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Traveling to Gettysburg: Pt. 4
A lot has happened in the world since part three of this series. If you have turned on the tv, logged on to a computer, or picked up the rare paper print version of a newspaper you know the many … Continue reading
Traveling to Gettysburg: Pt. 3
Over the last two parts in this series we have followed a veteran of the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Chester Dufree, on a trip to Gettysburg for the 1913 reunion and anniversary of the battle. At a time when all … Continue reading
Traveling to Gettysburg: Pt. 2
In our last installment in this series, Traveling to Gettysburg: Pt. 1, a veteran of the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Chester H. Durfee, traveled back to Gettysburg for the 50th Anniversary of the battle in June and July 1913. We … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Memory
Tagged 1913, 1st Minnesota, Charles Durfee, Gettysburg Reunion
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Traveling to Gettysburg: Pt. 1
In a time when it seems that the whole world is quarantined, everyone is stuck at home, and traveling is almost certainly out of the current realm of possibilities, cases of cabin fever are bound to increase. Here in Youngstown, … Continue reading
The Rebirth of the Army of the Potomac (part four)
Part four of a series. Desertion and “Demagogues” Desertion was also a disease in the army, though of a different kind. With Hooker assuming command the army officially went into winter camp. Morale was still dangerously low and homesickness was a real … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Leadership--Federal
Tagged 10th New York Infantry, 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry, 145th Pennsylvania, 17th Maine, 1st Minnesota, 1st New York, Army of the Potomac, Charles Francis Adams, Corps Badge, Daniel Butterfield, George G. Meade, Joseph Hooker, Robert McAllister, Samuel Fiske, The Rebirth of the Army of the Potomac, Valley Forge Winter, Warren Lee Goss
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Oliver Roe’s Prayer
“Our father which art in Washington, Uncle Abraham is they name, Thy victory won they will be done at the South as at the North Give us this day our daily rations of crackers and pork and forgive us our … Continue reading