grants Army of the Tennessee had penned up and finally captured at
that important town. The letter contains some interesting details
about the surrender and the make up of the rebel forces. Again this
appears as it was written save for paragraph breaks. Illegible words
appear in [], to the nearest guess by the transcriber. (The Picket) </span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Stanfield
writes:</span></div>
<br />
<div align="RIGHT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Head
Quarters, 48th Indiana Vols</span></div>
<br />
<div align="RIGHT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In
Vicksburg, Miss. July 10th</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Dear
How,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I've
just received your letter of the 30th inst. yesterday.
Doubtless the good news of the capture of Vicksburg has reached you
on this. We are greatly elated by our success especially so because
it happened on the 4th. That fact is galling to the
rebels. On the 3<sup>rd</sup> about day light a flag of truce came
out of their works and it soon was rumored that a negotiation was
going on. Grant and Pemberton sat together under a peach tree and
discussed the terms of surrender. Night closed in and nothing had
been effected, for Pemberton tried to carry every thing with a high
hand. His proposition was, to be permitted to march out of town with
their colors, arms, etc. Grant would have nothing but an
unconditional surrender. The night of the 3rd was so quiet
and calm as if peace prevailed.</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jvRG1ZDNJPE/UPyDu0_3y_I/AAAAAAAAARM/WiT8Qk4aGOQ/s1600/Grant+Pemberton+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="325" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jvRG1ZDNJPE/UPyDu0_3y_I/AAAAAAAAARM/WiT8Qk4aGOQ/s400/Grant+Pemberton+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist rendering of the meeting published after the war.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">Orders
for the celebration of the 4th were issued. 34 rounds were
to be fired by every battery in the line at [meridian] and 13 at
sunrise. The rebels [dreaded] it and at day light they surrendered
with the understanding that they would be paroled and sent home. Such
an arrangement was much better than sending them North. Here it is
six days since the surrender and the paroling isn't finished yet.</span><br />
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In
the meantime the rebel soldiers dispirited and homesick have mingled
freely with our men and been treated kindly by them. The effect has
been wonderful. They have discovered that the Yankees are human
beings and not the men they were represented to be. Two thirds of
this rebel army is lost to the Secession cause. They will escape to
their homes and defy the conscription. Hundreds of them are taking
the oath of allegiance and going North. Many are escaping across<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">the
Mississippi river. I think Mr. Pemberton will have hard work to get
such a large body of </span><span style="font-size: small;">un
armed into a parole camp. When the paroling is finished they are
all-- Pemberton at their head-- to march out. I suppose you know how
many cannon and small arms we took. It is stated that there were here
50,000 stand of arms – which hadn't been taken out of the boxes –
for Price's Army. These guns are perfectly new and hadn't been used.
An order has yet been issued stating the number of prisoners but they
are supposed to be 32,000 including sick and wounded. The history of
the war cant show another such a success as this, from the beginning
to the end. <span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">As
soon as Vicksburg fell six brigades, including ours were left here
and the rest of the army under Sherman started across the Big Black
for Jackson. I hear that there has been some little fighting with
Johnston but it didn't amount to much as Johnston took good care to
keep at a respectful distance. I expect we are in possession of
Jackson by this time. We are rapidly repairing the railroad in that
direction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Among
the rebels are a great many Indianians: Joshua Miller, son of the
furniture Miller at South Bend is here. Alex La Pierre [?] our Serg't
Major found a cousin and the Adjt. Of the 59th Indiana
found his half brother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">[So
your the world]-- I hope to get home sometime before Winter. Its
about impossible for well man to get a leave. But I am bound to go
before many months if I have to get “dismissed the service”. Capt
Hart started day before yesterday. He was quite low and hardly fit to
travel. The Colonel hasn't sent in his resignation and he will be out
of the service in a few days I think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Give
my love to Ma and Eva and the young 'un, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Your
affectionate brother</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">E.P.
Stanfield [1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
48th was organized at Goshen, (Elkhart county) December
6, 1861. Up to the time of its participation around Vicksburg the
regiment had been at the siege of Corinth, Battle of Iuka, Second
Battle at Corinth, Jackson, Raymond and Champion Hill. During the
siege of Vicksburg the regiment was part of the May 22 assault on the
rebel works where they lost 38 men killed and wounded. [2] The men
hailed mostly from the extreme northern end of the state, mostly from
Elkhart, Jasper, and St. Joseph counties, with a fair sprinkling from
Whitley, Marshall and Greene counties. It is this fact that makes
Stanfield's discovery of “a great many Indianians among the rebs”
so surprising, especially the man from South Bend. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
have always enjoyed old letters and diaries, and I really enjoy
transcribing them. At times that task is quite difficult due to
fading ink or the way the letters of alphabet were shaped in the 19th century as opposed to today’s standard. It is challenging at times
but the value of the letter should not be overlooked. They often give
us small details, such as the 50,000 muskets destined for Price's
army, that may be brushed aside in more scholarly treatments of the
events. In this case a fast check of the Official Records does not
reveal anything about it. It does not
<span style="font-size: small;">mean
that it is not true, but it does give a direction for further
research. Although, in relating the musket story, it appears Stanfield
is passing along second hand information. It does make sense though
given Vicksburg's prominence as a shipping point. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
hope you have enjoyed the two letters posted here. More will come but
I have no plans on becoming a transcribed letter blog. There will be
just enough to be interesting without being tedious. That is unless
my loyal readers request more. Then I will be happy to oblige!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1-
Indiana Historical Society,
<a href="http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/dc008&CISOPTR=364&REC=2">http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/dc008&CISOPTR=364&REC=2</a>
Transcribed from the original by Steven R. Gore</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2-
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, volume 2,
1865. page 480 Google books at <a href="http://books.google.com/">http://books.google.com/</a>
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Drawing Credit</div>
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Library of Congress, at <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/civwar/item/2003663125/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/civwar/item/2003663125/</a> </div>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-34670833116371090262013-01-17T19:28:00.000-06:002013-01-17T19:28:15.481-06:00A Letter From Gettysburg
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<span style="font-size: small;">This
is an interesting letter written by Captain David E. Beem, Company H,
14<sup>th</sup> Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Written July 5, 1863,
Beem gives an overview look at the Battle of Gettysburg. Although not
extremely detailed, it does offer a glimpse of how one man witnessed
the battle. It exudes the excitement he, as well as the entire Army
of the Potomac felt upon achieving the “glorious victory”.
Paragraphs and some punctuation have been added for clarity, and
remarks in parentheses are added to place the narrative in context of
the events. Otherwise it is as it was written.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My
dear wife,</span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Army of the Potomac has again met the enemy, and after three days
desperate fighting, have achieved the most glorious victory of the
war. The fighting ceased on the evening of the third but until now
have had no chance to write and even now my facilities for writing
are very poor, but I will give the best narrative of events I can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
last wrote you at Frederick on Sunday last, which place we left on
Monday. The Regiment marched during Monday and Monday night to
Uniontown, a hard march indeed. I rode in an ambulance, the train
took the wrong road and after driving hard all night and until 3
o'clock on Tuesday we got up to the Reg't Wednesday morning at day
light. We were on the road, marched from Uniontown to Tannytown where
we took the road to this place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">When
we moved to within a few miles of this town we ascertained that the
First Army Corps had that day engaged the enemy and it, with a
portion of the Eleventh Corps was badly defeated, the rebels largely
outnumbering them. They fell back a mile to the East and North of
Gettysburg where they were reinforced by the 3<sup>rd</sup>, 5<sup>th</sup>,
and 12<sup>th</sup> corps. Our 2<sup>nd</sup> Corps got within two
miles on Wednesday, the 1<sup>st</sup> . On the morning of the 2<sup>nd</sup>
we took our place in the line of battle and without having gone to
eat breakfast we were ready for the great conflict. (On Cemetery
Hill)</span></div>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mw8z4NdTn6E/UPg02ec-wSI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/n0mO8-WxjUE/s1600/Gettysburg_Battle_Map_Day2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mw8z4NdTn6E/UPg02ec-wSI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/n0mO8-WxjUE/s400/Gettysburg_Battle_Map_Day2.png" width="275" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Fish Hook</strong></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We had a splendid position, our
line being somewhat shaped like a <b>V. </b>The 2<sup>nd</sup> Corps
occupied the center, or apex of the <b>V </b>which was close to the
town and on a high eminence in open fields where we had some 40
pieces of artillery planted. During the entire engagement this
position was shelled by the enemy and in all my experience as
heretofore, I was never under such a terrible shelling. On Thursday
the 2<sup>nd</sup> , with the exception of occasional cannon, all was
quiet until about 3 o'clock PM when the rebels opened all their
batteries on their left, the firing was awful and proceeded from left
to right, a distance of four miles, until the whole line sent up one
grand roar and dense cloud of smoke. At 4 PM the artillery slackened
and for a few moments it seemed the demonstration was for that day
over. In a few minutes , however, our pickets commenced a rapid
musketry fire on the extreme left, they soon came hurrying back to
the lines and in a moment the rebels, massed in tremendous columns
rushed with a loud cheer upon the 3<sup>rd</sup> Corps commanded by
Sickles. (The Peach Orchard) Bravely did these gallant veterans <span style="font-size: small;">meet and with the timely
assistance of other forces this part of the line was made as strong
as a mountain, which all the desperate energy of the rebels could not
sway. Our artillery was used with great effect. Indeed, the artillery
in this series of engagements did splendid service. The musketry
firing was in a assent, and crash after crash resounded along the
line for a mile and a half and the repeated efforts to turn our left
were foiled before night. Only a part of our corps was engaged in
this great attack on the left but the two divisions that were in the
fight did nobly and suffered much. Our Brigade (Carroll’s) were
during this time supporting the batteries in the center and were not
in the musketry but under heavy artillery fire. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">About six o'clock PM after the
heavy attack on the left had been repulsed, a fourth attack was made
on our right which did not last very long nor was it very desperate.
Just at dark appearances indicated that a desperate attempt was to be
made on our center to storm the batteries there. We were duly warned
of this and ready for any event. The Eleventh Corps, or rather a part
of it, supported a battery (Ricketts F-G, 1<sup>st</sup> Pennsylvania
Light) just on our right which it was necessary to defend as the loss
of it would have ruined the day. We had no confidence in the Dutch of
the 11<sup>th</sup>. As soon as it was dark the rebels, a very heavy
column, with great rapidity [fell] on this battery. The Dutch ran
like cowards, the battery was unsupported and almost in the hands of
the enemy.<span style="color: #b80047;">**</span> Our Brigade was ordered to
change front, which we did quickly, and went to the support of the
battery on the double quick.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hstDzaVgO4M/UPgmqT-bnfI/AAAAAAAAAQk/g0hZqp0d_jw/s1600/Gettysburg_Cemetery_Hill.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="632" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hstDzaVgO4M/UPgmqT-bnfI/AAAAAAAAAQk/g0hZqp0d_jw/s640/Gettysburg_Cemetery_Hill.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Carroll's Brigade moving to support Ricketts' Battery</strong></td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">We arrived just in the nick of
time. They had already surrounded one gun. The artillerists defended
their pieces bravely but nearly lost them. One artillerist knocked a
rebel down with his sponge staff. When we approached the officers of
the battery threw their hats in the air and shouted for joy. We
pushed right on through to the rebel horde and got right in among
them but they did not long stand our rapid volleys. They ran pell
mell, several of their officers were wounded and fell into our hands
together with a large number of prisoners and in thirty minutes the
attack was repulsed and the battery saved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here occurred our only loss<span style="color: maroon;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: black;">and here is the mournful part of my
letter. Two of our very best men, Corporal Issac Norris and Sergeant
John Troth were killed, both instantly. Norris was carrying the flag
which was presented to us by the ladies of Spencer. A ball had
previously shot the staff in two places. He was then shot by a ball
through the head and never knew more. Troth was shot through the
heart and never spoke. I could have laid my hand on him when he fell.
Strange to say none were wounded-- all came out unscathed. I cannot
say to much in praise of the two brave men who fell nor have I time
to say what I would like. None ever fell more </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">nobly,
none were ever mourned more by surviving comrades. They were buried
by their friends as decently as possible under an apple tree and
headboards suitably inscribed placed at their graves. I will not
probably have an opportunity soon to write to their friends but will
do so soon as I can.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">The rebels
had thus far been repulsed with heavy loss on all sides but not an
inch of ground had been taken from us. But the heaviest fighting was
yet to come. At 4 ½ in the morning of the 3rd </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">they made
a desperate effort was made to break our right, which rested on a
range of hills. The fighting was nearly all musketry and for six long
hours the crash and roar of close fighting was kept up with greater
desperation than has perhaps been witnessed in the war. Time and
again the rebels charged our line which sometimes swayed backwards
but only to come forward again. At 10 o'clock finding that they could
not break our right wing, they fell back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Comparative
quiet then prevailed until about five in the evening. At this time
they massed all their forces for a last bold dash. It seems that
every available man was put in their columns for the desperate
onslaught. The attack was made a little to the left of our center and
they came on with tremendous power. They had to pass over open fields
under our artillery which opened with a roar upon them and thinned
their ranks. Three times were they repulsed. Again they swept forward
to where our infantry advanced upon the open plain to meet them and
there commenced the last and bloodiest conflict. It was soon decided.
Our men swept the field like a tornado, left it strewn with the dead
and dying, captured several thousands, and were victorious on the
bloody field. This was a grand and glorious moment. All our banners
floated and from one end of our line to the other, tens of thousands
sent up their cheers. Thus ended the three days conflict. Fighting a
desperate foe for three days on the 1</span><span style="color: black;"><sup>st</sup></span><span style="color: black;">,
2</span><span style="color: black;"><sup>nd</sup></span><span style="color: black;">,
and 3</span><span style="color: black;"><sup>rd</sup></span><span style="color: black;">
of July.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The Army
of the Potomac, long resting under the disgrace of public opinion
celebrated the glorious 4</span><span style="color: black;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: black;">
of July with their guns still black with powder and on the very field
where they had vindicated their bravery.<span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have not
been over the battle field to a great extent but everywhere may be
seen the horrible remains of a bloody day. When circumstances allow
I will write you more particulars. All the boys of Co. H were in the
engagement and all did their whole duty. Our flag has many scars and
I shall send it home for safe keeping soon. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">I will
write again when I can. Show this to father as I may not get to write
to them at once. We will leave here probably to-day. No more at
present, only my love to you and all- God bless you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your
loving husband</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">David [1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">The men of
the 14<sup>th</sup> Indiana Volunteer Infantry were long time
veterans by the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, with hard service
at Winchester, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville to
their credit. They were mustered into federal service June 7, 1861.
They had originally formed in Vigo county in May as a one year
regiment but soon volunteered for three years service and were so
designated upon entering Federal service. The men comprising the
regiment were drawn from Knox, Martin, Monroe, Owen, Parke, Putnam,
Vanderburg, Vermillion, and Vigo counties. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">David Beem
had in the beginning been company First Sergeant for company H, but
was soon made first lieutenant. He was commissioned as Captain dating
from May 13, 1862. He survived the war and mustered out at the end of
three years service on June 24, 1864.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
Gettysburg the regiment lost 123 officers and men killed or wounded.
[2] When Beem refers to Troth and Norris being their only loss he is
speaking only of Company H.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #b80047;">**</span>
<span style="color: black;">R. Bruce Ricketts, captain of the battery
abandoned by the 11</span><span style="color: black;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: black;">
Corps men later recorded:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-size: small;">As
soon as the charge commenced they, although they had a stone wall in
their front, commenced running in the greatest confusion to the rear,
hardly a shot was fired, certainly not a volley, and so panic
stricken were they that several ran into the canister fire of my guns
and were knocked over.” (Sears, Stephen W., </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Gettysburg,
</i></span><span style="color: black;">2003, page 337-338)</span></span></span></div>
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The Picket</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sources</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">[1] David
Beem letter transcribed by Steven R. Gore from the original at the
Indiana Historical Society, from
<a href="http://images.indianahistory.org/u?/dc008,144">http://images.indianahistory.org/u?/dc008,144</a>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">[2] Report
of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume 2, 1865.
pages 118-123 from Googlebooks.com
<a href="http://books.google.com/">http://books.google.com</a> </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photo
Credit</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 14TH
Indiana Volunteer Infantry monument at Gettysburg. Craig Swain,
February 21, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">2009. from
HMdb.org at <a href="http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=17190">http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=17190</a>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Craig
Swain is the author of the blog “To the Sound of the Guns” at
<a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/">http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/</a>
Check it out sometime!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Maps by
Hal Jespersen, <a href="http://www.cwmaps.com/">www.cwmaps.com</a>
This is a neat place for maps while reading books that do not have
maps.</span></span></div>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-17824451108040670322013-01-13T21:43:00.000-06:002013-01-14T07:28:07.678-06:00Surround Us! <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>After
the recent advance of our army upon Bragg at Tullahoma, and his retreat,
the Pioneer Brigade pushed on to Elk River to repair a bridge. While
one of its men, a private, was bathing in the river, five of Bragg's
soldiers, guns in hand, came to the bank and took aim at the swimmer,
one of them shouting: “Come here, you___ Yank, out of the wet!”</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Federal was quite sure that he was “done for”, and at once
obeyed. After dressing himself he was thus accosted:</i></span><br />
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>You
surrender, our prisoner, do you?”</i></span><br />
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Of
course I do.”</i></span><br />
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>That’s
kind. Now we'll surrender to you!” and the five stacked arms before
him, their spokesman adding:</i></span><br />
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>We've
done with 'em, and have said to old Bragg, “goodbye!” Secesh is
played out. Now you surround us and take us into your camp.”</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
was done accordingly; and is but one of hundreds of instances of
wholesale desertion coming to the knowledge of our officers in Lower
Tennessee.</i></span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Amusing
Instance of Rebel Desertion. From the book<em>,</em> <em>Pen Pictures </em>by Ledyard
Bill, 1864.</span><br />
<em></em><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IzlCNg2HC_I/UPN8cumHNCI/AAAAAAAAAQI/KPu0hXCjESY/s1600/Reb+Prisoners.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="457" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IzlCNg2HC_I/UPN8cumHNCI/AAAAAAAAAQI/KPu0hXCjESY/s640/Reb+Prisoners.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Neat
little incident published in the spring of 1864. It appears mainly to
be a propaganda piece to encourage the Northern population. Books
like this are not always factual nor are they completely false. They
contain nuggets of truth but seldom give references for verification
of the incidents described. They are still entertaining to read
though.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
Picket</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><strong>Sources</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span> </div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pen
Pictures, Bill, Ledyard,</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> 1864
<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006568336">http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006568336</a>
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Sketch,
Prisoners captured at Woodstock, Virginia, 1862. Edwin Forbes. Three
of the men are marked as being from the 3</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
Virginia Cavalry, and the man on the right is from Ashby's Cavalry. <span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004661887/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004661887/</a>
</span></span>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-65006276425440543932013-01-07T08:45:00.000-06:002013-01-07T08:45:25.599-06:00Some Sketches of the Civil War<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Sketch
artists during the American Civil War had no shortage of subject
matter. Unlike their photographer counterparts, they could go any
where at any time, and quite often did. Night time scenes are often
depicted as are battle scenes, camp life and typical soldier
portraits. They could convey a sense of urgency in their drawings
that a photographer could only dream of. Some of the following
sketches are hastily done “first drafts”. They would later appear
in <i>Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated News, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">or
</span><i>The New York Illustrated.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">As
will be seen in the first example, the sketch artist, : </span><br />
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and along the streets, he has done something very like it.” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[1]</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tif4HBlrZ3w/UOpj4Bgih5I/AAAAAAAAAPA/EFHxZqjaNAk/s1600/Dead+Pickets+at+Fredericksburg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="473" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tif4HBlrZ3w/UOpj4Bgih5I/AAAAAAAAAPA/EFHxZqjaNAk/s640/Dead+Pickets+at+Fredericksburg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
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<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
above sketch is by Arthur Lumley.<span style="color: maroon;"><b>**</b></span>
after the Battle of Fredericksburg. He notes on the back that these
pickets wore Federal overcoats “over the secessh” and had not
been buried “up to Sunday”, a day after the battle. Waud does not
say exactly which pontoon bridge is seen in the right background but
that these men were killed while the Federals were building it. It is
quite possible it is the Middle Bridge leading directly into town.</span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ol8iv25oFjw/UOrWdYL2srI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/56BNsW2FkLw/s1600/Camp+Las+Morsas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ol8iv25oFjw/UOrWdYL2srI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/56BNsW2FkLw/s640/Camp+Las+Morsas.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Camp
Las Moras, CSA, March 1861</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> drawn
by Carl G. von Iwonski, shows camp life early in the war. The
description states that it is the first illustration received by
Harper's Weekly. It is near Fort Clark, Texas and shows many of the
men are Mexicans.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q-Qo2qL4dzc/UOrWvSuUn-I/AAAAAAAAAPY/ebYPwckPwR8/s1600/Ellsworths+Chicago+Zouaves-+1861.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="470" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q-Qo2qL4dzc/UOrWvSuUn-I/AAAAAAAAAPY/ebYPwckPwR8/s640/Ellsworths+Chicago+Zouaves-+1861.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ellsworth's
Chicago Zouaves- 1861</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> drawn by
Waud. This shows the zouaves going through one of their drills which
were said to have been quite strenuous and at the same time very
precise. Note the French Zouave uniform with kepi as opposed to
another zouave uniform:</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2tEkUm7x1LM/UOrW6YDNkiI/AAAAAAAAAPg/7d0wUKA5jm4/s1600/A+Zouave+Sentry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2tEkUm7x1LM/UOrW6YDNkiI/AAAAAAAAAPg/7d0wUKA5jm4/s640/A+Zouave+Sentry.jpg" width="448" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
Zouave Sentry </i><span style="font-style: normal;">also sketched by
Waud. This one appears to be intended for a painting or color print
to be rendered at a later time. Note the color coding for each piece
of the uniform written on the drawing. Also note the turban. Zouaves
liked standing out in a crowd, even among other Zouaves!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Another
drawing for those interested in common soldiers:</span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kHIs3AgGfUc/UOrXRZjy_5I/AAAAAAAAAPo/vWPbPjfbFZ4/s1600/Rebel+Prisoners+%2540+Chancellorsville.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="470" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kHIs3AgGfUc/UOrXRZjy_5I/AAAAAAAAAPo/vWPbPjfbFZ4/s640/Rebel+Prisoners+%2540+Chancellorsville.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This
was drawn by Edwin Forbes, <i>“Rebel prisoners and battle flags
captured at</i> <i>Chancellorsville”</i>. It does show the sundry
types of headgear worn by the Confederate soldier, <span style="font-size: small;">and
does lend itself to the “ragged rebel” theme. Note the patches on
the breeches of the man in the front rank, left side, and the man
behind him has a patch on his coat. This also is a highly
romanticized drawing. Note the Confederate battle flags waving in the
breeze. It is unlikely the cavalry troopers would have had them
unfurled even far behind the fighting. Imagine the reaction in the
rear if a body of enemy soldiers, with flags flying, suddenly
appeared in their midst! <i><b>It has to be the Black Horse !</b></i>
Not a likely scenario, but artistic license can be forgiven. The men
at the lower left are making coffee. It is strange that this group
appears smaller in scale when compared to the prisoners even though
they are in the foreground.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ClZDL9aEZ7c/UOrXpITJOcI/AAAAAAAAAPw/OULHQzVDJMk/s1600/An+officer+directing+his+troops.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ClZDL9aEZ7c/UOrXpITJOcI/AAAAAAAAAPw/OULHQzVDJMk/s640/An+officer+directing+his+troops.jpg" width="520" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>An
Officer Directing His Troops Into Battle. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">This
is by John R. Chapin and depicts an unknown battle somewhere and
illustrates the use of the artists friend, </span><i>Chinese White,
</i><span style="font-style: normal;">when smoke or clouds were
present. It is a well constructed piece, showing the viewer
everything the artist wants you to see without getting too crowded.
It appears that a later print by Kurz & Allison </span><i>may
have been somewhat inspired </i><span style="font-style: normal;">by
this piece. </span><i>The Battle of Gettysburg</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
was printed by them in 1884.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qbND3E8Djvg/UOrX2nZFqEI/AAAAAAAAAP4/nmu0zNrrUsU/s1600/Kurz%2526Allison+Gettysburg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="498" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qbND3E8Djvg/UOrX2nZFqEI/AAAAAAAAAP4/nmu0zNrrUsU/s640/Kurz%2526Allison+Gettysburg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Notice
the resemblance of the mounted officer, same pose only pointing with
his sword. Also look at the right corner with men carrying a wounded
comrade and what appears to be other wounded soldiers and prisoners.
There are other similarities between the two. This print looks like
the first on a much grander scale.</span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
sketch artists left us a visual record of events during the war. Some
were soldiers themselves. Many drawings never left the artists sketch
book to be seen by millions in the newspapers of the time or in later
books on the war. They were talented and brave individuals</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">that
often shared the privations of camp, battlefield, and hospital with
their subjects. No one escaped their gaze as officers, privates,
contraband’s, sutlers and citizens were sketched. Even after the
advent of photography, the sketch artist was in high demand and still
still reigned supreme in the newspapers and magazines during and
after the war. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
Picket</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sources</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">1-
New York Times, October 20, 1862 </span><i>Brady's
Photographs:Pictures of the Dead at Antietam, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">from
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1862/10/20/news/brady-s-photographs-pictures-of-the-dead-at-antietam.html?scp=84&sq=matthew+brady&st=p">http://www.nytimes.com/1862/10/20/news/brady-s-photographs-pictures-of-the-dead-at-antietam.html?scp=84&sq=matthew+brady&st=p</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">**</span></strong><span style="font-style: normal;">“<em>Rebel
Pickets, Dead in Fredericksburg”</em> The LOC lists this drawing as
being rendered by A.R. Waud but also directs you to it from a search
of Arthur Lumley. It is hard to say who drew it.
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004660776/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004660776/</a>
</span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><em>Camp
Las Moras C.S.A</em>.
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004661291/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004661291/</a>
</span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><em>Ellsworths
Chicago Zouaves- 1861
</em><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004660036/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004660036/</a>
</span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><em>A
Zouave Sentry
</em><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004660895/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004660895/</a>
</span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><em>Rebel
Prisoners and battle flags captured at Chancellorsville</em>,
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004661818/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004661818/</a>
</span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><em>An Officer directing his troops
into battle.</em></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004661334/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwg/item/2004661334/</a>
</span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><em>Battle
of Gettysburg, Kurz &Allison,</em>
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003656853/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003656853/</a>
</span></span></div>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-82917129245046318262012-12-31T22:52:00.001-06:002013-01-17T21:48:00.293-06:00Loss of the USS Monitor<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Today
marks the 150<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the sinking of the USS
Monitor. It seems that the event has drawn little notice in the
blogosphere with everyone trying to get posts on Murfreesboro and the
anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation set for January 1, 2013.
I must admit I had lost sight of it myself. My post on Murfreesboro
, in particular “Hell's Half Acre” at the Round Forrest could not
be pulled together to suit me, and the EP is best left to abler minds
and pens than mine. What to do? </span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">While
searching Frank Leslie's Illustrated for something to tie in with
Murfreesboro, I stumbled across the following poem (again???!!!)
dealing with the loss of the Monitor. Although I enjoy sharing some
of the poetry I find in my studies, I hate to do two posts back to
back built on it. After thinking about it most of the day, I decided
to go ahead with it. Two reasons led me to the decision. First, it is
a great poem! It is at once heroic and sad, yet not full of flowery
language that leaves your mind lost as to the poets intent. Secondly,
after a perusal of the <i>Official Records </i><span style="font-style: normal;">of
the navies, I found it strikingly accurate, with little artistic
license being employed.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">It
may not be completely accurate but close enough, and as a memorial to
the sailors that perished aboard Monitor and her tow, the USS Rhode Island, it
accomplished its mission. I beg pardon to those of you that do not
like poetry but please read it anyway. It is another of my rare
“Sesquicentennial Moments”. It is rather lengthy but it will keep
your attention.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7Uxc7BX6ZoA/UOJgmp9NUZI/AAAAAAAAAOA/97SC5zVg13k/s1600/Monitor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="330" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7Uxc7BX6ZoA/UOJgmp9NUZI/AAAAAAAAAOA/97SC5zVg13k/s400/Monitor.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crew of the <em>Monitor,</em><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
Monitor: December 31, 1862 </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In
gallant trim, with fame elate,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
foremost of our Ironsides, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
Monitor, with noble freight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">forth
on the Atlantic billow rides.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Monroe's
grim fort, from iron mouth,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">thunders
“God Speed” and “Victory!”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">With
answering cheer, towards the South</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">on
steams the hero of the sea.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cWqNx9lzoHU/UOJkXicFnoI/AAAAAAAAAOU/43HdCPQ9Wfs/s1600/J.P.+Bankhead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cWqNx9lzoHU/UOJkXicFnoI/AAAAAAAAAOU/43HdCPQ9Wfs/s400/J.P.+Bankhead.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Commander J.P. Bankhead, USS Monitor</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Old
Ocean smiled, the wind was light,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
sailors wore a joyous air,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">so
passed the day, and so the night,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
all around was calm and fair.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">But
with the morning clouds arose,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">which
deepened, till, when evening came,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">fierce
on her fell those giant blows,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">sending
dull tremors thro' her frame.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">But
as a rider strides his horse,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">which
rages neath his weight, so kept</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">our
gallant boat her onward course,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
thro' the tempest swept.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">But
art is weak when Nature rears</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
wrath sublime her giant form,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
clothed in lurid night, rides forth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">upon
the volleying storm.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Down
thro' the gaping seams the wave</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">poured
its insidious tide, as erst</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">o'er
Arqua's walls the invaders crept,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ere
fell swoop the stormers burst.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Firm
at their post, the gallant crew</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">struggled
with night, and storm, and sea,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">'twas
all in vain— the tempest grew,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
battled for its victory.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
spectral blue lights rose in vain, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">from
the Rhode Island--soaring high-- </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
one brief gleam they pierce the rain,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">then
perish in the sky.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">O'er
deck and tower the maddened waves</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">like
living creatures rush and leap,</span></span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ygby177NgNk/UOJk0E4Bm8I/AAAAAAAAAOc/XGzSM48fU1w/s1600/S.D.+Trenchard+USS+Rhode+Island.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ygby177NgNk/UOJk0E4Bm8I/AAAAAAAAAOc/XGzSM48fU1w/s400/S.D.+Trenchard+USS+Rhode+Island.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Commander Stephen D. Trenchard, USS Rhode Island</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">as 'tho
Old Ocean had unchained</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
demons of the deep.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">'Twas
the threshold of the morn--</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Midnight,
without a star looked on;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
as the stormy day was born,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
Monitor was gone!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">For
with one shuddering lurch, as tho</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">it
knew its doom, above the wave</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">it
rose an instant, then below</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">plunged
deep into its grave.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Brave
hearts were quenched forever then,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">they
died as honor loves to die,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
striking chains from fellow men--</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for
Truth and Liberty!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">And
honor to the glorious band, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">who,
scorning the wild tempests breath,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">grappled
their sinking comrades hand,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
dragged them back from death!</span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>*</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Worden
and Bankhead—gallant twain, </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>**</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for
one brief minute ye may weep</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">your
ocean home beneath the main,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">then
to fresh triumphs on the deep!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">II</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">'Twas
the last morn of '62,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
by the long gray strips of sand</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
Hatteras the seagulls flew,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">at
instincts blind command.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">And
all that day around the spot</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">where
sank the noble Monitor,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
staunch Rhode Island cruised--</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">forgot
were storm and oceans roar.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">But
fathoms deep below the wave, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">our
grand heroic brothers rest,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
corals guard their sacred grave;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
sea flowers deck each breast.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Where
o'er their billowy pall each night</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
sighing winds roll and surge,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
choral voices, vast and dim--</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Old
Oceans solemn dirge.</span></span></span><br />
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<br />
Unfortunately I was unable to find who actually wrote this poem and no mention of the author was given in Leslie's.</div>
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The Picket</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-style: normal;">*
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">The USS Monitor went
down off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina at about 1:30 AM, December 31, 1862, with sixteen sailors lost. Rhode Island lost eight in their efforts to save the crew of
the stricken ironclad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-style: normal;">**</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">Lieutenant
John L. Worden, First commander of the Monitor, Commander J.P. Bankhead the
last.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-27774702412428732602012-12-30T22:11:00.000-06:002012-12-31T08:21:29.895-06:00A Poem for a New Year- Henry Timrod<br />
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Art
thou not glad to close
</div>
Thy
wearied eyes, O saddest child of time?<br />
Eyes
which have looked on every mortal crime,<br />
And
swept the piteous round of mortal woes?<br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XfeR5Y5eR-c/UOEIqL-enbI/AAAAAAAAAM8/MGltzbGCt_Y/s1600/Savage+Station+1862.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="316" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XfeR5Y5eR-c/UOEIqL-enbI/AAAAAAAAAM8/MGltzbGCt_Y/s400/Savage+Station+1862.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Savage Station, June 1862<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In
dark Plutonian caves,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Beneath
the lowest deep, go, hide thy head;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Or
earth thee where the blood that thou hast shed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">May
trickle on thee from the countless graves!</span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Take
with thee all thy gloom</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">And
guilt, and all our griefs, save what the breast,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Without
a wrong to some dear shadowy guest, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">May
not surrender even to the tomb.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f2LqASvRa5E/UOEJhe-PG9I/AAAAAAAAANI/mOMttXre0KU/s1600/Burying+dead@+Fredsburg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="341" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f2LqASvRa5E/UOEJhe-PG9I/AAAAAAAAANI/mOMttXre0KU/s400/Burying+dead@+Fredsburg.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burying the dead at Fredericksburg</td></tr>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">No
tear shall weep thy fall, </span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">When,
as the midnight bell doth toll thy fate,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Another
lifts the scepter of thy state,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And
sits a monarch in thine ancient hall.</span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Him
all hours attend,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">With
a hope like morning in their eyes;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Him
the fair earth and him these radiant skies</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Hail
as their sovereign, welcome as their friend.</span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Him
to the nations wait;</span></div>
“<span style="font-size: small;">O
lead us from the shadow of the past.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In
a long wail like this December blast,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">They
cry, and crying grow less desolate.</span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">How
he will shape his sway</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">They
ask not-- for old doubts and fears will cling--</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And
yet they trust that, somehow, he will bring</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A
sweeter sunshine than thy mildest day.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qbBZA9eL_fU/UOELGKsDjfI/AAAAAAAAANk/Y2PLu_2QHqM/s1600/Fishing+on+the+James.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qbBZA9eL_fU/UOELGKsDjfI/AAAAAAAAANk/Y2PLu_2QHqM/s400/Fishing+on+the+James.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fishing on the James River<br />
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<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Beneath
his gentle hand</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">They
hope to see no meadow, vale, or hill</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Stained
with a deeper red than roses spill, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">When
some too boisterous zephyr sweeps the land.</span><br />
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<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A
time of peaceful prayer,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Of
law, love, labor, honest loss and gain--</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">These
are the visions of the coming reign</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Now
floating to them on this wintry air.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><em>Henry
Timrod, “1866- Addressed to the Old Year” </em>[1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Henry
Timrod was born December 8, 1829 in Charleston, South Carolina. He
studied at the University of Georgia but due to ill health he left
the school and never returned. After leaving school he studied law in
the office of a prominent Charleston lawyer but had no particular
relish for that line of work. He would again take up his classical
studies, on his own, and he hoped to one day gain a professorship. He
never attained the heights of academia he desired, but he did teach
the children of a wealthy South Carolina planter for several years.
His poetry as well as some prose, would appear in magazines such as
“<i>The Southern Literary Messenger </i><span style="font-style: normal;">and
</span><i> Russell's Magazine. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">In
1860 Ticknor and Fields of Boston, Massachusetts produced a slim volume
of his poems. [1] </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">He
enlisted in the 20</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
South Carolina Infantry in 1862 but was soon discharged, again owing
to poor health. Afterward he became a war correspondent for the
</span><i>Charleston Mercury, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">and
later became editor for the newspaper, </span><i>The South
Carolinian.</i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
[2] </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He survived the war and died
October 7, 1867, a relatively young man of 37 years.</span></div>
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The Picket</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sources
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</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">1- <i>The Poems of Henry Timrod,
</i>Timrod, Henry, 1829-1867, New York, E.J. Hale and Son, 1873. from
<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007673617">http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007673617</a>
</span>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">2- The Cyclopedia of American
Biographies, 1903, Federal Book Company, Boston Massachusetts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Photo
Credits</b></span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">All photos from Library of
Congress:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Savage Station, from
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000090/PP/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000090/PP/</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Burying the Dead at
Fredericksburg, from <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012647840/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012647840/</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fishing on the James, from
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/cwp2003004854/PP/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/cwp2003004854/PP/</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Drawing</b> is left side of
Harper's Weekly centerpiece, January 3, 1863, volume 7, number 314,
from Internet Archive,
<a href="http://archive.org/stream/harpersweeklyv7bonn#page/8/mode/2up">http://archive.org/stream/harpersweeklyv7bonn#page/8/mode/2up</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">by Thomas Nast</span></div>
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<br />SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-56581015798114018292012-12-24T21:41:00.000-06:002012-12-24T21:46:28.268-06:00<span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Segoe Script, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 32pt;">Season's</span>
<span style="font-size: 32pt;">Greeting's,</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Segoe Script, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 32pt;">Merry
Christmas!!!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Right
side of Harper's Weekly centerpiece, “Christmas Eve” Thomas Nast.
January 3, 1863. Volume 7. Number 314. <a href="http://archive.org/stream/harpersweeklyv7bonn#page/8/mode/2up">http://archive.org/stream/harpersweeklyv7bonn#page/8/mode/2up</a>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-17096384919048360832012-12-20T20:52:00.001-06:002012-12-20T21:05:10.133-06:00Other News for December 1862<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Vast
amounts of ink, paper, and talent were devoted to the coverage of
the American Civil War. Column after column and page after page the
bloody toll of the war was recited. Headlines trumpeted “signal
victory” or passed judgment, sometimes both. Maps of the far off
theaters of battle lay within the folds of the newspapers, and
portraits of generals graced the front page or <span style="font-size: small;">covers
of journals.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Hidden amongst the riot of war news, one could find the items of less
import, yet of no less interest. Some were humorous, some tragic, but
all made up life in the years 1861-1865. None had a profound impact
on the war, but assuredly all were impacted to some degree by it.
What follows are examples of Other News for December 1862. All of the
items are given in their entirety, illustrating how little space
things of this nature occupied in print. </div>
</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
<i>New York Daily Tribune </i><span style="font-style: normal;">reports
the following short items on December 2:</span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
New Journal in South Carolina-</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
Rev. Mansfield French, who returned to this city a few weeks ago,
from Port Royal, has, since his arrival, purchased a printing press, type, and
a large stock of paper, for the furnishing of the printing office of
</span><i>The Southern Cross, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">a
newspaper about to be published in South Carolina. It is expected
that </span><i>The Southern Cross </i><span style="font-style: normal;">will
be raised in Charleston early in January.</span></span><br />
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<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">It
also reported :</span></div>
<br />
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Attempt
to set Fire to the Jersey City Prison</i></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">On
Saturday forenoon, a soldier named Wm. Griffith, committed to the
city prison, and held as a deserter, attempted to burn the building
by setting fire to the straw mattress in his cell. The cell being
fireproof the attempt of course failed, but Griffith was considerably
burned about the hands and face, which caused him to call out for
help. It was supposed he was laboring under an attack of delirium
tremors. [1]</span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
<i>Memphis Daily Appeal</i> reports on December 13:</span></div>
<br />
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Great
Breadth of Land Sown in Wheat</i></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
<i>Macon Journal and Messenger </i>learns that an unusual breadth of
land has been sown in wheat in Georgia, and the present prospect is
encouraging for a large crop next year.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">It
was not uncommon for newspapers to trade stories, and it did not
matter if it was a Northern or Southern paper. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Daily Appeal </i><span style="font-style: normal;">also reports of
their move from Grenada, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi in the two
weeks prior to this issue. They report that they feel as if “among
friends and brothers.”[2] </span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Minnesotans
are duly proud of the health of the people of the state. On December
18, the </span><i>Saint Cloud Democrat </i><span style="font-style: normal;">reports
the following:</span></span><br />
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Healthfulness
of Minnesota</i></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
census shows the following number of deaths in Minnesota for the year
ending June 1, 1860:</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">Males;
584, Females; 515; Total, 1100 or 1 to every 157 of the population.</span><br />
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
following is the mortality and health of each section:</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">States:
Population Deaths Proportion</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> New
England: 3,132,283 45,859 1 to every 68</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Middle
States: 7,458,885 84,620 1 to every 88</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Western
States: 8,563,377 89,602 1 to every 95</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Southern
States: 12,315,374 174,095 1 to every 71</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
proportion of deaths in Minnesota was thus about half the average of
the United States in general. In other words, it is twice as healthy
as the rest of the country. It will be seen by the above table that
the Western States are much healthier than any other potion of the
Union, while Minnesota is a great deal healthier than other Western
States. (from the St. Paul Press) [3]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In
the national newspapers and magazines, other things made news.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">From
<i>Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper </i>of December 27 we find
the following noteworthy nuggets listed under the heading <i>Epitome
of the week:</i></span><br />
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
snow in Washington county N.Y. Was 18 inches deep a few days ago.
Many of the farmers had not dug their potatoes or gathered their
corn.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
shock of an earthquake was felt on the 7<sup>th</sup> of December at
Evansville, Ind.; it rang all the doorbells and shook the houses.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And
it seems gentlemen were still looking for wives as the following
indicates:</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">An
advertisement in a Western paper thus reads: The advertiser, being a
widower, is open to proposals from ladies, either widows or maids, of
more than average respectability, tolerably sane in disposition and
with hair of any color except red. [4]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Harper’s
Weekly </i><span style="font-style: normal;">of December 6 reports the
forthcoming marriage of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of
Denmark.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Prince of Wales and His Intended Bride</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We
publish on page 781 portraits of the Price of Wales and the Lady whom
he is to marry, the Princess Alexandra of Denmark. The Prince is just
twenty-one years of age. It will be seen by our portrait that he
looks rather older than when he danced here at the famous Prince's
ball. He wears incipient whiskers; and the crafty engraver has
contrived a shade over the upper lip which may perhaps pass as a
mustache. He is understood to have been kept busy since he left here,
in study and travel, and has no doubt a well stored mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
following account of Princess Alexandra, the future Queen of England,
will doubtless be read with interest:</span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;">Princess
Alexandra, born December 1, 1844, is the second child and eldest
daughter of Prince Christian of Schleswig- Holstein, heir expectant
to the Danish throne, and of Princess Louisa of Hesse-Cassel. She is
gifted, as will be seen in our portrait, with no inconsiderable share
of beauty, and is described as being very accomplished, having
received in her family, which is generally esteemed as a model of all
domestic virtues, the most careful and complete education. Princess
Alexandra is a S<i>ous Lieutenant in the Danish Army. </i>Many
journals in France and Belgium, upon commenting on the account given
of the Royal family of Denmark, stated that the <i>Almanache de Gotha
</i>had committed an amusing mistake in describing Princess Alexandra
as a <i>Sous-Lieutenant </i>in the Danish Army. It appears, however,
that there was no mistake at all in the matter; for, however
extraordinary it may appear to us, the illustrious intended bride of
the Prince of Wales does actually hold the commission described in
the Danish Army.” [5]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
Prince of Wales at the time was Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria
and husband Prince Albert. He became King of England in 1901 and
known as King Edward VII. It seems Americans have always been
enamored with the British Royal Family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Scientific American </i><span style="font-style: normal;">reports of
an interesting discovery abroad:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>An
Ancient Oven Containing Loaves</i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">A
correspondent of the <i>London Atheneaum, </i>writing from Naples,
states that a bakers oven was<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">lately
discovered in Pompeii. He was present when the iron door of the oven
was removed, and he says: “We were rewarded with the site of an
entire batch of loaves which were deposited seventeen hundred and
eighty three years ago! They are eighty-two in number, and are, as
far as regards form, size, and and every characteristic except weight
and color, precisely as they came from the bakers hand. They are
circular, about 9 inches in diameter, rather flat and indented
(evidently with the elbow) in the center; but they are slightly
raised at the sides, and divided by deep lines, radiating from the
center into fragments. They are of a deep brown color and hard, but
exceedingly light.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This
of course is in reference to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and
sudden destruction of the city of Pompeii in 79 AD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">They
also offer a drawing of the following timely devise with attendant
explanation of its workings. Patent for this was procured through
The Scientific American Patent Agency, October 28, 1862 by Lewis
Bunn.[6]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It
amounted to nothing more than an icebox. Ice was placed in the box
above the decedents head, which cooled the box and its contents. The
bucket at left caught the water from the melting ice. The box was
said to be airtight as possible, and the door on the right end could
be opened to allow for viewing. It had a gasket made of either felt
or India rubber and a strap was connected to it which passed over the
chin of the dearly departed which helped keep the door closed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And
of course there was always: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>News
From The War.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This
was the focal point of the Harper's Weekly centerpiece on June 14,
1862, although it is fitting for the entire war. As for December, the
Battle of Fredericksburg was fought, and the true picture of it was
beginning to become clearer as late December papers were going to
press. The Battles of Stones River and Chickasaw Bayou occurred to
late for them to be reported by any save the largest daily newspapers
and then only sketchily at best. </span></div>
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<i>New York Daily Tribune</i>, December 2, 1862 page 3 from Library
of Congress, Chronicling America collection,
<a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1862-12-02/ed-1/seq-1/%3Bwords%3D/?date1=1862&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=New+York&date2=1862&proxtext=&y=23&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=130&page=128&page=126&page=124&page=122&page=120&index=6">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1862-12-02/ed-1/seq-1/%3Bwords%3D</a></span></div>
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<i>Memphis Daily Appeal,</i> December 13, 1862, pp. 1 and 2 from
Library of Congress, Chronicling America collection,
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045160/1862-12-13/ed-1/seq-1/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045160/1862-12-13/ed-1/seq-1/</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3-<i>Saint
Cloud Democrat- </i>December 18, 1862, page 1, from Library of
Congress, Chronicling America collection,
<a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016836/1862-12-18/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016836/1862-12-18/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4-<i>Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, </i>December 27, 1862, page 215 from
Internet Archives at
<a href="http://archive.org/stream/franklesliesilluv1516lesl#page/214/mode/2up">http://archive.org/stream/franklesliesilluv1516lesl#page/214/mode/2up</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5-<i>
Harper's Weekly, </i>December 6, 1862, pages 779 and 781. from
Internet Archives at
<a href="http://archive.org/stream/harpersweeklyv6bonn#page/778/mode/2up">http://archive.org/stream/harpersweeklyv6bonn#page/778/mode/2up</a>
and <a href="http://archive.org/stream/harpersweeklyv6bonn#page/780/mode/2up">http://archive.org/stream/harpersweeklyv6bonn#page/780/mode/2up</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6-
<i>The Scientific American, Volume VII, Number 23, </i>December 6,
1862, pages 360 and 362. from Internet Archives at
<a href="http://archive.org/stream/scientific-american-1862-12-06/scientific-american-v07-n23-1862-12-06#page/n0/mode/2up">http://archive.org/stream/scientific-american-1862-12-06/scientific-american-v07-n23-1862-12-06#page/n0/mode/2up</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>News
From The War,</strong> <em>Harper’s<span style="font-weight: normal;">
Weekly, June 14, 1862, </span></em><span style="font-weight: normal;">drawn
by Winslow Homer. From Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs
online catalog, <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99614177/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99614177/</a>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-53644673352597516352012-12-17T20:45:00.000-06:002012-12-17T20:46:12.564-06:00First Anniversary<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This
day in History- The blog “The Picket” came into being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yes,
loyal reader, one year ago today, I launched this blog. Starting out
with trying to come up with a title for it, then posting my first
story, and on through the year, it has been quite a pleasure bringing
some of the old stories to light. I hope those of you that stop in
from time to time have enjoyed the content delivered to you. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Beginning
today, <span style="font-style: normal;">as you may have noticed, The
Picket has a new name, sort of. I decided to incorporate the blog
description into the name, and I changed the description to better
match the mission of the blog. I have been toying with the idea for
several months and decided to do it now. I am hoping it will help it
show up better in general searches. At least get it away from picket
fences and Shepherd University's blog also called the Picket. I
suppose I should have researched the Web before settling on a name.
Generally speaking though, it will always be </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>The
Picket!</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
would like to share some accomplishments from the year that make this
effort worthwhile to me. I am proud of my work here and it does not
hurt to “toot my own horn” once in a while although it rarely
happens. It is my anniversary after all. So here is my year in a
rather large nutshell!</span></div>
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of today:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The
Picket </b>has had <span style="color: blue;">62</span> posts added to it
not including this one. That is not bad for an amateur do you think?
Although my unstated goal was to have 100 posts up, I am not
disappointed to terribly. 100 is a reasonable target and it gives me
incentive to try a little harder for the coming year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It
has had <span style="color: blue;">732</span> visits prior to this post.
The best month was August 2012 with 109 visits. Again I am not to
disappointed. I had hoped for 1,000 visits over the year, but I look
at it as another reason to try harder. Eventually the readership will
grow and I will have more views than I can count? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The
Picket </b>has had <span style="color: blue;"> 194 </span><i><b>page
views. </b></i><span style="font-style: normal;">This number is based
on each time a post has been viewed as an individual page. I tend to
look at it the most. It lets me know with a reasonable amount of
certainty that a real human being has been here and that I have not
been invaded by web crawlers and nuisance sites. I must admit I am
disappointed in this number. I had hoped to show up in the search
engines a little more often. But that will also come in time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My top page view earner was <span style="color: blue;">“A
Small Thing But...”</span> posted on January 21, 2012, the story of
how the twist drill aided the Confederacy in constructing the
ironclad CSS Albemarle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Google
is the top referring site, and </span><span style="color: #00ae00;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Civil
War Saga</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> (a great
blog!) is the top URL that sends readers my way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have gained two Followers. A
little disappointing, but more will come eventually. I hope anyway!
This only reflects the Google followers. I think I have a couple of
people following by email also.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>The
Picket</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> appears on one
blog roll. Thanks Meg Thompson! </span><span style="color: #00ae00;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(First
Fallen: The Life and</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span><span style="color: #00ae00;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Times
of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth)</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">
More will follow someday, when more bloggers actually find me. I do
not ask to be on other lists. I feel I need to earn a spot on them. I
won't be mad if someone suggests this blog to other bloggers, or
shares it to Facebook, a favorite forum, Tweets, Stumbles, Diggs,
Pins, or whatever social network you engage in, feel free! (Yes, that
is a hint!) That way others can make a judgment as to this blogs
worth and include it on their blog rolls if <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">they
feel it has enough quality content. Just make sure </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>you
</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">think it is worth
mentioning before you share it.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">My
first post was</span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
“Forgotten”</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> posted
December 17, 2011. It tells of a group of unknown Confederate
soldiers buried in a small cemetery in Southern Indiana.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">My
favorite post did not see the light of day as far as page views.
Someone may have seen it, but it did not show up in the search
engines to be read as its own page. Titled </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-style: normal;">“Not
So Friendly</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Fire”</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">
it was posted June 23, 2012, and highlights the “battle” of
Columbus, Ohio. Men of the Ninth Corps were passing through Columbus
while transferring to the west in 1863, and clashed with the very raw
soldiers of the 115</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
Ohio Infantry who were on Provost Guard duty there. Shots were fired
and men died in a truly senseless episode that many may have never
heard of. That post was a true accident as far as writing it went. I
had been researching something else when I found a soldiers death
listed as </span><i><b>“Murdered in Columbus Ohio”.</b></i><span style="font-style: normal;">
Further digging produced the story. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So there you have it. A year in
the life of one blog; my blog, The Picket. The only real
disappointment I have is that I did not start sooner! I have enjoyed
it as it couples my love of writing with my love of history, in
particular the American Civil War era. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My mission for the coming year
will be more of the same. I will strive to improve both the content
and my writing. I will need your feedback from time to time though.
Tell me how I am doing! Good, bad, or indifferent, another opinion
can only help me improve. Suggestions for stories are welcome also! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here comes YEAR 2 and maybe this
will be the year I get discovered! (I can dream can't I?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lord willing there will be more
years to follow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>HAPPY
ANNIVERSARY TO M-E-E-E-E!!!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>And
thanks for stopping by!</b></span></div>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-10742976240984616162012-12-16T22:16:00.000-06:002012-12-27T08:03:15.681-06:00A Bleak Winter: 1862-1863<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
Twenty-seventh Indiana infantry perhaps gets lost in the shuffle of
hard fighting regiments of the civil war. Formed in July and August
of 1861, these men came mostly from the south central section of the
state, representing eight different counties. (Putnam and Daviess
counties each contributed two companies.) By December of 1862 the
had proven there mettle in the Valley at Cedarville and Winchester,
and in Maryland at Antietam. At the time of the Battle of
Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, the Twenty-seventh was just
beginning to move toward the main body of the Army of the Potomac
from the upper Potomac. As part of the Third Brigade, First Division,
Twelfth Army Corps, they were picketing the river after the battle at
Antietam between Williamsport and the mouth of the Antietam below
Sharpsburg.[1]</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">Thirty-four
years after the war, Edmund R. Brown wrote the history of the
Twenty-seventh. He tells the reader that the regiment had missed the
the bloody repulse at Fredericksburg and the feeling of the men at
the time:</span><br />
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
same day we had started from Dam Number Four, our comrades at the
front had dutifully moved out to assail the impregnable positions of
the enemy about Fredericksburg. As we had journeyed laboriously
along, making our tiresome marches, they had been fighting a
hopeless, but heroic, battle. It was getting to be an old story,
sickening its repetition, but we were forced to hear it once more: Our
side had lost! This explained our current dillatoriness.”</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
[2]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Twenty-seventh had reached
Fairfax Station by this time, and the Twelfth Corps was undergoing a
series of forward motions, retreats, and full stops during the days
following Fredericksburg. They would soon go into winter quarters
there, to be rousted out by the second of Ambrose Burnside's winter
campaigns; the Mud March. They would finally settle in for the
winter, near Stafford Court House, not to be terribly disturbed until
the Spring campaigning season. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
Winter of 1862-63 may have been the darkest for the Army of the
Potomac during the whole of the war. Not only had Fredericksburg been
devastating for much of the army, large portions (including the
Twenty-seventh Indiana) had suffered through Pope's Virginia campaign
and subsequent rout, Antietam, and earlier, the Seven Days down on
the Virginia Peninsula. The army as a whole had been battered
unmercifully with scarcely a regiment not experiencing some of the
horrors. Add to that the dismissal of George McClellan, the favorite
of the original Potomac troops, then prospects for a bright outcome
were dim. The wet, cold winter weather did not help matters. It was
during this winter that Brown in his history recalls the orders to
guard against desertion.</span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>For
a while we had orders to shoot any person approaching the picket line
from the inside </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[of the camp]
</span><i>without the countersign. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">And:</span></span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
were deserting at this time at the rate of nearly 300 a day.” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[3]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Although
Brown quickly points out that desertion was not much of a problem for
the Hoosiers, he mentions the anti war sentiments, bordering on
outright treason, contained in letters from home. He says these
sentiments were “Wholly lost on the Twenty-seventh” and the men
responded with letters of reply denouncing such rhetoric. [4]</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kYmYu0oV-5s/UM6W1VgI7LI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/XhaDVOTyfWs/s1600/Union+soldiers+under+fire+in+Fredereicksburg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="520" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kYmYu0oV-5s/UM6W1VgI7LI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/XhaDVOTyfWs/s640/Union+soldiers+under+fire+in+Fredereicksburg.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Federal Soldiers under fire in the streets of Fredericksburg, </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Twenty-first Massachusetts was at Fredericksburg. They had very
nearly been among the first troops to conduct an amphibious assault
under fire on December 11, 1862. They, along with the 51<sup>st</sup>
New York were ordered to use the pontoons for the bridges as boats,
cross the river and clean out the Rebels that held the town. When
they arrived at the riverbank, they were too late, as the 7<sup>th</sup>
Michigan, 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> Massachusetts had
already went across. The 21<sup>st</sup> and 51<sup>st</sup> returned
to their camps. [5] They would have plenty to do in a couple of days
though.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">On
the 13<sup>th</sup>, the Twenty-first watched as regiments of the
Second Corps dashed themselves against Marye's Heights. Shortly after
noon they would be ordered against the rebels on the same heights.
They would reach a point about two hundred yards from the stone wall
where they would shelter in a slight depression for the remainder of
the day, unable to press the attack or retire without terrible
casualties. It was here they were fired on by friendly troops. A raw
regiment, the 163<sup>rd</sup> New York had crossed the same ground
at a later time. Having been shaken by artillery and musketry from
the Rebels, they began firing through the 21<sup>st</sup>
Massachusetts. Only after bitter cursing from the Massachusetts men
did they stop and the bulk hastily departed to the rear. A few would
advance to the declivity and join the Twenty-first.[6] After dark
they were relieved and returned to Fredericksburg, and would cross
the Rappahannock on the 16<sup>th</sup> of December. They would leave
behind 13 dead, 52 wounded and one captured. [7]</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Twenty-first Massachusetts would also soon go into winter quarters on
the east bank of the Rappahannock River. They would be subject to
Rebel incursions, rather visits, near Christmas. The author of the
History of the Twenty-First Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers in the
War for Preservation of the Union, Charles F. Walcott relates an
interesting story. It seems that some Union soldiers had crossed the
river to make merry the season with the rebels, at their invitation,
on Christmas Eve. A few nights later a group of Rebels crossed the
river, to make merry with their Yankee friends, again by invitation.
They were arrested and made prisoners. When the true story behind the
incursion came out, they were released and sent back to the
Confederate lines. [8]</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Massachusetts men would also be involved in the Mud March, albeit
indirectly. They, being a part of the Ninth Corps, would be part of a
proposed attack on Marye's Height to keep part of Lee's army occupied
while Burnside moved down the Rappahannock to attack Lee's left. The
winter storm that blew through that area and gave the movement its
sobriquet also canceled the proposed attack on the heights. [9]</span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k1u4qUoFBNA/UM6XhO2W-TI/AAAAAAAAAKE/Zw6WFJYXK6A/s1600/Mud+March.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="443" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k1u4qUoFBNA/UM6XhO2W-TI/AAAAAAAAAKE/Zw6WFJYXK6A/s640/Mud+March.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Mud March</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
21<sup>st</sup> (all of the 9<sup>th</sup> Corps) would remove from
the Army of the Potomac in February. Walcott writes in a diary entry
for February 25, 1863:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
corps seemed to enter on a new life since it left the jealousies and
chilling influences of the Army of the Potomac, and we had a splendid
review.” </i>[10]</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Part
of those<i> “jealousies and chilling influences” </i>were no
doubt the product of Ambrose Burnside, or rather his subordinates. He
had written an order dismissing from the service several of the
generals of the Army of the Potomac, “subject to the approval of
the President of the United States.” Among them was his eventual
replacement, Major General Joe Hooker, the commander of the Center
Grand Division. Burnside charged him with being guilty of:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>unjust
and unnecessary criticisms of the actions of his superior officers,
and of the authorities, and having, by the general tone of his
conversation, endeavored to create distrust in the minds of officers
who have associated with him, and having, by omissions and otherwise,
made reports and statements which were calculated to create false
impressions, and for <span style="font-size: small;">habitually
speaking in disparaging terms of other officers..., as a man unfit to
hold a commission during a crisis like the present...” <span style="font-style: normal;">[11]</span></span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">All
told, this order, number 8, would request the dismissal of ten
generals from brigade to corps level. The charges were much the same
as those levied against Hooker, and in the estimation of Burnside,
none were fit to hold command. The order was never officially issued
since implementation was dependant on Lincolns approval, which he
withheld. This order was presented to Lincoln in person by Burnside.
In their meeting the general told the president that if the order was
not approved, then the only option left was that he resign as
commander of the army. On January 25, Burnside was
relieved of command, “at his own request” and the same order
elevated Hooker to the command of the Army of the Potomac. [12]</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Yes,
the winter of '62-'63 was bleak indeed for the Army of the Potomac.
1862 had definitely not been kind to them. From the top down. And 1863 was still unknown and yet to be reckoned with. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
The Picket</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<strong>Sources</strong></div>
</i><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">1- <i>The Twenty-seventh Indiana
Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, </i>Brown,
Edmund Randolph, pages 273-274 retrieved from
<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007707620">http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007707620</a>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">2-Ibid page 282</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">3- Ibid, page 289</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">4- Ibid page 290</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">5- <i>History of the
Twenty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers in the War for the
Preservation of The Union, 1861-1865, </i>Walcott, Charles F., page
238, retrieved from googlebooks, google.com </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">6-Ibid, pages 241-244</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">7-Ibid, page 250</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">8-Ibid, pages 257-258</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">9- Ibid, pages 259-261</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">10-Ibid,
page 263</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">11</span><i>-
War of the Rebellion, Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
[O.R.] </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Series 1, Volume 21,
Part 1, pages 998-999 retrieved from ehistory,
<a href="http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/recordView.cfm?Content=031/0998">http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/recordView.cfm?Content=031/0998</a>
</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">12-Ibid, pages 1004-1005</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Photo
credits</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">27th Indiana regimental flag
from
<a href="http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/history/antietam-flags/">http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/history/antietam-flags/</a>
</span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-size: small;">Our soldiers in streets of
Fredericksburg” Alfred Waud drawing, appeared in Harpers Weekly,
volume 7, number 291, January 3, 1863. from Library of Congress,
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003663006/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003663006/</a>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-size: small;">Winter Campaigning. The Army
of the Potomac on the move.” Sketched near Falmouth, Virginia,
January 21, 1863 by Alfred R. Waud. From Library of Congress,
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004660450/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004660450/</a>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-82433102066456338682012-12-09T22:16:00.000-06:002012-12-09T22:16:08.203-06:00A Neat Find<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I
found this little jewel while searching for the Compiled Service
Records for Georgia Soldiers. Yes I know it has nothing to do with
those men, but I did find it interesting and thought you might also.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XoaRpZGIVNQ/UMVfCK4TpsI/AAAAAAAAAJc/vKeZM5JZq-I/s1600/asa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XoaRpZGIVNQ/UMVfCK4TpsI/AAAAAAAAAJc/vKeZM5JZq-I/s320/asa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This
is from the Anti Slavery Alphabet, a small book intended to teach
children the ABC's while informing them about slavery. It was written
by Hannah and Mary Townsend of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and
presented by them to the Female Anti Slavery Society of that city, to
be used at a fund raising fair in December 1846. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Frankly,
I can not comment much on this little work as I do not know enough
about the abolition movement to make an informative post. I will say
that as an educational device, it seems to be more advanced than a
typical child of 5 or 6 could comprehend while trying to learn their
letters. It is not written like the kindergarten or first grade
spellers I remember. It goes way beyond A is for Apple and B is for
Bird. The rest of the book can be found at the Mississippi Department
of Archives & History at the link below.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/asa/">http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/asa/</a>
</span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This
will take you straight to the book, but Adobe Flash v 10 player is
recommended to view it. The following link will take you to the
digital archives offered by the MDA&H.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/">http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/</a>
</span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
MDA&H also has on line Confederate pension records available for
Mississippians as well as old photo collections and other documents.
It offers the estate papers of Jefferson F. Davis, his last will and
testament is written in his own hand.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Mississippi archive website is one of the better ones I have
encountered. It is easy to navigate and has a good selection of
digitized material. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Now,
where are those Georgians?</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Picket</span></div>
SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-71102485163610341152012-12-07T14:28:00.000-06:002012-12-07T14:30:03.084-06:00Latest Blog Roll Additions<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">School
is out! I will not return to class until early January so hopefully I
will get some things accomplished here at The Picket.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">With
this post I am going to take care of updating my Blog Roll. This is
something that I have overlooked far to long. You may have already
noticed these additions but I would like to share my thoughts with
you. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I
would also like to point out that if a blog appears here I do read
and enjoy it. Some of them I do “follow” if they have that
application. However, I do not troll the Internet “following”
blogs in order to draw traffic to mine. It is my way of letting them
know their work is appreciated. Besides, not all blogs have the
“follow” option. My blog roll is intended to showcase the talents
of lesser known writers. Most of the blogs do not show up on any
radar although a couple do appear on one or two other lists. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Now,
the additions...</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>History
by Zim- Beyond the Textbooks</b></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This
is not really a blog, but kinda sorta is. It is an eclectic mix of
social, political, and military history. It mostly deals with United
States History but it is not limited to this country. It is heavy
with photographs which I find fascinating. I have always loved old
photos especially clothing and machinery. You can also find old
letters there, another thing I really enjoy. The compiler of this
site is Jessica Zimmerman and she does a remarkable job of gathering
all of this stuff to put into one place. The site is frequently
updated so a daily peek at it will will not hurt. This is good place
to start trips down memory lane or explore what was happening when
your Dad was younger. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Zim
also has a blog called “Zim's Ramblings” where she, as the title
implies, rambles about things. It is not as frequent, but it is a fun
read. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="CENTER" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Our
Country's Fiery Ordeal</b></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Written
by Dan Vermilya, this blog focuses on the Battle of Antietam, but has
a good mix of content. Mr. Vermilya is a park ranger at the Antietam
National Battlefield. He earned a Master of Arts Degree in American
History. You can find book and movie reviews there from time to time
as well as the main content relating to the American Civil War. He
has posted things about U.S. Grant, Shiloh, and of course, Antietam. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This
is not strictly a retelling of the battle, but also encompasses
things that lead up to the battle away from the field, before and
after the fact. It is well written and updated regularly, usually
weekly. Bookmark it and enjoy!</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span> </div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Civil
War Saga</b></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Last
but certainly not least is Civil War Saga brought to us by Rebekah
Brooks. This one rapidly became my favorite. Ms. Brooks has recently
focused her talents on civil war prisons and lady spies. I enjoy her
writing style and the fact that she uses a “serial” method of
posting the information. By that I mean she may write two or three
posts on the same topic, then move to a different story. It allows
the reader to keep up with the information. I have found that she
never is truly finished with a subject. A topic might disappear for a
while but will return later. It never gets dull that way! She writes
with an easy to read style that gets the point across very well. To
show the range of subjects she covers, <i>Dinosaurs In Gettysburg</i>,
is an interesting read <span style="font-size: small;">so
click on this link <a href="http://civilwarsaga.com/dinosaurs-in-gettysburg/">http://civilwarsaga.com/dinosaurs-in-gettysburg/</a>
or copy and paste it in your browser. This post actually cemented her
position on my blog roll. The blog is not regularly updated and time
between posts can be about 2 weeks. Sometimes she sneaks them in more
frequently. The reason it takes so long I imagine is the fact she
also produces two other blogs! (amazing) She is also a freelance
writer so time may be at a premium for her. Nevertheless, it is well
worth the wait. She also has a “Picture of the Day” gallery in
the sidebar so you will always have a reason to visit!</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Please
check these blogs out, I am sure they would appreciate the visit!</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">And
thanks for stopping by! </span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Picket</span></div>
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</div>
</span><br />
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<br /></div>
SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-79766030341922115082012-11-22T17:43:00.000-06:002012-11-22T17:56:44.131-06:00Thanksgiving- A work of Fiction<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">November
26, 1863</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Dearest
Carrie,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I
take some time to write and inform you that I am well as are all of
the boys from home.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">No
skirmishing today except between the graybacks and fleas. Harper and
Boyd are after each other hammer and tong as well. It is hard to say
which is worse. At least the boys draw little blood and usually
retreat after a spell. I can't say the same of the vermin. They are
always in line of battle, charging and pawing for the best patch of
ground, moving to and fro across the field. Only a little water and
fire, strategically applied, deters them. Their casualties mount and
they beat a hasty retreat until the fire and water are removed. Then
they are back, with reinforcements and renewed vigor. I tell you the
field is tinged crimson in places.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Today
we are observing the day of thanksgiving as called for by Mr.
Lincoln. The camp is still, hushed. The boys speak only in quiet
tones, and now Boyd and Harper are in retreat, a handshake seals
their truce. It is not melancholy that produces the quiet, for a
smile plays around the lips of each man. They are not broad, but
faint little curls around the corners, and each eye holds a far off
gaze with small embers of happiness being kindled there, produced by
fond recollections of home. It all seems long ago now. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
supper fires are all going now, and the smiles the boys wear are
broadening. The smell of bacon, beef, and biscuits waft across the
camp. Rations are plentiful. We have all learned to cook for
ourselves but it is a poor substitute for the feast prepared by the
loving hands at home. At least we suffer no ill effect from it. My
table will have food foraged from the country. Schneider brought in a
dozen squirrels and Boyd claims to have shot the deer Harper brought
in, who says otherwise. I being a corporal was called upon to settle
the matter. After inspecting the carcass, three bullet holes were in
evidence but the boys were to busy arguing to notice. I declared
someone else had shot the deer, perhaps a Johnny Reb. They seemed a
bit shaken by that prospect. Boyd and Harper in fact had shot it but
only as the deer was about to lay down and die. They went along with
the verdict. Since I was the judge presiding, I also declared that
they should take part of the meat to your brother Jimmy's mess as
“punishment” for disturbing our day of thanksgiving with their
bickering. Boyd, ever the fractious one, huffily declared that we did
not need all of it anyway! The mess rang with laughter, including
Boyds! The punishment benefited our mess as Jimmy sent back some
tobacco, canned peaches, and an apple pie he had procured from a
Secessh house. I felt bad for that household but I know Jimmy. He
would not have left that family destitute. We ate our fill, and the
boys are resting now. Boyd and Harper are still honoring their
truce, and the company is content. All remains quiet. Our smiles
continue but the fires in our eyes, once blazing, now burn low. The
far away countenance resumes its place on each face. No, it is not
sadness that places it there. Each man is lost in his own memory and
contemplating what they are thankful for. And they are homesick, as I
am homesick. We all long for the day peace is restored and we can
return home but not a man in the company is willing to return until
their duty is fully performed. </span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
must tell you what I am thankful for before I close. I am thankful
for you, dear wife, and the home you keep ready for my return. I am
thankful that you are in fine health and spirits which bodes well for
our child you now carry inside you. I am thankful for the innumerable
blessings that God has bestowed on us, a Kind Providence has seen fit
to keep me this side of the sod, and has favored me with good health.
His mercy has kept most of the boys in the company in the same order.
We do mourn the loss of a few comrades but trust in His wisdom about
such affairs. The assurance of His salvation and the abiding
knowledge that those gone from us will<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">rise
at the final trumpets call is something we are all thankful for. I am
most thankful to The Most High that holds the future in His hands
and in His infinite wisdom and mercy we will all return home soon. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
must close now. It is nearing evening and the company has been
assigned picket duty and I must see to details. Do not fret about
your husband or your brother. We are watching out for each other.
The skirmishing has broken out again but not in our front. I think
the fleas are mounting a counter attack. Write soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Your
faithful Husband,</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eben</span></div>
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</div>
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thanksgiving
Day, 1863, probably did not produce many letters like this. The
armies in the east and the west were rather busy for so late in the
year. Grant and Sherman had their hands full just prior to November
26 while fighting Bragg in Tennessee at Lookout Mountain and
Missionary Ridge and then pursuing him into Georgia. Burnside was
also having difficulty with Longstreet at Knoxville. In the east,
Mead was involved in crossing the Rapidan River and kicking off the
Mine Run campaign.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It
is unlikely that very many soldiers in the primary theaters of the
war would have had time to “observe a day of thanksgiving as called
for by Mr. Lincoln.” It is possible they mentioned the day, in
passing, in letters home or in their diaries. This letter is a
simple flight of my own fancy. It combines the staple fare of a
typical soldier letter home: camp life, thoughts of home, family, and
duty to the country. Thanksgiving days were common in the United
States from its very beginning. The soldiers would have had fond
memories of those days to reflect upon. Since many of them had never
been more than a few miles from home, it strikes me that a national
Thanksgiving Day in camp would evoke a lot of emotion, reflection,
and produce the “faint smile” and “far away gaze”. It has
been the same all throughout our history. Men and women have been far
from home serving the country we all love. For those men and women
past, present, and future I am thankful. </span>
</div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For
the Most High God and the assurance of his salvation I am, above all
things, truly thankful.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
hope you enjoyed my letter even if it might not be totally accurate
historically. I also hope it reminds you to be thankful today and
every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thanks
for stopping by! I am always thankful for that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
Picket </span>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-9373027430583177682012-11-19T20:40:00.001-06:002012-11-20T19:13:10.472-06:00Ephraim S. Dodd- A Terry Texas Ranger<br />
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“<i>It
was during this winter that one of the saddest events in all our
career happened: the hanging of E.S. Dodd by the enemy. He was a
member of company D. He was of a good family and well educated. For
many years he kept a diary, setting down at night the happenings of
the day. He was taken prisoner with this diary in his pocket. On that
evidence alone he was condemned and executed as a spy.” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[1]</span></div>
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So
writes L. B. Giles in his reminiscences, “<i>Terry's Texas
Rangers”. </i>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GtQ6aHMtO68/UKrKjvJRfsI/AAAAAAAAAIY/bhRZ98W2fQ0/s1600/Terrys+Rangers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="315" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GtQ6aHMtO68/UKrKjvJRfsI/AAAAAAAAAIY/bhRZ98W2fQ0/s400/Terrys+Rangers.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Members of the 8th Regiment (Terry's) Texas Cavalry</td></tr>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Not much is known about Ephraim Shelby Dodd. The introduction to his diary states that he was originally from Kentucky. At the outbreak of the war he was living in Texas at the home of an uncle at Austin. It also says his occupation was as a school teacher. [2] The US Census of 1850 lists him as the son of Travis and Nancy Dodd of Garrard County, Kentucky, and he was then 11 years old. [3]<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">* </span></strong>He was an only child. He does not appear in the 1860 census, apparently a step ahead or behind the canvassers. He enlisted in Company D, Eighth Regiment (Terry's) Texas cavalry on April 6, 1862, at Corinth, Mississippi for the duration of the war. [4]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fortunately
the diary written by Dodd does exist and is available. His words can
in fact be construed as treacherous. Names of people Dodd came in
contact with are mentioned, with rare exception, which does not seem
to be the work of a competent spy. He was a cavalry scout accused of
being a spy. The time encompassed by the diary is from December 4,
1862 to January 1, 1864. <span style="font-size: small;">It
does contain a few suspicious entries, such as the first one which
reads:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Thursday,
December 4<sup>th</sup>, 1862- I went out from M. to Mr. ___ five
miles from town. I went from there to Gen'l Morgan's Headquarters,
leaving the Knox county filly at Mr. ___ and riding Walkers horse. I
took supper at Lewis Black's, Morgans Headquarters. The Gen'l was in
town but came in just after supper.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Supper
at Morgan's headquarters would be enough to arouse the suspicions of
even the rawest recruit. Add to that the blanking out of names in the
entry. This may be because the name was illegible to the transcriber,
or perhaps Dodd did it intentionally. There are other instances where
the names of certain people are left blank but they are few. Another
entry reads: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Friday,
15<sup>th</sup>, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[May, 1863]
</span><i>To-night stopped to see two Lincolnites; got six-shooter
from one; single barrel from the other; stopped at Squire Henry's;
got some cherry bounce; played off Yankee on him; got all the
information we wanted and went on to Wickwires...” [5] </i></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Are
these the only entries that would lead the Federals to condemn Dodd
as a spy? No, but the diary is rather mundane. Typical of other
diaries, he writes about the weather, the local people, especially
the ladies, and day to day life. There are no particularly exciting
things to mention and a couple of entries simply say “</span><i>Nothing
worthy of note today.” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">What
else would lead to the charge of espionage? Coupled with other
factors, the Yankees may have had good cause for their conclusion.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qUl1GtyU4k4/UKrOkQ1BgVI/AAAAAAAAAI0/95OAPM4ecyA/s1600/Dodd+Absent+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qUl1GtyU4k4/UKrOkQ1BgVI/AAAAAAAAAI0/95OAPM4ecyA/s640/Dodd+Absent+1.jpg" width="296" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Entitled to pay for horse. Absent without leave.</td></tr>
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</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">It
appears that he was quite often away from his regiment, especially
from mid May 1863 until the time of his capture. “Piruting” as he
called it. This is probably a misspelling of pirating, and it is
always used to describe activities that are beyond simple foraging.
He was listed as a deserter for one excursion he took in Allen
County, Kentucky. The duration of that trip was May 9th to 31st! The
regiment was on detached duty at Granville,(Jackson County) Tennessee
at this time and Dodd makes no mention that he was under orders to
scout for that length of time. In fairness, he and his small band of
troopers did encounter a few Yankees along the way, and they hid from
them. However, this can be construed as the party was gathering
information on troop strength and disposition. Also during this trip,
another mention of Morgan's men is set down in his diary:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wednesday,
13<sup>th</sup>, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">(May '63) </span><i>I
met some of Morgan's men; Harper with them. I joined them and went
'cross railroad at Mitchellville,</i><span style="font-style: normal;">(Tennessee)
</span><i>over to Wickwires, 8 miles from the railroad. Stopped at
Mr. Simpson's and got breakfast. Miss Sue Offutt and Miss Jimmy
Wickwire there. After breakfast went to the woods and staid all day.”
[6]</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
railroad is the Louisville and Nashville, and the combination of
Morgan and railroads did not set well with the Federals. Dodd would
refer to Morgan in his diary on several occasions. It was on this
trip that Dodd met the “Lincolnites”, and first passed himself
off as a Yankee soldier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Read
in the context of time and place, Dodd's entries for November and
December 1863 are the most damning. <span style="font-weight: normal;">At
that time Dodd and his friends were operating in Sevier and Blunt
(Blount) counties of Tennessee and some of their activities take them
to Louisville. (Blount county, now part of Knoxville Metropolitan
area). Entries for December 6 and 7 mention a particular desire to
reach the Planters Hotel there but they were deterred by a large force
of Union soldiers near the town. The Yankees would move on shortly
and Dodd went on to the hotel the evening of the 7</span><sup><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
For what purpose, other than supper, he does not mention, but he
makes reference to the large enemy force, and the fact that they had
walked to “</span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">within three
hundred yards of their campfires.” </span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
And this excerpt of the entry for December 10, 1863:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Thursday-10,
We start for Longstreet for or via Sevier. Gave it out and started
for the vicinity of Bess' Mill.</i></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Longstreet
was still menacing Knoxville, although much of the fighting around
that city was over by the time Dodd was captured. Dodd's Federal
captors could assume, understandably, that Dodd had been gathering
information and was to deliver his findings to that general. His
entries calling out troop movements in late November and early
December surely did not help his case.</span></span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dodd also mentions on several occasions that he left his clothes with
someone, or that he had picked them up. It is possible he was leaving
them to be mended. Or perhaps he was changing from his uniform to
civilian attire. Was it something else? </span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Monday,7
</i><span style="font-style: normal;">(December, 1863) </span><i>I
passed as a Yankee with Mrs. Henry.” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[7]</span><i>
</i><span style="font-style: normal;">and:</span></span></div>
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<br />
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Friday,
11 Started this evening for Sevier </i><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sevierville).
</span><i>Got as far as Little River at Mr. McLane's and turn back.
Two Yanks rode right through us.” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[8]</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Was
he in a habit of wearing the blue when he went on a scout? Another
excerpt of the entry dated December 10<sup>th</sup>, 1863 reads:</span></div>
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“ <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Went
to see Mr. Jo Gray, a Lieutenant in the Yankee Army. He was not at
home; took two horses and a negro.” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[9]</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Although
he makes no mention of stealing clothes, it is possible that the
lieutenant had a spare uniform or two, and Dodd outfitted himself. He
was not alone though, he had perhaps a half dozen men with him. The
low light or darkness of the evening may be the reason they went
unnoticed regardless of how they were dressed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">However,
C.C. Jeffries lends credence to the Yankee uniform theory as he
writes in his book, <i>Terry's Rangers:</i></span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>But
while he was a bold scout,as to being an out and out spy,that was
something else. Evidently he did not consider himself a spy, for
</i><i><b>while he was partially clothed in a Federal uniform, </b></i><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">he
had on his hat a “Terry Texas Ranger” button. And he must not
have thought that the diary would prove incriminating, if he was
caught, else he would not have written in it as he did.” </span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">[10]</span></span></div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sadly, Mr. Jeffries does not
cite a source for this nugget. </span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We do have one piece of evidence
from historical record that <i>might </i>be directly linked to the
Dodd case. It is <b>General Orders Number 7, Department of the Ohio.
</b>It reads as follows:</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hdqrs.,
Department of the Ohio,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Knoxville,
Tenn., January 8, 1864</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Our
outposts and pickets posted in isolated places, having in many
instances been overpowered and captured by the enemy's troops,<b>
disguised as Federal soldiers</b>, the commanding general is obliged
to issue the following order for the protection of his command, and to
prevent a continuance of this violation of the rules of warfare:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Corps
commanders are hereby directed to cause to be shot dead all the Rebel
officers and soldiers (wearing the uniform of the US Army)captured
within our lines.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>By
command of Major General Foster. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">(John
G. Foster) [11]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Henry
Curtis, Jr.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Assistant
Adjutant General</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This order was enclosed with a
letter dated January 17, 1864, from Foster to Confederate Lieutenant General
James Longstreet. The letter discussed earlier correspondences
between the two generals, as well as informing Longstreet of Dodd's
conviction and execution. The letter also had appended to it another
enclosure, which held the specifics of the charges and trial of Dodd.
(General Orders Number 3, Department of the Ohio, January 5, 1864.
Unfortunately this enclosure was not included in the Official
Record.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Whether or not General
Orders Number 7 actually stems from the Dodd case is strictly
conjecture but it was issued on the day of his execution. Perhaps
Dodd provided a ready </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">example to show grounds for
implementing this order. It does lead one to believe that he was
indeed captured in a Federal uniform. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ephraim Shelby Dodd was
captured near Maryville, Tennessee by Union Home Guards on December
17, 1863. The next day he was taken to Knoxville. He would remain
there until his trial on or about January 5, 1864, and execution on
the 8<sup>th</sup>.<span style="color: #cc0000;"> <strong>**</strong></span><strong> </strong>He is buried there on the grounds of
Bleak House. (Now Confederate Memorial Hall, Chapter 89, United
Daughters of the Confederacy) His diary and the likliehood of his wearing a Federal uniform would, together, be his undoing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is interesting to note that
January 8, 1864 witnessed another hanging. Another young man had also
been convicted of spying for the Confederacy and sentenced to death.
David O. Dodd, also of Texas, was hanged in Little Rock, Arkansas. He
would be remembered as The Boy Martyr of the Confederacy.</span></div>
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I should say that I found some other things about E.S. Dodd but did not include them here. Things pertaining to his hanging mostly. They seemed to be sensationalized third or fourth hand accounts written well after the fact. I did not want to propogate myths and in my humble opinion that is what they were. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1- Giles, L.B. (1911), <i>Terry's
Texas Rangers, </i>Austin, Texas, Von Boekman- Jones Co. Printers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2- Dodd, Ephraim Shelby, <i>Diary
of Ephraim Shelby Dodd, 1862-1864, </i>Austin: press of E.L. Steck,
1914. Introductory</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3- <i>United States Census,
1850, Ephraim S Dodd in the Household of Travis Dodd, Garrard</i>
<i>county, Garrard, Kentucky, United States; citing dwelling 902,
family 953, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>NARA
microfilm publication M432, roll 201.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
Retrieved from <a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M653-39L">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M653-39L</a>
11-17 -2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">4-
</span><i>Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who served
in Organizations from the state of Texas, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">National
Archives Microfilm Publications Number 323, Roll 50, Pages 335-340.
1960 Retrieved from
<a href="http://archive.org/details/compiledservicer050unit">http://archive.org/details/compiledservicer050unit</a>
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5-Dodd, page 16</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6- Ibid</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7- Ibid, page 29</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">8- Ibid, page 30</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">9- Ibid</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">10- Jeffries, C. C., <i>Terry's
Rangers, </i>First Ed., Vantage Press, 1962, page 88. from
<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009536095">http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009536095</a>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">11-<i> War of the Rebellion:
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies</i>, (O.R.)
Series 3, Volume 4, page 54. From Cornell University, Making of
America, <a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/m/moawar/">http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/m/moawar/</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Images</b></span></div>
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Muster card from 4, above, page 337</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Terry's Rangers circa 1863 from
<a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth799/">http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth799/</a>
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History,
<a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/">http://texashistory.unt.edu</a>
crediting Fort Bend Museum, Richmond Texas </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Tombstone of E.S. Dodd,
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=5783001">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=5783001</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">At Find A Grave
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/index.html">http://www.findagrave.com/index.html</a>
Wayne Sampson, photographer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">*</span></b>The author of the
diary's introduction tells us that E.S. Dodd was not yet out of his
teens when the war started. After looking through several different
genealogical sites, the only person listed as Ephraim S. Dodd was
listed in the 1850 US Census and was then 11 years old. Dodd would
be approaching or already be 22 years old in 1861. The common
misspellings such as Dodde, Dodds, and Dode all had no results for
Ephraim Shelby. Likewise the initials <b>E., E. S., </b>and <b>S.
</b>produced little other than females or men who lived far beyond
the war. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">**</span>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">One of the cards in the
Compiled Service records erroneously states Dodd was sent to Camp
Chase Ohio. It is dated January 8, 1864, the date of his execution. His last entry, January 1,
1864, says that he was among a group of prisoners set to depart
Knoxville on January 2 for Strawberry Plains. One could surmise that
they were bound for Camp Chase. A letter sent from the Office of The
Provost Marshall General- East Tennessee states otherwise. Dodd was
in fact hanged at Knoxville.</span></span></div>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-52775486463953202112012-11-06T19:33:00.000-06:002012-11-18T08:33:52.985-06:00Election Day 1864... And 2012<br />
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>November
8: This was election-day for President, the proudest day of my life.
I was eighteen years and four months old, and cast my first ballot,
which was for Abraham Lincoln. The McClellan men were scarce in our
regiment.” </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">William Bircher,
drummer, 2</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">nd</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
Minnesota Volunteer Infantry (Veteran) [1]</span></span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>October
29, All things have been quiet with us since the last date. The
regiment voted for President. Commissioners were here from
Connecticut. Each voter was given two ballots and an envelope. One
for Lincoln and one for General McClellan. The voter, taking his
ballots to his tent or anywhere he chose, put in the envelope the one
of his choice, seal, and return to the commissioners who carried the
vote home. <b>I was not old enough to vote. I could carry a gun and
do as much duty as any man.” </b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Charles Lynch, 18</span></span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. Lynch was 19 years 8 months old. [2]
Strange. The commissioners may have been the reason </span></span></span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">At
roll call, on the morning of the 8</span><sup><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
the tickets were dropped into hats, brought together, and counted.
The proceeding was all together fair. There was no bribery or undue
influence used. The count showed 615 votes for General McClellan and
1,665 for Mr. Lincoln.” </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
casting of ballots had a twist. They did not count toward the final
tally of the election of 1864. The reason? The balloting was held at
Camp Ford, a Confederate POW camp housing Union soldiers. It is near
Tyler, Texas. The voting was held upon the suggestion of the camp
commandant, a Colonel Brown, who:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> “</span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">was
astonished at the result. He had predicted another result, now he
declared that Mr. Lincoln would be re-elected,and admitted the
probable collapse of the Confederacy. He bought three gallons of
whiskey, and with his officers, got gloriously drunk over the
“indication”.</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
[3]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
certainly hope my readers here in the US exercised their right and
privilege to vote. These men served you 150 years ago to give you
that freedom. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>And
I voted!!!!!!!!!</b></span></span></div>
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<strong>Sources</strong></div>
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</span><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">1-
Bircher, William, </span><i>A Drummer boys Diary, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">1889,
p 140 <a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007475548">http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007475548</a>
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">2-
Lynch, Charles H., </span><i>The Civil War Diary, </i></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">1915,
p 132 </span><a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009586625"><span style="font-size: small;">http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009586625</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">3-
Forty Sixth Indiana Regimental Association, </span><i>History of the
Forty Sixth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">1888,
page 132</span></span></strong></div>
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SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-42772671045345137152012-11-04T18:34:00.000-06:002012-11-04T19:25:34.552-06:00A Different Approach to Andersonville<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
prison pen at Andersonville, Georgia (Camp Sumter) has been the
subject of several books, numerous magazine articles and myriad blog
posts. It has also been the subject of at least one movie, the 1996
Turner Pictures Worldwide film “<i>Andersonville”. </i></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Generally
these efforts relate the squalor and deprivation these men endured.
They also tend to lean heavily on the Swiss born commandant, Henry
Wirz. Portrayed as cruel and murderous, Wirz would later be convicted
of war crimes and executed.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This
post will not actually follow the pattern of earlier scholarship on
the subject. It may prove interesting to some readers while hold no
interest for others. It will look at things concerning different
aspects of the soldiers held at the prison. More specifically, it
looks at roughly 400 men and boys that were given the sacraments of
“<i>penance and extreme unction</i>” by Fr. H. Clavreul, a
Catholic priest who had been ministering to the prisoners of war in
Savannah, Georgia before transferring to Camp Sumter in July 1864. He
ministered in the camp until August 20, 1864. He would be taken ill
with what he describes as “continued vomiting” and he would be
sent back to Savannah at the insistence of his fellow priest, a
Father Whelan. He does not give any details about his malady other
than the vomiting. He does relate that he:</span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Spent
that day and following night on board the train wholly unconscious,
recovering my senses only when, on arrival at Savannah, they dragged
me from under the car seat where I was lying.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Perhaps
his troubles were related to his diet, which closely mirrored that of
the prisoners:</span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>cornbread,
cow peas, and parched corn coffee.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This
is only conjecture as to what caused his ailment. But scurvy,
diarrhea, and dysentery were common in the camp, so it is no surprise
he would be touched in some way by illness. Fortunately he would
recover sufficiently to resume his duties in late September '64 at
Savannah. This was just as an influx of 10,000 prisoners transferring from Andersonville arrived there.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dead Line at Andersonville</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Clavreul's
diary is the only source drawn from for the following numbers and any
conclusion drawn here is not to be taken as definitive. They are
merely related to a very small segment of the whole terrifying
experience that was Andersonville and the American Civil War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
soldiers and sailors that Fr. Whelan and Fr. Clavreul ministered to
were a melting pot to say the least. Of the total Fr. Clavreul
ministered to, only 80 are listed as being native born Americans.
They came from northern and southern states, with New York leading
the grim toll of dead with 26. Pennsylvania was close behind with 24.
The other men hailed from Massachusetts, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Connecticut, Tennessee, Vermont, Maryland,
Maine, New Jersey, Indiana, Kentucky, and Arkansas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">There
were 39 native Canadians among Fr. Clavreul's flock. An interesting
number when compared to the number of native born sons. They are
listed as simply being from Canada or in some cases the province the
man was from is noted. Upper Canada (Ontario), New Brunswick, and
Nova Scotia are defined as the land of nativity in these instances.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It
comes as a mild surprise to find 188 men from Ireland in the group.
The surprise is that it far outstrips the next group, those from
Germany, or Germanic states, by nearly 3 to 1. The Germans had 59. </span><span style="font-size: small;">The
rest of the world had representatives a well. 8 Frenchmen were
ministered to, as well as 8 Englishmen. Switzerland had 5 and tiny
Belgium had 2. Holland and Spain added 1 each. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Looking
at these figures and remembering this is a small segment of the
entire Union army, one might see why nativists at the time would be
against emancipation of the slave. It also could shed light on
Southern perceptions that “mercenary hordes” were sent to trample
Southern rights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Beyond
the geographic origins of Fr. Clavreul's group is the age. At 26.6
years, it appears that the average age of these prisoners was about
the norm, perhaps a bit older. The youngest was William Plummer, 14
years old and he came from Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, the diary
does not list his regiment or his rank. Surmise would say that he was
a musician, perhaps a bugler or drummer. The oldest man given the
sacraments was 62 years of age. James Burcham was a ships carpenter
in the US Navy, but no vessel is identified. He was from Halifax,
Nova Scotia, and one of a handful of sailors attended by Clavreul.</span><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a surprising number of men in the late 40 to late 50 age group
which may account for the slightly higher average age. Eighteen men
were between the ages of 45 and 59. Another 33 men were between the
ages of 40 and 45 years old. Taken together, 12 per cent of Fr.
Clavreul's little flock were older than 40 years! It should be
remembered that Andersonville was an enlisted mans pen. Although
Clavreul's list does not specify the occupation of these men, it is
almost certain it contained a few tradesmen and professional men.
Even the loss of a farmer or day laborer would rob the country of the
experience level this age group offered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Another interesting note was of a more personal nature to these men.
Nine of the prisoners were baptized in their final hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">When
Fr. Clavreul again took up his duties again at Savannah, he lists another
group of prisoners he ministered to. It is a much shorter list,
comprising about 100 names. Strangely it encompasses roughly the same
length of time as he had spent at Andersonville. It too is heavily
laden with foreign born soldiers, and the ages are about the same.
The smaller number may be attributed to better conditions as compared
to Andersonville. The final entry to the Savannah list reads:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>November
24<sup>th</sup>, Heard confession of 72 Irishmen, names unknown.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fr.
Clavreul writes two telling passages in the diary. </span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>All
those whom I administered I found in a dying condition and I have
little doubt that they died on the very spot that I found them.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and:</span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
list of dead at Andersonville does not include those prisoners who
were attended by Fr. Whelan, likely as numerous as those whom I
myself attended.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Of
course there is so much more to Andersonville Prison but as mentioned
there are numerous other projects in print and on the web that deal
with it. This post was an attempt to show something a little
different and to look closer at the men as a part of the whole,
rather than looking strictly at the whole.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Looking
at the Irish, their number tends to bear out the conclusion that they
were more than willing to fight for their adopted home in spite of
being on a lower rung of society.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
age range is surprising as well. The 40 and older group is an
interesting find. Something tells me that the Union army was aging as
rapidly as the Confederate army, but for different reasons.
Conscription may have something to do with it. It is rare to find any
reference to the age of the Federal soldier as individuals while
quite common to find the age of the Confederate soldier being noted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
baptism of the soldier is also interesting. Clavreul would baptize
nine more soldiers while ministering at Savannah. The last rites were
not the only function a priest performed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Nowhere
in this diary is there to be found anything approaching political
statement. The author strictly adheres to relating his duties to the
reader. Even after the passage of years when he adds <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">some
reminiscences to it the narrative does not diverge from this. Only on
the subject of a monument to Henry Wirz does he offer anything beyond
his duties. He writes in response to a friends letter:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Now,
I think, the poor man is no more worthy of a monument now, as he was
at the time deserving of being hanged. His name should be forgotten.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This
little diary only has 17 pages, and it is sadly lacking in specifics
on the soldiers listed. Only in a few cases are the regiments noted. It should still be a help to the genealogist though.
Digging into it as I did, it proved to be a true gem and quite an
interesting find. Well, at least to me!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andersonville Survivors Medal</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
Picket</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Source</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Clavreul,
H., </span><i>Diary: With the names of the Federal soldiers to whom
he ministered at Andersonville, Ga. July and August 1864</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
Robbins, George, editor. 1910. Retrieved from Hathi Trust,
<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008427657/Home">http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008427657/Home</a>
</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Photo
from Library of Congress collection
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/99400870/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/99400870/</a>
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The Survivors medal is from the diary frontispiece. I was unable to ascertain if it was a national or state medal. Perhaps one of you know for sure. If so please leave a comment!</div>
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<br />SteveGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048098461546611397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616154849852497165.post-68918062208968954592012-10-20T15:01:00.000-05:002012-10-20T16:49:16.730-05:00Voices from the Sultana<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">April
1865 was perhaps the most trying of months during the years 1861 to
1865. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">While
it is true that Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia had
stacked their arms for the last time on April 9, and General Joseph
E. Johnston surrendered on the 26<sup>th</sup>, Kirby Smith and
Richard Taylor still had armies in the field and the war was not
quite over. </span><br />
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Abraham
Lincoln was barely six weeks into his second term when John Wilkes
Booth sent a bullet into the presidents brain on the 14<sup>th</sup>.
Lincoln succumbed to the wound early the next day.</span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
mood of the country was at once hopeful and despairing, mixed with a
good measure of indignation. This April was like no other during the
American Civil War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">April
1865 also saw the worst maritime disaster the United States has ever
witnessed. The explosion and burning of the packet steamer <i>Sultana.
</i><span style="font-style: normal;">That sad event also</span><i>
</i><span style="font-style: normal;">ranks number five on the list of
peacetime maritime disasters in terms of casualties. [1] (Although
technically the war was still going on.)</span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Sultana was built at Cincinnati, Ohio and put into service in January
1863. She displaced about 1,700 tons, drew seven feet of water and
was powered by four tubular boilers [2] turning her two massive side
wheels. Her regular run was New Orleans to St. Louis and she carried
passengers and freight.</span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In
the very early, inky black darkness of the morning of April 27, at
least one of the steamers boilers exploded. She immediately caught
fire, and passengers, at least those that were able, scrambled for
safety, which usually meant over the side and into the cold, flood
swollen Mississippi River. On this trip there was upward of 2,000
souls aboard, most of whom were Union soldiers, fresh from prison
pens from across the Confederacy.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
exact details of who was to blame for the tremendous loss of life and
theories of the cause of the explosion are not covered in this post.
Dealt with here is the human aspect of that sad morning. These are
snippets of first hand accounts from survivors. </span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <em>SULTANA, </em>April 26, 1865, the day before the disaster.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hiram
Allison, Company G, Ninth Indiana Cavalry, captured at Sulphur
Trestle, Louisiana, September 25, 1864, imprisoned at Cahaba, Alabama
(Castle Morgan). He writes:</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>[I]
glanced around the burning wreck and saw that I would have to go,so I
jumped from the cabin deck into the water. I remained there for two
or three hours and then came across a horse trough with a comrade on
each end of it. I took the center. When I caught up with the two
comrades they were both praying. When I got on with them I said:
“That was a terrible disaster.” They made no reply but kept right
on praying. I said no more to them and when it was light enough for
me to see they were gone. What became of them I never knew.” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[3]</span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Incidents
like this are a recurring theme throughout the accounts of survivors.
Many were able to either throw pieces of debris from the wreck into
the water for a raft or had the good fortune to find a piece in the
water large enough to accommodate three or four men. Sadly, the loss
of comrades that slipped away without a murmur and unbeknownst to
their friends was common. Months of prison life had taken a terrible
toll on these souls, and given the swollen river and weakened
constitutions, it is a wonder that anyone survived.</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">P.S.
Atchley, a corporal in Company K, Third Tennessee (US), has an
interesting tale to tell, one that reminds us that decency, even in
the bitterest of times, can show through even from an unlikely
source. He relates:</span><br />
<br />
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>[I]
landed on the Arkansas shore without any assistance whatever. There I
found a </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Confederate soldier </span><i>who
came to my relief, and took me to a house nearby, and gave me
something to eat, and I felt something like myself again, thanks to
the Ruler of the Universe. The said Confederate soldier worked hard
to save the lives of the drowning men,and brought to shore in his
little dugout about 15 of them.” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[4]</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Even
in bitter defeat, the Rebel soldier came to the aid of the enemy in
distress. Perhaps it was his realization that the past was gone and
the future was still to be faced, and in some small way his action
was a way toward his own healing. No name is given to this man, but
at least 15 men would owe their lives and their own healing to him.</span></div>
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</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">William
Boor, a private in Company D, 64<sup>th</sup> Ohio Infantry had not
been long in the army that terrible morning, and much of his service
was spent as a prisoner of war. He enlisted on October 5, 1864 and
was captured at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee November 30, 1864.
He spent the remainder of the war in pens at Meridian, Mississippi,
Cahaba and Selma Alabama. He, too has a harrowing tale to tell,
beginning almost as soon as he abandoned the burning <i>Sultana: </i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Here
I met with an accident which came near proving fatal to me. I got
into one of those whirlpools in the water,and while there I could not
manage my board. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">(He had, like
so many others, thrown a piece of the wreck into the water to use as
a raft) </span><i>I finally got tired out, and then for the first
time I thought I must give up the struggle and drown as I could not
get away from there. I finally concluded to dive for the bottom and
get a good start, not thinking that the water was forty or fifty feet
deep in the channel. I went down but it was not long before I was in
need of the fresh air. When I came near the surface of the water, as
luck would have it, I cleared the pool and got my board.” </i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Boor
would end up rescuing another man with his board and another piece of
debris. Both were non-swimmers, and eventually they would be hauled
out of the black river by yet another[?] Confederate soldier, this
one a captain with a raft of rails, again on the Arkansas shore, and
again no name given. [5]</span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Acting
Master's Mate William B. Floyd has the vantage of rescuer to the
survivors of the disaster. Serving on the USS Grosbeak, he tells of
rescuing twelve soldiers on a raft, “or a lot of wreckage”, while
at the same time ignoring the cries from someone stranded in the
flooded timber some distance from the raft. Working from one of
Grosbeaks boats, Floyd offers his testimony:</span></div>
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</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
found the nearest on a raft or a lot of wreckage. There were twelve
or perhaps more and were raising a terrible cry for help. It was yet
dark, and I could not tell if there were twenty or a hundred there,
but away farther toward the shore was a lone voice, calling in the
most piteous tone for help, that appealed to me so that it was hard
for me to steer my boat for the raft, instead of hastening to his
aid. I had to leave the poor fellow to his fate.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">[6]</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Of
the twelve men on the raft Floyd learned very little but he overheard
a pair of them speaking of their sleeping berths aboard Sultana:</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
was sleeping above the boilers and said that the first thing he knew
he was flying up in the air and when he came down it was in the
water. The other, sleeping </i><span style="font-style: normal;">under</span><i>
the boiler was not injured, as the force of the explosion was
upward.” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[7]</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span> </div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Erastus
Winters of Company K, 50</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
Ohio Infantry, had been in the army since the summer of 1862 was
captured at the Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864. His home for
the next several months was also at Cahaba. He perhaps sums up the
minds of all the survivors with these words:</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>No
artist, I care not how clever he may be with his brush, can paint a
picture as full of horrors as the picture that was painted on my
memory, that April morning, 1865.” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[8]</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">These
are just a few of the voices from the Sultana. The accounts here were
related some years after the fact. Winters' story was told 40 years
beyond Sultana. The memories did not fade or go away and would haunt
these men until the end of their lives. The author/compiler of <i>Loss
of the Sultana, </i>Chester D. Berry, gives his own testament to that fact, 27 years after the
wreck:</span></div>
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</span><br />
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>...
I came across one man who was weeping bitterly and wringing his hands
as if in terrible agony, continually crying 'O dear! O dear!' I
supposed the poor fellow was seriously hurt. My sympathies were
aroused at once. Approaching him, I took him by the shoulder and
asked where he was hurt. 'I'm not hurt at all.' he said 'but I can't
swim, I've got to drown. O dear.'”</i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">With
that, Berry shows the man the small piece of board he was going to
use as a raft, and points to a pile of broken timbers and suggests
the man get himself one. The other soldier continues:</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>But
I did get one, and someone snatched it away from me.”</i></span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well,
get another.” said I.</i></span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
did.” said he, “And they took that away from me.”</i></span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well
then” said I, “get another.”</i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why?”
said he. “What would be the use,they would take it from me. O dear,
I tell you there is no use; I've got to drown. I can't swim.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
man had lost all hope. Berry, himself a recently released prisoner
thrust into a traumatic situation, relates what happened next:</span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>By
this time I was thoroughly disgusted, and giving him a shove I said,
'drown then you fool.'</i></span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
have been sorry all these years for that very act.” </i>[9]<i> </i>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Chester
Berry was with Company I, 20<sup>th</sup> Michigan Infantry, captured
at Cold Harbor in June of 1864, and recently a prisoner at
Andersonville, Georgia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Others
tell of seeing a bridal couple aboard the doomed vessel, some tell of
the ladies of the Sanitary Commission that perished that morning.
There are claims of Rebel prisoners aboard, and a compliment of Union
soldiers, under arms, that were traveling northward with their late
prisoner comrades. Among the lost were men, women, and children,
passengers that paid a fare for a trip North.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Coming
as it did in the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and
occurring far from the eastern population centers, it did not garner
the attention one would expect from such a disaster. Most of the
soldiers on board were Westerners anyway, at least that is reason the
early writers blame for lack of coverage. Families of the people lost
would feel it long afterward as much as any battle touched the
families of those slain on “fields of glory”. 1,547 lives were
lost “officially” [10] but many more may have perished in the
explosion and fire or drowned in the turbulent river. Many were never
found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Sultana
</i>is a sad epitaph to the national nightmare that was the American
Civil War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sources**</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">1-
List of maritime disasters, wikipedia, retrieved from
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_disasters">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_disasters</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">2-
Trudeau, Noah A.,</span><i> Death on the River, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Naval
History Magazine, August 2009, Volume 23, Number 4, retrieved from
<a href="http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2009-08/death-river">http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2009-08/death-river</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Mr.
Trudeau lists </span><i>Sultana's </i><span style="font-style: normal;">displacement
as 719 tons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">3-Berry,
Chester D.,</span><i> Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of
survivors</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, , 1892 pp 33-34.
Retrieved from <a href="http://books.google.com/">http://books.google.com</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4-Ibid, p34</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5-Ibid pp 59-60</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">6-
Taylor, Joseph, </span><i>The Sultana Disaster,</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
Indiana Historical Society, Volume 5, Number 3, 1913. p 182
retrieved from <a href="http://books.google.com/">http://books.google.com</a>
</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7-Ibid, p185</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">8-Winters, Erastus, <i>In the
50</i><sup><i>th</i></sup><i> Ohio Serving Uncle Sam:Memoirs of one
who wore the Blue,</i>1905, p168 retrieved from </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://books.google.com/">http://books.google.com</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;">9-Berry, pp 50-51</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">10- SS Sultana from
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sultana">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sultana</a>
as listed from US Customs Service</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Photo from Library of Congress
retrieved from <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>**</b>Loss
of the Sultana and Reminiscences of survivors </i><span style="font-style: normal;">has
a list of soldiers supposed to have been aboard the Sultana that
morning and as near as could be ascertained, the names of the lost
are marked with an asterisk. The list is not alphabetical and begins
on page 385. This book contains a great many recollections of the
soldiers, and may prove useful to genealogists.</span></span></div>
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