Continued from October 16, 2015.
Mr. Crawford has also written the book "Proud to Say I Am a Union Soldier: The Last Letters Home from federal Soldiers Written During the War."
Again, I like this guy as he goes after the lesser war which I find more interesting. Instead of the grand campaigns, battles and better-known Civil War persons, he researches the others who make up the war.
SHORT PEOPLE
JAMES POWELL
Major. Started the Battle of Shiloh. Took a recon party out and encountered Confederates pickets. Fired the first shot of the battle at Fraley Field and was later killed in it.
ALBERT D.J. CASHIER
Real name Jennie Hodgers of the 95th Illinois. Woman.
Cashier was listed as not 5 feet tall, but muster roll lists her at 5'3".
Major James E. Powell was 5'3".
Even shorter was Alexander Wilkin, colonel of a Minnesota regiment noted for hanging of Indians and killed at The Battle of Tupelo who stood 4'10".
--Old Secesh
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