I have long been somewhat mildly disturbed by the story of the “last moment” arrival of Major General Gordon Granger with Brigadier General James B. Steedman’s First Division of the Reserve Corps of the Army of the Cumberland to the aid of Major General George H. Thomas in the late afternoon of September 20, 1863 [...]
This Granger and Steedman Thing!
October 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Categories: Campaigns & Battles · Civil War Individuals · Generals · Spotlight On An Individual · Strategy & Tactics · Western Theater
Tags: · chickamauga, gordon granger, james b. steedman
The General’s Priest
October 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment
Most serious students of the Civil War may recognize the name of Fr. Jeremiah Trecy, the Catholic priest who Major-General William S. Rosecrans recruited to join the chaplin corps of the Army of the Cumberland. Trecy is more commonly referred to as “Rosecrans’s confessor” and, in truth, he personally did look after the general’s spiritual [...]
Categories: Civil War Individuals · Generals · Spotlight On An Individual · Western Theater
Tags: · catholic priests, william s. rosecrans
Trapped By a Poem!
September 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
My first posting, Brett informs me, should be one of personal introduction, something with which I’ve almost always had great difficulty. But it helps to be a little crazy, so I’ll push stalwartly on like the old grenadier that I’ve been lately pretending and imagining myself to be.
It feels extremely comfortable and somehow vindicated to [...]
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