Comments on: This Battery Just Keeps Going, and Going, and Going… http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/this-battery-just-keeps-going-and-going-and-going/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Sherman’s Battery Posts « Bull Runnings http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/this-battery-just-keeps-going-and-going-and-going/#comment-2697 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:28:22 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/this-battery-just-keeps-going-and-going-and-going/#comment-2697 [...] This Battery Just Keeps Going, and Going, and Going… [...]

]]> By: Sherman’s Battery Had Some Kinda Juice! « Bull Runnings http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/this-battery-just-keeps-going-and-going-and-going/#comment-2171 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:34:24 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/this-battery-just-keeps-going-and-going-and-going/#comment-2171 [...] here and here (be sure to read the comments), the renown of Battery E., 3rd US, commonly known as Sherman’s [...]

]]> By: Terry http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/this-battery-just-keeps-going-and-going-and-going/#comment-1480 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:31:04 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/this-battery-just-keeps-going-and-going-and-going/#comment-1480 Harry,
>>W. T. Sherman was an unknown colonel at Bull Run; and Sherman’s Brigade fought the battle on the western side of Bull Run without the battery, <<

There’s a reference by Cump to his mail from Ellen being re-routed to Thomas W. Sherman in the letters I’m reading. John Sherman had been receiving mail for him during this phase. When his brother left DC for a summer trip to Lake Superior, Ellen was asked to send mail C/O Georgetown post office. Going two weeks with no letters, and anxious about the lack of discipline in the volunteers and what that implied for ultimate success, the first line of Cump’s August 19, 1861 letter to John from Fort Corcoran reads: “I have not heard from you or any body since you left–my letters I suppose continue to go to you and if you send them to Washington they go to the other Genl. Sherman.”

Looks like even Sherman realized how common it was for him to be confused with the older man.

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