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Driving around I discovered this obscure old Civil War battlefield

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 10:29:41

never fight uphill, meboys*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 15:54:16, in reply to "Driving around I discovered this obscure old Civil War battlefield"

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Posted by ibdoc <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ibdoc' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 15:57:07, in reply to "never fight uphill, meboys*"

https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/msg/1714147058.html

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my great great grandfather was at that battle. no shit. led 300 troops…

Posted by LeatherneckIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LeatherneckIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 12:41:47, in reply to "Driving around I discovered this obscure old Civil War battlefield"

as “Sweet’s Battalion” attached to the 54th Pennsylvania. He can be found in the official records. His battalion consisted of veterans of the 3rd and 4th PA reserves who had extended their contracts after their 3 year enlistments expired.

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my great great grandfather was an aide to Stonewall Jackson

Posted by Throwsize <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Throwsize' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 15:48:59, in reply to "my great great grandfather was at that battle. no shit. led 300 troops…"

and carried him off the battlefield after he was shot by friendly fire.

he is buried in Newman, il, with most of my other relatives.

if you know where that is

i drive by that spot all the time to DC. it’s eight by the Chancellorsville visitor center.

Posted by LeatherneckIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LeatherneckIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 16:05:31, in reply to "my great great grandfather was an aide to Stonewall Jackson"

you should visit sometime. rangers would be interested for sure.

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and carried him off the battlefield after he was shot by friendly fire.

he is buried in Newman, il, with most of my other relatives.

if you know where that is

Make sure to have put together all your research first

Posted by RVA <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=RVA' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 16:16:01, in reply to "i drive by that spot all the time to DC. it’s eight by the Chancellorsville visitor center."

It's really awkward when the staff has to correct family lore

Did he ever fight in Virginia?

Posted by BoCool <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=BoCool' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 15:05:24, in reply to "my great great grandfather was at that battle. no shit. led 300 troops…"

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https://archive.org/details/fmradioarchive?page=2

FM radio broadcasts from the 60s through the 2000s.

3 of the 7 Days battles, Fredricksburg and 1864 Valley Campaign. Also West Virginia…

Posted by LeatherneckIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LeatherneckIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 15:24:13, in reply to "Did he ever fight in Virginia?"

he was sick in the hospital and missed 2nd Bull Run and the Cornfield at Antietam. Lucky for us in that last one.

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innovators of the "Salt Bae" storming tactic

Posted by RVA <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=RVA' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 13:41:40, in reply to "my great great grandfather was at that battle. no shit. led 300 troops…"

as illustrated in a veteran member of the regiment's recollections:

nice! our great great grandfather decided to go home after the additional 30 days service….

Posted by LeatherneckIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LeatherneckIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 15:28:18, in reply to "innovators of the "Salt Bae" storming tactic"

and his troops joined the 54th for the rest of the war. From the records it’s pretty clear he’d have been promoted to major or even ltcol and kept his troops as a separate regiment but given his brother was killed at Gettysburg and pressure from being a newlywed (out g g grandmother might have been pregnant) he turned that chance down.

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as illustrated in a veteran member of the regiment's recollections:

The expiring enlistments in the summer of 64 is really something

Posted by RVA <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=RVA' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 16:21:02, in reply to "nice! our great great grandfather decided to go home after the additional 30 days service…."

They knew they had another campaign season before getting out. Some reenlisted during the winter to get a furlough home, thinking they might be killed that spring either way so might as well see the folks one more time. Other regiments marched right off the field in the middle of Cold Harbor, as their terms expired just days before the fateful charge. And then the whole thing about whether the three year term started when they joined state service or officially mustered in. Difference of a week would make a huge impact.

Have you been there?*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 13:01:51, in reply to "my great great grandfather was at that battle. no shit. led 300 troops…"

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even though we live just 40 min away i haven’t. i have gone to his 7 days battles…

fredericksburg and chancellorsville where his brother was wounded. i have been to Clouyds Mtn by Blacksburg where he fight before and lexington where they burned down VMI after the battle of staunton. but i need to get over there. thanks for posting this!

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Go to New Market. Best Civil War museum there is. Every uniform, every firearm, everything.*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 13:40:41, in reply to "even though we live just 40 min away i haven’t. i have gone to his 7 days battles…"

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i need to. he wasn’t there as they marched down separately and joined Hunters Raid after New Markw…

Posted by LeatherneckIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LeatherneckIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 14:06:53, in reply to "Go to New Market. Best Civil War museum there is. Every uniform, every firearm, everything.*"

I have seen the famous picture of cadets from VMI when i visited there.

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Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Batallion

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 12:55:45, in reply to "my great great grandfather was at that battle. no shit. led 300 troops…"

Blaxploitation version of Glory.

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I just sold the vinyl LP to that Blaxploitation film last weekend...no shit. *

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 13:09:31, in reply to "Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Batallion"

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Blaxploitation version of Glory.

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Gen. William "Grumble" Jones killed near that spot*

Posted by RVA <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=RVA' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 12:30:34, in reply to "Driving around I discovered this obscure old Civil War battlefield"

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ooo

Posted by IlliniSax05 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniSax05' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 12:36:14, in reply to "Gen. William "Grumble" Jones killed near that spot*"

Why do you hate me, Sammich?

MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
-Sammich, 1/15/2011

so interesting, and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways

Posted by ibdoc <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ibdoc' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 10:57:38, in reply to "Driving around I discovered this obscure old Civil War battlefield"

Did they fight up hill me boys?

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Also this cool monument to real American heroes

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 10:32:06, in reply to "Driving around I discovered this obscure old Civil War battlefield"

one of the oldest known references to “hey, chorizo”*

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 14:16:06, in reply to "Also this cool monument to real American heroes"

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Pretty impressive that they were able to fit them all under there*

Posted by OB25 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=OB25' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2024, 10:58:54, in reply to "Also this cool monument to real American heroes"

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When something is happening, young people like to say it’s “lit.”

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