"Tracking Down a Confederate Deserter after Gettysburg" Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Sep 2020 10:01 p.m. PST |
"…On August 20, 1863, thirteen veteran soldiers from the 3rd North Carolina Infantry decided that they'd had enough of war. That evening, in the blackness of night, they picked up their rifles, slung on their cartridge belts, and escaped into the woods. From that point on there was no turning back. Our guest speaker, Professor Peter S. Carmichael, will focus on the words of John Futch, one of the thirteen deserters. Though he was illiterate, Futch left a remarkable set of letters that he dictated to his comrades. Futch's powerful story puts us in the shoes of a deserter, enabling us to see his world after the devastating defeat in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Dr. Carmichael, one of the nation's foremost authorities on the American Civil War, is the Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and the director of the Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College. He is the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles and several books, including Lee's Young Artillerist: William R. J. Pegram; The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion; and The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies…"
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Frederick  | 08 Sep 2020 5:32 a.m. PST |
Interestin! Thanks for sharing |
| Extrabio1947 | 08 Sep 2020 5:58 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 08 Sep 2020 12:31 p.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it my friends! (smile) Amicalement
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| catavar | 10 Sep 2020 1:09 p.m. PST |
From what I've read I don't think this was an uncommon occurrence. |
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completes his initial Union force in 1:72nd scale.
