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Tag Archives: 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
Reprise: Thirteenth Mississippi
The character of Private Bird Clark is a fictional composite of several real people in the Thirteenth Mississippi Infantry Regiment, for which I have recently begun a Web site/blog. Bird’s I (Eye) Company was my great grandfather’s outfit, and the novel … Continue reading
Reprise: Confederate shell jackets
Some of Longstreet’s First Corps received new shell jackets from the state of North Carolina when their train stopped en route from Petersburg, VA, to Ringgold, GA, in the late summer of ’63. “Wasn’t made well, I came to find … Continue reading
Those reappearing battle flags
It’s curious to our modern sensibilities the importance American Civil War soldiers attached to their battle flags. Congressional Medals of Honor were given to soldiers of the Twenty-Ninth Massachusetts and New York Cameron Highlanders who captured the flags of some … Continue reading
The Thirteenth and the birth of the battle flag
The Thirteenth Mississippi’s supporting role in the battle of Fort Sanders was preceded by its supporting role in the birth of the Confederate battle flag. The Seventh Louisiana Regiment led Colonel Jubal Early’s brigade onto the Manassas battlefield on July … Continue reading
Private Romy Lowe
In some cases of fictitious people in the novel, I used altered names of real, historical people. Thus my Private Romy Lowe of the Thirteenth Mississippi’s Minutemen of Attala was taken from the real Lowe brothers of the regiment. I … Continue reading
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad
Its roadbed, somewhat elevated from the surrounding terrain, gave the novel’s Private Bird Clark and his fictional cousin, the historical Lt. Col. Alfred George Washington O’Brien, a convenient place from which to view Fort Sanders. Although, unfortunately, not enough of … Continue reading
Housewife
The novel’s Thirteenth Mississippi Private Romy Lowe’s personal sewing (and other “domestic chores”) kit, called a “housewife,” might have looked like this fancy one belonging to Lewis Tway, of Co. K, 147th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. From the special … Continue reading
Camp Chase Prison
In the novel, as in history, Thirteenth Mississippi Lt. Col. Alfred George Washington O’Brien was captured in Fort Sanders. His older sister, Elisa, the wife of radical Unionist Parson William Brownlow, had the privilege of nursing his minor wounds in … Continue reading
News from Confederate Veteran
This is from the magazine’s September, 1902 edition. Late news even then, and I have no idea why they ran it, but it tells where our Lt. Col. O’Brien was nine months after the Battle of Fort Sanders—a Confederate POW. … Continue reading
Bird Clark’s quest for an envelope
Remains to be seen whether Pvt. Clark of the 13th Mississippi (Chapter Two, The Mississippi Brigade) would have found writing paper with an envelope like one of these, had his unit been successful at Fort Sanders. This new book about … Continue reading
