Comments on: Capt. James Conner, Hampton’s Legion, On the Battle (1)

By: James Conner Hampton’s Legion Letters « Bull Runnings

James Conner Hampton’s Legion Letters « Bull Runnings — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:17:58 +0000

[...] this 7/22/1861 letter appears to be an earlier version of this one written two days later. In many ways they are similar (in fact, one similar in its misspelling [...]

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:54:02 +0000

Thanks Brian, I’ll have another post later today on Conner’s earlier letter.

By: Brian Kammerer

Brian Kammerer — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:27:16 +0000

Excellent eye witness description..like all of them they exclude opposing unit names and a road is just a broad farm lane…a fence here a thick hedge there and a paling fence… (these are garden fences of many sticks stuck into the ground and interwoven) the original “picket fence of humbler times” Kept all kinds of small critters out of the vegetable patch. Oh to have five minutes to step back in time to witness this scene. It would answer so many terrain features that I still struggle with. I refuse to add ” more smoke”
Thanks for this recent and the others this week.
Brian K

By: More Hampton’s Legion « Bull Runnings

More Hampton’s Legion « Bull Runnings — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:05:57 +0000

[...] quite a few) letters and such that I’ve collected and have yet to post. The transcription this letter written by Captain James Conner of Hampton’s Legion (he started the day filling in for [...]