Gordon Thorsby
The Michiganders Meet the Lancaster Grays and the Invincibles
by Gordon Thorsby View near Knoxville of the Tennessee River Maj. Gen Ambrose Burnside established a delaying defense so the could get...
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Gordon Thorsby
Apr 7, 20224 min read
Memories of War From David Webb, 3rd Michigan Infantry
by Gordon Thorsby David Webb, a veteran who survived the war, lived into the depression era dying in Chesaning, MI in 1936. We are...
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Gordon Thorsby
Apr 6, 20222 min read
The Beef: A Regular Subject In Letters to Home?
by Gordon Thorsby Painter Conrad Wise Chapman, CSA 1861-65 Private John A. James, a soldier in the Army of Tennessee in Winter Camp at...
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Gordon Thorsby
Apr 5, 20224 min read
The 2nd South Carolina's Advance on Bigelow's Battery at Gettysburg
by Gordon Thorsby Capt. McManus Marvel Comics had their Avengers but in the Civil War, South Carolina had Company H of the 2nd South...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 30, 20224 min read
Sherman’s Gateway to North Carolina, The Bridge at Cheraw
by Gordon Thorsby Sherman’s forces steadily moved north from Columbia nearing the North Carolina state line. He faked west toward...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 22, 20223 min read
When Beauregard's Napoleons Departed Missionary Ridge
by Gordon Thorsby Thomas Barker Ferguson was a twenty-one Citadel graduate when he was made first lieutenant of his forming artillery...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 17, 20223 min read
Retribution in a Total War
by Gordon Thorsby On February 28, 1865, in Chesterfield County near the SC/NC state line, the body of Pvt. Robert M. Woodruff, Co. H of...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 16, 20224 min read
"Until the End" With the Fourth Michigan Cavalry
by Gordon Thorsby In the Flushing History Museum near Flint, MI, a banner from the local GAR is proudly displayed of those that fought in...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 15, 20223 min read
No Getting Around Johnson's Crook on the Way to Chickamauga
by Gordon Thorsby There were Rivers, swamps, mountains, creeks, fords, and gaps. Then, there was Johnson’s Crook? Typical geography...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 7, 20224 min read
The First Alabama Cavalry USV... Union Troopers
by Gordon Thorsby To Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War The volunteers from Alabama will be organized into companies, under the direction...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 3, 20225 min read
Crusty Ben Colvin, One Part Character, Another Part Union Spy and Scout
by Gordon Thorsby He was described as old irreconcilable, a crank of the crankiest kind, a blackguard, and a murderer but he was much...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 2, 20225 min read
A Word in Case I am No More, 1862
by Gordon Thorsby Link to Part One https://www.gordonthorsbycivilwarnotes.com/post/three-letters-cherished-forever-1862 Link to Part Two...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 1, 20225 min read
A Need for a Letter in the Midst of War, 1862
by Gordon Thorsby Link to Part One. https://www.gordonthorsbycivilwarnotes.com/post/three-letters-cherished-forever-1862 Summer heat was...
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Gordon Thorsby
Feb 23, 20223 min read
Nathan B. Forrest: Described in Detail, 1865.
by Gordon Thorsby His photograph is always recognized. Was Nathan Bedford Forrest, the soldier that went from private in 1861 to Lt....
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Gordon Thorsby
Feb 22, 20223 min read
The Sinking of Patapsco, Charleston Harbor
by Gordon Thorsby Passaic Class monitor January 15, 1865 From Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren Sir: I regret to inform the Department of the...
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Gordon Thorsby
Feb 15, 20223 min read
Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Events in Parallel
by Gordon Thorsby We tend to think that the Campaigns at Vicksburg and in Pennsylvania took place as if they were at separate times. They...
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