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CIVIL WAR TIMES AUTUMN 2022
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Antietam Creek and command confusion slowed down
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VETS IN I enjoyed the June issue Gettysburg reunion article.
Here are some photos I have. Grand Army of the
BUFFALO
Republic 31st Encampment, August 23–28, 1897, in
Buffalo, N.Y. My 2x great grandparents Matthew and
Emily Kennedy and his brother David attended. I
believe they are in the fourth row of the group photo, Emily in the big hat
with Matthew on her right, David on her left. A Black veteran sits second
from left, front row. The other photo is of the welcome arch on Buffalo’s main
street. Matthew and David served in the 188th New York Infantry Regiment,
were wounded in the Battle of Hatcher’s Run, recovered, and served until the
end of the war. They were members of G.A.R. Gregory Post 649, in Pratts-
burg, N.Y, and are buried in Italy Hill Cemetery, Yates County, N.Y.
Richard Blakesley
East Bloomfield, N.Y.
MULE SHOE COMMANDERS
tain John MacFarlan, who relieved Lt. “Commanding, Regiment.” In the table
From the “Upton’s Attackers” table in Col. Edward Carroll upon his death at with Jeffry Wert’s article, it reads Lt.
the June 2022 issue’s “Spotsylvania the Wilderness on May 5, led the Sumner H. Lincoln was wounded at
Shock Wave” article by Jeffry Wert, I regiment at the Mule Shoe. Upton the Wilderness and was not in action
was trying to determine who com- does not cite MacFarlan in his after- at Spotsylvania “but later assumed
manded each of the 12 regiments in action report, and no report attributed command of the regiment.” It is not
Emory Upton’s famous attack on the to MacFarlan is in the OR. But accord- evident in the OR and other available
Mule Shoe. Three of the commanders ing to 53rdpvi.org/95th-pennsylvania- sources when Hale assumed command
listed had been killed at the Wilder- volunteer-infantry/a-history-of-the- or when Lt. Lincoln returned to duty.
ness several days earlier. Who actually regiment-1863-to-1864: At the Mule 43rd New York: In the Army of the
commanded the 95th Pennsylvania, the Shoe, “Upton ordered MacFarlan to Potomac’s May 31, 1864, order of
6th Vermont, and the 43rd New York rush the Ninety-fifth to the threatened battle, Lt. Col. James D. Visscher is
at Spotsylvania? Thank you! break, and the men immediately listed as commanding the regiment.
Randy Livingston tramped forward toward the smoking But it is unclear whether Visscher, who Y
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n June 1, 2022, Boston celebrated the restoration of the Robert One of the nation’s first Black regiments, the
Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 54th is most remembered for its valiant
Memorial with a ceremony on the Boston Commons, where the failed assault on Fort Wagner, S.C., on July
monument stands opposite the Boston State House. Begun in 18, 1863. Shaw and many of the troops died
2020, the $3 million restoration included replacement of the in that effort, but Sergeant William Carney,
water-damaged foundation that holds the sculpture and conservation though severely injured, saved the regiment’s
of the high-relief bronze sculpture itself. To honor the restoration, sol- flag. For that effort, he was awarded a Medal
dier reenactors marched to the memorial, originally dedicated in 1897. of Honor,—the first Black soldier to be so
recognized.
Private donors paid for the monument,
which was designed by sculptor Augustus
Saint-Gaudens, who spent nearly 14 years
working on the project. Saint-Gaudens was
insistent on getting small details correct, and
sculpted individual faces using casts he made
of local Black men’s faces.
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