To all the visitors to this site, welcome to 2014!

It’s been a  little while since this site received the attention it should be getting. As always, real life sometimes gets in the way of regular updates and additions to material. This past fall and winter were, unfortunately, no exception to the rule.

Some housekeeping items – the company that hosts the servers that 17thcvi.org resides on has done some upgrading. I am pretty sure that everything is still working the same as before, at least everything that I could find and check seems to be. If, however, something no longer seems to work correctly or some page comes up blank please let me know so I can get it fixed.

I’m still on the hunt for more images and first hand accounts from the soldiers of the 17th. If anyone has something that they would like to share I am always interested. I can usually get photos and transcribed letters or articles online pretty quick. If I have to transcribe them myself it always takes longer…and if it is a letter and I have to decipher handwriting longer still (although I am pretty good at it after nearly 20 years of doing this site in all of its various forms!).

I’ve spent the winter getting outbid on several 17th CVI-related artifacts (letters, reunion ribbons, CDVs and the like). As regular visitors know, when I get something new that is interesting or might be helpful I get it posted sooner or later. So…if you are one of those folks who outbid me on something interesting and want to share it here, send me an email!

I’m going through a lot of what I have in my collection now to see what can be posted sooner than later. There are plenty of letters but they ALL need to be typed out (sigh). They will get done, though, and when they are they will be shared.

That’s the New Years update…hope to see you here on the site!

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to add information to the site – mostly because a lot of the pending additions require transcribing letters…a time-consuming process when the original handwriting is legible, and seemingly an eternity when it is not (letters written by Colonel William Noble are the latter quality).

The latest enhancement is to the rosters. Slowly but surely information from the U.S. Register of Volunteer Deaths is being added to the entries of those soldiers who died during the war. For the most part, I’ve changed the cause of death to 21st century terminology to make more sense to today’s reader. For example, scarlet fever versus scarlatina, or gunshot wound versus “Vulnus Sclopeticum”, also abbreviated as” V.S.”, “Vuls. Sclo.”, or “V. Sclopeticum” in the records!

Just to make things a little more interesting, the names are not always correct. They range from minor misspellings to weird phonetic changes to some that are totally different.

I hope that this extra information will be valuable to readers who are researching a particular soldier.

The battlefield sidekick found a few other places that were fun. A little rain and thunder didn’t stop her. Puddles are fun if you are a puppy.

The sidekick looking out over Devil’s Den from the 12th NY/44th NY monument on Little Roundtop.

The view from the Warren statue is always a good one. After a good rain shower the puddles are even better. Just before this photo the sidekick did the two front paws splash.

The sidekick enjoyed climbing the rocks at Devil’s Den. And splashing in puddles.and stomping in the mud.

Plenty more rocks. Even more mud.

The weather and the crowds (forgetting it is summer) made it a little harder to spend a lot of time on the field, but we managed to get to the places we needed to. A change of pace on this trip was a visit to the Eisenhower farm. It’s easy to see why he bought the property – quiet, peaceful and just a few minutes from the battlefield. Of course, the sidekick didn’t get to go there – no dogs allowed, even battlefield sidekicks!