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1BA Publication of the Delaware Valley Civil War Round Table Partners with Manor College and the Civil War Institute Our 22nd Year

September 2014

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Editor Patricia Caldwell

Contributors Hugh Boyle, Book Nook Editor Rose Boyle Matt Bruce Nancy Caldwell, Artistic Adviser Paula Gidjunis Bernice Kaplan Herb Kaufman Carol Lieberman Philadelphia – One Big Brewerytown Jack Lieberman Jane Peters Estes Larry Vogel Andy Waskie Presenter: Sheryl Weiner Lots of Members (see inside) Author, Historian & Brewmaster

Rich Wagner

3BUOfficers President Hugh Boyle Our September Meeting Vice President Jerry Carrier Tuesday, September 16, 2014 Treasurer 7:30 pm Herb Kaufman Secretary 6:15 pm for dinner (all welcome – make reservations!) Patricia Caldwell Radisson Hotel

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website: HUwww.dvcwrt.orgU Dinner Menu – Chicken Pot Pie. Served with salad, rolls, Umailing addresses: for membership: iced tea, diet soda and dessert. 2601 Bonnie Lane Substitute: Pasta (chef’s selection). Huntingdon Valley PA 19006

for newsletter items: Call Rose Boyle at 215-638-4244 for reservations 3201 Longshore Avenue by September 11. Dinner Price $24.00 Philadelphia PA 19149-2025 You are responsible for dinners not cancelled by Monday morning September 15.

In 1990 he interpreted 17th century brewing In This Issue techniques using reproductions of equipment at Pennsbury Manor and went on to create his own  Lots of our members – Matt Bruce, Jerry brewing equipment which he takes on the road for Carrier, Jack DeLong, Paula Gidjunis, Ed colonial brewing demonstrations. Part of his research Greenawald, Mary Ann Hartner, Walt Lafty, Carol has turned to Pennsylvania’s new craft breweries. & Jack Lieberman, Mike Pettine, Cindy Reihmann, After graduating with a Diploma in Brewing Pate Romeika, Nancy Rose, Brian Rosenthal, and Technology from the Siebel Institute in Chicago, Larry Vogel – answered the call to tell us about Rich worked in craft breweries in Philadelphia over a their summer activities. Thanks for the response! seven year period. A former high school science  Lots of events happening this fall! teacher, he now devotes his time to researching  Paula Gidjunis with the latest in Preservation Pennsylvania brewing history and speaking on the News, and a request for books for preservation subjects of his research. Rich is a regular contributor from Herb Kaufman to Mid-Atlantic Brewing News, the American  Larry Vogel shares his thoughts on our August Breweriana Journal, the Eastern Coast Breweriana presentation Association’s the KEG, as well as other publications.  Our Civil War Institute fall schedule He has authored a book entitled Philadelphia Beer – The Heady History of Brewing in the Cradle of  Hugh Boyle recommends what not to read, Liberty, published by History Press in 2012. along with a review of a new Gettysburg book

that does make the grade  A trip to Maine is recounted by Larry Vogel

 Sheryl Weiner with a Vignette inspired by a previous book discussion choice

 Part 2 of Matt Bruce’s Gettysburg Day 4 and

Beyond

 Bernice Kaplan with Philatelic News  Commemoration of the Sesquicentennial with events of September 1864

Why do you do the things we do?

So often people will ask me, why do the people of A Taste of Philadelphia the round table do all the things they do? Why do they give up so much of their time and energy to Our September those projects? Some even say, do they know the speaker, Rich Wagner, war is over? Or simply, what are they trying to has been researching accomplish? They could all be good questions from Pennsylvania brewing someone outside this Civil War community, but history since 1980. He that is it – they are from the outside. has visited over 655 brewery sites in the The Delaware Valley Civil War Round Table has a States and Canada mission statement and that is simply put (400 of them in “Education, Information, Preservation and Pennsylvania) and found something to photograph at about half of them for his inventory. He has Fellowship”. That is believed by people of this conducted tours of breweries “old and new” in round table and lived out by the people of this Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, the round table. Would anyone outside this Civil War Lehigh Valley and a South Central PA Tour, and has community understand the work and dedication of self-published guidebooks for each tour. our preservation committee? Would they understand the time, treasure and energy they 2

spend raising money to preserve the heritage and history of the Civil War? I think not. Could they understand the hours of work and study that our round table members spend preparing and giving classes on the Civil War? I think not. Would they Congratulations to our September book raffle even consider the work that goes into acquiring winners, Walt Lafty (dinner book and meeting those right people to give presentations to this raffle), Jerry Carrier and Roslyn Hendricks. round table? Of course not. What they don’t see Here’s hoping Walt went home and bought a and do not understand is that these round table lottery ticket! members are keeping alive a most important time in American history, preserving that history for Paula Gidjunis spoke on the 128th PA to the the children of those people who watch and wonder. Montgomery County CWRT on September 8. Paula Let them wonder, because you know why you do will also be speaking to the Historical Society of the things you do. Fort Washington on African Americans in the Civil War on September 16.

Hugh Boyle Jack and Carol Lieberman are traveling to Rota, President Spain and will be staying on the Naval Base where Jack was stationed many times. They also plan to visit Morocco and Gibraltar, and will be gone from September 3 to September 19.

Andy Waskie provided an extensive history of Civil War era places and monuments along the route of the 12th annual Union League CWRT Trolley Tour on August 27. Carol and Jack Lieberman participated in the tour.

SEPTEMBER BRAIN TEASERS Steve Wright will be speaking to the Old Baldy FROM THE CONFEDERATE SIDE CWRT on September 11. His topic will be “The Custer Myth”. 1 – Who amputated ‘Stonewall Jackson’s” arm? 2 – Robert E. Lee was a member of what Last month an email request went out to our commanding officer’s “little cabinet” during the Mexican War? members to let us know what’s going on in their 3 – What son of the Confederate ordnance chief lives, or a little of “how I spent my summer would later conquer yellow fever and make vacation”. The response was tremendous. Those possible the Panama Canal? who sent us their plans for later in the fall will find their responses in upcoming issues. Read on! (Answers in next month’s newsletter!)

Larry Vogel will be attending the Chambersburg ANSWERS TO THE AUGUST BRAIN TEASERS Civil War Seminar on the weekend of September 26-28, the subject being Winchester, Fishers Hill 1 – What Union ironclad housed the body of John & Cedar Creek. He also plans on registering for Wilkes Booth after his death at the Garrett Farm? – U.S.S. Montauk several of our Civil War Institute courses. 2 – What Union ironclad held the Lincoln conspirators at the Washington Navy Yard in Paula Gidjunis and John Shivo took a cruise to April of 1865? – U.S.S. Saugas Scandinavia/Russia, then went to Gettysburg for 3 – In the famous ironclad battle at Hampton the 151st, the /Petersburg for Roads, what was the name of the Union ironclad? the 150th, a visit to Pamplin Park, and to – U.S.S. Monitor Montpelier, the home of James and Dolley 3 Madison. “Throw in a couple of visits to the best with John Jastrzebski, Ed attended a 4½ day free admission amusement park in the country, conference at the Gettysburg College Civil War Knoebles, and our yearly volunteer stint at the Institute in late June. Philadelphia Folk Festival and summer was great but went by too fast.” Cindy and Max Reihmann visited Gettysburg four times this summer; mostly to take 3 hour Pete Romeika traveled to Sea Island, GA to visit battlefield walks with park ranger Troy Harman. his daughter and her family. He’s also been The tours focused on the 6th corps deployment at reading a lot, and his current volume is All the Little Round top on July 3rd, review of the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. topography of Cemetery Hill, and the cavalry battle at Hunterstown (aka: North Cavalry Field). Walt and Robin Lafty traveled to “A fourth visit to Gettysburg occurred because we and in mid-June, following his ancestor's visited Carlisle Barracks and we were close enough track and some of the places where he served to stop by Gettysburg for dinner (at Subway on during the Civil War. Some of the sites visited in East Cemetery Hill) and to share an ice cream North Carolina were Roanoke Island, Newbern, cone (black raspberry).” Plymouth, Goldsboro, Kinston, and they spent a couple of days on the Outer Banks. They also Brian Rosenthal went on a “fabulous” Alaskan spent time at Petersburg and Drewry's Bluff, VA. Cruise (first time) and to the Baseball Hall of Walt says, “I also did a lot of reading and some Fame Induction Weekend in Cooperstown, N.Y. family research. One myth that I did prove true is (which he attends every year). Brian has also been that the locals down there know nothing about reading Benjamin Thomas' bio of hockey. My condolences to Pat and Nancy (“great”) and Shaara's latest Civil War tome on Caldwell for that bad news.” the Battle of Vicksburg (“enjoyable”).

Mike Pettine reports that he’s been busy as a Jerry Carrier did some traveling this summer, volunteer on the historic tall ship Gazela Premiero, visiting his son in St. Louis, as well as the berthed at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia. “I've battlefields of Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge. “Pea been working and crewing on her for many years. Ridge is even more unspoiled than Antietam and We're planning on sailing to Baltimore on Sept 8th Shiloh! It was also the only battle where the for the Inner Harbor festivities regarding the North was outnumbered and still won. Even Franz War of 1812 which brought about the penning of Sigel had a good day!” In addition, Jerry visited the Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key, Carthage, MO, the site of a small battle “where who happened to be a prisoner on board a British Herr Sigel performed more in character – meaning man-of-war that was attacking Fort McHenry.” he was trounced. Carthage is also home to one of the most aptly named funeral homes I've ever Leslie and Nancy Rose seen – the Knell Mortuary! Finally, I caught New adopted a new baby apricot Madrid, where even John Pope had battlefield mini poodle, named Ruby, success.” Jerry reports that New Madrid doesn't who is keeping them very look the way it did during the war, because the busy. But she is so cute! Mississippi has changed course a couple of times And Nancy proudly sent us since then. He notes that “the folks in New a photo! Madrid are even more proud of the 1811

earthquake than they are of the town's Civil War Ed Greenwald has been heritage. It was the largest tremor in U.S. spending the summer reading several books, and history, even bigger than the more publicized has begun gathering material on financing the CW. temblors in San Francisco.” He also enrolled in Steve Wright’s course at

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Bernice Kaplan spent “three marvelous weeks” in Matt Bruce has been working on the revision of a England with friends, and claims it was the book which hopefully soon will be published, and highlight of the year. She reports that they spent has managed some additional time for reading. 7 days at a working sheep farm in North Yorkshire where they had the opportunity “to hone our skills with the delightful Ovis aries”.

Mary Ann and John Hartner toured four battlefields in August. We’re hoping Mary Ann will find some time to give us a trip report or two. OCTOBER 17

Jack and Dor DeLong are Founding Members of Author Ken Milano the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Philadelphia’s Riots Kentucky. This year the Museum celebrated its 20th Anniversary over Labor Day weekend. NOVEMBER 18 Jack, who bought his first Vette 34 years ago in Member Walt Lafty a bar on a Saturday afternoon on a handshake on a ‘The 9th NJ Infantry and the whim, writes, “But the event for us was about the people. Being part of a caravan of Vettes from all Bermuda Hundred across New England and Canada was a thrill. I was Campaign” a sub-caravan leader responsible for the 9 cars behind me as we made our way to Bowling Green, DECEMBER 9 stopping at Gettysburg, Stonewall Jackson Resort Annual Holiday Celebration in , Lexington, Kentucky and then finally staging with caravans from New Jersey and Austrian Village Restaurant Pennsylvania before the final run under police

escort to the Corvette Museum. I had cars in my group from Canada, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York and by the end of the seven days we were all like

family.” Jack shares Now through October 19, 2014 – Slavery at this picture, Jefferson’s Monticello – National captioned – “This was Constitution Center, Philadelphia – Thomas the day before we Jefferson assisted in creating a nation based on joined the New individual freedom – yet he was a slaveholder England caravan to throughout his life. This compelling exhibition follows the stories of six slave families who lived and worked the National at Monticello. For info 215-409-6600 or Corvette Museum. www.constitutioncenter.org . Day 1, Reynolds has been killed, Jack September 13-14, 2014 – Saturday & Sunday (Captain US Army) reports in to Gen Abner – Annual Civil War Reenactment at Ridley Doubleday 1st Corps requesting assignment!! It is a Creek State Park – The Mifflin Guard, 1st Battalion joke, but my fellow veterans enjoyed it.” Army of Northern Virginia and the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation will be hosting a Civil War Nancy and Pat Caldwell enjoyed a week-long event on September 13 and 14. The Plantation is located in Ridley Creek State Park. The event will family vacation to Mississauga, ON, Canada, which feature two battles on Saturday and one on Sunday. included visits to Toronto and Niagara Falls. The highlight of the trip was a visit to the Hockey Hall September 14, 2014 – Sunday – 3:00 pm – of Fame in Toronto. Memorial Service for Fran Ward at Laurel Hill 5 Cemetery – All those who knew and loved Fran October 11-13, 2014 – Saturday-Monday – Ward are invited to a memorial service to celebrate Annual Fall History Excursion of the Meade her life and her services to the history community. Society- 150th Anniversary 'Virginia Overland Please bring your memories, souvenirs, thoughts, Campaign' Excursion – Featuring visits to: prayers and stories of Fran and Jack Ward to share. Fredricksburg; Wilderness; Spotsylvania; Cold Refreshments served gratis by the General Meade Harbor and surrounding sites; dinner at historic inn; Society. hotel accommodations; museum visits; ‘Living

History’, etc. Details to follow. Contact - Jerry September 18-24, 2014 – Land of Lincoln, McCormick to reserve - [email protected] Springfield, , featuring 3-day Riverboat Cruise – Includes 6 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 2 October 15, 2014 – Wednesday – 6:30 pm – dinners, hotel accommodations, transportation via Abraham Lincoln: Founders’ Son – National Starr motorcoach (with expanded leg- room), and all Constitution Center – Program and Book attractions. Sightseeing will include: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, St. Louis Signing by Author Richard Brookhiser – Gateway Arch Visitors' Center, and live Admission: $7 members, $10 non-members music/storytelling during the cruise on a 21' (includes a book sale). Reservations paddlewheel riverboat. Cost per person: recommended. Call 215-409-6700 or order online. $1,449.95/dbl, $1,349.95/triple, $1,849.95/single. For For additional info additional information or reservations contact http://constitutioncenter.org/calendar/richard- http://www.starrtours.com/ or 800-782-7703. brookhiser-abraham-lincoln-founders-son

September 21, 2014 – Sunday – 10:00 am to October 17-19, 2014 – Friday to Sunday - 2:00 pm – Death & Dying in Victorian Times – Civil War Trails: Gettysburg Rediscovered Historic Montgomery Cemetery, 1 Hartranft with Jane Peters Estes – Includes 2 breakfasts, 2 Avenue, Norristown, PA – This program will dinners, hotel accommodation, transportation via Starr motorcoach (with numerous local pick-up highlight various rituals surrounding death in the late locations), and all attractions. Sightseeing will 19th century. Interpreters will be on hand to talk include: Seton Heritage Center (Daughters of funeral rituals & customs and to discuss embalming Charity), Seminary Ridge Museum, “Steam Into techniques of the Victorian era. Additionally, History" Train Excursion, National Civil War Museum demonstrators will be showing how coffins were (Harrisburg, PA), and Gettysburg National Park (film, made at the time and how stone cutters created of cyclorama, museum and guided battlefield the beautiful monuments in our historic cemeteries. tour). Cost per person: $499.95/dbl, $459.95/triple, Lastly, for our younger visitors there will be a $629.95/single. http://www.starrtours.com/ scavenger hunt of some of the symbolism embedded in our monuments. Periodically, tours will be offered highlighting the history of Montgomery Cemetery. October 19, 2014 – Sunday – 1:00 pm – Join us in the cemetery gatehouse for refreshments ‘Oktoberfest’ - Germans and German Beer at where guests can learn more about the cemetery or Laurel Hill Tour - From Deutschland to see exhibit panels. Open to the public. Admission Deadland: Historic Germans of Laurel Hill – $8/person 13+ yr. For info or reservations contact Will include visits to the final resting places of The Historical Society of Montgomery County – 610- prominent Germans, including military heroes, 272-0297. brewers, industrialists, politicians and nobility. Attendees will learn about German culture and October 5, 2014 – Sunday – 10:00 am to 3:00 history, concluding with a ‘bier’ tasting of German pm – Rededication of the 97th PVI Memorial style beers. Free parking is located in the lot across the street from the Gatehouse. The cost is in Marshall Park in West Chester –This large $20/person general admission. Reservations are obelisk in the park is one of the few Civil War suggested. Tickets can be purchased at the door, in Memorials in West Chester. The 97th will be setting advance by phone (215) 228-8200 or online. up camp in Marshall Park after 3 pm on Saturday and people can drop by and visit the soldiers in camp. The re-dedication event on Sunday will be attended October 22, 2014 – Wednesday – 7:30 pm – by State Senator Andy Dinnaman. This is in Pennsylvania Humanities Council Presents: celebration of Camp Everheart. And to the five Nursing in a Civil War Hospital – Radnor Medal of Honor Recipients of the 97th PVI who Memorial Library – 114 W. Wayne Ave, Wayne. participated in the battle of Ft. Fisher near Smadar Shtuhl depicts life in field hospitals as seen Wilmington, NC. Free and open to the public. through the eyes of Anna Morris Holstein, a nurse and a matron during the Civil War, and demonstrates 6

how gender and racial assumptions were BURNSIDE BRIDGE REPAIR COMPLETED compromised to answer the demands of a major conflict. Co-sponsored by Radnor Historical Society. The work on Burnside Bridge at Antietam National Info http://www.radnorlibrary.org/adult- Battlefield is complete. A section of the bridge came services/upcoming-programs-for-adults/ off over the harsh winter we just experienced. I

October 24, 2014 – Friday – Tenth Annual couldn’t find photos on the blog page, but for those Gravediggers Ball – Crystal Tea Room, on Facebook, you can see them here: https://www.facebook.com/antietamnps/posts/696 Wanamakers – To benefit the Friends of Laurel Hill 444767105111 Cemetery Historic Preservation Efforts. This black-tie or costumed event will include cocktails, dinner, dancing and musical entertainment by a dynamic 11- piece dance band. All proceeds go towards the OVERLAND & PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN continued restoration and preservation of historic ANNIVERSARIES CONTINUE Laurel Hill Cemetery. Cost: $175 donation per person, At Meade Society Table: $150 per person! As reported last month there were many events For info call 215.228.8200, or visit happening in the Petersburg Battlefield area theundergroundmuseum.org celebrating the 150th anniversary of the siege. There

is still an event left for this year: September 27and October 25, 2014 – Saturday – Del Val CWRT 28, the battle of Peeble’s Farm. In addition to the Day Trip to Annapolis – SAVE THE DATE!!! Civil War Trust free Petersburg and Overland Please see the notice on page 4 and the flyer on Campaign apps, their website contains a great deal page 17 for full details!!! on the and the overland November 1, 2014 – Saturday – 10:00 am – campaign. www.civilwar.org Semi-annual Monument Clean-up Day at Gettysburg – East Cemetery Hill, next to the Tour John and I visited last month and there are many th Center on Baltimore Street. More information In smaller events going on related to the 150 if you Paula’s Preservation Notes. can’t make the larger events. We drove the Overland Campaign and stopped at various wayside markers NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER EVENTS WILL along the way. Despite it not being a weekend, there APPEAR IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE, AS WILL were several tours and films available at the THE ITINERARY FOR THE ANNAPOLIS TRIP. Petersburg Visitors Center. We took an interesting tour of the digging of the mine and the subsequent explosion and chaos.

Check out this schedule for all the activities and download the Civil War Trust’s free app. http://www.nps.gov/pete/planyourvisit/upload/P

ETE-150th-Vis-Guiderevmay2014.pdf

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/petersburg- battle-app./id551554957?mt=8 By Paula Gidjunis, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co Preservation Committee Chair m.neotreks.battleapps.petersburg

PETERSBURG/MOBILE STAMPS FALL GETTYSBURG CLEANUP

Don’t forget the Post Office is selling Our Fall Gettysburg Adopt-a-Position cleanup is forever stamps honoring Petersburg and Mobile Bay. scheduled for Saturday November 1st. All are If they are anything like the Gettysburg and welcome to join us. We meet at 10:00 AM at the 27th Vicksburg stamps from 2013, you need to buy them PA monument on Baltimore Street, right over the this year during the 150th anniversary. More on these stonewall next to the tour center. Come enjoy the stamps and more from Bernice Kaplan on page 16. company of your CWRT members while knowing http://uspsstamps.com/stamps/civil-war-1864 you are helping keep the battlefield in tip top shape!

7 NOT CIVIL WAR – BUT JUST AS With your kind donations EVERYBODY IMPORTANT WINS!

John and I took a side tour from Petersburg to visit So, check your bookshelves, Montpelier, the home of James and Dolley Madison. look in the closet, and look We had been there about 10 years ago when the under the bed. Please bring home was in restoration and being taken back to how unwanted books and it appeared when Madison lived there in his later life. magazines to a round table The house literally was a shell when we were there meeting. We can also arrange previously. While the house has been refurbished for you to drop them off at my with a new visitor center, the work on the site has not home if that is more finished. Ongoing archeology work is being convenient. With your help we conducted to find the sites of the out buildings to hope to continue to have great include the slave quarters. future book sales and raise funds for our preservation efforts. CAMP WILLIAM PENN MUSEUM

All funds raised through your donations Camp William Penn was the largest training camp of are directly used for the preservation of Black soldiers during the Civil War. Individuals and groups are welcome to visit the Camp Museum in our Civil War battlefields and historic LaMott. It is free, but reservations are required. sites. Reservations can be made by calling 215 885-2258 or by email: mailto:[email protected]

Support Preservation by Donating Books and Magazines An Interview with Lincoln’s Boys By Herb Kaufman By Larry Vogel

This year has been a banner year in terms of our well known and valuable magazine The August meeting of the Delaware Valley Civil and book sales. War Round Table featured two special guests who happened to have been President Abraham Therefore, we need your donations of Lincoln’s private secretaries during his presidency. books and magazines! Please check around at home. Do you have any Civil War Round Table President Hugh Boyle introduced related, other history or biography them and then proceeded to interview them for magazines and books that are gathering the rapt audience. In his introduction Hugh said dust? Do you have any books or periodicals that you really have not used for a while? that these two men, and John George Please consider donating them to the round Nicolay, worked with Abraham Lincoln and served table. him every day. They saw the ups and the downs, the successes and the failures. They saw him laugh Your donations are a WIN-WIN-WIN for you, and they saw him cry. They were young men when other round table members and our they came to the White House and they saw a outstanding Preservation Committee. You nation in crisis and they were there for it all. get the opportunity to donate your no longer needed books and magazines to a In tonight’s appearance they came as older men worthy cause, other members get an portrayed by our own members Jerry Carrier and opportunity to purchase books at a fraction John Voris. of the original cost, and the money donated goes directly to our preservation efforts. 8

Prior to the interview Hugh gave us a brief recommended that Hay be hired to assist him at biography of each. the White House. Lincoln is reported to have said, "We can't take all Illinois with us down to John George Nicolay was born in Bavaria in 1832. Washington" but then said, "Well, let Hay come". He immigrated to the United States with his father and attended school in Cincinnati. He later moved to Illinois, where he edited the Pike County Free Press at Pittsfield, and became a political power in the state. Then he became assistant to the secretary of state of Illinois. While in this position, he met Abraham Lincoln and became his devoted adherent.

John Milton Hay was born on October 8, 1838 in Indiana to an anti-slavery family that moved to Illinois when he was young. John showed great potential so his family sent him to Brown John Hay and John Nicolay respond to questions posed University. After graduation in 1858, Hay read by moderator Hugh Boyle law in his uncle's office in Springfield, Illinois, adjacent to that of Lincoln. Hugh asked them both about their relationships with Mrs. Mary Lincoln. Both George and John let During the interview and for this summary, John out huge sighs which got a guffaw out of the Nicolay was referred to by his middle name crowd. They then went on to explain how difficult George, to prevent confusion. Mary was to get along with. For example one of the secretary’s duties was to arrange seating at Hugh then asked several questions focusing on the State dinners through normal protocols. They early years of their lives and association with often butted heads with Mary on the seating Lincoln. arrangements. Neither one claimed individual credit for their pet name of Hell Cat for Mary, We were told that George worked on Lincoln’s though they both jointly admitted calling her that, 1860 campaign and he had known Mr. Lincoln for among other non-flattering names. many years before that in each of their various positions in Illinois. During the campaign Lincoln Hugh questioned the men on the night life in appointed Nicolay as his private secretary and Washington and their involvement. George quickly eventually Nicolay took on Hay as an assistant, pointed out and continued to remind us that he initially to take care of the great volume of mail was happily engaged, however he still partook in that the future president received. the parties and dancing. John, who was much younger and single, lived the life of a single man. John gave us a brief bio of his life. He told us that Still in his early 20s, he spent time both in after attending Brown University he looked down barrooms and at cultured get-togethers in the his nose at the mid-western non-educated lawyer homes of Washington's elite. types such as Lincoln, but after getting to know the man, he changed his opinion. Hay became a They were not landlocked in Washington however. supporter of Lincoln around the time of the 1860 Lincoln sent them both away from the White Republican National Convention in Chicago. House on various missions.

After Lincoln was elected president that For example, in August 1861, Hay escorted Mary November, Nicolay, whom Lincoln had asked to Lincoln and her children to Long Branch, New continue as private secretary, is said to have Jersey, a resort on the Jersey Shore, both as 9 their caretaker and as a means of giving Hay a They told us that early in his presidency, they much-needed break. The following month, Lincoln requested and received permission from Lincoln to sent him to Missouri to deliver a letter to Union write his biography. In addition, Robert Lincoln in General John C. Frémont, who had irritated the 1874 formally agreed to let Hay and Nicolay use President with military blunders. his father's papers; by 1875, they were engaged in research. Hay and In April 1863, Lincoln sent Hay to the Union- Nicolay enjoyed occupied coast to report back on exclusive access to the ironclad vessels being used in an attempt to Lincoln's papers. recapture Charleston Harbor. They went on many They gathered other missions. documents written by others, as well Hugh asked them if they were present at the as many of the assassination. George told us that shortly before Civil War books his assassination, he was to go to a diplomatic post already being in France. But before actually going, he was given published. They at another assignment – to go to Fort Sumter. He rare times relied became aware of the assassination on his way back on memory. to Washington. John, on the other hand, was in Jerry Carrier and John Voris as Hay and Nicolay Washington. When he found out about the shooting he rushed to and remained at the Initially the biography appeared in The Century President’s side, until his death. Magazine serially from 1886 to 1890 and was then issued (1890–94) in book form as ten volumes, When Hugh asked the question, “Mr. Hay, did you together with the two-volume Complete Works of write the famous Bixby letter?” John said that Abraham Lincoln. both he and George divided their responsibilities: Nicolay tending to assist Lincoln in his office and To conclude the interview, Hugh summarized up in meetings, while Hay dealt with the the lives of our guests. correspondence, which was very large. Both men tried to shield Lincoln from office-seekers and John Hay died on July 1, 1905 of his heart ailment others who wanted to meet with the President. and complications. He was interred in Lake View They both wrote many letters for Lincoln's Cemetery in Cleveland, near the grave of Garfield, signature and even signed his name on occasion, in the presence of Roosevelt and many dignitaries, but “YES, I did write the Bixby Letter,” John including Robert Lincoln. finally admitted. For those who are not aware, the Bixby Letter is a letter to Lydia Bixby, a John Nicolay’s poor health had forced him to Bostonian who Lincoln was told had lost five sons resign as Marshal of the Supreme Court, and he in the Union cause. Unfortunately it now appears suffered from a wide range of ailments in his final that the case was a hoax, as she had lost two sons years. He lived with his daughter, Helen Nicolay, and was a Southern sympathizer who apparently at her home at 212 B Street SE in Washington, destroyed the original letter. The letter was D.C. He died at home of unspecified causes on reprinted widely in newspapers and has been September 26, 1901. He was buried at Oak Hill prized among the best of Lincoln's works by his Cemetery in the city. admirers. The two graciously answered questions from the Hugh asked, “The both of you wrote a most audience before going back from whence they complete biography of Abraham Lincoln. Can you came. tell us how that came about?”

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This presentation by Jerry Carrier and John Voris TIME: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm was excellent and my mere summary does not do it SESSIONS: 6 justice. There were many more questions asked FEE: $150 and answered, but space limits the size of this INSTRUCTOR: Herb Kaufman, M.Ed. **NEW COURSE –Petersburg, the Final Year of summary. You definitely had to be there to see the War – 6 hrs – The Petersburg Campaign the interaction between the two, and the audience extended nearly a year – from June 1864 to April reaction to their wit and quips. Although this was 1865. It has been called a siege, but it was really a a serious interview, I heard more laughter at this campaign of movement around Richmond, roundtable meeting then any I have attended. extending from Cold Harbor to Saylor’s Creek, They did not tell jokes, but their reaction to leading ultimately to Robert E. Lee’s surrender to questions and their answers were priceless. A U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House less than a return engagement or a Night at Manor College week after the Saylor’s Creek engagement. with “The Boys” may be in order. DATE: Mondays, Oct. 20, 27; Nov. 3 TIME: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm SESSIONS: 3 FEE: $79 INSTRUCTOR: Matt Bruce, Ph.D.

**NEW COURSE –The Election of 1864 – 6 hrs – The Civil War Institute Many believed a presidential election in the midst of a war was irresponsible and that a successful Our Fall semester at Manor College has begun and one would be a miracle. Abraham Lincoln did not plenty of courses are still available, including one think so, and he had the most to lose. Would core course, and three electives, TWO of which are Lincoln even get his party’s nomination, and if he BRAND NEW. did, would he have a chance of gaining a second term? The fate of America would hang on the Classes may be taken as part of the certificate answer. program or individually. Completion of your DATE: Thursdays, Nov. 6, 13, 20 choice of four of six Core courses, and any four TIME: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm elective courses is required to receive the SESSIONS: 3 certificate. Call (215) 884-2218 to register or for an FEE: $79 application for the certificate program. INSTRUCTOR: Hugh Boyle Registration can also be done online at www.manor.edu/cont-ed/civil-war/courses.php **Death of an Army: The Franklin-Nashville

Campaign – 6 hrs – When William T. Sherman Class hours are 6:30 till 8:30 pm. Manor College is marched from Atlanta to the sea in November located at 700 Fox Chase Road in Jenkintown, PA. 1864, his recent opponent, John Bell Hood,

marched in the opposite direction. Hood’s * Indicates Core Course ** Indicates Elective Course quixotic scheme to recapture Tennessee ended tragically for his army – which was gutted at *Life of the Common Soldier – 12 hrs – Who Franklin, where six Confederate generals died, and served in the armies of the Blue and the Gray? disintegrated at Nashville. What were their living conditions? What were DATE: Mondays, Nov. 17, 24, Dec. 1 their thoughts as they marched into battle? This TIME: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm class describes the soldier’s life, which has been SESSIONS: 3 described as “weeks of utter boredom, interrupted FEE: $79 by moments of sheer terror.” INSTRUCTOR: Jerry Carrier DATE: Wednesdays, Oct. 15, 22, 29; Nov. 5, 12, 19

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… that on separate occasions during Book 1864, Episcopal Bishop and Confederate Lt. General Leonidas Polk baptized Joseph E. Johnston and John B. Gordon, setting some sort of record,

UNook in as much as both of these gentlemen were full generals.

By Hugh Boyle, Book Editor

A Book NOT to Read The NY Times is running a feature entitled Disunion on its Opinion Pages. It’s a daily Recently in preparing for chronicle of the events of 150 years ago today.

a project of the 1850’s, I HUhttp://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/categor began to acquire books on that era. One y/disunion/U title caught my eye Three Blind Mice with the sub title The Three Presidents before Lincoln and the Decade of the 1850’s. It sounded perfect. I ordered it and when it came I eagerly jumped right in. What I So You Think You Know found were pages fill with obscenities and Gettysburg? Volume Two vulgarities. The author’s descriptions of people and events are rude and crude. His use of four letter By James & Suzanne Gindlesperger words is amazingly indecent. It is not a collection of historical events, it is just a collection of offensive Reviewed by Hugh Boyle language. The description the author uses to describe the Dred Scott decision is something you will not The husband and find on a street corner, but something you might hear wife team of in an Andrew Dice Clay monologue. James and Suzanne So often when we bring s book to you all we bring it Gindlesperger with a recommendation, and sometimes with some have shared a criticism. This unworthy endeavor should come with passion for a label much like the one on cigarettes, cautioning all writing, that your sensibilities and good taste will be photography challenged. Of course the first question is “who and the Civil would publish this horrible effort?” Well, that is easy War, and have – the author had to publish it himself. The status of converted all this piece of garbage now? It went right back to three of those passions into Barnes & Noble, but not without a phone call to them what is now a second book on Gettysburg. Over the stating my surprise that they would allow something past 20 years the two have visited the Gettysburg like that to be part of their marketing. So beware if battlefield nearly 100 times. This new book, like their you’re looking for something on that subject, just first, is not about the battle, but it is the story of the look somewhere else. The author’s name is Darryl monuments of Gettysburg. In their first book the Murphy, just so you won’t be fooled with another authors focused on just 200 monuments and told the outrageous effort. story behind each. Now the second book features 220 more monuments and their stories. It has 12 area Good Reading with a Different Book! maps and 225 photos with GPS coordinates for every site description. There are 11 chapters, each with an 12

in-depth look and description of a battlefield area, On the second day, our tour visited the small and the monuments and action that took place. It is a historic town of Bethel – a town similar in size perfect companion for your next visit to Gettysburg. to Gettysburg. As we were touring Bethel, we It is helpful for those going there for the first time or walked by the Bethel Historic Society, which that seasoned veteran who goes there regularly. You had a sign out front about a Civil War exhibit. will find the stores interesting and, in some cases, So naturally, my sister and I left the main group, and went in. The exhibit was small, two you will learn more than you knew before. The rooms, with various and sundry photos and detailed maps are a perfect guide system and the maps and displays, with the “required” large photographs are brilliant and excellent. So for your portrait of Joshua Chamberlain. next trip to the battlefield pick up a copy of So You Think You Know Gettysburg, Volume 2, and take it Up until this visit to Maine, the only along. It would also be a good idea to pick up volume contribution to the Civil War that I was aware 1. You won’t be disappointed. Both books are a good Maine had made was Joshua Chamberlain and gift for that friend of yours going to Gettysburg for the 20th Maine, who as everybody knows “saved” the first time. the Union on Little Round Top on July 2, 1863.

John F. Blair, Publisher, 2014; 234 pages, 270 Although I may not remember everything I saw color photographs, 13 maps; $19.95 paperback, in the small Civil War exhibit in Bethel, I also available on Amazon for as low as $15.80; e- managed to grab several brochures and lots of other reading material for the long bus ride book $9.99 home to familiarize myself with Maine’s contributions.

The State of Maine, like probably most other states, put out an official brochure, called “The

Maine Civil War Trail”, which details 23 different sites of Museums, Houses, and Historic Societies where exhibits are on display.

During the Civil War, the state of Maine was a source of military manpower, supplies, ships, Maine and the Civil War arms, and political support for the . Maine led the nation in shipbuilding and Article and Photo by Larry Vogel lumber. Maine was also the first state in the northeast to be aligned with the new Republican The last several vacations I have taken have had Party. a Civil War theme. So in order to broaden my horizons, in January I signed up for the Starr Abraham Lincoln chose Maine's Hannibal Tours, “Maine Moose and Mountains Tour”, Hamlin as his first Vice President. Hamlin of which took place the last week of June. I have , Maine, was a strong orator and opponent never been farther north than Cape Cod, so this of slavery, and he urged both the issuance of was an opportunity to do that. the Emancipation Proclamation and the arming of African Americans. As a fiftieth birthday present I invited my older sister to come with me, at my expense of course. Augusta newspaperman and U.S. Congressman Although we have been on many family James G. Blaine was a powerful voice on Capitol vacations together, this was the first time we Hill and dominated post-war politics during the would be traveling together with no other Reconstruction period. siblings, parents or kids travelling with us. So with no thought of the Civil War in mind a full Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle bus, with us included, headed north. Tom's Cabin was also from Maine.

When I signed up for the tour I saw the word In addition to Chamberlain, more than two moose and that was my full focus of the trip, dozen men from Maine served in the Union that I must see Bullwinkle.So I was not really army as generals, and dozens more Mainers led fully aware of what else was on the itinerary. brigades at one time or another as colonels. The highest-ranking officer from Maine was Major General Oliver O. Howard of Leeds, who 13 commanded the XI Corps in several major battles. [Editor’s Note – my favorite general, John C. Caldwell first commanded the 11th ME, followed by the 1st Division of II Corps, and then served as bodyguard for the Lincoln funeral.] Where in the World is … Maine contributed a larger number of Ellsworth? combatants (about 80,000 men) in proportion to its population, than any other Union state. It By Sheryl Weiner was second only to in the number of its sailors who served in the Union In the chapter on Elmer Ellsworth in the Navy. book, 1861- The Civil War Awakening, author Adam Goodheart referenced a plaque located Although there were no Civil War land battles at the site of Ellsworth’s fatal encounter with fought in Maine, there was the Battle of hotel proprietor James Jackson in Portland Harbor, when Southern raiders seized Alexandria, Virginia. The plaque, erected by a revenue cutter and tried to escape to the the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy, ocean. commemorates the actions of Jackson, idealized as a patriot slain by invaders as he We did manage to see several moose on a three heroically defended his property. Since my hour tour “Moose Watching Tour” at dusk on daughter lives in Arlington, Va., I decided that the third night. We got really lucky though as a I had to see this plaque! Persuading her to “rogue” moose hung out close to our hotel, so we got really good views of him at 9:00 AM on accompany me (not a hard task as there is two successive mornings, as we were leaving the lots of shopping in Alexandria), we took a ride hotel. This is very rare as they normally only into the city. Sure enough, on the outside come out at dusk or dawn. wall of the beautiful Hotel Monaco (formerly the site of Jackson’s hotel – The Marshall House), there was the plaque, dedicated to the memory of James W. Jackson, the first martyr for Southern independence. And where is Ellsworth in the plaque? Not to be found! When I read the plaque, I thought of the famous phrase by William Faulkner – “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” (Photo of the plaque below – Hotel Monaco, 480 King St. (the corner of King and S. Pitt Streets), Alexandria, Virginia.

Larry’s “chocolate moose”

We also visited mineral mines, took a lake boat ride, and visited several historic towns and a few Revolutionary War site in Massachusetts on the way home.

So I can say there is a lot to see in Maine. As one tour guide told us, Maine is trying to encourage various forms of tourism, rather than the usual L&LL tour (Lobster and L.L Bean.)

So now that I got a taste of Maine. I will be going back to checkout some of those sites.

If you want to go, first visit the website www.mainecivilwartrails.org.

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Goin’ Home: The Army of Northern and the pontoon bridge. Lee’s escape plan suddenly becomes an order of magnitude more difficult. Only Virginia Heads South Again (Part 2) the miniature cable ferry at Williamsport remains to By Matt Bruce Lee’s use.

th Lee’s infantry takes the most direct route south, So, on July 5 , where is Lee? With the infantry, he through Fairfield Gap and a parallel, higher, more headed west toward Fairfield Gap. Meade must have dangerous passage, Monterey Pass, over the summit of known, after all, that Lee would go . . . with his troops. the mountains and then down to Hagerstown and on Once Meade perceives with certainty that Lee has to the Potomac. This was the obvious route for Meade indeed moved out, he shows speed that he had not to have struck had he not felt it necessary to wait to demonstrated before. (Perhaps, having received a see what Lee was actually going to do before acting modicum of public praise, he felt more confidence.) himself. However, Kilpatrick, with two brigades of his But he has already missed an opportunity. Perhaps the cavalry division assails the Confederates at Monterey opportunity. Pass, in the dark and rain. Kilpatrick brags that he has

th taken 1350 prisoners and 38 wagons. Not exactly By the evening of the 4 , Lee has his troops moving. He accurate, but it doesn’t matter. He doesn’t bother to splits his cavalry, sending a cavalry escort under Col. close off Monterey Pass to any more Confederates. John Imboden, with the train of wounded, by way of And the next episode occurs at Hagerstown. Cashtown Gap and Greencastle, headed for

Williamsport and the Potomac. After passing through th Meade’s cavalry is also split – eight of nine brigades in Greencastle late on the 4 , Imboden’s train is hit hard three different directions. Meade’s cavalry chief, by a group of Union irregulars (100 “special duty” th Pleasonton, seemed not to grasp the reasoning for a troopers from the 6 Pennsylvania, led by Col. Ulric concentration of force, say at Monterey Pass, or at Dahlgren, accompanied by about half that number of Hagerstown. In any case, and in spite of most of the partisans led by a Greencastle unionist), with the loss actual fighting having been done by cavalry, of about 130 wagons and with a substantial number of Pendleton’s failure to place a sufficient mass of cavalry men taken prisoner. All this before the cavalry guarding in Lee’s way to the river contributes significantly to the the train struck back, leading to a nasty fight which overall failure of the Union army to prevent Lee’s resulted in recovery of most of the Confederate escape.) prisoners plus taking some Yankees prisoner. The next day, Imboden’s train is assaulted from their right flank At Williamsport, on July 6th, Imboden now finds himself by cavalry flushed out of the Shenandoah by Ewell, on facing Buford. Imboden dismounts his cavalry, arms their way north and spoiling for a fight. At everyone including the wagon drivers and prepares to Cunningham’s Crossroads in Maryland, this force took defend himself against Buford. Buford, too, 134 wagons and nearly 650 [a questionable number] experienced at dismounted combat, makes that prisoners, mostly from among the wounded. Imboden, unanimous, and the firefight now is an infantry fight. however, determined to get through to Virginia, Buford, with about 3,500 men to Imboden’s 2,500 pushes on to Williamsport where he finds that things should have had the advantage, except that Imboden have gone alarmingly wrong. has 20 artillery pieces. Kilpatrick arrives from

Monterey, but that is countered by Fitz Lee and When Lee calls up his remaining two cavalry brigades, Hampton for the Confederates. The fighting ends at under Robertson and “Grumble” Jones, from Virginia, dark, with the Confederates holding Williamsport and he inadvertently “shoots himself in the foot.” Jones, now Stuart’s cavalry is in place to screen Lee’s whose greatest talent as a commander appears to have movement. Another opportunity lost. been epitomized by his nickname, had been assigned to guard the pontoon bridge across the Potomac near Falling Waters. This bridge, with the Potomac in flood, [Editor’s Note: This article will be completed in the was a critical part of Lee’s escape plan. Jones manages October issue.] to nullify that by leaving a guard of just fourteen troopers when he moves north. Seeing this error, Union General French, at Harper’s Ferry, sent, on July 4th a cavalry detachment to Falling Waters to take care of business. They do. Both Jones’ miniscule guard detail 15 Philatelic News: Lincoln,the Castaigne. The Battle of Mobile Bay stamp is a reproduction of a painting by Julian Oliver Civil War, and the War of Davidson, published circa 1886 by Louis Prang and Company. Phil Jordan utilized a photograph of 1812: Fort McHenry Battery A, 2nd U.S. Colored Artillery (Light), By Bernice Kaplan Department of the Cumberland, 1864 for the background image on the souvenir sheet. The

souvenir sheet contains remarks on the war by On February 12, 2014, the U.S. Postal Service Jeremiah Tate, Harrie Webster, Howell Cobb and issued a new 21-cent stamp honoring Abraham Ulysses S. Grant, as well as an excerpt from the Lincoln. The stamp shows a cropped black and Negro spiritual “O Mary, Don’t You Weep.” As white photograph, by Carol N. Highsmith, of the with the previous Civil War stamps issued in 2012 Lincoln statue from the in and 2013, the Petersburg Campaign and the Battle Washington, D.C. Derry Noyes, art director and of Mobile Bay stamps are “Forever” stamps. stamp designer, opted to highlight the statue as a portrait of Lincoln, as On September 13, 2014, the U.S. Postal Service opposed to a Lincoln will be issuing FORT McHENRY: The War of 1812, Memorial stamp. The new, the third in the series commemorating the impressive Lincoln stamp bicentennial of the War of 1812. Stamp artist, is available in self- Greg Harlin, a specialist in historical painting, adhesive sheets to cover utilized mixed media to illustrate the battle from the new second ounce the vantage point of a group of soldiers manning an rates that went into artillery piece in defense of Fort McHenry. effect earlier this year. Illustrated prominently in the stamp is “the Celebrating Lincoln – but not “Forever” rockets’ red glare” that Francis Scott Key, a

native of Maryland, wrote about in “The Star Carrying on with its commemoration of the Civil Spangled Banner.” The War of 1812: Fort War Sesquicentennial, the US Postal Service, on McHenry stamp is being issued as a “Forever” July 30, issued a souvenir sheet of two stamp stamp in self-adhesive sheets of 20. nd designs for 2014. One stamp portrays the 22 United States Colored Troops participating in the June 15-18, 1864 attack on Petersburg, Virginia at the onset of the Petersburg Campaign. The other stamp depicts Admiral David G. Farragut’s fleet at the Battle of Mobile Bay (Alabama) which took place on August 5, 1864.

To purchase any of these stamps, call 1-800 STAMP24 (1-800-782-6724) or Visit the Postal Store @www.usps.com The Fort McHenry stamp Art director Phil will be available September 13. Jordan designed the stamps by using famous images from the two battles. The Petersburg Campaign stamp is a reproduction of an 1862 painting by J. Andre 16

On September 1, Confederates begin the evacuation of Atlanta, which is surrendered to Union forces by Mayor James Calhoun the next day, September 2.

On September 4, John Hunt Morgan is shot dead by federal troops in Greenville, TN, while fleeing the home of a woman who had betrayed him.

On September 5, voters in Louisiana who had taken an oath of loyalty to the United States ratify a state constitution abolishing slavery, while Tennessee Unionists meet in Nashville to restart the state government and plan participation in national elections that fall.

On September 7, W. T. Sherman orders the evacuation of civilians in Atlanta.

Meeting in Charles Town, WV on September 16, Grant and Sheridan discuss the problems in the Shenandoah Valley with Jubal Early's Corps.

On September 17, John C. Fremont withdraws from the race for President.

In the September 19 Third Battle of Winchester (Opequon Creek), Sheridan’s 40,000 troops defeat Early’s 14,000-man army, and General Robert E. Rodes is mortally wounded in the conflict.

The September 22 Battle of Fisher's Hill marks the start of Sheridan's destructive Shenandoah Valley campaign.

On September 23, to please Radical Republicans before the election, Lincoln successfully asks Postmaster General Montgomery Blair to resign.

On September 27, a small Confederate force under "Bloody" Bill Anderson attacks Centralia, Missouri. 24 Union soldiers are killed in the town and another 116 are killed in an ambush.

The Battle of Peebles' Farm, VA is fought from September 29 to October 2.

The Battle of Fort Harrison (Chaffin’s Farm), VA is fought on September 29-30.

On September 30, A.P. Hill attacks Warren’s and Parke’s Corps in the Battle of Poplar Springs Church, VA.

“Paris Fashions for September, 1864” Harpers Weekly, September 24, 1864

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