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Constant and Devoted Friends of the Soldier: Seneca and Elmira Simmons
The Pennsylvania Reserve Division is likely not one of the first to come to mind if you were asked to name a famous unit of the Army of the Potomac. Yet it was one of the hardest fighting divisions within … Continue reading
December 20, 1861: The Battle of Dranesville and the Confederate Battle Flag’s Debut
On a chilly morning, four regiments of Confederate infantry started off from their camps near Centreville, Virginia. They accompanied a battery of four cannon, 150 cavalry troopers, somewhere between 200-400 wagons, and were led by Brig. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart. The … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Civilian, Common Soldier
Tagged 10th Alabama, 11th Virginia, 1st Kentucky, 6th South Carolina, Cary Sisters, Colin Selph, Confederate Battle Flag, Constance Cary, Dranesville, Hetty Cary, J.E.B. Stuart, Jennie Cary, Joseph Johnston, manassas, P.G.T. Beauregard, pennsylvania reserves, Richmond, William Cabell, William P. Miles
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Lew Wallace Secures the B&O– For the First Time (Pt. 1)
Lew Wallace, the Hoosier lawyer-turned soldier, readied his command for its move. His objective was a vital connection of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad whose trains were badly needed to transport material and manpower. Wallace wrote later, “The need of … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Artillery, Battles, Campaigns
Tagged 11th Indiana Zouaves, 33rd Virginia Infantry, A.P. Hill, Andrew Curtin, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Cumberland, Harpers Ferry, Joseph Johnston, Lew Wallace, Maryland, Moses Grooms, New Creek, Pennsylvania Bucktails, pennsylvania reserves, Robert Patterson, Robert S. Foster, Romney, Winchester, Winfield Scott
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Dranesville: A Troubled Town, Part 4
Part 4 of a series. In 1860 James Coleman owned thirteen people. The oldest was 62 years old; the youngest, five months. Eight of them were females, including the baby, and five were males, and together they helped propel Coleman … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles
Tagged 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry, 34th New York, Alexandria, Camp Griffin, Camp Pierpont, Caroline Jackson, Charles P. Stone, Day Brothers, Dranesville, George Coleman, George D. Bayard, George G. Meade, George McCall, Isaac Madison, James Coleman, John Coleman, John Hawxhurst, Joseph Ordwick, Lewinsville, pennsylvania reserves, Philip Carper, Restored Government of Virginia, Thomas Coleman, William F. Smith, William Farley, Winfield S. Hancock
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“Was Taken Prisoner”: A Pennsylvanian in the Wilderness and Andersonville
On May 5, 1864, my wife’s great-great-great grandfather, Levi Bowen, was wounded and taken prisoner in the Battle of the Wilderness. By the spring of 1864, Levi, a member of Company H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves was a seasoned veteran. In … Continue reading
A Pennsylvania Blacksmith Goes to War
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Charles R. Bowen found it fitting to include a brief biographical sketch of his father, Levi A. Bowen, in the Biographical Annals of Cumberland County Pennsylvania. Charles was around thirty years of age … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Memory
Tagged Glendale, pennsylvania reserves, Seven Days Battles
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If Meade had Known….
Traveling along the park road that runs along the south edge of the North Woods at Antietam, I thought about George Gordon Meade, leader of the Pennsylvania Reserves, and wondered what he would think if he knew what lay ahead … Continue reading
Posted in Personalities
Tagged Antietam, cornfield, George Gordon Meade, meade, pennsylvania reserves
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