Gordon Thorsby
The Moses Dallas Controversy, Union Sailor or Confederate Pilot?
by Gordon Thorsby The Savannah Harbor was under blockade as all ports during the war and yet many supplies went out and came in...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Mar 9, 2022
- 3 min
A Good Deed in the Midst of Looting
by Gordon Thorsby The Army of the Tennessee and the Army of Georgia were now in motion. South Carolina started the war and Sherman’s two...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Mar 8, 2022
- 4 min
My Name is Thomas Marks and I am in the Dead Book
by Gordon Thorsby Thomas H. Marks wasn't known for anything much in the Civil War. He did make one impact by becoming a name among the...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Mar 7, 2022
- 4 min
The First Alabama Cavalry USV... Union Troopers
by Gordon Thorsby To Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War The volunteers from Alabama will be organized into companies, under the direction...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Mar 3, 2022
- 5 min
Crusty Ben Colvin, One Part Character, Another Part Union Spy and Scout
by Gordon Thorsby He was described as old irreconcilable, a crank of the crankiest kind, a blackguard, and a murderer but he was much...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Mar 2, 2022
- 5 min
A Word in Case I am No More, 1862
by Gordon Thorsby Link to Part One https://www.gordonthorsbycivilwarnotes.com/post/three-letters-cherished-forever-1862 Link to Part Two...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Mar 1, 2022
- 5 min
A Need for a Letter in the Midst of War, 1862
by Gordon Thorsby Link to Part One. https://www.gordonthorsbycivilwarnotes.com/post/three-letters-cherished-forever-1862 Summer heat was...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 28, 2022
- 5 min
Three Letters Cherished Forever, 1862
by Gordon Thorsby Lt. Hugh Martin Childress to Miss Hester Ann Chandler In 1861, America had “exploded” and the possibility of budding...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 24, 2022
- 5 min
John and Margaret Plyler, Siblings and Southern Soldiers
by Gordon Thorsby From 11 April, 1865, the Charlotte Western Democrat A young soldier was arrested here yesterday on suspicion of being a...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 23, 2022
- 3 min
Nathan B. Forrest: Described in Detail, 1865.
by Gordon Thorsby His photograph is always recognized. Was Nathan Bedford Forrest, the soldier that went from private in 1861 to Lt....
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 22, 2022
- 3 min
The Sinking of Patapsco, Charleston Harbor
by Gordon Thorsby Passaic Class monitor January 15, 1865 From Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren Sir: I regret to inform the Department of the...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 21, 2022
- 4 min
What Secessionville Wrought for a Small Place in Michigan
by Gordon Thorsby The 8th Michigan Infantry performed in some of the bloodiest actions in both the eastern and western Theaters of the...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 17, 2022
- 5 min
The Second Michigan Battery in the Peach Orchard at Shiloh
by Gordon Thorsby Today, the National Park Service has had a hard time growing Peach trees in Larkin Bell’s field. Back on April 6, 1862,...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 16, 2022
- 4 min
The Zieglers, the Culps and the 87th Pennsylvania
by Gordon Thorsby Gettysburg National, Evergreen Cemetery in Background When Emanuel went to the enlist in the army on September 7, 1861,...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 15, 2022
- 3 min
Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Events in Parallel
by Gordon Thorsby We tend to think that the Campaigns at Vicksburg and in Pennsylvania took place as if they were at separate times. They...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 14, 2022
- 4 min
The Misplaced Minnesota Sharpshooter, John A. Dolson
by Gordon Thorsby John A. Dolson was born in 1843 in Schuyler, IL. The family moved to Richfield, MN in the present day Minneapolis...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 10, 2022
- 9 min
The Forgotten Man and the Fight with CSS Juno in Charleston Harbor
He is known. by Gordon Thorsby Crew of the U.S.S. Wabash ST CHARLES UNION, Michigan May 10, 1917, Front Page, Col 1- BURIED WITH HONORS...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 9, 2022
- 4 min
The Fight at Coleman’s Plantation and all Mississippi Soldiers
by Gordon Thorsby An interesting battle involving black and white soldiers, was in Mississippi at the battle of Coleman’s Plantation in...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 8, 2022
- 3 min
The Real Tom Dooley, Private Thomas C. Dula, 42nd North Carolina Infantry
"Hang down your head Tom Dooley because tomorrow you're gonna die." by Gordon Thorsby (claimed photo of Dula) Thomas C. Dula, enlisted in...
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Gordon Thorsby
- Feb 7, 2022
- 4 min
How the Army of Tennessee Traveled to NC by Rail in 1865
by Gordon Thorsby It is not often explained how the Army of Tennessee got to the east in any detail in 1865. Documents are sparse. There...
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