Episode 1: Artillery Experiences at Petersburg
01/10/24 • 16 min
Sources for this episode:
PVT Bowden Co. B 2nd Georgia
Bowden, Rev. John Malachi. Some of My Experiences as a Confederate Soldier, In the Camp and on the Battlefield, In the Army of Northern Virginia. https://repository.duke.edu/dc/bowdenjohnmalachi-000846432/secst0281.
CH Armstrong 50th Pennsylvania
Raul, Hallock F, ed. Letters From a Pennsylvania Chaplain at the Siege of Petersburg 1865. London: The Eden Press, 1961. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015016756986&view=1up&seq=13&q1=hill.
Sources for this episode:
PVT Bowden Co. B 2nd Georgia
Bowden, Rev. John Malachi. Some of My Experiences as a Confederate Soldier, In the Camp and on the Battlefield, In the Army of Northern Virginia. https://repository.duke.edu/dc/bowdenjohnmalachi-000846432/secst0281.
CH Armstrong 50th Pennsylvania
Raul, Hallock F, ed. Letters From a Pennsylvania Chaplain at the Siege of Petersburg 1865. London: The Eden Press, 1961. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015016756986&view=1up&seq=13&q1=hill.
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Sources used for this episode:
Phisterer, Frederick. The Regular Brigade of the Fourteenth Army Corps, The Army of the Cumberland, in the Battle of Stone River, or Murfreesboro, Tennessee, From December 31st 1862, the January 3rd, 1863. 1883. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044011857356&seq=9.
Scott, Ltc. Robert N., Lazelle, Ltc. Henry M. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ser 1, vol. 20, pt. 1: Reports. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924079609602&view=1up&seq=3.
General Thomas's report is on page 373, General Rousseau's on page 380, and Major Frederick Townsend's report is on page 404.
“Gen. Phisterer, Famous Soldier, Is Dead.” Buffalo News, July 14, 1909. Newspapers.com.
First Person Civil War Podcast - Episode 1: Artillery Experiences at Petersburg
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Hello. My name is bill Coughlin and welcome to the first person civil war podcast, which retails the stories of the soldiers and officers on the ground in the battles of the civil war.
Today's episode is episode one artillery experiences at Petersburg. And the points of view for this episode are that of private John Malakai, Bowden of company B second, Georgia. And chaplain Hallock Armstrong. Of the 50th, Pennsylvania. The two stories a
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