Civil War Notes

In the peace of Antietam National Cemetery, National Park Services

Gordon Thorsby

Jun 2, 20224 min read

Five Brothers of South Carolina, One Remains in the Trenches of Petersburg

by Gordon Thorsby Brigadier Gen. Mathew C. Butler, of the South Carolina Brigade James Madison Hough wrote what may have been an epitaph...

Gordon Thorsby

Apr 12, 20224 min read

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...

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...

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...

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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