tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73444984947991497942024-03-17T16:40:09.621-04:00My Civil War Obsession<br><center><i><b>Exploring anything and everything that fascinates me <br> about the American Civil War .</b></i></center>Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.comBlogger734125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-77789825269054800942024-03-17T16:39:00.000-04:002024-03-17T16:39:00.420-04:00Richard Stamper, 7th Kentucky Infantry: An Ancestor who Perished in the WarOne of my interests in the war has been finding out about family members who served in the war. As this separate page shows, I have found several few relatives who served on the Union side (no Confederates have turned up in my searches yet) but until recently, I had not found any relative that had died during the war, at least until a cousin forwarded me this name.Richard Stamper was born inRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-64102491388106347452024-02-28T17:40:00.002-05:002024-02-28T17:49:47.780-05:00Ramblings on Campbell County in the War For the past few years, of course, I have been researching individual soldiers/sailors who ever lived, died or are buried in Campbell County and finding their stories, hopefully to share them some day.I have shared a few in posts on here and am still working on a couple more, with other ideas in store, but I have also started looking more at the county as a whole in the war. One person had Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-3882937101244417842024-01-14T16:27:00.006-05:002024-02-28T18:22:03.241-05:00A Letter from Camp Pope in New Haven, Ky. A long letter appeared in the December 22, 1861 Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, printed with permission by the unnamed person to whom it was addressed, a rare piece of wartime correspondence from a solider who had been in Campbell County.This soldier, William Halpin, had been raising a company for the 50th Ohio Infantry, but withdrew it from that unit and moved the men to Camp Webster in Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-62782156854737487912023-12-18T19:52:00.000-05:002023-12-18T19:52:23.593-05:00Thoughts on My Ongoing Research and LearningI know I haven’t posted much lately, other than occasional items in Facebook, but I am still researching and writing about local Civil War soldiers, and have been surprised by how much I’m learning, especially recently.A few weeks ago, I started two stories in a pair of men whose stories seemed potentially intriguing. That intuition proved correct and it now appears my work on each will Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-85370199544091778352023-10-16T13:25:00.003-04:002024-02-29T20:03:23.688-05:00Minister Herman Grentzenberg, 12th Missouri Infantry Many of the men who fought in the Civil War saw their lives cut short, whether by bullet or disease, during those four long, blood-filled years, but among those who survived, some lived extremely long post-war lives. One man who lived much longer than expected was Herman Grentzenberg. He was born in Danzig, Prussia on October 18, 1836 and arrived in the United States Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-78731578425279337612023-09-25T18:23:00.001-04:002023-09-25T18:23:38.393-04:00 A Good and Brave Soldier: Jacob Goetz, 15th Kentucky InfantryStanding 5 feet, 8 inches tall, this new Civil War soldier featured a light complexion, gray eyes, and dark-colored hair. He worked as a steamboat man, and had been born in Baden, Germany. Newport, Kentucky was his current post office address. This recruit was Jacob Goetz (sometimes spelled “Getz” as on his headstone), who was born in approximately 1820. Before immigrating, he hadRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-38689262767826367212023-08-22T12:11:00.009-04:002023-08-22T12:14:32.372-04:00Killed in Action: Lambert Scott 23rd Kentucky InfantryHere is another story I have found in my research of Civil War soldiers and sailors from Campbell County, Kentucky. Camp Near Murfreesboro, TN, March 30th, 1863Mrs. Sara Scott Madam: It becomes my painful duty to inform you of your husband’s death. It was caused by the wound he received at the Battle of Stones River Dec. 31, 1862, while fighting gallantly for his adopted Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-58659839796508573432023-07-08T16:03:00.003-04:002024-02-29T13:46:36.981-05:00Boy Soldier Perry Wright, 15th Kentucky & 5th Ohio Infantry RegimentsWhen I started researching local Civil War soldiers, this was the type of story I never thought about finding. I just had never heard of anything like it in the area, but it makes sense that it was just as likely to happen in Campbell County as anywhere else. That last line is something this project has really reinforced to me, along with a realization of the lack of previous study or sharing of Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-20619635773893825482023-05-10T14:58:00.003-04:002023-08-20T22:30:03.167-04:00Book Review: Tar Heels in Gray: Life in the 30th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil WarTar Heels in Gray: Life in the 30th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War By John B. CameronMcFarland & Company, Inc.Copyright 2021As the back cover of this book states, “The 30th North Carolina was involved in most of the major battles in Virginia from the Seven Days through the surrender at Appomattox.” Most of its men joined early in the war, but others were drafted and servedRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-35825669826695789262023-03-05T11:48:00.005-05:002023-03-05T11:49:27.377-05:00Charles Mount, 20th Ohio, Letters HomeI recently posted about a soldier in the 20th Ohio named Charles MountFour of his letters home survived the war and are in his widow’s pension file on Fold3.Here are my attempts to transcribe them, though some words are unclear. I tried to add modern spelling, spacing, and punctuation to help make them easier to read. On the final letter, he wrote the start of it on the bottom halfRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-91225686802231056092023-02-24T09:21:00.001-05:002023-02-24T09:21:54.869-05:00 Sergeant Charles Mount, 20th Ohio InfantryI have looked at this empty envelope before because it was addressed to Camp King, which was a recruiting center for Civil War soldiers in nearby Covington. Many soldiers enlisted and/or mustered in at the camp near the Kentucky Central Railroad, including numerous ones I have researched.For some reason, I had never paid attention to the soldier’s name on the envelope, but I am correcting that Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-30227046570333924232023-02-04T13:23:00.000-05:002023-02-04T13:23:39.588-05:00Sergeant Philip Gantzschier, 12th Indiana Infantry Here is one of the stories I've found while searching for Civil War veterans from Campbell County. I have occasionally shared a few here and might try to do that a little bit more often, as there are many interesting stories. This one is fairly short and basic, though with a sad ending.Like for many Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, immigration was vital in the life of Philip Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-10727142470969562032023-01-20T20:30:00.009-05:002023-01-20T20:33:46.925-05:00New Books as Christmas GiftsI received a gift card to use on books for Christmas and settled on these three, plus a couple e-books. (I’m not a big fan of e-books, but the prices were so good, I figured I could get over it.)“And There was Light” is good so far - it reminds me of some familiar parts of Lincoln’s life but brought up stuff I did not recall, and has provided good perspectives on his thoughts on slavery snd his Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-44469830124286274272022-11-30T10:29:00.000-05:002022-11-30T10:29:03.689-05:00 Private Foster Caseman, Company D, 23rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Photo from findagravecom, memorial 66529335Private Foster Caseman was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, perhaps in Cincinnati, in 1841.In 1860, he resided in the area of Tibbatt’s Cross Roads, in southern Campbell County, Kentucky, which lies just across the Ohio River from the Buckeye State. He enlisted in company D of the 23rd Kentucky Infantry at Camp King, in Covington, Kentucky, on Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-65188641295171355422022-10-09T18:45:00.000-04:002022-10-20T11:23:28.909-04:00More Thoughts on My Continuing Project I'm not really sure what to title this post, but it is, again, just an update on the book project that has been my focus for the last couple of years now. A few weeks ago, I had a copy of my "all combined" file printed. This file was a combination of all my completed stories in one large Word document. I just really wanted to see what it looked like in "real life" andRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-62664936110797885352022-08-26T19:55:00.005-04:002022-08-26T19:55:58.304-04:0080, 000+ words Still working on this little project of mine, and I became curious about how many words I was stringing together across these profiles.I first created an Excel spreadsheet and listed all my nearly finished stories with their word counts and let the auto-sum feature add them all up.This showed well over 70,000, words at the time, but as I kept adding more, I wanted more information, so I Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-55069703293324618862022-07-19T18:21:00.003-04:002022-07-19T18:21:32.346-04:00Local Families in the Civil War A lot of people have seen or heard the Civil War referred to as a "brother's war" because of the instances of family members fighting on opposite sides (Mary Lincoln's Confederate brothers and Kentucky's Crittenden family are two famous examples) but there were also many cases of family members fighting on the same side, a point that I am learning more and more through my research into Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-60676365981230689052022-06-21T10:00:00.001-04:002022-06-21T10:00:29.481-04:00Making Progress on Book (or Am I?)I’m still working on what I hope turns out to be a book on Civil War Soldiers and Sailors from Campbell County, Kentucky, and have made some good progress recently, though if this progress creates more work is it truly progress?I think so, at least in terms of the quality of this work.I was working on the finishing touches of an interesting but brief story of a local soldier who had been executedRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-50731637240798408222022-06-11T13:45:00.001-04:002022-06-11T13:45:26.213-04:00 Book Review: Murder on the Ohio Belle Murder on the Ohio Belle Stuart W. Sanders Copyright 2020University Press of KentuckyMurder on the Ohio Belle is not a Civil War book, but covers the war era including the generation of people who brought on and fought the war, thus making it a worthwhile read for those focused on the fighting years. Mid-nineteenth century culture is the main theme of this work, as seen through Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-20702975311642561512022-05-27T18:24:00.004-04:002022-05-27T18:24:48.592-04:00I'm Still Here, Still Researching, Still Blogging I know that blogs are now a thing mostly of the past as podcasts (even via video) and live streaming have come into vogue and are the major tools of social media and communication, as well as new apps and, honestly, probably some things of which I have not heard yet, but I'm still here, as is this blog. I know my activity here has slowed down considerably. I mostly regret that. Last Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-43588148377011632432022-02-15T16:32:00.011-05:002022-02-15T16:37:15.104-05:00William Orlando Tarvin, Co. F 53rd Kentucky Infantry An unexpected aspect of my quest to identify as many Campbell County Civil War Soldiers and Sailors was the discovery of more of my distant relatives who served in the war. The first one of these soldiers who I realized was related to me was William Orlando Tarvin.Orlando, as he went by, was born on May 11, 1841 in Campbell County, probably Carthage. He was the son of Thomas FloydRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-34355540706335456762021-11-17T16:54:00.001-05:002021-11-17T18:16:43.153-05:00Goodbye, Ramage Museum I left my role as a board member and volunteer at the James A.Ramage Civil War Museum at the end of 2020 as I had been there since 2006 (on the board since 2008) and thought it was time for a change for both me and the museum.In hindsight, perhaps I got out in the nick of time, as on August 25, Fort Wright’s mayor enacted an executive order shutting down the museum and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-85798352454631223822021-06-10T13:22:00.001-04:002021-06-10T13:22:46.377-04:00Book Review: Cincinnati in the Civil War: The Union’s Queen CityCincinnati in the Civil War: The Union’s Queen CityDavid L. MoweryCopyright 2021The History PressI admit my reading of books has been too slow in the past year or two, but I did just finish an enjoyable and informative book, one about a local topic.David Mowery’s most recent book, Cincinnati in the Civil War,seems like a fairly short book, 279 slightly undersized pages before the end-notes Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-89922829046151986612021-05-18T18:30:00.001-04:002021-05-18T18:30:42.037-04:00More Rambling on my Project I recently posted another update on the progress on my project, but had a few other thoughts and comments to share. This entire project has really given me a new perspective on learning about the war. Maybe I've briefly mentioned this idea in a previous post over the past year, but here it is again, in more detail than anything I've written about it before. Most of the Civil War Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344498494799149794.post-55804335702056681912021-05-07T15:45:00.002-04:002021-05-07T15:45:47.765-04:00Campbell County Civil War Soldiers Book Update Time flies, at least the last few weeks, and I did not realize it had been so long since my last book update. I am still working on a couple more genealogical posts, but wanted to put down at least a few words on my continued progress in the Campbell County Civil War Soldiers. (It will include sailors, but I just use Campbell County Civil War Soldiers to refer to it for brevity's sake.)&Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080050613624485848noreply@blogger.com0