Good Blogs with Good Stuff

 

Brian Downey at Behind Antietam on the Web has a great post on Antietam personality John Moulder Wilson.  The post features an 1862 Gardner Gibson (thanks Brian) photo that is part of my round table program.  At First Bull Run, Wilson was a lieutenant in Capt. Carlisle’s Battery E, 2nd US, which was attached to Schenck’s brigade of Tyler’s division.  At least, I think he was.  Brian’s post is a good illustration of why we must be careful to nail these IDs down and not take or make them at face value.  He does some great detective work, and I don’t say that just because he points out some shoddy scholarship by – and a resulting faulty conclusion of – a notorious chronicler of the Battle of Antietam.

Jennie Jenny Goellnitz of Draw the Sword weighed in on my post on History as Narrative.  She has some interesting thoughts on the subject which are worth a look.  However, I should clarify that my point was not so much that the narrative form is deficient in its ability to convey what it was like to be present at a historical event, but rather that the form itself creates an orderly story which may be, and is quite likely, very different from what really happened.  That can be, and is quite likely, true even when the narrative is of the highest quality.

Official Reports – USA

Blackburn’s Ford

#1 – Brigadier General Irvin McDowell

Table – Abstract from the returns of the Department of Northeastern Virginia, commanded by Brigadier-General McDowell, for July 16 and 17, 1861 [USA Troop Strengths]

#2 – Colonel Orlando B. Willcox

#3 – Brigadier General Daniel Tyler

#4 – Colonel Israel B. Richardson

Table – [USA] Casualties at Blackburn’s Ford [July 18, 1861]

#4a – Colonel Thomas A. Davies

Battle of First Bull Run

#6 – Brigadier General Irvin McDowell

Table – [USA] Casualties at the Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861

Table -  [USA] Casualties at the Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 – Regimental

Table – Statement of [USA] artillery lost at the Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861

#7 – Major John G. Barnard 

#8 – Captain Daniel P. Woodbury

#9 – Lieutenant Frederick E. Prime

#10 – Captain Henry F. Clarke

#11 – Lieutenant George Bell

#12 – Lieutenant James Curtis

#13 – Lieutenant John P. Hawkins

#14 – Surgeon William S. King

#15 – Major William F. Barry

#16 – Brigadier General Daniel Tyler

Table - Return of casualties in the First Division (Union) of Northeastern Virginia, at the Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861

#17 – Colonel Erasmus D. Keyes

#18 – Colonel Charles D. Jameson

#18a – Colonel John L. Chatfield

#18b – Col. George S. Burnham

#19 – Brigadier General Robert C. Schenck

#20 – Captain J. H. Carlisle

#21 – Lieutenant John M. Wilson

#22 – Lieutenant Stephen C. Lyford

#23 – Lieutenant Edward B. Hill

#24 – Lieutenant William D. Fuller

#25 – Colonel William T. Sherman 

#26 – Captain James Kelly

#27 – Captain Romeyn B. Ayres

#28 – Colonel Israel B. Richardson 

#29 - Brevet Major Henry J. Hunt

#30 - Lieutenant John Edwards

#31 - Colonel David Hunter 

#32 – Colonel Andrew Porter 

Table – Return of casualties in the Second Division (Union) of Northeastern Virginia, at the Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861

#33 – Colonel George Lyons 

#33a – Lieutenant Colonel E. B. Fowler

#34 – Major J. J. Bartlett 

#35 – Major George Sykes 

#36 – Major John G.Reynolds 

#37 – Major Innis N. Palmer 

#38 – Captain Charles Griffin 

#39 – Colonel Ambrose E. Burnside 

#40 – Major Joseph P. Balch 

#41 – Lieutenant Colonel Frank Wheaton

#41a – Colonel Henry P. Martin

#42 – Lieutenant Colonel Frank S. Fiske

#43 – Colonel Samuel P. Heintzelman

Table – Return of casualties in the Third Division (Union) of Northeastern Virginia, at the Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861

#44 – Colonel William B. Franklin

#44a – Colonel Willis A. Gorman

#45 – Lieutenant Edmund Kirby

#46 – Colonel Orlando B. Willcox 

#47 – Colonel J. H. Hobart Ward 

#48 – Major Alonzo F. Bidwell 

#49 – Lieutenant Colonel Addison Farnsworth 

#50 – Captain Richard Arnold 

#51 – Colonel Oliver O. Howard 

#52 – Major Henry G. Staples 

#53 – Colonel Hiram G. Berry 

#54 – Colonel Mark H. Dunnell 

#55 – Colonel Henry Whiting 

#56 – Colonel Dixon S. Miles 

Table – Return of casualties in the Fifth Division (Union) of Northeastern Virginia, at the Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861

#57 – Colonel Louis Blenker 

#58 – Colonel Thomas A. Davies 

#59 – Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Marsh 

#60 – Colonel Calvin E. Pratt 

#61 – Lieutenant Oliver D. Greene 

#62 – Colonel William R. Montgomery

Order of Battle – USA

FIRST BULL RUN CAMPAIGN

ORDER OF BATTLE

Union

B = Biographical Sketch, D = Diary, M = Memoir, MH = Medical History, MOH = Medal of Honor, News = Newspaper Account, OC = Official Correspondence, OR = Official Report, PC = Private Correspondence, T = JCCW Testimony

Bvt. Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, General-in-Chief (News, T)

McDowell’s Army (aka Army of Northeastern Virginia)

Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell (B, OC, OR1, OR2, T1, T2)

Acting Assistant Adjutant General (AAAG)

• Capt. James B. Fry (M)

Acting Assistant Quartermaster (AAQ)

• Capt. O. H. Tillinghast (MW)

Commissary

• Capt. H. F. Clarke, Chief of Subsistence Department (OR)
• Lieut. George Bell, Acting Commissary Subsistence (OR)
• Lieut. James Curtis(s), Acting Commissary Subsistence (OR)
• Lieut. John P. Hawkins, Acting Commissary of Subsistence (OR)

Signal Officers

• Maj. Albert Myer
• Maj. Malcolm McDowell (Ass’t)

Engineers

• Maj. J. G. Barnard, Chief (B, OR, T)
• Capt. A. W. Whipple, Topographical Engineer
• 2nd Lt. H. S. Putnam, Topographical Engineer

Medical

• Surgeon W. S. King (OR)
• Assist Surgeon Magruder

Artillery

• Maj. W. F. Barry, 5th Artillery (OR, T)

Ordnance

• Lt. Geo. C. Strong

Acting Inspector General (AIG)

• Maj. W. H. Wood, (17th US Inf)

Aides-de-camp (ADC)

• 1st Lt. H. W. Kingsbury, Fifth Artillery (B)
• 2nd Lt. Guy V. Henry
• Maj. Clarence S. Brown, New York Militia
• Maj. James S. Wadsworth, New York Militia (T)

First Division

Brig. Gen. Daniel Tyler (B, OR1, OR2, T1, T2)

• Capt. A. Baird, AAAG
• Capt. Merrill, AAQ
• Capt. B. S. Alexander, Chief Engineer
• 1st Lt. H. L. Abbot, Topographical Engineer/ADC
• Lt. J. C. Audenried, ADC
• Lt. D. C. Houston, ADC
• Lt. P. H. O’Rorke, ADC (PC)
• Lt. E. Upton, ADC

First Brigade

Col. Erasmus D. Keyes (OR, T)

• Lt. H. A. Hascall, AAAG
• Lt. (H. C.?) Hodge(s?), AAQ
• Lt. Ely, Commissary
• Lt. Gordon, ADC
• Lt. Walter, ADC
• Dr. P. W. Ellsworth, Surgeon of CT Brigade (PC)

2nd MEVI

• Col. Charles D. Jameson (OR)
  • “Stephen” (PC)
    • Co. A – Lt. Rinaldo B. Wiggin (PC)
    • Co. H – Sgt. William P. Holden (PC)

1st CTVI

• Col. G. S. Burnham (OR)
  • Lt. Col. Speidel
    • Co. H – Capt. Richard Fitzgibbon (PC)

2nd CTVI

• Col. A. H. Terry
  • “G.” (PC)

3rd CTVI

• Col. J. L. Chatfield (B, OR)
  • Chaplain Junius M. Willey (PC)
    • Co. A – Lt. Lucius L. Bolles (PC)
    • Co. C – G. W. B. (PC)
    • Co. D – Capt. Frederick Frye (PC)

Second Brigade

Brig. Gen. Robert C. Schenck (OR)

2nd NYSM (Later 82nd NYVI)

• Col. G. W. B. Tompkins
  • Unknown Captain (PC)
  • Unknown (PC)

1st OHVI (3 Month)

• Col. Alexander McD. McCook

2nd OHVI (3 Month) – Lt. Col. R. Mason (Col. Lewis Wilson)

• Col. Lewis Wilson
  • Lt. Col. R. Mason

Battery E, 2nd US Artillery (6 Guns)

• Capt. J. H. Carlisle (OR)
  • Lt. John M. Wilson (OR)
  • Lt. Stephen C. Lyford (OR)
  • Lt. Edward B. Hill (OR)
  • Lt. William B. D. Fuller (OR)

Battery G, 1st US Artillery (1 Gun)

• Lt. Peter C. Hains

Third Brigade

Col. W. T. Sherman (B, News, OR, PC1, PC2)

• Lt. A. Piper, AAAG
• Lt. J. F. McQuesten, AAQ
• Col. Coon, (WI), ADC
• Lt. Bagley, ADC

13th NYVI

• Col. I. F. Quinby

69th NYSM

• Col. M. Corcoran (W&C) (PC)
  • Capt. J. Kelly (OR)
    • Co. A
      • Pvt. Alexander Carolin (PC)
      • Thomas D. Norris (PC)
    • Co. D, P. J. R. (PC)
    • Co. E
      • M. Crosbie (PC)
      • John Stacom (PC)
    • Co. G – Pvt. James Rorty (PC)
    • Co. K – “R” (PC)

79th NYVI

• Col. J. Cameron (K)
  • Unknown (PC)
  • Co. F – Pvt. Alexander Campbell (PC)
  • Co. K
    • Sgt. John Kane (T)
    • Sgt. Charles McFadden (PC)

2nd WIVI

• Col. Park S. Coon
  • Lt. Col. H. W.Peck
    • “C.” (PC)
      • Co. B – Pvt John E. Donovan (PC, MH)
      • Co. D
        • W. H. Foote (PC)
        • Pvt. Leonard Powell (PC)
        • Sgt. George F. Saunders (PC)
      • Co. E – Lt. Herman B. Jackson (M)
        • Sgt. Lyman H. Smith (PC)
      • Co. I – Capt. Thomas S. Allen (M)

Battery E, 3rd US Artillery (Sherman’s Battery) (6 Guns) (News)

• Capt. R. B. Ayres (B, OR)

Fourth Brigade

Col. Israel B. Richardson (OR1, OR2, T)

• Lt. R. L. Eastman, AAAG
• Lt. C. H. Brightly, AAQ
• 1st Lt. Frederick E. Prime, Engineer
• Cadet J. T. Meigs, ADC

1st MAVI

• Col. R. Cowdin
  • Co. H – Pvt. J. W. Day (PC)

12th NYVI

• Col. Ezra L. Walrath (PC)
  • Co. I – Pvt. William Ray Wells (PC1, PC2)

2nd MIVI

• Maj. Adolphus W. Williams
  • Ass’t. Surgeon Henry F. Lyster (M)
  • Co. A – J. V. [?] (PC)

3rd MIVI

• Col. D. McConnell (I)
  • Lt. Col. Stevens
  • Maj. Stephen G.Champlin (T)

Battery M, 2nd US Artillery (4 Guns)

• Capt. H. J. Hunt (OR)

Battery G., 1st US Artillery (2 Guns)

• Lt. J. Edwards (OR)

Second Division

Col. David Hunter (W) (OR); Col. Andrew Porter (OR)

• Lt. S. W. Stockton, ADC
• Capt. W.D. Whipple, AAAG
• Capt. D. P. Woodbury, Engineer
• Hon. J. W. Arnold, ADC
• Lt. Cross, ADC
• Lt. D. W. Flagler, ADC

First Brigade

Col. Andrew Porter (OR, T)

• Lt. W. W. Averell, AAAG (T)
• Lt. J. B. Howard, AAQ
• Lt. Bache, ADC
• Lt. Trowbridge, ADC

8th NYSM

• Col. G. Lyons (OR)

14th NYSM (News)

• Col. A. M. Wood (W)
  • Lt. Col. E. B. Fowler (OR)
  • Surgeon J. M. Homiston (T)
  • Asst. Surgeon William F. Swalm (T)
    • Co. D – Pvt. John C. Brown (B, PC)
    • Co. E – Pvt. George Plaskett (PC)
    • Co. H – Pvt Caleb H. Beal (PC)
    • Co. I – Pvt. Lewis Francis (MH, T)

27th NYVI

• Col. H. W. Slocum (W) (T)
  • Maj. J. J. Bartlett (OR)
    • H. Seymour Hall (M)
      • Co. C – Pvt. Worcester Burrows (PC)
      • Co. K – “C” (PC)

US Infantry Battalion (8 Cos: C, G, 2nd US; B, D, G, H, K, 3rd US; G, 8th US)

• Maj. G. Sykes (OR)
  • Lt. Dangerfield Parker (M)

US Marine Corps Battalion

• Maj. J. G. Reynolds (OR)
  • 2nd Lt. Robert Hitchcock (B, PC)

US Cavalry Battalion (7 Cos: A, E, 1st US; B, E, G, I, 2nd US; K, 2nd US Dragoons)

• Maj. I. N. Palmer (OR)
  • Surgeon Charles Carroll Gray (D)

Company D, 5th US Artillery (6 Guns)

• Capt. C. Griffin (OR, T)
  • Lt. Charles E. Hazlett (T)
  • Lt. Horatio B. Reed (T)

Second Brigade

Col. Ambrose E. Burnside (OR)

• Lt. Merriman, AAAG
• Capt. Anson, AAQ
• Capt. Goohue, Commissary
• Lt. Beaumont, ADC
• Capt. Woodbury, ADC
• Gov. Sprague, ADC

2nd NHVI

• Col. G. Marston (W)
  • Lt. Col. F. S. Fiske (OR)

1st RIVI

• Maj. J. P. Balch (OR)
  • “DeW” (PC1, PC2, PC3)
  • Unknown (PC)
    • Co. C
      • Lt. Luther C. Warner (PC)
      • Unknown Officer (PC1, PC2)
      • “H” (PC)
      • Unknown (PC1)
    • Co. D – Pvt Albert Penno (PC)
    • Co. F – Pvt. Theodore W. King (PC)

2nd RIVI

• Col. J. S. Slocum (K)
  • Lt. Col. F. Wheaton (OR)
    • Maj. Sullivan Ballou (K) (PC)
    • “Canonicus” (PC1)
    • “Tockwotton” (PC1, PC2, PC3, PC4, PC5)
    • Co. F, Lt. John P. Shaw (PC)
    • Co. K, Leonard Belding (PC)
      • Reynolds’ Battery of 6 13 lb. James Rifles
        • “Sergeant” (PC)
        • Unknown (1) (PC)

71st NYSM (D, PC)

• Col. H. P. Martin (OR)
  • John Ellis (PC)
  • Co. H. – J. H. G. (PC1, PC2)
    • 2 Boat Howitzers

Third Division

Col. Samuel P. Heintzelman (W) (OR, T)

• Capt. Chauncey McKeever, AAAG
• Capt. Horatio Wright, Chief Engineer
• Lt. Fairbanks, ADC
• Lt. F. U. Farquhar, ADC
• Lt. George W. Snyder, ADC
• Lt. Sweet, ADC

First Brigade

Col. William B. Franklin (OR, T)

• Capt. Walworth Jenkins, AAG
• Lt. Charles H. Gibson, AAG
• Lt. Baker, ADC
• Lt. Hartranft, ADC

5th MAVI

• Col. S. C. Lawrence (W)
  • “R” (PC)
  • Unknown (PC)
    • Co. I – Unknown (PC)

11th MAVI

• Col. G. Clark

1st MNVI

• Col. W. A. Gorman (OR)
  • Chaplain Rev. Edward D. Neill (PC)
  • Asst. Surgeon Charles W. Le Boutillier (PC)
  • Unknown Officer (PC)
    • Co. A – Capt. Alexander Wilkin (PC)
      • Pvt. William Nixon (PC)
    • Co. F – Cpl. James A. Wright (M1, M2, M3, M4)
    • Co. G
      • Pvt Edward H. Bassett (PC1, PC2)
      • Pvt. Mortimer Stimpson (PC)

4th PAVI

• Col. John Frederick Hartranft (MOH) (This regiment refused to advance on July 21, claiming its enlistments had expired.  Col. Hartranft joined the brigade staff.)

Company I, 1st US Artillery (6 Guns)

• Capt. J. B. Ricketts (W&C) (PC, T1, T2)
  • Lieut. Edmund Kirby (OR)

Second Brigade

Col. Orlando B. Willcox (W&C) (OR1, OR2, PC); Col. John Henry Hobart Ward (OR)

• Lt. Woodruff, AAAG
• Lt. J. R. Edie, ADC
• Lt. Francis H. Parker, ADC

11th NYVI (Fire Zouaves)

• Col. Noah Lane Farnham (MW)
  • J. A. S. (PC)
  • Co. A – Lt. Edward Burgin Knox (PC)
  • Co. G – Pvt. Harry Lazarus (PC)

38th NYVI

• Col. John Henry Hobart Ward
  • Lt. Col. A. Farnsworth (OR)
    • Officers’ Clerk George L. Russell (PC)
      • Co. H – Capt. William H. Baird (PC)
        • Pvt. John H. Morrison (PC)
      • Co. I – Capt. Calvin S. DeWitt (PC)

1st MIVI

• Maj. Alonzo F. Bidwell (OR)

4th MIVI (not engaged – at Fairfax CH)

• Col. Dwight A. Woodbury

Company D, 2nd US Artillery (4 Guns)

• Capt. Richard Arnold (OR)
  • Lt. Barriger
  • Lt. Throckmorton

Third Brigade

Col. Oliver O. Howard (OR)

• Capt. Burt, AAAG
• Lt. Burt, AAQ
• Lt. D. H. Buel, ADC
• Lt. A. Mordecai, Jr., ADC
• C. H. Howard

3rd MEVI

• Maj. Henry G. Staples (OR)

4th MEVI

• Col. Hiram G. Berry (OR, PC)

5th MEVI

• Col. Mark H. Dunnell (OR)
  • H. J. E. (PC)
  • Q (PC)
  • Unknown (PC)
    • Co. E – Sgt. Frank L. Lemont (PC)
    • Co. G – Pvt. Joseph Leavitt (PC1, PC2)

2nd VTVI

• Col. Henry Whiting (OR)
  • Maj. C. H. Joyce (PC)
  • W (PC1, PC2)

Fourth Division (Not Engaged)

Brig. Gen. Theodore Runyon

1st NJSM

• Col. A. J. Johnson

2nd NJSM

• Col. H. M. Baker

3rd NJSM

• Col. W. Napton

4th NJSM

• Col. M. Miller

1st NJVI

• Col. W. R. Montgomery (OR)

2nd NJVI

• Col. G. W. McLean

3rd NJVI

• Col. G. W. Taylor

41st NYVI

• Col. L. von Gilsa

Fifth Division

Col. Dixon S. Miles (OR)

• Capt. T. M. Vincent, AAAG
• Lt. John P. Hawkins, AAQ
• 1st Lt. Frederick E. Prime, Engineer
• Maj. Ritchie, ADC
• Lt. A. H. Cushing, ADC
• Lt. George H. Mendell, ADC
• Lt. McMillan, ADC

First Brigade (Held in reserve at Centreville – covered retreat)

Col. Louis Blenker (OR, T)

8th NYVI

• Lt. Col. J. Stahel

29th NYVI

• Col. A. von Steinwehr

39th NYVI

• Col. F. G. D’Utassy

27th PAVI

• Col. M. Einstein

Company A, 2nd US Artillery (4 Guns)

• Capt. J. C. Tidball

Brookwood’s (Varian’s) New York Battery (6 Guns of the 8th NYSM, manned by men from the 8th & 29th NYVI)

• Capt. C. Brookwood

2nd Brigade

Col. Thomas A. Davies (OR1, OR2, T)

• Lt. Cowdrey, AAAG
• Lt. Hopkins, AAQ
• Lt. Thomas C. Bradford, Commissary
• Lt. Howland, ADC

16th NYVI

• Lt. Col. S. Marsh (OR)
  • J. A. V. (PC)

18th NYVI

• Col. W. A. Jackson

31st NYVI

• Col. C. E. Pratt (OR)
  • Surgeon Frank Hamilton (PC)

32nd NYVI

• Col. R. Matheson

Company G., 2nd US Artillery (4 Guns)

• Lt. O. D. Greene (OR)