Pre-Tour Reading: Families of the Fallen

1 01 2019

Head on over to Damian Shiels’s site and read about the efforts of the 69th NYSM officers to provide for the families of the fallen of First Bull Run.

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Date : January 1, 2019
Tags: 69th NYSM, Articles, Bull Runnings Battlefield Tour, Damian Shiels, Field Trips, Irish Soldiers, Michael Corcoran, Thomas Francis Meagher
Categories : Articles, Field Trips

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1 01 2019: Jens C. Falster (20:00:37) :

Any information on how the Marine battalion was armed? Presume Wells might have secured the latest Springfield rifle muskets for the new batch of recruits, but then Navy penny-pinching might have supplied something less current. Historically the Marine Corps has always prided itself in making the best possible use of older generation arms and equipment.

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1 01 2019: Harry Smeltzer (20:05:14) :

I don’t know, Jens. I’ll check what I have here.

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