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!
Dale I too have been out bid on several items…..but I try what I can to keep the memory of the boys in blue alive. We will be marching through central Florida in 2 weeks to recreate Gen. Birney’s Raid of the Spring of 1864. The 17th CVI of course was there along with the 157th N.Y., 35th U.S.C.T. & 75th Ohio mounted Infantry. It was the largest raid thru central Florida during the war April 25 thru May 6, 1864. I have a complete article on the raid with footenote if you are interested.
Jeff H. Gtrzelak 17th Conn. Infantry
Jeff – feel free to send it along and I will post it on the site!