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  • Dr. Howard and Hooker’s foot

    Dr. Howard and Hooker’s foot

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    Because he was conspicuous on his white horse and close to the battle-front on the morning of 17 September 1862 perhaps it was inevitable that Major General Joseph Hooker would be killed or wounded …

  • Antietam vets go West

    Antietam vets go West

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    G.A. Custer (c. 1865, Library of Congress) I’ve just been reading a brand-new edition of Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, out just last month from Sterling Publishing. It’s a beautifully packaged and illustrated version of the landmark 1970 work, which looks at the West from 1860-90. I recommend it highly. While the…

  • A hyperTOC for New York in the War of the Rebellion

    A hyperTOC for New York in the War of the Rebellion

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    Frederick Phisterer's New York in the War of the Rebellion (3rd Edition, 6 volumes, Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1909-12) is probably the single best resource on New York military units and officers in the Civil War. It is two other things also, which are exciting to the likes of me: it’s beautifully displayed online…

  • John Westbrook at Antietam

    John Westbrook at Antietam

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    There are half a dozen unfinished posts waiting in the queue for this (very occasional) blog, but I am prompted to actually publish one at last by some fascinating email correspondence from Marianne Tierney, whose great-great-grandfather John Westbrook you see here. Marianne and her cousin Art Van Allsburg have collected and have shared some family…

  • On the trail of the Corn Exchange Regiment

    On the trail of the Corn Exchange Regiment

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    146 years to the day after the historical events, a lucky group of us tracked the unlucky 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers to the places and views of the Battle of Shepherdstown Ford (20 September 1862). Under the capable guidance of Dr Tom Clemens and members of the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association (SBPA), we waded the Potomac,…

  • Whisky affects him as usual

    Whisky affects him as usual

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    Private Patrick Hughes, 4th New York Volunteers (by E. Stauch, 1863, collection NMHM) I hope Patrick felt as good as his expression suggests … his wound looks awful in this vivid image. He was painted propped up in a bed at Mount Pleasant Hospital in Washington DC in January 1863 shortly before his discharge from…