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The AoP Settles into Winter Camp, 1863
As the Army of the Potomac settled into its winter quarters around Brandy Station and Culpeper in December 1863, Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman—George Gordon Meade’s aide-de-camp—toured the camps with the Army of the Potomac’s chief of staff, Andrew A. Humphreys. … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Cavalry, Common Soldier, Leadership--Federal
Tagged Andrew Humphreys, camp life, cavalry, common soldier, discipline, Meade's Army, Theodore Lyman, VI Corps
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The Sutler, the Mainers, and the Pickpockets of the 13th Mass.
On November 23, 1863—the day before Thanksgiving—the members of the 13th Massachusetts Volunteers, encamped near Brandy Station, Virginia, received a much-welcome pre-holiday visitor. “This was a great day,” wrote regimental historian Charles E. Davis, Jr.:
Posted in Common Soldier
Tagged 13th Massachusetts, 16th Maine, camp life, sutlers, Winter Encampment
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“The Daily and Nightly Exhibitions of Our Theatre of War”
From a January 8, 1863 letter by William Landon of the 14th Indiana, posted near Falmouth, Virginia: “Sunrise—guard mountings, drills, reviews, inspections, parades, the ‘gas bag’ at headquarters swinging in mid air with basket suspended beneath, a human head or … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Common Soldier
Tagged camp life, Fredericksburg, weather
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