Case Shot & Canister

1BA Publication of the Delaware Valley Civil War Round Table Partners with Manor College and the Civil War Institute Our 23rd Year

July 2015

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Editor Patricia Caldwell

Contributors Hugh Boyle, Book Nook Editor Rose Boyle Matt Bruce Nancy Caldwell, Artistic Adviser Jerry Carrier Paula Gidjunis Ed Greenawald Carol Ingald John Jastrzebski Bernice Kaplan Herb Kaufman Our July Meeting Walt Lafty Jack Lieberman Our Annual Book Discussion Night Zack Margolies Jane Peters Estes “The Long Surrender” by Burke Davis Pete Romeika Facilitator: Jerry Carrier Larry Vogel John Voris Sheryl Weiner Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Original Photos 7:30 pm Patricia Caldwell (unless 6:15 pm for dinner (all welcome!) otherwise noted) Radisson Hotel

3BUOfficers Route 1 @ Old Lincoln Highway President Hugh Boyle Trevose, PA Vice President Jerry Carrier Treasurer Dinner Menu – Grilled Sage Chicken with Cabernet Demi-Glaze. Herb Kaufman Served with salad, rolls/butter, iced tea, soda, dessert. Secretary Substitute: Pasta (chef’s selection). Patricia Caldwell

Contact Rose Boyle at [email protected] or 215-638-4244 for e-mail:[email protected] U phone: (215)638-4244 dinner reservations by July 16. Dinner Price $24.00 website: HUwww.dvcwrt.orgU

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In This Issue

 Member News and Upcoming Events  Matt Bruce found something interesting “In the Media” to share  Paula Gidjunis with the latest in Preservation News  An event 150 years ago this month is recalled by Hugh Boyle  Our June meeting is wonderfully recapped by Let us talk about a good book Walt Lafty  The Fall schedule for the Civil War Institute July is always a special month here at the at Manor College Delaware Valley Civil War Round Table,  Zack Margolies brings us a baseball-related because this is the month that we set aside for (surprise!) “Civil War Vignette” our book discussion. This year’s book is right on  Hugh Boyle tackles CW reference books in with the 150th remembrance of the Civil War. It the Book Nook, while Matt Bruce reviews a very is Burke Davis’s The Long Surrender. A book timely recent classic that takes us through the fall of Richmond and

 Larry Vogel shares his experiences from the flight of Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet. It Gettysburg’s East Cavalry Field in “My Personal seems like a simple story, but it is not. There is Civil War” mystery, intrigue, and an exciting story of men  Once again Historicus II shares his thoughts on the run. We also can’t forget the story of the  A local soldier is the subject of Larry Vogel’s capture of Jefferson Davis, his imprisonment and “The Delaware Valley & the Civil War” how he finished his life, and what happened to  John Voris recounts a very special filming involving local living historians, along with photos his family. It was a good book and a good read. It will not matter to those who did not read the book, because all will find the discussion interesting. Vice-President Jerry Carrier will lead the book discussion that night. What makes Back to Basics these discussion nights so valuable is that it gives the entire round table membership the For our Annual Book chance to speak up and let us hear you thoughts Discussion Night, in light and ideas. So often we say that this is the way of the 150th anniversary of the official end of the war, that the round tables were formed, not with we’ve chosen The Long speakers and presentations, but with people just Surrender by Burke Davis. sitting around [a round table] and talking Civil Jerry Carrier will lead the War [you know, the kind of discussion that discussion, and of course, would bore your family]. So I look forward to the everyone is welcome to July meetings so we can have everybody voice their thoughts and opinions. So, read the book – involved. See you there at the meeting! or some portion of it! – or just come and listen. You might recall that in other years the book night evolved into quite a lively discussion!! For new Hugh Boyle members, everyone is welcome to voice their thoughts and opinions. We’d like to get a good President discussion going!!! And the book is still available very inexpensively on Amazon.

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Sheryl Weiner joined Jane Peters Estes’ "Land of Lincoln" tour from June 27 to July 3. Among the sites visited were the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, his house in Springfield and his tomb. Also on the agenda was a paddle boat ride on the Mississippi River.

JULY BRAIN TEASERS Pete Romeika will spend some vacation time with The Confederacy at the End of the War his daughter and her family in July and then take part in an art workshop at the Barnes Foundation. 1 – Who was the Secretary of State for the Confederacy in 1865? John Jastrzebski and Ed Greenawald attended 2 – Who was Vice-President of the Confederacy the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute in 1865? summer program in June. The program included 3 – Who was the Secretary of War for the talks, with special tours of Confederacy in 1865? Gettysburg battle field in the afternoon. They also (Answers in next month’s newsletter!) traveled to Richmond for a staff ride doing Lee's ANSWERS TO JUNE “WHO WAS” BRAIN TEASERS retreat to Appomattox, and another covering the 1 – Who was known as “The Stonewall of the West”? – General Patrick Cleburne Petersburg Campaign. The 2 – Who was called “The Snapping Turtle”? – guys gave it rave reviews General George G. Meade despite temperatures of 3 – Whom did Lincoln call “Father Neptune”? – 100+ degrees. John sends a Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles photo of Ed with the group at Fort Fisher. 4 – Who was called “The Hell Cat”? – Mary Todd Lincoln 5 – Who was called “The Pathfinder”? – General On a similar note, Ed Greenawald writes, “CW John C. Fremont buffs & sports – I wore my Blue Jacket tee-shirt on the bus ride from Gettysburg to Richmond for

our two days of touring. While carrying my gear

into the hotel I was accosted by two men in their

late twenties shouting "Blue Jackets – the only

national sports team with a CW emblem!" They

may have been from our five busloads, but it Congratulations to our June book raffle winners, shows the well-roundedness of CW Matt Bruce (dinner book), John Voris, Fred aficionados. Or your newsletter has a wider Rosso and Ann Kauffman. circulation than you realize.” [Note: See “Off the

Wall” in the February 2014 issue of CS&C for the Our June meeting featured two Meade-related reference.] trivia questions – (1) When at West Point together, what later Confederate general was Zack Margolies traveled to Yankee Stadium on Meade’s best friend and roommate? And (2) June 24 for a Phillies games and spent Father’s Which Confederate general (also governor of Day at the Camden Rivers Sharks courtesy of his Virginia) was Meade’s brother-in-law? Pat Corey family as a Father’s Day gift. But he says just so correctly answered John C. Pemberton to question we don’t think he has no tastes other than #1 and Walt Lafty knew that Henry Wise was the baseball, Zack also attended two programs at the answer to question #2. Mann, “Tchaikovsky with Fireworks with

the Philadelphia Orchestra” on June 23 and on June 25 the movie The Godfather was presented

3 with the iconic and haunting score performed live many other buildings in town, were draped in by The Philadelphia Orchestra. You had a busy black. Jane and Gary did not stay for the actual week there, Zack! re-enactment (some 10,000 people were expected to attend) but very much enjoyed Springfield and Jerry Carrier and John Voris joined forces with St. Louis, Missouri. Over the summer Jane will be other members of the Confederacy of Union conducting Starr tours in the Shenandoah Valley, Generals to film a re-enactment of the trial of the Cape Cod & Nantucket, Memphis & Nashville, QVC seven men and one woman who conspired with John & American Treasures, and Niagara Falls & Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Toronto, and a tour visiting Nova Scotia, New Lincoln. Jerry played key witness Louis Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Weichmann, and John portrayed one of the prosecutors. Former Del Val member Pat Bernice Kaplan spent two weeks in June with her Fairbairn co-wrote the script and also played a brother and sister-in-law in La Canada, member of the military commission and his wife, California. The highlight of the visit was spending Mary Ellen Fairbairn, played Mary Surratt, the time with her family. During her stay, Bernice had first woman to be executed by the federal the opportunity of seeing two superb Civil War government. The most noteworthy part of the exhibits, one at The Autry Museum in L.A. and the shoot, which was based on the transcript of the other at the Pasadena Museum of History. Also of trial, was the location. It was shot in the very great interest and enjoyment was a three hour, room where the original trial was held – the third private behind-the scenes tour of the fabulous floor of Grant Hall, on the grounds of the National L.A. Zoo and a visit to the magnificent Ronald Defense University at Fort Lesley McNair in Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Washington, D.C. For a full recap read John Valley. Watch for more information on these Voris’ article on page 16 and see a photo exhibits in an upcoming issue of CS&C. assortment on the back page of this newsletter. Herb Kaufman will be teaching "The Campaign and Jack and Carol Lieberman attended the Current Battle of Gettysburg" at the Camden County Strategy Forum in June at the Naval War College, College in the fall. The course will be five weeks, Newport, RI. Fifty years ago this month, Carol on Thursday, 4:00 - 6:30, from September 17 to attended Jack’s October 15, 2015. The course will be held at the Graduation Ball and Camden County College Rohrer Center, Rt. 70 and Graduation from Springdale Road, Cherry Hill. Navy Officer Candidate School in Herb Kaufman also reports that his photograph Newport and was published by The Philadelphia Inquirer as part Commissioning (see of “Your Shore Photos”. classic photo to right) and stayed at the Viking Hotel, on the National Register of Historic Hotels - built in 1924. Jack graduated from the War College in 1985 and they went back once again and stayed at the Viking Hotel.

Jane Peters Estes and her husband Gary went to

Springfield, IL for their vacation in late April, visiting all the Lincoln sites except his law office which is currently under renovation. Due to the funeral re-enactment, Lincoln's home, as well as 4

Montgomery County residents. Admission to the tour IN THE MEDIA is $10.00 and concludes with a wine & cheese By Matt Bruce reception. You must be at least 21 years old to attend. For more information call 610-272-0297 or visit: www.montgomerycemetery.org In the July 4 edition of The New York Times, Allen Guelzo offers on the op-ed page an analysis of September 19-25 – Saturday to Friday – Starr Lincoln's analysis of Thomas Jefferson, titled Tours – Land of Lincoln: Springfield, IL and "Founding Frenemies." This is interesting in light of St. Louis, MO – with Jane Peters Estes – the seemingly widespread belief that Lincoln "hated" Learn about Lincoln's Heritage and enjoy a Jefferson. This in spite of the words of his Mississippi riverboat cruise aboard the Spirit of (Lincoln's) Gettysburg Address which draw heavily Peoria featuring live entertainment, wonderful meals, on the Declaration of Independence. Read it. Then, wildlife, music, storytelling, and more. Tour Includes: Spirit of Peoria Riverboat Cruise, Abraham Lincoln to sort of put an exclamation point to it, on the Presidential Museum, Lincoln Home National Historic following page the Times offers the Declaration of Site, Lincoln’s Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Independence in both Jefferson's original hand and Lincoln's New Salem Historic Site, Anheuser-Busch in Times New Roman (a bit more readable). Read Brewery Tour, Missouri Civil War Museum. Some that too. It continues to amaze me, and whether you meals included. For prices and itinerary see agree with Dr. Guelzo or not, it will amaze you too. http://www.starrtours.com/tours/details/2378

October 10 to 12, 2015 – Friday to Monday - Annual Fall History Excursion of the Meade th Society – 150 Anniversary - ‘Lincoln Assassination

and the Pursuit of John Wilkes Booth’. Tours of Assassination sites in Washington, D.C, and

following the route of the Conspirators. Contact Jerry

McCormick for details [email protected]

Ongoing – The Philadelphia Museum of Art – October 24, 2015 – Saturday – 7:45 am The Civil War in American Art, Gallery 116, (promptly) to 9:30 pm (approx.) – Del Val Day First Floor – As the nation observes the 150th Trip to Historic Lancaster – Bus leaves anniversary of the American Civil War’s end, examine Whitman Square Shopping Center, Route 1, this concise selection of artworks made during and Roosevelt Blvd. – North of Grant Avenue, promptly at after the conflict. Explore how artists recorded events 7:45 AM and will return to Whitman Square of the war, celebrated its heroes, and lamented its approximately 9:30 pm. All fees, bus, tips, lunch and tragedies. In addition, learn how leading artists dinner included (except drinks). Cost $126 pp. served in the military or witnessed life on the front as Guided tour through historic Lancaster Amish area, illustrators. http://www.philamuseum.org/galleries/ including Wheatland, home of President Buchanan, Underground Railroad in Lancaster County, lunch at August 4, 2015 – Tuesday – 7:05 pm – a highly rated Mt. Joy pub, and dinner at one of the best restaurants in the Lancaster area. See page 17 General Meade Society at the Phillies – for full details and to reserve your seat on the bus. Citizens Bank Park vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers – This will be the first game back to Philly October 29 to November 1, 2015 – Thursday for former shortstop Jimmy Rollins. Game time is to Sunday – Starr Tours – Civil War Trails: 7:05 PM and we have 70 tickets available and they Lexington and Appomattox – History buffs and are $30 each. Our seats will be in the Lower Level tourists alike will love this fascinating trip as Jane Section 104, Right Field. For tickets or information, Peters Estes guides you through one of the most contact Tom Kearney, 215 646-6247 (H) or 267 446- fascinating episodes in American history. For 2935 (M); Email: [email protected] prices/itinerary www.starrtours.com/tours/details/2489

August 29, 2015 – Saturday – 7:00 pm – November 21-22, 2015 – Saturday-Sunday – “Death By Trains” – Moonlight Tour at Starr Tours – Gettysburg Remembrance Montgomery Cemetery – Conducted by the Days with Jane Peters Estes – Itinerary Historical Society of Montgomery County. This includes: Remembrance Day parade, the new tour highlights those that have died in train accidents Gettysburg Heritage Center, guided battlefield tour, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries including the Visitors' Center museum/cyclorama/film, and the Exeter train accident that killed and injured many

5 David Wills House. Cost of $279.95 (per person, double occupancy) includes transportation, hotel, dinner on Saturday night (with a visit from General By Paula Gidjunis, and Mrs. Grant) and breakfast on Sunday. There will Preservation Committee Chair be free time at lunch on both days to explore on your own! Jane would love to see some familiar faces on the bus! PRESERVATION FUNDS DISTRIBUTED

The Preservation Committee met in June and decided to distribute these funds:

Blakeley State Park for signage, $100.00. Blakely is in Alabama and the site of the last Union victory of the war. Occurring on April 9, 1865, it was overshadowed by the Army of Northern Virginia surrender. Blakely is a very pristine site, with AUGUST 18 increasing visitation but decreasing funds. www.blakeleypark.com/civilwar.asp Wes Stokes GAR Library & Museum, $400.00 towards their “The New York Draft Riots of 1863” capital campaign. www.garlibmus.org Champion Hill, Mississippi, where a Union win led to the fall of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863. With a SEPTEMBER 15 CWT matching campaign, at $3.55 to $1, our Dr. Andy Waskie donation of $300.00 will be worth over $1000.00. “The Role of the Germans in http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/champion hill/champion-hill-2015/ the Civil War” Historical Society of Montgomery County (HSMC), $100.00 toward a project to digitize 3 newspapers OCTOBER 20 (2 of which are Civil War era papers). HSMC has the only complete set of The Olive Branch and The Herb Kaufman National Defender. NOTE PROGRAM CHANGE http://www.hsmcpa.org/newspaper- “Frankly, My Dear – Civil War at preservation-project.html Woodlands Cemetery, located in West Philadelphia the Movies” - $100 towards Civil War headstones restoration http://woodlandsphila.org/2015/4/6/67zj360h NOVEMBER 17 7q730phbs9fuokdnuudgwi Monterey Pass Museum - $100 towards their many Our Annual Awards Night projects and events. Monterey Pass saw fighting Local Historian Steven J.Wright after the battle of Gettysburg as the Union cavalry pursued the Confederate retreat. Fought “The Indian Wars” in a blinding thunderstorm, it is the only battle to be fought on both sides of the Mason Dixon Line. DECEMBER 8 http://www.montereypassbattlefield.org/ Sailors Creek (aka Saylers Creek), $250 towards Annual Holiday Dinner preservation. On April 6, 1865, more than 7,700 Austrian Village Restaurant Confederates were killed, wounded or captured here. Lee surrendered 72 hours later at Appomattox Court House. http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state- parks/sailors-creek.shtml#general_information

The committee had also decided to donate $250 to the CWT’s Fleetwood Hill (Brandy Station) campaign, but it has since been completed. The committee is

6 currently determining whether to redistribute these MONTGOMERY CEMETERY TOUR funds or hold on to them for a future project. Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown will conduct a Moonlight Tour on August 29 titled Death By Trains. ELECTRIC MAP TO SHINE AGAIN??? Admission to the tour is $10.00 and concludes with a wine & cheese reception. You must be at least 21 For decades it was many folks’ introduction to the years old to attend. For more information visit: Battle of Gettysburg in the old Gettysburg Visitor’s www.montgomerycemetery.org or call 610-272-0297. Center. Today it is owned by Scott Roland who has spent nearly three years tinkering with the Gettysburg electric map that is sitting in his Carlisle Street conference center in Hanover. He along with volunteers have been rewiring and placing new light 150 Years Ago This Month bulbs in the map. Roland hopes to open the 30 by 30 foot map sometime this summer. By Hugh Boyle http://www.eveningsun.com/local/ci_28251333/ele ctric-map-pieces-fall-into-place-hanover On a hot July day in 1865 four people walked out from the jail at the arsenal building in Washington DC. The heat that day would reach 100 degrees. The WASHINGTON MONUMENT, MARYLAND Philadelphia Inquirer said the “Sun had intense rays.” The four were led by a woman. These four were The Washington Monument which sits in walking to the gallows and their deaths. They looked at Washington County, MD, near Turner’s Gap on the four freshly dug graves, their own. They ascended Appalachian Trail was hit by lightning in mid- June. those 13 steps and stood under the ropes. The blazing According to Your4state.com: “The old Washington heat was so intense that umbrellas were brought to Monument, constructed in 1827, is actually 58 years cover them. These for were Mary Surratt, Lewis older than it's more famous counterpart in Thornton Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt. Washington, D.C., and hikers of the Appalachian They along with four others were convicted in the Trail often climb to its roof to get a better view.” death of Abraham Lincoln. They found out their fate on July 6th, and now they were facing their execution on Unfortunately when it was hit, 3 hikers had taken July 7th. Their executioner Christian Rath was prepared shelter in the monument and were blown out of the to give the signal to end their lives. Their legs and arms doorway by the lightning bolt. “One woman were tied back with strips of white linen. Rath clapped suffered a laceration to her head after she fell on the his hands three times and four soldiers knocked out the steps, and was treated at an area hospital. The other upright braces below and the four souls fell to their two hikers were not injured.” Despite some damage deaths. They would hang there for 30 minutes before to the structure, it appears to be structurally sound. they were laid in those coffins and into the graves by http://www.your4state.com/story/d/story/lightning- strike-injures-hiker-damages-oldest- the gallows. Was it revenge, retribution or justice? The wash/36264/vM2TJLTo_0SqmxQ7OTlfXQ four remaining convicted prisoners, Samuel Mudd, Michael O’Loughlin, Samuel Arnold and Edmund Spangler did not know their fates as yet. Would it be MONUMENT HONORS CW MUSICIANS hanging or prison? They all would go to prison. All this happened just 150 years ago this month.

There is a new monument in Gettysburg which was dedicated over the July 4th weekend. A 15 year old Boy Scout, Andrew Adam, took on this task as his Eagle Scout project. A Civil War musician reenactor himself, he felt the need for a monument honoring CW musicians, some of whom gave their lives during the war. It is located at Unity Park at Lefever and Baltimore Streets. www.witf.org/news/2015/07/unity-park-in- gettysburg-unveiled-by-15-year-old-civil-war-re- enactor.php Surratt, Powell, Herold, Atzerodt

7 “A Country Worth Fighting For” – Nothing more is needed to be said about the magnitude of Antietam except that confusion, th A History of the 128 PA inexperience and casualties at the senior command Volunteer Infantry level led to heavy casualties overall.

By Walt Lafty Throughout her presentation Paula had interesting stories of individual soldiers. One was of a poem on Our May presentation opened with Vice President the gravestone of George Saxton, Co. “C” 128th Jerry Carrier introducing “The DELVAL Roundtable’s Regiment killed at the Battle of Antietam Sept 17, Swiss Army Knife, Paula Gidjunis”. Wow, how 1862: appropriate a title and wow, what a terrific job Paula Longing the War, he did not tarry, did educating the audience on the 128th PA Volunteer Brave and joyful his stay, Infantry. I use the word “educate” because I don’t Like the brave Col he was under think the word “historian” itself explains the many Our darling brother passed away ways Paula is involved in the Civil War Community. 19 years, 17 days Educator, historian, researcher, advocate, preservationist, leader, student, peace negotiator, She also talked about Isaac Bobst, who moved to and friend, are some of the descriptions that come Reading from the Kutztown area in . to my mind. So for those who don’t know just how Isaac was only 15 when he enlisted. Either he used active Paula is within the Civil War community, “Swiss some ploy to enlist or perhaps the recruiters did not Army Knife” was a very creative way to explain and check his age. Private Bobst survived the war, died in compliment her in three short words. Great 1924, and is buried at West in introduction, Mr. Carrier. Montgomery County.

After Antietam, the men of the 128th next found themselves at Chancellorsville. As Paula stated, “they inadvertently had something to do with Stonewall Jackson’s recon and being killed by friendly fire”. That happened as the 128th ended up at the wrong place at the wrong time and about 200 were captured. The capture of so many Union soldiers in unexpected proximity apparently contributed to the events leading up Stonewall Jackson’s recon and subsequent killing by accidental fire.

Included were many other stories regarding the command structure of the Army of the Potomac and Paula began her presentation with the question, “Why the 12th Corps as well as a few stories of individual the 128th Pennsylvania?”. She ended her talk with the commanders. It is difficult to summarize all of those answer. If you were not present at the meeting or in this short article, so I would suggest that the next for those who might not remember the answer, you time you hear that Paula will be discussing this topic, will have to read on – the answer is at the end of this go and hear her presentation. article. Paula closed by discussing a letter written by Private The 128th was organized as a nine month regiment by James Magill of Company “C”, 128th PA who wrote from the counties of Bucks, Berks, and Lehigh. While to his mother in February of 1863: some may have truly wanted to serve, it is possible “..It will be know (sic) satisfaction for me to live at that many volunteered for nine months to avoid a home while this wicked rebellion is going on, I tell three year draft. Either way, they did enlist and thee I am in for seeing it put down…although I find were one of 16 nine month PA regiments assigned to soldiering very hard at this time of the year but I the 12th Corps. Within a month of their enlistment have made up my mind that a country that is worth they were engaged in the battle of Antietam. living in in a time of peace is worth fighting for in

8 time of war so I am yet willing to put up with the **Opening the War in the West – 3 nights (6 hrs) hardships of a soldiers life” – The first strategic breakthroughs of the war came not in Virginia, but Tennessee, where an obscure Union brigadier became an overnight celebrity as “Unconditional Surrender” Grant, and where the conflict’s first bloodbath – Shiloh – demonstrated war’s human cost. DATE: Wednesdays, September 9-23 FEE: $79 INSTRUCTOR: Jerry Carrier, ROOM 21

**First Bull Run – 2 nights (4 hrs) – In July 1861, two naïve and inexperienced armies clashed beside a stream known as Bull Run at Manassas Junction, Virginia, a suburb of Washington. The

day would signal that “one single battle” would So, back to the question of “Why the 128th not be enough to settle the conflict. Pennsylvania Infantry”. Why? Because of men like DATE: Mondays, September 14 & 21 Private James Magill, Private Isaac Bobst, Private FEE: $55 George Saxton, and all of the officers and men of INSTRUCTOR: Patricia Caldwell, ROOM 36 th the 128 Pennsylvania Volunteers, as well as everyone **Confederate Commerce Raiders– 2 nights (4 who believed in “A Country Worth Fighting For”. hrs) – Outnumbered and outgunned armies may turn to guerrilla warfare to even the odds. The Confederacy, with no navy, turned to the seagoing

equivalent – commerce raiding – in an effort to

loosen the North’s strangling blockade. DATE: Wednesdays, October 7 & 14 The Civil War Institute FEE: $55 INSTRUCTOR: Matt Bruce ROOM 21 Our Fall 2015 Session will begin in September. Classes may be taken as part of the certificate *Lincoln: A Life – 6 nights (12 hrs) – The image of program or individually. Completion of your choice Honest Abe, the rustic railsplitter who saved the of any four of six core courses, and any four elective Union and freed four million from bondage, is courses is required to receive the certificate. Call much too simple. Beneath the homespun façade (215) 884-2218 to register or for an application for the was a brilliant mind, consuming ambition, political certificate program, or online at shrewdness, and a compassionate heart. www.manor.edu/cont-ed/civil-war/courses.php DATE: Thursdays, Oct 15 – Nov 19 Class hours are 6:30 till 8:30 pm. Manor College is FEE: $150 located at 700 Fox Chase Road in Jenkintown, PA. INSTRUCTOR: Hugh Boyle ROOM 38

The Civil War Institute's Fall semester format has **Civil War Medicine – 3 nights (6 hrs) – The been changed to allow a greater variety of choices for doctors and nurses who treated sick and wounded students whose schedules or finances make it soldiers faced a daunting task: Antibiotics and the difficult to attend three-week or six-week science of bacteriology didn’t exist; crude sanitation courses. The semester will include one six-week and polluted water were deadly. In the Civil War, course, two three-week courses, two two-week more soldiers died of disease than of battle wounds. courses and three one-night seminars. Military doctors had to become medical explorers. And why were there so many amputations? * Indicates Core Course DATE: Mondays, November 9-23 ** Indicates Elective Course FEE: $179 INSTRUCTOR: Herb Kaufman ROOM 36

9 Abe and Mary – 1 night (2 hrs) – The President memorialize this agonizing event Landis named and his First Lady had an often-troubled marriage, his fifth son Kenesaw Mountain Landis, while but it was a strong political alliance, as well. dropping an "n." (Sound familiar?) Postscript: Judge Landis' DATE: Thursday December 3 death in 1944 enabled FEE: $29 baseball executive Branch INSTRUCTOR: Hugh Boyle ROOM 19 Rickey's (pictured right) noble experiment to sign a Negro Researching the War – 1 night (2 hrs) – With the ballplayer possible. Kenesaw right techniques and resources, you too can be a Mountain Landis was a Civil War historian. You can gain more insight staunch segregationist. into specific battles – or learn the role your own ancestor played in the conflict. Editor’s Note – Zack first introduced us to Kenesaw DATE: Thursday December 10 Mountain Landis (pictured left) FEE: $29 in the March 2012 Case Shot & INSTRUCTOR: Herb Kaufman ROOM 19 Canister, with his Vignette entitled “A Connection with Philadelphia in the Civil War – 1 night (2 hrs) – General Sherman, Al Capone, More famed for its Revolutionary heritage, and Baseball? – Six Degrees of Philadelphia was a major Civil War city. It was a Civil War Separation”. huge hospital and arsenal, and many Philadelphians played prominent roles in the war. DATE: Thursday December 17 FEE: $29 INSTRUCTOR: Herb Kaufman ROOM 19 The

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Kenesaw Mountain Landis By Zack Margolies By Hugh Boyle, Book Editor

It's common knowledge that the Civil War Reference first commissioner of baseball was Judge Kenesaw Mountain Most of our Civil Landis. What I didn't know War libraries until I read Rickey & Robinson – consist of at least The True, Untold Story of the three categories, Integration of Baseball by Roger Histories, Kahn was that Landis' father Biographies and was a surgeon under General Reference. We all Sherman. somehow adjust Abraham Landis (pictured left), the quantities a German immigrant, was depending on what new or what is important to us. dressing wounds when a rebel cannonball To maintain that balance and to keep our walls from ricocheted off a tree and struck him on the busting out at the seams, we add some and take some leg. Another surgeon amputated his leg. To away. One of those categories is difficult, and that is 10 the reference section, because we say to ourselves “I (4) Does anyone deserve blame for the failure to bring will need those books someday”. We just can’t part the Army of Northern Virginia to bay? with some of them. Technology has helped some of (5) Finally, was the Army of the Potomac in any us. The best example is those who collected the entire condition to launch the sort of attack that would have collection of the “OR’s”, the Official Records. All been required to defeat Lee’s army in Maryland? 130 volumes. Those are now, and have been for some time, on disc and they can be had on line as well. The pursuit of answers to these questions is the task of That is a Godsend to our libraries. Reference books the preceding seventeen chapters, beginning are valuable to us; we keep them as long as we have a appropriately with the wagon train of wounded – the Civil War Library. The more that come on line the first contingent to get underway out of Gettysburg, on the night of July 3rd, taking the longer route by way of less we have to keep. So congratulations to all of you Cashtown and Greencastle, to Williamsport on the who have managed your personal Civil War Library. Potomac to avoid the trial of Monterey Pass, under Always remember that there are always more books assault all the way, with no less than three significant to come. engagements. The most notable of these at Greencastle. The train was commanded by Brig. Gen. John Imboden Good Reading and Collecting! (he who had played a role in the Harper’s Ferry episode in 1859 and again under T. J. Jackson at Harper’s Ferry in the spring of 1861). Imboden’s trip, shepherding the wounded to the river and crossing first of Lee’s battered army, is a story in itself.

The book deals on a day-by-day basis with the retreat, … that the only Confederate vessel to introducing the major participants, from general officers circumnavigate the globe was the to privates on both sides, and is laced with their remarks C.S.S. Shenandoah. and writings. Two such struck me in particular as summing up the controversy. One, by Meade’s old

friend from West Point days and fellow Philadelphian, Gen. (or rather former general) Herman Haupt, the field commander for the U.S, Military Railroads, writing One Continuous Fight – The after the war and actually after Meade’s death. Haupt Retreat from Gettysburg and the took a position critical of Meade to the effect that there was no viable reason for Meade not to have attacked Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Lee. A second, by a newspaper correspondent, described by the authors as “especially astute,” stated Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 th By Eric J. Wittenberg, J. David Petruzzi, and his opinion on July 7 , thus:

Michael F. Nugent “Can the enemy retreat safely? I fear this question must be answered mainly in the affirmative. Sanguine people Reviewed by Matt Bruce may dream of ‘bagging’ or ‘annihilating’ a great army, and sensations correspondents ornament hyperbolical In their final chapter of One paragraphs with such predictions. But the doing of the Continuous Fight, entitled thing is next to impossible….” William Swinton. appropriately “Conclusion”, Wittenberg, Petruzzi and The authors add that if it was so obvious to a Nugent pursue in detail the newspaperman, there should be no surprise that many long-running controversy over others felt similarly. Meade’s conduct of the Union response to Lee’s retreat from The Authors’ opinions are less singular. For example in Gettysburg, beginning with their conclusion regarding the “blame” question, they five questions upon which the point at Pleasonton, Meade’s cavalry commander, as chapter is organized. These are: being deserving of much blame. They note in particular (1) Could Meade have done more? his ill-advised order sending his cavalry hither and yon (2) Should he have attacked Robert E. Lee’s defensive instead of concentrating as a potent force to interdict positions at Williamsport? Lee’s route of retreat. They make a point also of (3) Could Lee’s army have been bagged as it fought for Pleasonton’s failure to block the Jack’s Mountain its life against the swollen waters of the Potomac River? passes, which would have forced Lee to fight his way

11 through or perhaps to take a longer route, gaining time Do you enjoy the Book Nook feature of for Meade. But they are also clear in their criticisms of Meade, e.g., his affording Lee the opportunity of an Case Shot & Canister? unimpeded head start as well as the shorter route. They We need your support with book reviews! match this with the observation regarding another Please consider sending us a review comparative advantage held by Lee, but one not given him by Meade: that Meade had been army commander (regardless of length) for less than a week, and further his longest serving of the book you’re reading (or have just corps commander (Slocum) had been in the position finished). You don’t need to be a only about nine months, whereas Lee had commanded professional writer – the Army of Northern Virginia for much longer. amateurs welcomed and encouraged! They also point out that Herman Haupt while criticizing Thank you!!! Meade for not attacking Lee, offered a suggestion that Meade could have reached the Potomac in two days and taken a position below Lee’s on the river, put some artillery and infantry across the river, cutting off Lee’s reinforcements and supplies and the building of pontoon bridges and forcing him to fight. Despite this, however, suggesting is not doing. This one seems unlikely.

This book is exceptionally well documented. The appendices are purposeful and thus useful to the reader. It is a good read. It is moderately long, 348 pages plus “East Cavalry Field – substantial appendices, including driving tour guides for Cavalry Clash that Saved the retreat as a whole and for the train of wounded, in particular. Its use of many personal comments and the Union?” writings not only add information offered by Article and photos by Larry Vogel participants but also give the narrative a sense of personal reality. Finally, there are maps, many maps, For the fourth year in a row, on a late March good maps, which assist the reader in forming a picture Saturday in 2014, I traveled to Gettysburg to of the events. attend the first of five scheduled “Adams Seminars” given by the Friends of Gettysburg at An interesting and unusual feature of the book is the the Gettysburg Visitors Center. I have written transcript of an interview with the authors, in which about previous Adams Seminars in the April 2012 issue and the 2013 Special Gettysburg Edition of they respond to a series of questions which serve to add the “Case Shot and Canister”. perspective to the book. (The interviewer is not identified however.) The 2014 initial seminar was hosted by Licensed Battlefield Guide (LBG) and author Jim Hessler. This book is surely among the better available on a Jim’s name should be familiar with DVCWRT subject that needs better understanding. I recommend it. members as he was our tour guide for the October And these authors have written several other books 2010 field trip following the footsteps of General together and individually, which also deserve attention. Daniel Sickles. Jim also spoke at a recent Manor College summer Civil War event on the same Savas Beatie, LLC, 2008, 2011; 544 pages; retail subject, General Sickles.

$34.95 (cloth), $22.95 (paper); available on As a matter of fact, Jim has made a career on Amazon for $8.40, also available as an e-book writing and talking about two of the most colorful and controversial figures in United States, to say nothing of the Civil War. The first of course being the aforementioned Daniel Sickles and the other is George Armstrong Custer.

As a matter of fact the first Adam’s seminar I attended back in spring of 2011 was titled George Armstrong Custer: From Gettysburg to Little Big Horn also hosted by Jim Hessler.

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Well, this seminar was not exclusively about Potomac. They also would be behind the Union Custer, but since he was a hero of Jim’s as a little line at that point. kid, he tended towards featuring him in the talk portion of the program as well as the field portion. Stuart’s forces for this operation consisted of the brigades commanded by Generals Wade Hampton Jim explained that he had agreed to do this and Fitzhugh Lee, and Colonels John Chambliss seminar over a year previously, and as a title for and Albert G. Jenkins The numbers are the seminar he gave the Gettysburg Foundation: somewhat debatable, but these four brigades “East Cavalry Field: Cavalry Clash that Saved the should have amounted to approximately 5,000 Union?”….with a question mark. Although, Jim troopers. It is likely that only 3,430 men and 13 explained, he did not necessarily believe this guns saw action that day. It goes without saying cavalry action saved the Union, he supplied us that they were tired from being in the saddle for with many quotes from participants who obviously almost ten days prior. did, or at least in their minds, it did. There was not a clear path for Stuart however, as Interestingly, Jim said a few months later he stationed near the intersection of the Hanover forgot about the title, and he came across an Road and the Low Dutch Road was the division of advertisement in a Civil War publication for a General David Gregg. Gregg had two brigades seminar titled, “East Cavalry Field: Cavalry Clash present at Gettysburg, under Colonel John B. that Saved the Union.”….with no question mark. McIntosh and Colonel J. Irvin Gregg (David He said to himself, I wonder who the idiot is doing Gregg's cousin), but the latter was stationed on that seminar…..as he continued reading he the Baltimore Pike. David Gregg's one-brigade realized it was his seminar, that was being command was supplemented by the newly formed advertised, without the question mark. "Michigan Brigade" of General George Armstrong Custer. Custer was assigned to another division So in the morning lecture part of the program, Jim but happened to be on loan to David Gregg and explained that the cavalry forces played a requested permission from Gregg to join his fight. significant role at Gettysburg although for many who study the battle or the casual observer, all Altogether, 3,250 Union troopers opposed Stuart. mention of cavalry usually ends after the first day At about 11:00 AM on July 3rd, Stuart reached (July 1, 1863), when the Union cavalry division of Cress Ridge, just north of what is now called East General John Buford successfully delayed the Cavalry Field, and signaled Lee that he was in Confederate infantry forces until the Union position by ordering the firing of four guns, one in infantry could arrive on the battlefield. By the end each direction of the compass. This was a foolish of the day, Buford's troopers had retired from the error because he also alerted Gregg to his field and for most that was the extent of the use of presence. The brigades of McIntosh and Custer cavalry for the battle. were positioned to block Stuart. As the Confederates approached, Gregg engaged them But alas, on the third day of the Battle of with an artillery duel, and the superior skills of the Gettysburg (July 3, 1863) two significant cavalry Union horse artillerymen got the better of Stuart's battles also occurred. One approximately three guns. miles to the east, in the area known today as East Cavalry Field, the other southwest of Big Round Top (sometimes called South Cavalry Field).

Most followers of the Civil War know that most of Major General Jeb Stuart's cavalry division was absent from the Gettysburg battlefield until late on the second day. Stuart arrived from Carlisle at General Lee's headquarters shortly after noon on July 2, and his brigades arrived that evening. Lee's orders for Stuart were to prepare for operations on July 3 in support of the Confederate infantry assault against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge. Stuart was to protect the Confederate left flank and attempt to move around the Union right flank and into the enemy's rear. If Post-Civil War Stone House on the Rummel Farm Stuart's forces could proceed south from the York Pike along the Low Dutch Road, they would soon Stuart's plan had been to pin down McIntosh's reach the Baltimore Pike, which was the main and Custer's skirmishers around the Rummel avenue of communications for the Army of the farm and swing over Cress Ridge, around the left flank of the defenders, but the Federal skirmish

13 line pushed back tenaciously; the troopers from the 5th Michigan Cavalry were armed with Spencer repeating rifles, multiplying their firepower. Stuart decided on a direct cavalry charge to break their resistance. He ordered an assault by the 1st Virginia Cavalry. The battle started in earnest at approximately 1:00 PM, at the same time that Col. Edward Porter Alexander's Confederate artillery barrage opened up on Cemetery Ridge. Fitz Lee's troopers came pouring through the farm of John Rummel, scattering the Union skirmish line.

Gregg ordered Custer to counterattack with the 7th Michigan. Custer personally led the regiment, Rummel Farm Artifacts shouting "Come on, you Wolverines!" Waves of horsemen collided in furious fighting along the We then moved on to the other sites, ending at the fence line on Rummel's farm. Seven hundred men handsome monument to the Third Pennsylvania fought at point-blank range across the fence with Cavalry. carbines, pistols, and sabers. Custer's horse was shot out from under him, and he commandeered a bugler's horse. Eventually Custer's pursuit was broken, and the 7th Michigan fell back in a disorderly retreat.

Stuart tried again for a breakthrough, but once again the cry "Come on, you Wolverines!" was heard as Custer and Colonel Charles H. Town led the 1st Michigan Cavalry into the fray. As the two columns approached each other the pace of each increased, when suddenly a crash which was so sudden and violent that many of the horses were turned end over end and crushed their riders beneath them. Third Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument The losses from the 40 intense minutes of fighting on East Cavalry Field were relatively minor: 254 As I’m a frequent participant in the Adams Union casualties, 219 of them from Custer's Seminar Program, watch this newsletter for future brigade; 181 Confederate. Although tactically articles on the program. inconclusive, the battle was a strategic loss for Stuart and Robert E. Lee, whose plan to drive into the Union rear was foiled.

So did this cavalry action, save the Union? You can decide that for yourself.

In the afternoon, we visited the sites discussed in the morning lecture. The highlight of the field “What About Those portion of the seminar was visiting the privately owned property on which the Rummel farm was Confederate Symbols?” situated. 120 acres of the property are currently owned by the Hoffman family. Three generations of By Historicus II the Hoffman family greeted us, including the matriarch Alice, who told us she would be celebrating her 80th birthday soon. A previous It seems that the battles of the Civil War have not seminar group got to meet her husband Dan, but ended. Now we are in a new stage of he was not available for our group. This family disagreement and change. We are now asking really takes pride in their property and the role it what about those Confederate symbols all played in the Civil War. Alice’s grandson showed us some of the things collected on the farm over through the South, such as statues, parks, roads the years (see picture top of next column.) and don’t forget those 10 Army camps. By now the Confederate battle flag is history in front of 14 government buildings. But will it end there? Most Charles is “presumably” the northernmost Union of us never thought that we would be seeing a fatality of the Gettysburg Campaign. Civil War story on page one in 2015. I am sure that each of us has something to say about this issue. Well, you will get your chance. That topic will be covered in a discussion night in the future. Look for it.

Entrance to Monument Cemetery

Charles Colladay – A Dubious Private Colladay was buried in the now defunct Distinction and Even More Dubious Monument Cemetery, which was located at Broad and Berks Streets. A garden cemetery, it was Final Disposition established in 1839 shortly after Laurel Hill, and by Larry Vogel, with additional material the last burial occurred in 1929. By the 1950s the provided by Pat Caldwell, Editor land had become more valuable as looked to expand. In 1956 Temple Charles Colladay was one of many Philadelphia purchased the land natives who gave his life for a parking lot, and during the Gettysburg the bodies were all Campaign in 1863. What allegedly removed and make his death different relocated to Lawnview is that he was not in Cemetery in Gettysburg at the time, Rockledge. Sadly, the but in Carlisle with the tombstones and 32nd Pennsylvania Militia, monuments were also called the Gray removed and either Reserves, who were called destroyed or dumped up to help protect into the Delaware Harrisburg. [Photo: USAHEC] River, where they later became some of Colladay was a 27 year old bookkeeper and the support for the Betsy Ross Bridge. In recent unmarried when he answered the call to defend his years, some of the tombstones became visible and native state. He enlisted first in the 7th Regiment, a firestorm of criticism for the destruction and Pennsylvania Militia of 1862, and then again in disposition ensued. 1863. His parents were William and Elizabeth Colladay. So, what became of the remains of Charles Colladay and his tombstone? Is he – along with Charles was hit by shell, lost his leg, and was family members and other Civil War veterans – in ultimately recuperating until, like many others, he that mass grave in Lawnview, or is he still at Broad took a turn for the worse and died almost a month & Berks under a tennis court or a parking lot? We later on July 27. His official death record reports will probably never know. the cause of death as “amputation of the leg”.

15 For more information on the demise of Monument The script writing was begun in January and underwent Cemetery see minor modifications up until the very last week, and its http://thecemeterytraveler.blogspot.com/2011/0 preparation was a labor of love by two C.O.U.G. 4/watery-remains-of-monument-cemetery.html members who reduced 5 weeks of testimony down to a manageable 2 hours. The casting was equally the source of the photo above. impressive. Lewis Powell (aka Lewis Payne) was a striking young man in his 20’s, and stagehand Edward Spangler intoned the spirit of one swept up in the events around him without knowing how to react to them. Likewise, Seward’s son, who also suffered an Local Boys Participate in the Trial of attack, appears as a well-spoken individual, as he had the Lincoln Conspirators been Acting Secretary of State in the Lincoln Cabinet while his father recovered from a carriage accident. by John Voris And Boston Corbett is seen as a gruff sergeant who shot Booth through a crack in the barn’s siding. These At the close of the last DelVal meeting, Jerry Carrier people make you believe you are seeing the people in mentioned that he and I were part of The Trial of the the courtroom at that time and place in history. Lincoln Conspirators, a reenactment being done in the actual room where the trial took place. Here are my My own selection as a prosecutor was probably not impressions from it on Saturday June 20, 2015. due to my professional bearing, but probably because I own the proper civilian frock coat of the period and I The trial of the conspirators began on May 9, 1865 at talk really loud. We prosecutors and defenders who what is now the Grant Building used for offices of the were not good at memorizing lines were able to get National Defense University (N.D.U.) within Ft. McNair through the dialog by holding a sheaf of papers as we in Washington DC. The fort, built in 1791, was also the spoke. But those who were cast as witnesses, like Jerry site of the hanging. The N.D.U. is for Army officers who Carrier as Louis Weichmann, had to speak without are captains, colonels and generals to study graduate notes from the wooden witness stand recently level courses in policy and strategy. constructed in the room.

Those involved in the production met on Friday Our General Grant is a long-time professional living- evening in Gettysburg, for a dress rehearsal in full garb historian and C.O.U.G. member who came all the way to review the seating and blocking (movements on the from Illinois for the weekend for all of 6 lines of dialog. stage) as well as rehearsing lines. Saturday morning Mary E Surratt was played by Mary Ellen Fairbairn, wife was a bus trip to Washington for the filming, which was of a leader in the C.O.U.G. who spoke not at all, as was scheduled just for Saturday, so the pressure was on to the custom of that court. But her sorrowful eyes and give it our all for the one day of shooting. Last minute woeful expression shows her dealing with the certainty cancellations caused some roles to be dropped, and of the coming verdict. the director stood in for another role, so there was little room for error in the production – and little free All of us there were so involved that Saturday in the space on the bus. presence of the place, and so concentrating on doing our best, that none of us had time to reflect on how Participating in our production were 59 people, most of our work might relate to the ghastly details of this them members of the living history group the month’s top news story – that of an armed assassin in Confederation of Union Generals (C.O.U.G) Charleston, and how the currents that drove the Civil (www.UnionGenerals.org ) and other volunteers from War and the Lincoln assassination have not yet been Gettysburg to round out the cast. The filming was put aside by some. done by staff at the N.D.U. in the recently renovated trial room, which now has period lighting and the [Editor’s note – Many of our members may recall Pat trappings of a court, and each person involved truly did and Mary Ellen Fairbairn who were long-time members his or her best to recreate the feeling of the trial. The of Del Val before relocating to the Gettysburg vicinity.- staging in the film is historically true, right down to the See the back page for photos of the event.] seating of people around the tables according to photos and sketches. The entire filming was done in about seven hours.

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JOIN US FOR A TRIP TO LANCASTER, PA. OCTOBER 24, 2015 THE ALL INCLUSIVE PRICE IS $126.00

Dear Members and Friends of the Delaware Valley CWRT: We are pleased to invite you on our trip to the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area. This is going to be a really fun day!

We will be leaving at 7:45 AM from the Whitman Square Shopping Center on U.S. 1, Roosevelt Blvd., north of Grant Avenue. Please park at the north end of the center, in scattered spots, NOT IN A STRAIGHT LINE.

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