Pieces of the Civil War Flag and delayed commissions
Tales recount devotion to the flag by the Sixteenth Connecticut volunteers at a brutal siege and their later recovery of flag fragments in prison camps. Personal reunions reveal lifelong bonds as comrades Sol Lanham and James Sanderson meet forty-two years after the war. Captain C A Sherman finally receives a 1866 commission misdirected to another, altering his military fate.
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Sixteenth Regiment of
Connecticut Volunteers
Connecticut
Hartford
New York Herald
Bunky
Jim
Sol
Topeka
Sel
Jin
Colorado
Sol Lanham
James Sanderson
Eldorado Republican
C. A. Sherman
Boone
Sherman
Andrew Johnson
Edwin M. Stanton
Seaman
Charles A. Sherman
Captain Kelly
Company A
Philadelphia Press
Confederate Captain Recalls Civil War Family Split
Alfred Isaacs, 73, a former Confederate captain hospitalized in Indianapolis, recounts his war memories. He fought with Morgan in Kentucky where he captured his wounded Union brother Jack Isaacs, later captured and wounded himself. He also seized his other Union brother Preston, who was tortured, while his mother was killed at their Kentucky home in 1862. Isaacs later settled in Irvington, Indiana. Columbus Dispatch.
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Indianapolis City Hospital
Alfred Isaacs
Mr. Isaacs
Confederacy
Captain Isaacs
Foxtown
Jack Isaacs
Ind
Morgan
Kentucky
Preston Isaacs
Williamstown
Isaacs
Kansas War Story Recalled On The Train
Solomon Lanham travels from Kansas City with two steers cars en route to Oklahoma on No 5. In the rear sleeper he recalls a Nashville battle tale while an intruder joins in a war memory near Topeka.
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Kansas
Solomon Lanham
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Topeka
Nashville
Sol
Weird Civil War Coffin Found in Indiana Wareroom
A metallic coffin with a long history was found in Shrader Brothers undertakers ware room in New Albany Indiana. It recalls a Confederate soldier from a prominent family who died during the war and was shipped home in this coffin. The steamboat carrying the body sank at Brandeburg Kentucky, and the body lay in the hull for six months before transfer. The coffin then rested in the wareroom for forty years before being removed.
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Shrader Pros
New Albany
Ind
Confedera
John Shrader
Shrader Brothers
South
Brandeburg
Chicago
Humorous War Stories About a Soldier and His Gun
An old army officer recalls a private who bought a gun for about $14 and planned to keep it for life. The man wanted the firearm to stand in his yard as rain and snow fell on it, a humorous contrast to wartime necessity.
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Dill
Ato
Gkc
York Times
Wounded In Line of Duty
Charles Mades recalls a confrontation with a Pennsylvania soldier in his tavern during the war. A heavy beer mug was thrown. Mades dodged and retaliated, injuring the soldier who later received a pension for line of duty injuries.
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Charles Mades
Pennsylvania
Mades
John Corwin
New York World
Retreat turned rout as General Schofield recalls cavalry stake
In Washington General Schofield described a cavalry retreat as a rout. He recounts a joke where the commander asks who their rear guard is, and an aid answers that it is those with the worst horses, delivered with quick panting humor.
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Schofield
Washington
Detroit Free Press
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