Deaths at the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion
Described as a “identification tag,” this card was issued to each of the 22,103 veterans from Pennsylvania who attended the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913. (Some other states issued similar ones to its attending veterans). The veteran was asked to carry it in his pocket “in case of sickness or accident.”
Examples of Enlisted Black Confederates
The question of whether there were black soldiers in the Confederate Army is one of the most heated subjects on Civil War blogs and social media sites. Some claim that that there were as many as 90,000 black soldiers in the Confederate army prior to 1865. This claim, supported by a few posed photos
Analysis of the Soldiers & Sailors Database
The National Park Service maintains the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) which is a database of the men who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. In the context of a larger project, I wondered how many soldiers served from each state so I did a geographic analysis of
Author Index to the Bachelder Papers
A recent post by Randy Drais in his excellent Battle of Gettysburg Buff e-newsletter (randydrais@gmail.com) mentioned that he found my transcription of the 1860 Federal Census of Gettysburg to be useful. This blog also had two posts (here and here) in which I analyzed that census with respect to age, sex, race, occupation, place of birth,
Gettysburg at Andersonville
Of the 5369 Union soldiers that were reported “missing or captured” at the Battle of Gettysburg[1], most of the captured were processed through Libby Prison in Richmond and then Belle Island on the James River. At least 303 of them eventually found themselves at the notorious Andersonville Prison in Georgia. The Andersonville records are incomplete,
