Comments on: Shout Out http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/shout-out-2/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Tue, 14 May 2013 19:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Harry Smeltzer http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/shout-out-2/#comment-3859 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:12:48 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=2458#comment-3859 Thanks Linda. The 12th NYSM and Butterfield were, I think, with Patterson in the Valley. Amann’s Volume II of Personell of the Civil War covers Northern companies – there are just as many, if not more, company names in the Northern volume as the Southern, and they were just as colorful.

]]> By: Linda Mott http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/shout-out-2/#comment-3855 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:09:03 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=2458#comment-3855 Harry,
The chatter over the weekend about companies and militias being the building block of the armies early in the war….New York City and New York State also had companies and militia units often known by their original names rather than by their regiment numbers or company letters. One comes to mind the 2nd Scott’s Life Guard organized in New York City (38th NY.)
Related, information, …named militia units from New York State appear in an article I found recently in the New York Times archives. What caught my attention with this particular article is the information it contains about militias for the year 1861 which would include those that served during Bull Run 1. If I’m not mistaken one colonel mentioned with the 12th NYSM is Daniel Butterfield who would later in the Civil War become General Butterfield?
The report by New York State’s, Adj-Gen. Thomas Hillhouse, also addresses the peculiar status of militias that volunteered for the war. Questions arose as to how the state’s militia laws should apply in certain instances. Hillhouse uses an election dispute that arose within Co A of the 14th NYSM Regiment as one that set up a precedence in helping to develop criteria when dealing with militia issues. Interesting stuff, article details the early issues confronting New York when faced with raising a volunteer army for the federal cause and at the same time meeting the state’s defense needs with her volunteer militias.
Linda
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E2DA113FEE34BC4E52DFB7668389679FDE

Article:
State Military Affairs
Report of Adjutant-General Hillhouse published Jan. 16, 1862.

]]> By: cenantua http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/shout-out-2/#comment-3841 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:27:59 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=2458#comment-3841 Sie sind willkommen!

Hope I can contribute more as time permits! Nice to work with the company level stuff again. I always enjoy understanding the battles from the “bottom up,” as opposed from the “top down.”

- Robert

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