ECW Podcast: Who were the Lead Mine Men? (with Thomas Mack)
Who were the Lead Mine Men? Emerging Civil War’s Chris Mackowski talks with Thomas Mack about the men who blew the hole in 3rd Louisiana Redan at Vicksburg and then threw themselves into the breach: the “enduring 45th Illinois Infantry.”
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My favourite member of the 45th Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Assistant Surgeon Frank W. Reilly. Surgeon Reilly arrived at Pittsburg Landing April 1st and was wounded a few days later during the Battle of Shiloh while tending to wounded patients. Medivaced home to Chicago on the steamer City of Memphis, Surgeon Reilly submitted a very revealing article to the Chicago Daily Tribune, published Front Page of the 14 April 1862 edition.