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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
Gay Street 1910
Knoxville’s Gay Street, fifty-one years after it was the scene of Rebel and Union recruiting, as recalled by the novel’s Parthenia Leila Ellis. Via Instapundit.
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Reprise: The LeMat revolver
The revolver which the historical Lt. Col. Alfred George Washington O’Brien pointed at the novel’s fictional Sergeant Timothy Chase’s nose was a curious one. The LeMat,first made in New Orleans in 1856, had two barrels: the upper one was a smoothbore … Continue reading
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Reprise: Burnside’s congratulations
The day before President Lincoln issued his proclamation of thanksgiving for the Confederate defeat at Knoxville, Union Gen. Ambrose Burnside congratulated his troops on their steadfast performance: “The Army of the Ohio has nobly guarded the loyal region it redeemed … Continue reading
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The “contentious and fractious” Longstreet
Civil War historian Robert Krick—author of the really fine book on the Boy Battery (which fought at Knoxville)—weighed in on Gen. Longstreet back in 2000 at Gettysburg. The talk is available here at C-Span. It’s long, almost 54 minutes altogether, … Continue reading
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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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More from Lieutenant Parker
Lieutenant Ezra K. Parker of the First Rhode Island Light Artillery was in the Northwest Bastion during the Confederate attack on Fort Sanders. He wrote a memoir in 1913, in which he recollected events during the siege of Knoxville: “While … Continue reading
