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Tag Archives: Wilbur Fisk
A Vermonter Plays “Arm Chair General”
In the early spring of 1864, Wilbur Fisk of the 2nd Vermont Regiment penned a letter for a local newspaper in his homestate, offering his views on what to do…if he controlled the war. A long time correspondent for publication, … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Primary Sources
Tagged Overland Campaign, primary source, soldier letters, Wilbur Fisk
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“To Keep The Little Children Out Of The Park”: A Vermonter’s Adventures in New York City
Sometimes military and civilian interactions take surprising turns. This account that Wilbur Fisk of the 2nd Vermont Infantry wrote in a letter for newspaper publication offers some humorous antics of children pestering soldiers. The regiment quartered in the “beautiful park” … Continue reading
Favorite Soldier Memoirs
In his self-published book An Epic on “Old Abe,” The War Eagle (The War Eagle Book Association, 1894), S. C. Miles, a veteran of the 8th Wisconsin, extolled the virtue of first-person accounts of the war. Such accounts required “no … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Primary Sources
Tagged Civil War News, Daniel Holt, Jack Melton, John Haley, Live Eagle Brigade, Memoirs, National Tribune, Old Abe war eagle, Rice Bull, S. C. Miles, soldier memoirs, The Rebel Yell & The Yankee Hurrah, The Valiant Hours, Theodore Lyman, Thomas Francis Galwey, Wilbur Fisk, Wisconsin Historical Society
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Primary Sources: Thoughts and Favorites
A primary source is defined as one produced by an eyewitness to an event offering their recollections. Some primary sources provide just basic facts with limited additional details. Other sources, like battle reports, provide more details but often offer little … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Primary Sources, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Bataan, Burma, Corregidor, General Grant, Grant's Memoirs, John T. Wilder, Manila, Marcus Toney, Munfordville, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Primary Sources, primary-sources-19, Simon Buckner, Wilbur Fisk, William Slim
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Swelling the Ranks for Review
In mid-November 16, 1863, with Army of the Potomac commander George Meade in Washington to consultation with the president and War Department, it fell to VI Corps commander Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick to serve as the army’s temporary commander as it … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Common Soldier
Tagged Army of the Potomac, Culpeper, Drill, Fall of 1863, Hard Marching Every Day, John Sedgwick, Meade's Army, reviews, Theodore Lyman, VI Corps, Wilbur Fisk
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Lincoln’s Last Day at the Front
Abraham Lincoln fittingly spent the tail end of the Petersburg Campaign at the front, docked in the River Queen offshore from the Federal headquarters at City Point. He met with important generals to discuss strategy, reviewed Union troops and their Confederate … Continue reading
Posted in Medical, Personalities, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, City Point, Don Pfanz, Hospitals, Siege of Petersburg, Wilbur Fisk
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“Life Given, Not Lost”: Captain Morey’s Final Charge—Conclusion
Authored by Edward Alexander (part three of three) Skirmishers in the 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery crept forward to pick off the cannoneers and horses, to prevent the withdrawal of the pieces, while the remainder of the Green Mountain Boys charged … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Sieges
Tagged 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery, 2nd Vermont Infantry, 4th Vermont Infantry, Charles C. Morey, Cockade City, Green Mountain Boys, John W. Yeargain, Morey-series, Poague's Battalion, Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Robert E. Lee, Siege of Petersburg, Vermont Brigade, Wilbur Fisk
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Thought for the Day
Camp near White Oak Church, Va. May 9, 1863 It is difficult to realize in the time of an action, the extreme peril one’s life is in. Death there seems of less consequence than anywhere else, one gets so used … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Newspapers
Tagged Second Fredericksburg, Vermont, Wilbur Fisk
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