Tag Archives: 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

Colonel Kennon McElroy’s grave

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Dick Stanley

Here’s a possible correction in the Afterword—not in the novel itself. In the Afterword, I asserted that the grave of Colonel Kennon McElroy was unknown. It was as far as I knew at the time I wrote the novel. Apparently … Continue reading →

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Zouaves at Knoxville

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Dick Stanley

It’s doubtful whether the Lauderdale Zouaves company of the 13th Mississippi Regiment still had uniforms as presentable as this when the regiment attacked Fort Sanders on Nov. 29, 1863. But such apparently was their appearance when the war began. Their … Continue reading →

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Reprise: Camp Chase, the fiddle tune

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Dick Stanley

Camp Chase was a Union prisoner-of-war camp in Ohio which took several of the captured Rebels from the Battle of Fort Sanders, including the 13th Mississippi’s Lieutenant Colonel Alfred George Washington O’Brien. The POW camp already had, by tradition anyhow, a … Continue reading →

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TheThirteenth Regiment was seriously whittled

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Dick Stanley

Within four months of the attack on Fort Sanders, one of the attacking regiments, whose roster had totaled more than 1,000 men at the start of the war, had been seriously whittled. Captain Hugh D. Cameron, originally of the Alamutcha … Continue reading →

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Declining fortunes

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Dick Stanley

In the novel, Private Bird Clark of the 13th Mississippi Regiment declares that their brigade is “one of the fightin’est…in the army, and therefore one of the smallest.” Indeed, casualties had, within a few more months, trimmed Humphreys’ (formerly Barksdale’s) … Continue reading →

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Reprise: Thirteenth Mississippi

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dick Stanley

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 →

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Reprise: Confederate shell jackets

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Dick Stanley

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 →

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Those reappearing battle flags

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Dick Stanley

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 →

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