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Monthly Archives: March 2011
The Union cartridge box
P. Jewell & Sons, makers of U.S. Army Pattern 1857 Cartridge Boxes. The kind probably worn by the Twenty-Ninth Massachusetts and the Seventy-Ninth New York Cameron Highlands who defended the Northwest Bastion of Fort Sanders.
Leadbetter at Mobile: Some slaves available
Confederate engineer Gen. Danville Leadbetter had no luck at all finding slaveholders willing to loan him their slave laborers to finish Fort Sanders, and so it remained only roughed-out when the Union took Knoxville. The planters of Alabama were just … Continue reading
Susan Brownlow’s grave
Susan Brownlow, daughter of the parson the Confederacy hated, was a young widow (Sawyers) with a five-year-old child at the time of the novel, though she often left the child with one of the family’s house slaves. She was a … Continue reading
The College Hill Battery
The 3-inch rifles of the Thirty-Fourth Independent Battery New York Volunteers harrassed the Rebel attackers from near midnight on Nov. 28 to dawn on Nov. 29 from the College Hill south of Fort Sanders. They also had one piece in … Continue reading
Longstreet to McLaws: “a want of confidence”
Gen Lafayette McLaws protested his relief by Gen. James Longstreet and eventually won reinstatement. And then lost it. Here is Longstreet’s reply to McLaws’ initial protest. Headquarters Near Bean’s Station, December 17th, 1863. Major-General McLaws, Confederate States Army General: I … Continue reading
The Ultimate Confederate Button
Only one hint allowed: The button for holding one’s shirts and pants together was not made of plastic. (Scroll to the bottom at the link.)
Caisson with limber
Civil War equipment could be an education in itself, such as this artillery caisson and limber. (Like the New York one that was dragged away from the Northwest Bastion when the horses spooked.) Each article had to be mastered by … Continue reading
Black powder
Civil War reenactors, at least in Washington State, are said to burn at least a hundred pounds of black powder in one of their typical blooodless battles. Thus, in this Sesquicentennial of the war, they are lobbying for a change … Continue reading
Porter Alexander’s memoirs
Careful readers of the novel with some knowledge of the available history of the battle may wonder why my conclusions often differed from those of independent historian Digby Gordon Seymour in his seminal Divided Loyalties: Fort Sanders and the Civil … Continue reading
Reenactor anachronisms
The rifled parrott gun in this mock Northwest Bastion of a pretend Fort Sanders (miles away from where the original sat) is just one of the anachronisms the reenactor community puts up with. The only big guns in the bastion … Continue reading
