I read this tonight on Michael Bell’s XI Corps blog and thought it was worth sharing with my own readers. The Central Virginia Battlefields Trust (CVBT) has once again managed to line up a significant purchase on the Chancellorsville battlefield, specifically the…
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Roster update
The rosters have been updated with the additional information through Company D. I still need to go into the volunteer records from 1864 to update later enlistments, and will have to look at some other sources to get the remaining…
Roster changes…for the better
For the regular visitors to the site (and thanks for coming by again and again!) there are some updates on the roster pages. I’ve been hitting the old Connecticut Catalog of Volunteers to add extra information to the rosters – namely…
The photos return and the old site is gone for good
A little housekeeping note for anyone who follows the site – today I officially put the old pages to rest and just redirected anyone using the old URL to this site. I think this one is an improvement since it…
The Gettysburg Star (and Colonel Ira Wildman)
I found this article in the July 9, 1938 edition of the Gettysburg Star and Sentinel (published during the 75th reunion of the Blue and Gray): I suppose it still doesn’t answer the question of whether or not the star was…
The Gettysburg star
This article was found in the June 5, 1938 edition of the Daily Boston Globe: Pittsfield, June 4 – A star shot out of a flag at the Battle of Gettysburg and for many years a treasure of Mrs. Minnie Lament of…
You just never know where you’ll find something…
I was looking over the website for the Bridgeport History Center the other day. BAck when I lived in the Park City I spent a lot of time at the Bridgeport Public Library and more specifically, at the Historical Collections…
Christmas in the 17th
The following was written in December, 1863 by “Manton” for the Danbury Times. “Manton” wrote a letter for virtually every edition of the paper while the Seventeenth was in the field. “High Private Manton”, “H.P. Manton” and “Manton” were all…
We’re back…sort of.
Thanks to yet another hack the site…and all the work that went into it is back to nearly square one. Even with some hefty security it seems that some old malware was still in the data and basically made me…
An 1863 Thanksgiving for the 17th Connecticut
Since we’ve just finished up yet another Thanksgiving and the insanity of “Black Friday”, I thought it might be a good time to take a look at a different time in our history…in this case, Thanksgiving 1863. President Lincoln proclaimed…