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Apr-Jun06 Newsletter The Camp Olden Gazette News from the Camp Olden Civil War Round Table April - May - June, 2006 President’s Gavel -- by Bruce L. Sirak Spring is here and I hope everyone is out enjoying the great I would like to bring to your attention the Major Charles weather because the hot and humid summer will soon be here. Izard Maceuen CWRT/ AMART Symposium planned for November 11, 2006 at The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 This past weekend was the annual reenactment at S. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. The cost to attend the Sympo- Neshaminy, PA. I want to thank everyone who came to staff sium is $65.00 if you register by October 1, 2006 and $75.00 our table or just stop by and said hi. Special thanks go to Bill for if you register later than October 1 date. The subject of Ford, Joe Mognancki, and Julia & Stu Foulks who spent the the Symposium is The Common Soldier: Billy Yank & Johnny entire weekend staffing our display. It’s a lot of fun when you Reb. It promises to be a very interesting day. If you wish to have great people to spend time with. attend make sure to pick up a flyer. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of our Civil War As a reminder, this year’s Camp Olden-Hamilton Twp. & Native American Museum, special events have been reenactment will take place on July 7, 8 & 9, 2006. The planned at the Museum on June 10th. Beginning at 9 AM, encampment and primary functions of the reenactment will our Junior Camp Olden Civil War Training Camp for take place at the Braghelli Tract, which is located along Kuser children will start the day’s activities. At 2:30 PM, a special Road and the actual battle taking place at its regular location. dedication ceremony will be held to dedicate two monu- Please volunteer. ments at our museum. The first monument is a carving of a Civil War artillery soldier done in the American folk style by Up & Coming Speakers: our own Stanley Saperstein of Artisans of the Valley Custom st Woodworking. Stanley donated the carving in memory of June 1 - Joe Bilby, “A Revolution In Arms,”- A History of dedicated members of Camp Olden Civil War Round Table the First Repeating Rifles—Spencer & Henry Rifles. and Museum who have passed away. The second monument July 6th - William Saraceni, “Comparison of Lee & Grant at is a full size replica of a cannon barrel mounted on a beauti- Appomattox” ful stone base. Vincent J Spiritosanto who passed away in 2003 built the cannon barrel. His family donated the cannon August (Stay cool) No Meeting to Camp Olden in his memory. The Hamilton Twp. Park September 7th - Robert Sherdan “ Iron From The Deep”- Maintenance personnel constructed the stone base. The Discovery & Recovery of The USS Monitor The children who attended the Jr. Camp Olden Training Enjoy your Spring & Summer and looking forward to seeing Camp will make up the special honor guard leading into the everyone at all our activties. dedication ceremony. All are welcome and are encouraged to attend. Your Obedient Servant, Thank you all for your contributions. Page 2. Who Was General Sill? Editor Comments by Barry Leilich With Matthew (my son) going to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for his basic training and thinking about my time at Ft. Sill in artillery surveying training, I became curious as to just who Civil War Round Table & Museum was General Sill. Newsletters emailed to the families of those taking basic training by Captain Richard M. Hewitt, Hamilton, New Jersey Commander of D Battery , 1-19 Field Artillery provided me Est. 1992 the perfect opportunity to ask someone about Gen. Sill. Cpt. Hewitt not only provided the link to the following biography of Gen. Sill but also provided me with the access to the Page 1. President’s Gavel National Park Service site where I was able to obtain the by Bruce L. Sirak feature article of this newsletter. Joshua W. Sill was born December 6, 1831, in Chillicothe, Page 2, Who Was General Sill Ohio. He was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Sill, who had resided there since the year 1814. Joshua’s early education was Page 3. The Battle of Stones River obtained largely from his father, who took the time from his legal practice to instruct his son in the basic subjects. Joshua was an apt pupil and before reaching adulthood he mastered Page 4. Watervliet Arsenal many of the difficult sciences and achieved particular skill in By William Ford Mathematics. He was also proficient in Latin and Greek and was conversant with English and French literature. Although Page 5. Education Highlights his father desired that he study law, he was, at his own request, by Kim Daly appointed in 1849 the U.S.Military Academy, from the Cillicothe Congressional district. During his four years at West Point he ranked among the best scholars and graduated third Recipe: I.H.O.P. Page 9. in his class. Upon graduation he was commissioned a Second Country Griddle Cakes Lieutenant in Ordnance and his first assignment was at the Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York. In 1855 he was recalled to West Point as an instructor. After two years there he was assigned to Pittsburgh Arsenal where he was occupied with the testing of ordnance equipment. In May 1858, he was sent to Vancouver, Washington Territory to superintend the building of an arsenal. Difficulties with the British government prevented the construction of this arsenal and he was reassigned to Watervleit Arsenal. A few months latter he was ordered to Fort Leavenworth. If you would like to submit an article to the Camp In the spring of 1860, he gave notice of resignation of Olden Gazette, you can e-mail it to: his commission and accepted the professorship of mathemat- [email protected] ics and civil engineering in the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. Following the bombardment of Fort or mail your article to: Sumpter he resigned his teaching position and offered his Barry Leilich services to the Governor of Ohio, who appointed him 7 Wolfpack Road Assistant Adjutant General of the State in May 1861. Here he Hamilton, NJ 08619 was occupied in the organization of the Ohio forces. In August 1661 he was commissioned Colonel of the 33rd Ohio Continued Page 7. April -May. -June., 2006 Page 3. The Battle of Stones River Murfreesboro, Tennessee As 1862 drew to a close, President Abraham Lincoln was desperate for a military victory. His armies were stalled, and the terrible defeat at Fredericksburg spread a feeling of defeat across the nation, and a victory would boost morale and give support to the Emancipation Proclamation when it went into effect January 1, 1863. At this time Union troops were divided into three armies. General Ambrose Burnside commanded the Army of the Potomac, General Ulysses S. Grant commanded the Army of the Tennessee, and General During the night, Bragg and Rosecrans planned their William S. Rosecrans commanded the attacks. Both chose to attack the right flank of the enemy and Army of the Cumberland which cut off their supply line and escape route. Bragg extended his operated in middle Tennessee. The lines to the south using all but General John C. Breckinridge’s Gen. William S. Rosecrans Army of the Cumberland, seemed to Division of General William Hardee’s Corps. This movement be the only Union force with any hope of significant victory of troops left only Breckinridge’s men to face Rosecrans’s over its Confederate foes. planned onslaught on the east bank of the Stones River with General Thomas J. Crittenden’s Left Wing. After Gen. Braxton Bragg experi- enced a defeat at Perryville, Kentucky While the generals planned, their men lay down in the on October 8, 1862, he and his Con- mud and rocks trying to get some sleep. The bands of both federate Army of the Mississippi armies played tunes to raise the men’s spirits. It was during this retreated, reorganized, and was redesig- “battle of the bands” that one of the most poignant mo- nated as the Army of Tennessee. They ments of the war occurred. Sam Seay of the First Tennessee then advanced to Murfreesboro, Infantry described what happened that evening. Tennessee to go into winter quarters. General Bragg chose this area in order “Just before ‘tattoo’ the military bands on each side began their to position himself to stop any Union Gen. Braxton.Bragg evening music. The still winter night carried their strains to great advances towards Chattanooga as well as to protect the rich distance. At every pause on our side, far away could be heard the farms of Middle Tennessee that were feeding his men. military bands of the other. Finally one of them struck up ‘Home Sweet Home.’ As if by common consent, all other airs Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans’s Union Army of the ceased, and the bands of both armies as far as the ear could Cumberland followed Bragg from Kentucky to Nashville. reach, joined in the refrain. Who knows how many hearts were Union General-In-Chief Henry Halleck telegraphed Rosecrans bold next day by reason of that air?” telling him that, “… the Government demands action, and if you cannot respond to that demand some one else will be tried.” Rosecrans General Bragg’s battle plan was for the Confederate spent several weeks at his Nashville headquarters reorganizing troops to attack on Federal troops on two fronts. and fitting his army in preparation for offenses further into Tennessee.
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