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Author: Harry Smeltzer
Posted: 10/03/2024 - 3:52pm
This was a pretty packed weekend for me, a prelude to a pretty packed week. I really am glad to have it all behind me. On Saturday the 21st, I headed down to Maryland to give a presentation for the Antietam Institute in the Pry Barn, in Keedysville, near the house where George McClellan established […]
Author: Harry Smeltzer
Posted: 09/17/2024 - 6:53am
This weekend, Bull Runnings has a packed schedule. First, I’ll be speaking in the Pry Barn at Antietam National Battlefield Park at 2 PM on Saturday. As part of the Antietam Institute’s Commanders of Antietam Series, I’ll be presenting on Colonel Albert L. Magilton of the Pennsylvania Reserves, a shadowy figure to most. Stop by […]
Author: Harry Smeltzer
Posted: 09/10/2024 - 10:34pm
Below you’ll find a link a pdf document. These are images and maps that you can print out or download to your device if you intend to join us on September 22 for our tour with Damian Shiels and Harry Smeltzer. It’s 32 pages long. If you’re going to print it out, be shore to […]
Author: noreply@blogger.com (John David Hoptak)
Posted: 09/07/2024 - 8:34am

Richard Martin Jones began the war as a sergeant in the ranks of Company G, 48th Pennsylvania, and ended it as the regiment's second-in-command, or lieutenant-colonel. 


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Author: noreply@blogger.com (John David Hoptak)
Posted: 09/01/2024 - 6:42am

It was late summer, 1889, and Rebecca Focht was worried. 

She hadn't seen, nor even heard from her son, Charles, for several months, and was anxious to know not only where he was but especially the condition of his health. She had learned that he may have been admitted to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., which was, at that time, called the Government Hospital for the Insane. Established by Dorothea Dix in 1852 and located in southeastern D.C. on high ground...

Author: Harry Smeltzer
Posted: 08/18/2024 - 7:17pm
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Author: Harry Smeltzer
Posted: 08/15/2024 - 8:55am
Battlefield Near Manassas.July 22d, 1861. To the Editors of the Southern Federal Union: The second battle near Manassas was fought on Sunday last; beginning early in the morning, and continuing until late in the afternoon. The 9th Georgia Regiment having been detained at Piedmont longer than was anticipated, did not reach the battlefield until fifteen […]
Author: Harry Smeltzer
Posted: 08/12/2024 - 2:28pm
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Author: Harry Smeltzer
Posted: 08/11/2024 - 11:59am
Soon after the act of secession I was elected a member of a troop of cavalry commanded by Captain Alexander Taylor, called the Congaree Rifles. In this same company General John S Preston, General Wade Hampton were privates. I was subsequently elected Lieutenant in the company. On the occasion of the bombardment of Fort Sumter […]
Author: Harry Smeltzer
Posted: 08/11/2024 - 9:48am
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