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Reprise: William Tatum Wofford
Wofford’s Brigade cooperated with the Mississippi Brigade in the attack on Fort Sanders, as it had on the second day at Gettysburg five months earlier. But brigade commander William Tatum Wofford was absent, home in Georgia attending the unexpected funeral of a … Continue reading
One in ten deaths in the Civil War?
Newly revised statistical measure of the Civil War has the numbers of male deaths and consequent widows and orphans much higher than previously believed. “Even as Civil War history has gone through several cycles of revision, one thing has remained … Continue reading
Kershaw’s Brigade
Kerhsaw’s Brigade of South Carolinians didn’t actually fight in the Fort Sanders attack. They were held in reserve. But they provided plenty of sharpshooting (i.e. snipers) during the weeks-long runup to the battle. And there’s a dandy bio about them … Continue reading
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WordPress 2011 summary
“A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,700 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.” Heh. Well, that’s one way of … Continue reading
Reprise: Signal flags at Knoxville
There’s no direct evidence that I know of that Longstreet’s artillery chief, Colonel Edward Porter Alexander, used signal flags at Knoxville to, for instance, alert the Boy Battery on Cherokee Heights when to cease fire. And also the other batteries … Continue reading
Chicken guts
“The men call them ‘chicken guts,’” Confederate Major Clayton Ellis tells his wife, Parthenia Leila Ellis, in the novel. He was sheepishly referring to the fancy gold braid on the sleeves of his new uniform coat tailored in Nashville. The … Continue reading
Reprise: Niter for gunpowder
Before his death in June, 1863, the novel’s Major Clayton Ellis already was planning to recover niter from bat guano in the caves around Knoxville. His superiors in Nashville wanted it to make gunpowder for Confederate arms as the conventional … Continue reading
Reprise: More First Rhode Island Light Artillery
When Gen. Burnside’s Ninth Corps troops marched into Knoxville in September, 1863, history has recorded that some young men of the town were so excited they rushed to join the Union army. Recruitment was more problematic out in the hills, … Continue reading
Recruiting on Gay Street
Civil War recruiting in Knoxville in 1861 was reasonably amicable, far less acrimonious than it would become. The men in the foreground are being recruited for the Union army under the Stars-n-Stripes on Gay Street. The men in the rear … Continue reading
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