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Comments on: A Fascinating Book https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418 Bringing obscurity into focus Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418&cpage=1#comment-10078 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:04:36 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418#comment-10078 Rob,

Thanks very much for writing; it’s nice to know that folks are reading this blog. I thoroughly enjoyed your book and am personally grateful to you for telling such an important story. I can only hope that the obvious lessons of this book have been learned by the U. S. government, but doubt that they have.

Thanks again for writing, and please keep up the good work.

Eric

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By: rkoenig https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418&cpage=1#comment-10068 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:18:46 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418#comment-10068 Which account of Hubert Dilger’s Civil War exploits would you recommend as being the most accurate? As you know, there are numerous books and articles that detail or at least mention his horse artillery tactics at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. And, of course, there are many other stories – including the tale of his court martial for insubordination – that are seldom covered in Civil War histories.
Thanks for mentioning my book, “The Fourth Horseman.” As you pointed out so eloquently, Hubert Dilger’s Civil War heroism is tangential to the books’s main topic: the emergence of Hubert’s son Anton C. Dilger as a spy for Imperial Germany and as a key figure in the origins of 20th century biological warfare/sabotage. Because the main target of that sabotage was war horses being shipped from the U.S. to Allied armies in Europe during World War I, researching the book required a great deal of work in archives related to the Great War; the British Army’s Remount Service; the fate of German-Americans between the Civil War and the Great War; the history of modern microbiology; veterinary science and military veterinary records; the post-war Mixed Claims Commission investigation (re: German sabotage during WWI); and the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902.
Even so, the story of the family itself is compelling, and I tried to tell it in an interesting fashion. How is it that the son of a German immigrant who won America’s highest military honor during the Civil War could become a spy and saboteur for its implacable enemy during World War I and be awarded the Iron Cross for espionage and sabotage against the United States?

— Rob Koenig
Pretoria, South Africa

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By: Scott https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418&cpage=1#comment-10040 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:41:43 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418#comment-10040 Dilger also made a splendid contribution to halting the Confederate advance up the Warrenton Turnpike at Second Bull Run on August 30, securing Pope’s “line of retreat.”

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By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418&cpage=1#comment-10001 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:58:02 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418#comment-10001 Drew,

LOL. Bring it on. 🙂

Eric

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By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418&cpage=1#comment-10000 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:57:34 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418#comment-10000 Brian,

By all means, please do. The only way you’ll ever know if you’re up to the task is to try.

I’m glad you find something rewarding here. I appreciate your taking the time to indulge my rantings.

Eric

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By: Drew W. https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418&cpage=1#comment-9999 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:47:06 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418#comment-9999 Eric,
Now you’ll get an indignant letter from CCR!

Drew

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By: Brian S. https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418&cpage=1#comment-9998 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:41:25 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418#comment-9998 Eric,

I’ve been thinking about researching and writing about military topics for awhile now and I’ve almost convinced myself to jump in. The last straw was, and still is constantly reading about your projects on this blog, as well as other blogs, namely J.D.’s and Dimitri’s. I just wanted to say that. It’s a lot of fun reading about the process of writing a book and the ups and downs you go through.

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By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418&cpage=1#comment-9996 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:16:05 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418#comment-9996 Brian,

Actually, it will cover the Eleventh Corps at both Chancellorsville and Gettysburg which will be titled Bad Moon Rising: The Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, but it’s going to be a while–five years at least. I have a LOT more research to do, although I’ve already got quite a bit of good material.

Eric

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By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418&cpage=1#comment-9995 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:13:42 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418#comment-9995 David,

Agreed. And I definitely recommend buying it. Thanks again for making me aware of it; but for your blog entry, I probably never thought to read it.

Eric

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By: Brian S. https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418&cpage=1#comment-9994 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:10:31 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=418#comment-9994 Eric,

This is completely off topic, but you mentioned in a previous post about maybe writing a book about the 11th Corps at Gettysburg. I was wondering how that project is coming along? Brian

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