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Comments on: Colonel John Beardsley https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481 Bringing obscurity into focus Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 By: John Beardsley https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481&cpage=1#comment-46965 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:38:34 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481#comment-46965 OK, I’m his namesake and distant relative. This was an unpopular war in many northern hearts. If Knox was accurate in his hearsay, Beardsley voiced the same doubts many had at that time – Lincoln’s administration by martial law was utterly unconstitutional. Earlier problems with training the NY regiment was certainly due to convincing conscripts (many Irish) of the justice of the war. Even McClellan was “hesitant” in his prosecution of the war. If Beardsley tried to avoid excessive bloodshed at this point in the war, it is understandable, if not admirable. If he hit the bottle during the battle, that’s very bad, but Grant did the same on many occasions. “Walk a mile in his shoes!”

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By: Larry Freiheit https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481&cpage=1#comment-44629 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:20:43 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481#comment-44629 Great info. I like the picture and haven’t been able to find in on the internet or in the 9th NY Cav Reg History. Do you recall where you found it?

Thank you.
Larry

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By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481&cpage=1#comment-37791 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:20:21 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481#comment-37791 Carol,

I would imagine so. He was two years ahead of Beardsley at West Point and would have known each other.

Eric

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By: Carol Rogers https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481&cpage=1#comment-37790 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:17:51 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481#comment-37790 I have a letter written by a g-g-g-uncle, George Griswold of Herkimer, who was attending Union Law College, dated May 26th 1837 written to Mr. John Beardsley. He is asking John to come visit him when he gets to W.P. The timing would indicate this is to the same John Beardsley. George Griswold also mentions, “Halleck was up here from W.P. a few weeks ago. He looks and feels well. He thinks some of not staying there much longer.” Would that be Henry Halleck?

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By: terrence k walker https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481&cpage=1#comment-37691 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:24:09 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481#comment-37691 Interesting stuff i ve been looking through family paper and found that LTC charles wetschky is my grandmothers alma junkers grandfather, her other grand father on the junker side was also in the civil war and was taken prisoner by morgans raiders place unknown ,junkers live in evansville ind. and some here in st louis mo. the other side grandma married the walkers all came from Ireland in the 1850s and 60s they were builders. i dont think any were in the civil war. do you know of any place where there might be tin types of the ltc wetschky ? thanks terrence k walker

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By: Tom Clemens https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481&cpage=1#comment-36258 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:02:57 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481#comment-36258 Fascinating! Great job of exposing the facts.

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By: Dave Powell https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481&cpage=1#comment-36216 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:47:56 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481#comment-36216 Heroic stories are easy to unearth – but of course, not everyone is heroic. These kinds of stories are much harder to ferret out, but they do hold a fascination, because they highlight the human face of battle.

There are several such instances at Chickamauga. For example, I have details of two Union Colonels who are stripped of their commands after the battle, for similar conduct. Both men were in their 40s, probably slightly older than average for regimental commanders at that time, and both lost control of their commands at critical moments.

Their senior officers, while furious, tended not to spell out the ugly details in official reports. After the war, neither did their regimental counterparts. As a result, these tend to be forgotten aspects.

I agree that your profiles should be assembled and published. I’d buy that in a second.

Dave Powell

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By: J DAVID PETRUZZI https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481&cpage=1#comment-36202 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:44:58 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481#comment-36202 Beardsley was an interesting figure indeed. For a long time Eric and I have had fun digging up info on guys like these – of course, it began with the cavalrymen, then forayed into the other branches. Many know little about these characters, but a lot of them have interesting backstories like Beardsley. Sometime we do plan to put these together – characters you often hear about (but see little about their biographical backgrounds or details of their careers) and others get little or no mention at all but make for interesting personality studies. If a publisher would be interested in it, it just might make for an interesting book.
J.D.

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By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481&cpage=1#comment-36199 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:59:28 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481#comment-36199 Thanks, John. I really appreciate that.

JD Petruzzi and I are discussing doing just that. Hopefully, someone will be interested enough to want to do so.

Eric

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By: Joe https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481&cpage=1#comment-36194 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:54:36 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1481#comment-36194 Interesting history lesson. You could actually come up with an intriguing novel.

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