** Henry Haupt organized supply and troop movements during the Gettysburg Campaign.
** He had permission to commandeer Virginia railroads, but now got control over those railroads in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
** He was a big enemy of Governor Andew of Pennsylvania.
** After the war, Haupt was involved in an oil pipeline and became very wealthy.
--Old Secesh
#5: Ball's Bluff was the first major battle of the famed California Regiment.
Funded by Californians, the 1st California Regiment was part of an effort to keep California in the Union by encouraging California men from across the United States to enlist in the regiment. The regiment, however, was Californian in name only; not only was it led by Colonel Baker, a senator from Oregon, but the regiment was raised primarily in Philadelphia, resulting in a regiment where the majority of the men were native Pennsylvanians.
After Baker's death, the regiment was renamed the 71st Pennsylvania Volunteers, and went on to see action at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, where they participated in the famous repulse of Pickett's Charge at the Bloody Angle.
Old Secesh
This is the start of Edward Everett's speech he gave before Abraham Lincoln gave what is now known as the Gettysburg Address that November19, 1863.
Of course, he spoke for over two hours. I will not type the whole speech. But, you can tell just from what little I wrote, the man was quite eloquent.
"Standing beneath this serene sky, overlooking these broad fields now reposing from the labors of the waning year, the almighty Alleghenies towering before us, the graves of our brethren beneath our feet, it is with hesitation that I raise my poor voice to break the eloquent silence of God and Nature. But the duty to which you call me must be performed; --grant me, I pray you, your indulgence and your sympathy."
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Then he went into a comparison of ancient Greece and the events of July 1863. Then:
"We have assembled, friends, fellow-citizens, at the invitation of the Executive of the great central state of Pennsylvania, seconded by the Governors of seventeen other loyal States of the Union, to pay last tribute of respect to the brave men who, in the hard-fought battles of the first, second and third days of July last, laid down their lives for the country on these hillsides and the plains before us, and whose remains have been gathered into the cemetery we consecrate today."
I don't know, but this kind of sounds a bit like Lincoln's speech.
Eloquent, Eloquent. --Old Secesh
When the armies withdrew after that three-day battle in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, it was a hellish scene of carnage: 8,000 human corpses and 5,000 dead horses strewn across the fields. The toll would grow to thousands more in the days that followed as men succumbed to their mortal wounds.
In the summer heat, Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtain faced a pressing need to identify and bury the dead. But he also felt compelled to give meaning to the bloody tragedy and hope to the future.
Curtain enlisted the help of leading Gettysburg citizen, David Wills, who immediately acquired 17 acres for a battlefield cemetery and began planning its dedication. Looking for someone who could with "artful words ... sweeten the poisoned air of Gettysburg." Wills naturally turned to Edward Everett for those words.
Everett had inherited the mantle of Daniel Webster, the nation's leading orator at the time of his death in 1852. The Bostonian had long been recognized for his deft and graceful use of language, intuitive dramatic sense, musical voice and magnetic presence.
--Old Secesh
After the fighting on May 6, at the Wilderness, Bragg was placed in command of the division's 3rd Brigade which was made up of all Pennsylvania regiments, sometimes called the Pennsylvania Bucktail Brigade, by General Lysander Cutler, who had been Bragg's original commander of the 6th Wisconsin. Lysander had become division commander with the death of General James S. Wadsworth.
Bragg was replacing the Bucktails' commander Colonel Roy Stone who had reportedly been drunk during the battle on May 5 and 6. On both days, his brigade had performed poorly, reportedly marching and firing in disorganized manner and scattering in the face of Confederate skirmishers. They even had accidentally wounded members of their own unit.
Stone had been removed after his horse fell on top of him on May 6.
Bragg led the brigade for most of the remainder of the Overland Campaign. His leadership stabilized the brigade and they performed admirably at Spotsylvania Court House, North Ana, Totopotomoy Creek and Cold Harbor. After Cold Harbor, Bragg turned command of the brigade over to Gettysburg hero Joshua Chamberlain.
--Old Secesh
From Wikipedia.
Also known as the "Mozart Regiment" and "Constitution Guard."
During the war, this regiment had the second highest number of casualties in the Union Army, only behind the famed 69th New York Infantry out of the Irish Brigade.
They were mustered in to service at Yonkers, New York, on June 27, 1861, sponsored by the Union Defense Committee of New York City by special authority of the War Department. Originally the regiment was to be raised as the United States Constitution Guard by Col. John S. Cocks of the 2nd New York, but that organization was not completed.
With additional sponsorship by the Mozart Hall Committee, it adopted the name Mozart Regiment. despite being a New York regiment, only the original Constitution Guard group were New Yorkers.
The regiment was completed by taking four Massachusetts companies and two from Pennsylvania.
On September 6, 1862, the 40th New York absorbed the enlisted men of the 87th New York Infantry Regiment. Thomas Aumack was in the 87th New York.
--Old Secesh
