Hope this finds everyone in good holiday cheer. Looking a couple weeks into the new year, the folks at Civil War Talk have invited me to speak for their January 12 meeting. If you are not familia...
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First off, thanks to all who responded to the series of posts last week using the setting of Gettysburg to discuss some of the staff-related activities on the battlefield. Much of that readers ha...
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Considering December 1863, one year after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, US Colored Troops had become an important, if not essential, component of the Federal war machine. We his...
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In the previous post, we established the notion that an artillery battery’s combat power is directly related to the ammunition on hand, and can, theoretically, be expressed in hours and minutes...
We hear this quip a lot: Military professionals study logistics! And as my theme in this Gettysburg series of late has been aimed at the importance of staff activities in relation to the battlefi...
https://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2020/07/04/gettysburg-day-3-cannon-shells-and-logistics/
In my interpretation, the second day of the battle of Gettysburg should be divided into two parts. Most written works and tours will focus on the second of those parts – the actual fighting fro...
“It started as a minor scrap with a few militia. The next thing I know, I’m tangling with half the Union army.” A lovely line from the book “Killer Angels” and then the movie adaptation...
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Next we turn to the batteries from the Garden State. Five entries representing the artillerymen from New Jersey: As the state’s batteries were at times referenced by number, yet at others by le...
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Below the list of independent batteries are three lines covering returns from formations either outside the listed artillery organizations or under the other branches of service. These are always...
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The last dozen in dependent batteries from New York, the 25th through 36th Batteries, feature several story lines which had not played out by the end of 1863. Thus the listing is incomplete and l...
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