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Monday, March 5, 2018

“For fully ten minutes the bullets were hissing near my ears. . .” : A Virginian remembers the fighting at Crampton’s Gapp

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Philip F. Brown                               On September 14, 1862, the 12th Virginia Infantry of  Mahone’s Brigade, co...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

‘Wait a minute,’ said the colonel, ‘I will try my hand. There is nothing like killing two birds with one stone.’

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Hugh McNeil was the colonel of the 13 th Pennsylvania Reserves, the famous Bucktails, during the Battle of South Mountain. His regimen...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Bloody Prelude moves!

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This post is just a heads up that I have moved this blog to Wordpress as the platform on which I would like to continue writing. I have not ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

"The whole division went in "with a yell.": An Ohioan describes the fight for Fox's Gap and other aspects of the Maryland Campaign

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The following is a letter written by an unknown soldier in the 11th Ohio Infantry. The only clue is the initials "J.D.K." at the e...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Captain Augustus C. Thompson, Co. G, 16th Georgia Infantry

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This is a photograph of Captain Augustus C. Thompson, commanding Company G, 16th Georgia Infantry. He would lead his company in the fighti...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

"Many of our men were falling...": Recollection of Rufas Dawes, 6th Wisconsin Infantry

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Rufus Dawes  In the late afternoon hours of September 14th, what would become known as the Iron Brigade would advance directly against t...
Saturday, April 6, 2013

"We immediately moved forward in line to assault the enemy's lines, under a severe and galling fire."

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In the late afternoon of September 14 on the rolling hills outside of Burkittsville, Maryland, the 5th Maine Infantry deployed as part of th...