The citation is on page 94, under the entry for Feb. 28th:

“We append the following full and interesting narrative of the raid, by Major Merritt (then Lieutenant), who accompanied Col. Dahlgren, and was with him at his death.”

This is from the 1865 edition published by S.R. Gray in Albany, but according to Dornbusch, the plates for the 1865 edition of “Historic Records of the Fifth New York Cavalry” were used for the subsequent printings of that work.

Peter

The edition I have definitely does NOT say that.

Interesting. Thanks for passing that along.

Eric

I have been asked by the Austin Civil War Round Table to give a talk this December on the role of religion in the Civil War. As you cited a Chaplain Beaudrye I would like to ask you if you can direct me to any other accounts written by Chaplains that you might know about and recommend.

As you might already know, a number of rabbis served honorably as chaplains in the Union Armies, but one story reveals the creativity of our government in handling problems of a religious nature. Ferdinard Sarner came to America as an ordained rabbi from Prussia. The 54th New York Infantry was composed of a large number of German speaking Americans. As Rabbi Sarner spoke fluent German he was assigned as the Chaplain 54th NY Infantry–as a Lutheran Pastor! Ah, the mysteries of governmental thinking.

Shalom!
Lanny

It’s sometimes useful to compare the article that ended up in B&L with what was published in The Century. For example the original article on Ft. Stedman by George Kilmer has substantial (and quite interesting) differences with the B&L version.

Trivia: the pasted up original draft of B&L is at the Huntington Library in CA.

Kudos.

J.D.