Gordon Thorsby
The Casualty Lists Were Long at Helena, Arkansas July 4, 1863
by Gordon Thorsby On the morning of July 5, the regiments assembled for roll call and then were dismissed for breakfast. The sergeants of...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Sep 23, 2022
- 5 min
The Great Disaster at Norfolk 1861.
by Gordon Thorsby Courtesy of the Mariner's Museum of Norfolk The surrender of Ft. Sumter on April 14 was a disappointment for the North....
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Gordon Thorsby
- Sep 19, 2022
- 4 min
Alexander Hart, 5th Louisiana, One Southern Soldier Who Did Return Home
by Gordon Thorsby Alexander Hart (1839-1911), was on the surface not unique when he was named a lieutenant in the Fifth Louisiana Zouave...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Sep 15, 2022
- 5 min
The First Illinois Artillery at Shiloh, 39 Were Michigan Men
By Gordon Thorsby Governors raised recruits from about their respective states but in 1862, that was not entirely true. As casualties...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Sep 12, 2022
- 5 min
Desertion By Michigan Men in the American Civil War
by Gordon Thorsby Five Men of the 118th PA for desertion executed Before the V Corps, 1863. From Alfred Waud (LOC) Desertion in the Civil...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Aug 25, 2022
- 5 min
"Enough for Another Killing," Quarles' Brigade at Ezra Church
by Gordon Thorsby Ezra Church, Engraving by Theodore R. Davis, published by Harpers Weekly What happened on the Northern side is that...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Aug 22, 2022
- 4 min
Michigan Soldiers from Canada in the Civil War
by Gordon Thorsby Wounded from Spotsylvania, 1864. Andress is prone and facing the camera. (photo M. Brady) Canadians didn't have to join...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Aug 18, 2022
- 5 min
Mutiny of the Third Michigan Cavalry in Texas, 1865
by Gordon Thorsby Horse Shoeing of cavalry There were two mutinies that occurred with Union Cavalry regiments and the first occurred in...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Aug 16, 2022
- 5 min
Were there Union and Confederate Irregulars in the Civil War?
by Gordon Thorsby Colonel John S. Mosby, C.S.A. In the recent years, there has been a burgeoning historiography on the irregular fighting...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Aug 11, 2022
- 5 min
The Twenty-Sixth Michigan, Used Up Before They Knew It in 1864
by Gordon Thorsby Painting by Thure de Thulstrup The 26th Michigan Volunteer Infantry mustered-in on December 12, 1862, with 903 men. Its...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Aug 8, 2022
- 5 min
The Lone Cannon at a Bridge in Rock Hill, SC., Stoneman's Raid April 1865
by Gordon Thorsby Current day Bridge across the Catawba River, Rock Hill SC Stoneman’s Raid of 1865 is considered the longest raid of the...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Aug 4, 2022
- 5 min
Prelude to the Burning of Columbia, A Skirmish at Conagree Creek
by Gordon Thorsby Sherman’s 67,000 man army crossed the Georgia line into South Carolina and encountered Confederate resistance at Aiken...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Aug 1, 2022
- 6 min
Of Bookkeepers and Engineers on the U.S.S. Monitor
by Gordon Thorsby Front row, from left: Robinson W. Hands 20, Edwin V. Gager-47, not at Hampton Roads (HR); second row, Louis N. Stodder-...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Jul 27, 2022
- 5 min
The Sixth Michigan Infantry In the Heat of Louisiana
by Gordon Thorsby The Interior of the Confederate Fortifications at Port Hudson (holes were dug by soldiers hiding from large caliber...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Jul 25, 2022
- 5 min
Lt. Henry Kingsbury's Contribution at the Base of Burnside Bridge at Antietam
by Gordon Thorsby Lt. Henry W. Kingsbury, (From Time Life Series, Brian Pohanka Collection) History doesn’t know much about one Henry W....
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Gordon Thorsby
- Jul 18, 2022
- 5 min
The Explosion in Cheraw, On Sherman's March Through the Carolinas
by Gordon Thorsby The Accidental Ruins of Cheraw March,1865 (History of SC Collection) In late February, 1865 and after much of Columbia...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Jul 14, 2022
- 4 min
Mixing it up with Sherman at Collierville, Tennessee, 1863.
by Gordon Thorsby (courtesy of Library of Congress) Battles of the Civil War spanned across America in towns that had little impact and...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Jul 13, 2022
- 5 min
The Blunders by Fitz John Porter at Boteler's Ford
by Gordon Thorsby Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter (Courtesy of Library of Congress) Boteler’s Ford on Sept. 19-20, happened after Antietam and...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Jul 11, 2022
- 5 min
Of Six Men in the Seventh Michigan Cavalry
by Gordon Thorsby There is probably more written about the 7thMichigan Cavalry than any other cavalry regiment from Michigan but the...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Jul 7, 2022
- 4 min
Michigan Sailors on the Tinclad U.S.S. Forest Rose
by Gordon Thorsby Forest Rose at the construction of the Alexandia Dam 1864 Forest Rose was a sternwheeler tinclad #9, with a...
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