Comments on: The Tag Line http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/the-tag-line/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: New Tag Line « Bull Runnings http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/the-tag-line/#comment-18922 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:55:24 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/the-tag-line/#comment-18922 [...] “Dulce Bellum Inexpetis” has been Bull Runnings’ tag line for four years now – you can find it at the top of the column over to the right. Basically it means “War is delightful to those who have never experienced it.” I explain why I use it in more detail here. [...]

]]> By: Rowland Ward « Bull Runnings http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/the-tag-line/#comment-15859 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:26:23 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/the-tag-line/#comment-15859 [...] 23 11 2009 A while back I ran this article explaining my tag line to the right (Dulce Bellum Inexpertis).  Today I received a message from [...]

]]> By: Harry Smeltzer http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/the-tag-line/#comment-15857 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:34:48 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/the-tag-line/#comment-15857 Charles, thanks for stopping by. There are more photos of Ward’s surgical process in the Medical History, as well as in the Photographic Atlas of Civil War Injuries. With your permission, I’d like to post your comment separately, and add more of those photos. Are you OK with that?

Again, thanks for reading!

]]> By: Charles Mills http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/the-tag-line/#comment-15855 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:25:08 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/the-tag-line/#comment-15855 Rowland Ward was my great great grandfather. Born in 1818 in Lincolnshire, England, he came to America as a young man and settled in Hunts Hollow, NY. This is just south of Letchworth State Park. He raised a family there. He enlisted in the NY 4th Heavy Artillery. Some of his early training took place on the Parade Grounds that still exist in the park. Assigned to Fort Ethan Allen, he helped man the heavy guns which protected Washington, DC. Grant reassigned many of these units to combat duty in the Spring of 1864. He was at the Battle of the Wilderness. After his massive injury at Reams Station, the Confererates initially captured him but gave him back to the Union medical people. He spent a year at Lincoln General Hospital before returning home. Remarkably, he lived until 1898 in Hunts Hollow. On a government pension, he outlived his first wife and remarried. Apparently he had some celebrity status in the area. We have photos of the reconstructive process. He grew a beard to cover the injury. I believe his food intake was limited to soft and liquid foods for the rest of his life. My grandfather had fond memories of him from his youth. He was able to verbally communicate to some extent. He had a lot of heart problems after the injury. He is buried in Hunts Hollow.

]]> By: Second Chance « Bull Runnings http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/the-tag-line/#comment-6701 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:21:31 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/the-tag-line/#comment-6701 [...] The Tag Line [...]

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