It’s taken a while to get this done, but I’ve finally uploaded the 17th CVI chapter from Gerry Caughman’s excellent work on Connecticut’s Civil War battle flag collection. For those not from Connecticut, Gerry Caughman was known (and is still…
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Site update
After a long search it looks like a solution has been found for the photo sections of the website. Thus far updates have been done to a few of the soldier photograph pages and (for now) things are looking good.…
Sorry for the technical difficulties
For those who are coming to the site to look over the various photographs – you’ll find the photos but not the captions. The plugin that I’ve used for the past few years isn’t working so well anymore and the…
Save 35 at Barlow’s Knoll at Gettysburg
Thanks to Charlene Henderson for the heads up on this from the Civil War Trust. I posted an excerpt here, but the full story can be found by clicking on the link below. While any chance to save battlefield land…
Dismissed From Services: Lt. Hanford N. Hayes – Regimental Quartermaster
And the Court does therefore sentence Lt. H.N. Hayes, Quartermaster, 17th C.V.I. “At his own expense to make good the damage to the United States and to forfeit all his pay, and to be dismissed from service”
Elias Howe, Jr. and the 17th
A few months ago I received an email from Rob André Stevens with some material for the site related to Elias Howe, Jr. An excerpt of the email follows: “I also find it odd that your site doesn’t even show…
A different look
Not sure if I like this new look, but it is “mobile optimized” so that Google will find out for all of you who may come to this site on your smartphone or tablet. Let me know what you think…
The Gilmore Medal and the 17th CVI
After spending a comfortable Sunday afternoon perusing the various auction sites for 17th CVI-related artifacts I came across a couple of letters written by Rufus Tilbe up for auction. Tilbe was a member of Company E, having enlisted at the…
Email address has changed
Thanks to AT&T, the email address for the site has needed to change. The good news is that the new address is easier to type. The bad news is that because I cannot access the old email at all means…
New material added
Another letter from Stephen Wilcox written prior to the Battle of Chancellorsville was added to the site today. Thanks once more to Paul Keroack from the Norwalk History Room at the Norwalk (CT) Public Library for finding this letter and…