Monthly Archives: July 2011

Salt Pork and Hard Tack Shied at Telegraph Poles

These Guys Are throwing Food Away? The 19th New York Volunteer Infantry has been ordered to move from Washington, D.C. to the Shenandoah Valley to reinforce Union General Robert Patterson. On July 6, 1861 they loaded into freight cars and … Continue reading

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Hot Night Jammed in a Freight Car

We’ve been following the 19th NY Volunteer Infantry from the Cayuga County area of New York State. The regiment has been drilling at their encampment in the Kalorama area of the District of Columbia for about a month. That’s all … Continue reading

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Volunteer Dragoons from Pennsylvania

Bring Your Own Horse From The New-York Times July 6, 1861: … WASHINGTON, Friday, July 5. … MORE TROOPS COME. … A regiment of Dragoons from Pennsylvania, under command of Col. M. FRIEDMAN, who will provide their own horses and … Continue reading

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“without even one decenting Colony”

235 years ago today Delaware’s Caesar Rodney wrote to his younger bother, Thomas: Philadelphia, July the 4th, 1776 Sir: I arrived in Congress (tho detained by thunder and rain) time enough to give my voice in the matter of Independence. … Continue reading

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Happy Independence Day, Americans!

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Three Months About Half Up

Wiling Away the Time at Kalorama The regiment began to watch about this time the rapid wearing away of the three months, for which it had taken the oath of service, with no little anxiety. The men unanimously regarded the … Continue reading

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