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(Raleigh) News & Observer Posted: Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 Slideshow « Prev of 3 Next » Expired Image Removed Charles Porter, gunner on the CSS Neuse, who befriended a giant cat and teased his girlfriend in Virginia that he would marry the Tar Heel feline instead. COURTESY OF CSS NEUSE STATE HISTORIC SITE; More Information. Read Josh Shaffer's ...
I believe Wolseley traveled with London Illustrated News artist-correspondent Frank Vizetelly who likely introduced him to various personages and places while also making drawings and sketches that were subsequently published back in England. The time-lines of the two men seem to correspond, to judge by the illustrations.
In July 1883, Samuel McD. Tate visited Gettysburg and retraced the path he took as a major while leading the 6th North Carolina regiment against Cemetery Hill on the evening of July 2, 1863. A newspaper correspondent recorded his impressions: "Col. Tate followed the line of advance of his men...
In 1895, he also wrote a letter to the Raleigh News and Observer describing a flag raising ceremony at Carlisle Barracks on June 28, 1863. Charles F. Bahnson to Dear Father, July 15, 1863, in Sarah Bahnson Chapman, Bright and Gloomy Days: The Civil War Correspondence of Charles Frederic Bahnson, a Moravian Confederate (Knoxville: University of ...
The Fayetteville Observer reports the dig that began July 24th resumes Monday and continues through Friday. So far, they've found items such as a ceramic shard of a smoking pipe, melted glass, nails and screws, along with brick, mortar, sandstone and slate.
Charleston, S.C.: News and Courier Book Presses, 1882. 180 pp. de Kay, James Tertius. Monitor: The Story of the Revolutionary Ship and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History. New York: Walker & Company, 1997. 247 pp. de Kay, James Tertius. Rebel Raiders, The: The Astonishing History of the Confederacy's Secret Navy. New York ...
The Gazelle made its inaugural tethered ascent over Richmond Virginia on June 24th 1862 with the Confederate Artillery Officer E. P. Alexander in the basket as the observer. The first time two opposing forces had aircraft in the sky was on June 27, 1862.
The Fourth Wisconsin regiment, Col. H. E. Paine, with the 2d Massachusetts battery and Reading (Pa.) cavalry, have moved from Baltimore to the eastern shore of Maryland, and are to be stationed at Princess Anne, to operate in Accomac county and the eastern peninsular of Virginia, should occasion...
This jumped out at me because of the reference too "wide awake Union speeches" given the recent focus on the Wide Awakes and the election of 1860! We are requested to extend a cordial invitation to all the able bodied men of the County to be present at the raising of a large barn at the County...
I don't recall any source that settles that issue, just clues based on extant accounts. We have Boyle's account of observing Perrin at close range, indicating little separation between 12 SC and 1 SC, Gamble's statement that he was on Doubleday's left, plus a stone wall protecting his troopers (a wood fence supposedly ran along the west border of Schultz woods).