Dr. Shellenberger Visits Stones River 30 Years Later
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by Dan Masters
4d ago
Thirty years after witnessing the carnage of Stones River as a 17-year-old drummer boy in the ranks of the 94th Ohio, Dr. James E. Shellenberger returned to visit the area while journeying to Chickamauga in company with several fellow Buckeyes. In some ways, it was as if he had never left.           “Soon we arrived at LaVergne, the scene of a cavalry engagement during the Battle of Stones River and the place of Wheeler’s raid on our trains. It was found just as we left it 30 years ago,” commented Shellenberger. Once in Murfreesboro, the men hired a ..read more
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Back from the Dead: Alfred E. Lee's Return Home After Gettysburg
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by Dan Masters
1w ago
Captain Alfred E. Lee’s return to Delaware, Ohio in July 1863 caused a sensation among the citizens of that small middle Ohio town. On Friday the 10th, the Delaware Gazette newspaper reported somberly that “we regret to notice among the deaths in the late battle at Gettysburg our friend and correspondent Captain A.E. Lee. He was a young man of decided ability, a good soldier, and his whole heart was enlisted in the cause for which he gave up his life.”             At the Battle of Gettysburg while commanding his company in the 82nd Ohio on ..read more
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Reminders of the 4th Indiana Battery's Fight along the Wilkinson Pike
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by Dan Masters
2w ago
Every object has a story to tell.... ...in this case, a few reminders of the 4th Indiana Battery's fight along Wilkinson Pike at Stones River.       Last week while visiting Murfreesboro, my battlefield friend and relic hunter extraordinaire Stan Hutson presented me with a few recent finds he acquired at a dig along the historic Wilkinson Pike. As previously noted on this blog, (see “Dirt Fishing in Murfreesboro”) development of the grounds surrounding the Stones River National Battlefield continues at a rapid pace and in the past few months excavation work has begun ..read more
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Meeting the Flower of the Southern Army: The 2nd Delaware at Antietam
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by Dan Masters
3w ago
Second Lieutenant H. Charles Lynch of the 2nd Delaware took understandable pride in recounting to his parents how his regiment fought at the Battle of Antietam.      "Our division met the flower of the Southern army and we whipped them badly," he noted. "The Irish brigade and our brigade were fighting against General Jackson’s best men. "I came through safe (thanks be to God) but not so with our company. We went into the fight with 23 men and came off with 17. None were killed, however, that I know of but we had five wounded and one missing. I have hopes that the missing on ..read more
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Among the Hoosier Greenhorns at Munfordville
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by Dan Masters
3w ago
Corporal Reuben Scott of the 67th Indiana was scarcely two weeks from the plow when his regiment arrived in Louisville, Kentucky in the opening days of September 1862. With threatening news that two Rebel armies under Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith were invading Kentucky, the 67th Indiana was dispatched south to guard the vital Louisville & Nashville railroad bridge over Green River at Munfordville. The Hoosiers scarcely had time to finish their first squad drill before called upon to defend the bridge during the Battle of Munfordville on September 14th. General James Chalme ..read more
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Hold the Bridge at All Hazards: The Last Stand on the Duck River at Columbia
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by Dan Masters
3w ago
In the closing days of November 1864, John Van Arsdel and battery mates in the 22nd Indiana Battery drew the unenviable assignment of holding the railroad bridge at Columbia, Tennessee. Under orders to hold the bridge at all hazards and destroy it if they couldn’t hold it, it wasn’t long until Van Arsdel and 50th Ohio infantry came under attack from determined Confederates.             “I was on the skirmish line with the Ohio boys; there were 14 of them and they put their loaded guns down by a rock in the railroad cut and went out on the ..read more
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Saving the Army at Perryville
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by Dan Masters
3w ago
Writing in the early morning hours of October 10, 1862 “by a light of oak boards with their smoke occasionally drifting” past his eyes, First Lieutenant E.J. Fitzpatrick of Semple’s Battery noted with pride the role his battery played in the recent fight at Perryville.             Stationed to protect the town, the Alabamians were not called upon to fight until late in the day when Federal troops approached along Springfield Pike. “We fought them from about 5 p.m. till dark and had the satisfaction of stopping their advance which threatene ..read more
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A Yankee Sutler’s View of Van Dorn’s Holly Springs Raid
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by Dan Masters
3w ago
In the early morning hours of December 20, 1862, General Earl Van Dorn led 3,500 Confederate troopers in a successful raid upon the Federal supply depot at Holly Springs, Mississippi. Swooping in at dawn from three directions, the Confederates quickly subdued the 1,500-man garrison and torched $1.5 million of supplies, all destined to support General U.S. Grant’s overland drive on Vicksburg.             A remarkable account of this raid was written by a sutler attached to an Illinois regiment at Holly Springs who describes the terror-fille ..read more
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A Tornado of Shot & Shell: Storming Marye’s Heights at Second Fredericksburg
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by Dan Masters
3w ago
Private Henry H. Bowles of the 6th Maine Volunteers observed that successful assault of the 6th Army Corps upon Marye’s Heights at Fredericksburg during the Chancellorsville campaign turned into a vicious hand-to-hand struggle. “The men fought with the courage of despair, maddened both by their heavy loss and the perfidy of the Rebels. Men became fiends. The lumbermen of Maine and Wisconsin, who had handled picks and spikes all their lives on the rivers and logjams, used their guns in the same manner. Mike Carey cried out when he saw the Johnnies breaking, “Hang Palfrey, boys! Boom ‘em, damn ..read more
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Winged at the Outset: Wilbur Hinman’s Experiences at Chickamauga
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by Dan Masters
1M ago
First Lieutenant Wilbur F. Hinman of the 65th Ohio, who later gained much notoriety for his books Si Klegg & His Pard and The Story of the Sherman Brigade, penned this reminiscence of his experiences being wounded at Chickamauga. This story was included in his 1892 anthology Camp and Field: Sketches of Army Life Written by Those Who Followed The Flag, ’61-’65.   Captain Wilbur Hinman, Co. E, 65th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Gary Milligan Collection)               We were part of Wood’s division of Crittenden’s 21st Arm ..read more
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