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Comments on: Research Corner https://civilwarcavalry.com Bringing obscurity into focus Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 By: Cynthia https://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-44440 Tue, 10 May 2011 22:30:59 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9#comment-44440 does anyone have any suggestions of HOW to research Civil War veterans??
short of I have several dates & info. between his 2 dates of service.
I have been un-able to get anything else about him. even though he died in 1905 a death certificate apparently does not exist. I cannot obtain a (military) discharge document. He was a Union soldier.
He was not even listed in the special military vetean Census of 1890, even though he didn’t die until 1905.

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By: Chris Shean https://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-44438 Mon, 09 May 2011 02:29:15 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9#comment-44438 I have a question about hat insignias. I noticed that in the movie “Gettysburg,” the CSA officers are not wearing hat emblems. If I was portraying a Colonel in the 4th GA Cavalry, would I wear just the black and gold acorns or a hat emblem as well?

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By: Kathleen Celata https://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-43765 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:03:50 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9#comment-43765 Sir,
With respect, I’m hoping you have a moment to help me with a statistic. My son has gone to be in the Army, he is in basic at Benning. He is writing me frequently, and I, to him. He is very astute and wants me to write as much as I can- I want him to know from where he comes. What has happened before him to make him what he is. In nature of that, I am trying to point to him “heroes” that he may look to, men in uniform who stood to their principles and made a difference . (He IS very well-read, and these things DO make a difference to him.) One of which I wish to point out to him is John Buford. I can’t seem to find how many cavalry Buford had at his command when he made that exquisite and dangerous decision to hold the high ground at Gettysburg. I’ve really tried to search it, and I can’t find anything but high flung wordage. I am being lazy, I just want to get it into a letter soon. I hope you may provide me with that simple fact. I want to point out to my son how Buford had to call on all his years of experience, and meld that with his instinct. My son is very bright. If he is to exceed in this chosen field, he MUST get an inkling of what it was that drove the men before him. He must have something to draw on, a link, an inspiration. I know him well. If he were to draw a line to men who came before him, then he will not despair, he will not choose to be just one of the cattle call, he WILL seek to go higher. He was raised with these stories, but a story is not enough. Numbers and facts. If he can “see” what Buford was facing against odds, he will engage that information and it will make him feel stronger. I can give him Joshua Chamberlain’s highflown words, I can tell how our own General Lee lost his land to the graves at Arlington, but I need to give him something in hand, how hard scrabble people from the border states and the west, like me Mum’s family, and men like John Buford- not professors, not landholders, were bright and skilled, and held the high ground. He needs ALL kinds of heroes, not just Lees and Chamberlains. We are made up of all of them. I’ve filled him with how our Irish family came from the bad times to kill each other under green banners at Fredricksburg, he’s heard the songs from Belfast, and he’s been to the meetings in Boston to see how divisive brothers can be to each other. He’s heard the stories how his Nono escaped poverty under Mussolini, and how his Grandpa was welcomed in the US uniform when his unit went into Rome. He’s heard how his Nona grabbed up all the uniforms from her sons to send back to Italy so the cousins there could have good wool to wear after the war. He’s chosen to defend this country that saved his forefathers. He’s too smart to just do it “because”.
Thank you sir, for allowing me to bore you! I DO go on. It’s a Frostian itch- my letters are like Frost- way leads on to way!
Best to you sir,
Kathleen Celata

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By: Tas https://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-43197 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:06:32 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9#comment-43197 Hello Eric!
My name is Tas and I live in Australia. I have always been interested in the Civil War and have recently acquired a tin type of a Union cavalryman, and would like very much to identify him. Have absolutely no details on him, but have recently shown the photo to a very credible psychic who immediately rattled off a fair bit of information on him. She said his name was either David or Donald McGlinchy and that he was a cavalryman from a noorthern state bordering Canada. Origins from Ireland. She thought his unit was the 42nd and transferred to the 44th. She couldn’t give me further unit details. She saw him also as stationed at a fort, probably Wyoming. She saw much mountains and snow and also buffalo. My initial research shows a David McGlinchy in the 2nd Massachussetts cavalry, but I can not go further.
Can you help me with further details, or can you provide contact details of someone that might be able to point me in the right direction?
The photograph depicts him standing in front of a painted backdrop of pup tents and a flag which has a dark indistinguishable top left canton and also shows what appear to be stars scattered over the rest of the flag. If you need to see this photo, I’ll send it to you. He stands with a sword in hand and a Whitney pistol across his chest. Wears a slouch hat and a rectangular belt buckle.
Thank you kindly. Look forward to your reply,
Tas

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By: Rosemary Southwick https://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-43118 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:12:06 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9#comment-43118 Eric,
I am looking for information to preserve inherited Civil War documents that we have.
Would you be able to help us? I do not wish to list any on your blog so if you could give me your email address if you are interested.
Thankyou,
Rosemary

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By: Floyd Click https://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-42012 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:13:52 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9#comment-42012 I am looking on info on the 5th Iowa Cavalry and what they did in Georgia. My wife’s Great Great Grandfather was in co B. Many thanks to any help.

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By: Kelly https://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-40511 Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:59:33 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9#comment-40511 Sir,
As both sides in this epic 4 year battle, all soldiers mounted and unmounted ,were, and still are heros. The cavalry is a passion also of mine. Although green, and as I am sure have only raked the limb of a broken peach tree over the battle fields dirt, I find little said of the galliant 1st Vermont Cavalry (volunteers) and their horses (mostly Morgans). The latter many times rode with the New York Cavalry.
Have you read a book from Captain H.K Ide’s (1st Vermont Cavalry Volunteers Company D) Memoirs? By name; History of The First Vermont Cavalry Volunteers in The War Of The Rebellion by Elliot W. Hoffman, Army of The Potomac Series. Published by Butternut and Blue in 2000. John Bennet a Chicago Lawyer 1902 notes a charge under Custer at The Battle of Tom’s Brook The 1st Vermont captured more artillery and equipment in a single charge than any other regiment in the United States Army up to WWI. “Perhaps they captured more artillery than any American regiment ever captured in a single charge.”
They did this charging into acres and acres of C.S estimated to be of 5000 or more with the NY behind them and Custer in the rear watching their backs.

Respectively,

K.Austin

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By: Tom https://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-40372 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:00:44 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9#comment-40372 Hi Eric, I thought you or your readers might be interested in this if you don’t already know about it:

Civil War Muster Rolls Important Addition
to Ohio Historical Society Archives

“The collection consists of a lot of rolls for Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI) regiments, including the 6th, 7th, 19th, 30th, 38th, 41st, 52nd, 68th, 78th, 96th, 113th and 124th. These represent units raised from all over the state of Ohio. It also has an assortment of rolls from the 10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, the 1st Light Artillery Regiment, Batteries B and C and rolls for the 9th, 17th and 19th Independent Light Artillery Batteries. The rolls cover units raised in April 1861 and go to late 1864. ”

http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/enews/0910a.shtml

Best wishes – Tom

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By: Bill Hupp https://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-39511 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:52:04 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9#comment-39511 Eric,

What have you found as to Union Cavalry Regiments carrying their regimental color(s) into battle? They usually carried them as a focus like the infantry when advancing and rallying? Or they normally sent them to the rear, they had the company guidons, which fit the tactics better?

A quick review of period prints/drawings I could put my hands on and it seems like lots of guidons and I didn’t notice much in the way of regimental flags.

Thanks.

Bill

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By: Guy Power https://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-38848 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:39:47 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?page_id=9#comment-38848 I added a comment regarding the Georgia Hussars on the Col. F.J. Waring page at https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1395. If you do not have access to Alexander McC. Duncan’s 1906 book, _Roll and Legend of the Georgia Hussars_, you need to get it. Tonight I found a pdf version at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/georgiabooks/pdfs/gb5065.pdf. It provides first-hand accounts of the Hussars’ first raid in November 1861, and Bog Wallow … with sketches. I haven’t read it in years, but I believe there was a post-war correspondence between North & South about Bog Wallow. Happy reading!

–Guy Power

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