Another of the old battle-marked oak trees that stood along Mansfield avenue was cut down by the battlefield workers. This tree stood alone along Mansfield avenue and undoubtedly sheltered more than one soldier during the battle.
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Camp Near Cub Run August 9th, 1861 My Dear Niece, Several days ago I recd your last long & interesting letter, this is the first opportunity I have had to reply & am now consuming time I ought to give to some camp duties but will run the risk to write to you. Since the […]
On July 2, 1863, members of the 106th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry made an advance beyond Cemetery Ridge into the ranks of Ambrose Wright's brigade of Georgians, which had advanced to the center of the Union lines in the broad Confederate assault on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. On that day, Private Samuel Fitzinger was among the fallen. He was killed in...
Dr. Allen Carl Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce III Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, and Director of the Civil War Era Studies Program there. Perhaps best known for his works on Abraham Lincoln, he has twice been awarded the Lincoln Prize (for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End […]
During this season of late May in 1863, the Union army was successfully staging final operations to secure the free flow of shipping along the entire Mississippi River, driving a wedge into the Confederacy.
With Pemberton’s Confederate troops drawn into strong fortifications in Vicksburg, Grant attempts twice (19th and 22nd) to break through the defenses – each attack unsuccessful. He will then set up siege operations. There is no hope of outside assistance, and facing starvation,...
From April through September, 1863, while other men in blue fought and bled near Vicksburg, Mississippi, central Tennessee, and at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the soldiers of the 48thwere spared active campaigning and witnessed no major battles or engagements; they were, instead, assigned to provost duty in “so charming a spot” as Lexington, Kentucky. Those five months, declared regimental historian Oliver Bosbyshell, was “one long, happy holiday.”
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Camp Near Chub Run July 31, 1861 My Dear Niece, I’ve received your note two days ago, inquiring if I was safe, I am safe. Escaped unhurt. I wrote to you soon as I could after the battle informing you that I was well. That was the first regular letter that I wrote. My regiment […]
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Today, my family bought the ownership of an additional franchise business in Winchester, Virginia. Though I have little hands-on involvement in this retail endeavor, I needed to be there for the transfer and paperwork, etc. Now, it is not like I do not know or understand quite a few details about the role of Winchester in the Civil War, I’ve just never seriously...
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Just wanted to post a quick note. I am currently settling in to my new confines for the summer--the Codori Farm House at Gettysburg. Yes, THE Codori house, as in the one right smack dab in the middle of Pickett's Charge, where the division of George Pickett actually had to maneuver around the house, just a few hundred yards away from Cemetery Ridge. Yeah, that Codori House. That's where I am living while working as a park ranger at Gettysburg for the 150th...
Just wanted to post a quick note. I am currently settling in to my new confines for the summer--the Codori Farm House at Gettysburg. Yes, THE Codori house, as in the one right smack dab in the middle of Pickett's Charge, where the division of George Pickett actually had to maneuver around the house, just a few hundred yards away from Cemetery Ridge. Yeah, that Codori House. That's where I am living while working as a park ranger at Gettysburg for the 150th...
Near Stone Bridge Prince WM July 24 My Dear Sukey In accordance with my promise I now take the 1st opportunity of writing to assure you of my safety. I was in the action on Sunday which I will now designate as the Battle of Stone Bridge as it was fought near or around that […]
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