Rene Tyree posted an interesting statement from Harsh that Burnside in Frederick was "considerably nearer" to HF than Franklin in Licksville (now Tuscarora) on...
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jeffcowvplanning
jeffcowvplan...
Aug 11, 2009 1:04 am
Hello all. Quick question... I just picked up off ebay a copy of the 1993 Blue and Gray Mag that has Tim Reese's article on the skirmish at Quebec Schoolhouse,...
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Harry Smeltzer
hjs212002
Aug 14, 2009 2:30 pm
Read about a new Civil War Battle Blog you may find interesting: http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/chickamauga-blog/ Harry [Non-text portions of...
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Harry Smeltzer
hjs212002
Aug 14, 2009 2:32 pm
Read about a new Civil War Battle Blog you may find interesting: http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/chickamauga-blog/ Harry [Non-text portions of...
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dickeyr46
Aug 21, 2009 12:08 pm
The NPS has posted a news release of the Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday hikes for this year's Antietam Battlefield celebration. The post also includes...
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dickeyr46
Aug 21, 2009 12:19 pm
... Couldn't get the link to work. Try without the last period. http://www.nps.gov/anti/parknews/2009-battle-anniversary-hike-schedule.htm Ron...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Aug 28, 2009 2:09 am
Gang, Joe Harsh mentions the presence of Confederate reports concerning the Sunken Road in one of the footnotes to the chapter section in TATF dealing with the...
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eighth_conn_inf
Aug 28, 2009 1:20 pm
Gerry, The SORs are in three parts. Part I, vol. 3, pp. 568 et seq is a report by Col William Gibson of the 48th GA for Antietam for 16-17 Sept. The second...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Aug 28, 2009 1:24 pm
Larry; Thanks! Do the ones that you mentioned as being relevant...are they specific to the Sunken Road? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian,...
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eighth_conn_inf
Aug 28, 2009 1:59 pm
Gerry More or less; those regiments were not in the road but apparently did play tangential roles before and after. PM me at killsour@... with your...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Aug 28, 2009 2:01 pm
Thanks! Will do so shortly per your request. Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even on one's...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Aug 29, 2009 12:46 am
Does anyone know by which first name people addressed Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana? Any chance it was Charles? Thanks. Stephen...
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RoteBaron
RoteBaron@...
Aug 29, 2009 2:03 am
He did have a son named Charles Peaslee Dana. Source: "Monterrey Is Ours: The Mexican War Letters of Lt. Dana" Tom Shay ... From: Stephen Recker To:...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Aug 30, 2009 10:50 am
Tom, That is awesome. Thanks. Any chance that it says when Charles lived? Stephen ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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eighth_conn_inf
Aug 31, 2009 12:00 am
Stephen, You may have already seen this from Google Books, Harvard Register vol. 3 p. 54: "1871. CHARLES PEASLEE DANA, a son of Major-General N. J. T. Dana,...
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eighth_conn_inf
Aug 31, 2009 12:07 am
Stephen, And this also from Google Books, ANNUAL REUNION OF THE ASSOCIATION GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, AT WEST POINT, NEW YORK, June...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Aug 31, 2009 1:02 am
Dear All, Yesterday evening, while sitting under a tent fly at a small CW event, along with two friends, one whom portrays Gen. J Longstreet and the other who...
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eighth_conn_inf
Aug 31, 2009 1:17 am
Gerry, 1. No evidence of that. 2. No one has said that a receiptt was ever received. 3. Hill never said anything like that. 4. Per Sears, The Lost Order, the...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Aug 31, 2009 1:22 am
Dear Larry, Thank you for pointing out some information which I more or less knew... however, let us presume that the "official"; copy was received and disposed...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Aug 31, 2009 1:23 am
<snip>4. Per Sears, The Lost Order, the envelope in which it was found, and Gen. Williams note are in the McClellan Papers in the LOC. N&S, vol. 5, no. 7., p....
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Aug 31, 2009 1:44 am
As Larry pointed out, it is in the Library of Congress, (LOC) in the McClellan papers. It can also be viewed on line. I believe Chilton later wrote that the...
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RoteBaron
RoteBaron@...
Sep 7, 2009 1:01 am
On Wednesday, September 16, 2009, the remains of a Union soldier recently found at Antietam, will lay in state at the NYS Military Museum in Saratoga. The...
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Robert Moore
cenantua
Sep 7, 2009 3:52 am
Hello all! Just wanted to see if anyone knows the particulars behind the capture of Longstreet's ammunition train on 9/15/62. I know that Cole's Cavalry (1st...
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eighth_conn_inf
Sep 7, 2009 1:16 pm
The train was captured by the Harpers Ferry escape column which consisted of the following units: Twelfth Illinois Cavalry under Col. Arno Voss which arrived...
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Jim Rosebrock
pointsalines
Sep 7, 2009 1:34 pm
Great description of that action Larry. Regards Jim R ________________________________ From: eighth_conn_inf <eighth_conn_inf@...> To:...
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troyacool@...
troyacool
Sep 7, 2009 1:41 pm
I agree with Jim, thanks. Is there any idea of the amount of ordinance lost or how it effected the campaign or SOP. It amazes me that not more is made of this...
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Dean Essig
dean_essig
Sep 7, 2009 1:54 pm
... Given the paucity of ammo in the army reserve trains (using the 30 Jun 63 ANVa ordnance receipts in Brown's Retreat from Gettysburg as a guide),...
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Robert Moore
cenantua
Sep 7, 2009 2:05 pm
Excellent description... thank you Larry. I figured that there must have been more Union units involved considering the diverse range of regiments involved in...
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Robert Moore
cenantua
Sep 7, 2009 2:09 pm
Larry, I forgot to ask... where did you find the quote? Robert ________________________________ From: eighth_conn_inf <eighth_conn_inf@...> To:...
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eighth_conn_inf
Sep 7, 2009 2:23 pm
Robert, Francis W. Dawson, "Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865," (Charleston, SC: The News and Courier Book Presses, 1882; reprint: Baton Rouge,...
