-
CIVIL WAR “INFORMATION COMPILATION” BLOGS
- Antietam Voices
- Avenue of Armies
- Battlefield Wanderings
- Beyond The Crater – Siege of Petersburg
- Chickamauga Blog
- Civil War Women
- Crossed Sabers
- Draw the Sword
- More than Names in Stone: Union Soldiers in Staunton National Cemetery
- Page County Confederates
- Shenandoah’s Civil War
- Southern Unionist Chronicles
- Third Michigan Infantry
- Three Month Men
- To the Sound of the Guns
CIVIL WAR BATTLE BLOGS
CIVIL WAR BLOGROLL
- 13th Mass
- 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
- A People’s Contest
- All Not So Quiet Along the Potomac
- Battlefield Back Stories
- Buckeyes, Blackhats, and the Boys of ’61
- Cenantua’s Blog
- Civil War Battles and Battlefields
- Civil War Books and Authors
- Civil War Bookshelf
- Civil War Day by Day
- Civil War Emancipation
- Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College
- Civil War Institute
- Civil War Librarian
- Civil War Medicine
- Civil War Monitor Book Shelf
- Civil War Navy
- Civil War Notebook
- Civil War Wargaming & News
- Civil Warriors
- Confederate Book Review
- Dead Confederates
- Emerging Civil War
- First Bull Run.com
- Freedom by the Sword
- From the Fields of Gettysburg
- Front Line – Civil War Monitor Blog
- Hoofbeats and Cold Steel
- Irish in the American Civil War
- John Banks’ Civil War Blog
- Knoxville 1863
- Lancaster at War
- Louisiana in the Civil War
- Maine at War
- Mysteries and Conundrums
- North Carolina in the Civil War
- Notre Dame in the Civil War
- Of Battlefields and Bibliophiles
- Our Country’s Fiery Ordeal
- Rantings of a Civil War Historian
- Regular Cavalry in the Civil War
- Remembering: Musings on Fredericksburg and Manassas
- Renegade South
- Searching for George Gordon Meade
- Spotsylvania Civil War
- Tales From the Army of the Potomac
- Teaching the Civil War with Technology
- The 48th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry
- The Iron Brigade and Kindred Matters
- The Red Legged Devil
- The Trans Mississippian
- This Mighty Scourge
- TOCWOC
- Too Long Forgotten – Slaves and Free Blacks in Page County
- Warfare in the Age of Steam
- West Pointers and the Civil War
- With Sword and Pen
LINCOLN BLOGS
OTHER BLOGS I LIKE
OTHER CW LINKS
- 11th New York Fire Zouaves
- Abraham Lincoln: A Life
- America’s Civil War Magazine
- Antietam on the Web
- Blue & Gray Magazine
- Bruce Catton Papers
- C-Span Video Library
- Causes of the Civil War
- Civil War Animated
- Civil War Battle Map Art
- Civil War Monitor
- Civil War Preservation Trust
- Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Search
- Civil War Times Magazine
- CWPT Bull Run
- Digital Public Library of America
- First Bull Run.com
- Gettysburg Seminar Papers
- Historical Marker Data Base
- HMDB First Bull Run Campaign Markers
- Impediments of War
- LOC Chronicling America
- Lorelle on WordPress
- Manassas Battlefield – NPS
- Manassas Battlefield Trust
- National Archives Brady Photos on Flickr
- National Tribune Archives
- New York State Civil War Units History Project
- New York State Military Museum Civil War Newspaper Clipping Files
- Papers of U. S. Grant
- Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspaper Collection
- Quiner Scrapbooks
- Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF)
- Sherman’s March and America: Mapping Memory
- Shotgun’s Home of the American Civil War
- Society of Civil War Historians
- Southern Bivouac
- That a Nation Might Live
- The Civil War and Reconstruction Era 1845-1877
- The Civil War in Art
- The Essential Civil War Curriculum
- Total Gettysburg
- US Army Military History Institute
- Wisconsin in the Civil War
- WordPress Support
Bull Runnings
A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle
Search This Blog
Type in the keyword in the box below and hit "enter"
Harry SmeltzerDulce bellum inexpertis
“I am sending you these little incidents as I hear them well authenticated. They form, to the friends of the parties, part of the history of the glorious 21st. More anon.”
About
Hello! I’m Harry Smeltzer and welcome to Bull Runnings, where you'll find my digital history project on the First Battle of Bull Run which is organized under the Bull Run Resources section. I'll also post my thoughts on the processes behind the project and commentary on the campaign, but pretty much all things Civil War are fair game. You'll only find musings on my “real job” or my personal life when they relate to this project. My mother always told me "never discuss politics or religion in mixed company”, and that's sound advice where current events are concerned.
The Project
This site is more than a blog. Bull Runnings also hosts digitized material pertaining to First Bull Run. In the Bull Run Resources link in the masthead and also listed below are links to Orders of Battle, After Action Reports, Official Correspondence, Biographical Sketches, Diaries, Letters, Memoirs, Newspaper Accounts and much, much more. Take some time to surf through the material. This is a work in process with no end in sight, so check back often!
Follow Me on Social Media
Join 4,684 other subscribers
Contact Me Via Email
HJS21 at Comcast dot net
Feeds
Pages
- ABOUT ME
- BOOK ME, DANNO!
- BULL RUN RESOURCES
- Biographical Sketches – CSA
- Biographical Sketches – USA
- Books and Articles On-Line
- Bull Run Related Articles/Memoirs
- Campaign Weather
- Civilian Images
- Correspondence – CSA Official
- Correspondence – CSA Private
- Correspondence – USA Official
- Correspondence – USA Private
- Diaries – CSA
- Diaries – USA
- Dixon Miles Court of Inquiry
- Galleries
- Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
- Maps
- Medals of Honor
- Medical Histories – USA
- Memoirs – CSA
- Memoirs – USA
- Newspaper Accounts – CSA
- Newspaper Accounts – USA
- Numbers and Losses
- Official Reports – CSA
- Official Reports – USA
- Orders of Battle – Start Here
- Regimental Rosters – CSA
- Regimental Rosters – USA
- Soldier Images – CSA
- Soldier Images – USA
- Time Line
- Unit Histories – CSA
- Unit Histories – USA
- COMMENT RULES
- LINKS
- REVIEW POLICY
- WELCOME!
Categories
Archives
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Photography Focus: Rare Images of an Irish American Family at War – Irish in the American Civil War on Pvt. Thomas D. Norris, Co. A, 69th NYSM, On the Battle
- Harry Smeltzer on Central Ohio Civil War Roundtable, 4/10/2024
- Savas Beatie on Central Ohio Civil War Roundtable, 4/10/2024
- Rare Images of an Irish American Family at War – Irish in the American Civil War - National Partisan on Pvt. Thomas D. Norris, Co. A, 69th NYSM, On the Battle
- Harry Smeltzer on The 69th New York, Not the 69th New York
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | ||||
1st Minnesota
1st Rhode Island Infantry
2nd New Hampshire
2nd Rhode Island Infantry
2nd South Carolina
2nd Wisconsin
4th Alabama
5th Alabama
6th North Carolina
8th Georgia Infantry
11th New York
13th New York
14th Brooklyn
27th New York
69th NYSM
71st New York
Abraham Lincoln
ACW Books
After Action Reports
Antietam
Articles
Atrocities
Biographies
Blackburn's Ford
Black Horse Cavalry
Blogroll
Bull Runnings Battlefield Tour
C. S. Artillery
Civil War Magazines
Collateral Damage
Digital History
Facebook
Field Trips
Fun Stuff
Gettysburg
Hampton's Legion
Harper's Ferry
History on Film
Hospital Burning
Interviews
Irvin McDowell
JCCW
Jefferson Davis
John Hennessy
Joseph Johnston
Manassas National Battlefield Park
McDowell's Plan
Memoirs
Newspaper Accounts
NPS
Official Correspondence
P. G. T. Beauregard
Philip St. George Cocke
Photos
Preservation
Prisoners
Resources
Reviewing
Robert E. Lee
Robert Selden Garnett
Rob Wheat
Samuel Cooper
Savas-Beatie
Sesquicentennial
Sherman's Battery
Soldier Letters
Soldier Photos
Speaking
Stonewall Jackson
U. S. Artillery
unit histories
William Sherman
Winfield Scott
Writing About The Civil War
Zouaves
Blog Stats
- 1,145,100 hits
Bull Runnings 
Dear Harry Smeltzer,
Can you please share the address and/or email address for Roger D. Hunt? I would like to contact him to correspond about several photographs of one of my relatives he donated to the USAMHI. I have other Civil War soldier photographs he might be interested in.
thank you,
D.P. Bielewicz
LikeLike
Dennis,
I’d like to oblige you, but I’ve never corresponded with Mr. Hunt, and don’t know how to get hold of him.
LikeLike
We are relatives of Captain TJ and Dr. Langston Goree, CSA.
TJ was my grandmother’s (Fannie Brevard Goree) uncle and Dr. Langston was my great grandfather.
LikeLike
We have a post bellum daguerrotype showing all the Goree brothers. Dr. Langston Goree caught a Minie ball in his left hand at Manassas, but persuaded the surgeon to leave him a thumb and 2 adjacent fingers, since he was a dentist. The wounded hand shows in the photo.
LikeLike
Cool, David. If there are any letters or photos you’d like to share to be added to the database here, let me know. Thanks for stopping by.
LikeLike
[…] BLOGROLL & LINKS […]
LikeLike
[…] BLOGROLL & LINKS […]
LikeLike
[…] BLOGROLL & LINKS […]
LikeLike
[…] BLOGROLL & LINKS […]
LikeLike
Harry,
I truly appreciate your link to my humble blog.
LikeLike
[…] BLOGROLL & LINKS […]
LikeLike
Thanks for including me and my blog. All the best.
LikeLike
Hi, I am doing a project for my school on the book “Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter” and am researching fact vs. fiction in the book. On page 272, it describes a young Union private damed Andrew Merrow who wrote to his wife on July 23, 1861 about the events of the battle and the “vampires” he had encountered. According to the book, it was long-thought to be a fiction work but, in reality, it was fact. It also states that this letter is held in the Harvard Archives, though there is no direct evidence of it on their website. Though I know the letter’s contents was fiction (obviously) I was just curious to know if the letter actually existed. Thank you for your time!
LikeLike
Olivia – no, the letter does not exist.
LikeLike
Hello, my name is Helen Nee and I’m a student in Mr.Klisavage’s junior history class. Before the night of my test, I was speaking to my dad about the Civil War, and he told me an interesting story about my family. My dad’s ancestors were Southern plantation farmers in Georgia near Atlanta during the Civil War. My great great great grandfather was ill when Sherman invaded Georgia. His troops came onto his plantation, dragged his bed outside of his home, and then set his plantation on fire. We thought you would enjoy this interesting story!
LikeLike
Hello Helen,
Thanks for taking the time to comment. That’s a cool story to have in your family tree. I encourage you to research it more fully – there is a lot of legend and hyperbole regarding Sherman’s march to the sea (you will see here that Sherman, known as “Cump” or “Uncle Billy” to his men, was a brigade commander in General McDowell’s army, and played a prominent, if less than successful role in the First Battle of Bull Run.) Some is true, some is not, and some falls somewhere on that spectrum of true/not true. If you need help, let me know, but Ancestry.com is a good place to start. Keep me posted.
By the way, your history teacher is pretty cool, too.
Harry
LikeLike
Harry,
Would you mind adding my website which is dedicated to the men of the Fourth Michigan Infantry to you links list? The site is called “Crossing Hell on a Wooden Bridge” and can be viewed by going to: 4thmichigan.wordpress.com
Most of the content of the site shares actual relics, photographs, documents, and the words that they wrote of the war as they saw it. I invite you to visit it in order to have a better idea of it’s content and it’s value to readers such as yours.
Thank you,
George Wilkinson
LikeLike