Category Archives: The Northwest Bastion

Troiani’s Highlander

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Civil War artist Don Troiani’s rendition of a Seventy-Ninth New York Cameron Highlander, who certainly never appeared this way on the battlefield. The plaid trousers, called trews, were, like the kilts they also sometimes wore, strictly for ceremonial occasions. They … Continue reading →

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“…wove telegraph wire around the stumps…”

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Hundredth Pennsylvania Private Henderson George recorded his observations on the Union preparations for the Rebel attack on the northwest bastion within a few hours of the end of the fight: “As an entanglement, our troops during the course of the … Continue reading →

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The Union cartridge box

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Dick Stanley

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.

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The College Hill Battery

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Dick Stanley

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 →

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Who led the attack?

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Depending on whose recollections you read, either the Thirteenth Mississippi or the Seventeenth Mississippi regiment led the right-hand column in the charge on the Northwest Bastion. Dunbar Rowland in the Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898, says it was the Thirteenth. … Continue reading →

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Arise! Equip!

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Dick Stanley

The Seventy-Ninth, which defended the fort’s Northwest Bastion, was a pre-war militia unit which had specialized in putting down labor riots and other public disturbances. Good music.

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1LT Ezra K. Parker

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Dick Stanley

The first lieutenant of Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, at Knoxville and environs in 1863, of whom I’ll be excerpting more from his good (and free) 1913 memoir in the future.

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Hie thee to the street corner

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Dick Stanley

That is, if you wish to commemorate the Battle of Fort Sanders during these Sesquicentennial years of the war. Supposedly, near the intersection of Seventeenth Street and Laurel Avenue is where the fort’s pivotal northwest bastion was sited, until neglect, … Continue reading →

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