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SusannahDaySprague wrote :   Thanks for the heads up.  I'll have to look at my travel schedule for work, and also to see whether or not I'll be geared up enough to do Perryville.  Everything I'm sorting out to make is on hold until the corset issue is addressed.  The one I have just doesn't fit correctly and I have to have one custom made. $$$ Got back from Sharonville (Northeast of Cincinnati OH) a couple of hours ago, and hated having to leave to get my husband to work on time.  Met a lot of great folks and look forward to meeting them again, hopefully soon.

It was nice to meet you and your husband at Sharon Woods on Saturday.  I've only been a member of the 6th OVI for going on a year and a half and it is indeed a fantastic group.  It would be a pleasure to have you and your husband (if he can get his schedule worked out) join us.

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toptimlrd wrote :I should have known it on the top of my head, but I was having one of those CRS (can't remember stuff)moments.

I have those kind of moments all the time myself, which is why I googled it.  

Linda

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hamiltonjoe1950 wrote :   It was nice to meet you and your husband at Sharon Woods on Saturday.  I've only been a member of the 6th OVI for going on a year and a half and it is indeed a fantastic group.  It would be a pleasure to have you and your husband (if he can get his schedule worked out) join us.

Oh we are definitely joining!  Can't fill out the paperwork at the moment as I am in St. Louis on a business trip, but will be doing so as soon as I get home.  The DH (Darling Husband) was very enthused on the drive back to Union, and, of course, so am I!  

The conference team is leaving for dinner in about fifteen minutes, so I have to skedaddle, but I had to take advantage of the hotel internet connection to see what was new on the forum!

Oh, I hope the cornbread tasted good on Sunday morning!  Next time I'll be glad to bring more along if you'd like me to do so.

Greetings Susannah,
We were glad you could make Sharon Woods and meet our great Company. We have a fine group of soldiers and very good NCOs and a terrific Captain.  
We will be happy to have you with us and you DH with us in the ranks.
On behalf of the Commissary Department, (Me) we thank you for the corn bread. (MMMMM...) We have a number of ladies that bring the troops food, and it is much appreciated. We had home made bread and your corn bread and a bag of ginger snaps.If we did not train so hard we would all get fat.
Again we are glad to have you both join us.
Have a great day and both of you take care of yourselves.
See you both soon.

Your Obedient Servant, Comm. Sgt. Dan Girton , Co A, 6th OVI

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Sink Rat wrote : On behalf of the Commissary Department, (Me) we thank you for the corn bread. (MMMMM...) We have a number of ladies that bring the troops food, and it is much appreciated. We had home made bread and your corn bread and a bag of ginger snaps.If we did not train so hard we would all get fat. Your Obedient Servant, Comm. Sgt. Dan Girton , Co A, 6th OVI

Hello!  "Real Life" bit us badly this summer and so it appeared we slipped off of the face of the earth--or at least this forum.  Very frustrating!  I'm glad to finally get back to the Common Ground.

I'm so glad you enjoyed the cornbread.  One of these days I'm going to need to actually practice cooking it outside in a dutch oven in our fire ring in the back yard.

We had to make a trip back to my husband's home town about two weeks ago and made dedicated effort to visit the gravesites for his ancestors in upstate New York.  Specifically, his Tribe ancestors who are buried in Halsey Valley, NY.  We found two markers there for two great-great-great uncles that we didn't know anything about, one of whom was killed in the Battle of Fair Oaks and is buried near Richmond, and the other for his brother, who was a waggoner, and was discharged shortly after the battle as "disabled", and who died, apparently of his injuries, the following December. The waggoner is actually buried in Halsey Valley.  I can't remember their first names off the top of my head, but when I get home, I'll grab the notes my husband took and update the posting with names, ranks, and the unit.  We are still trying to find out if my husband's Great-great-great grandfather actually fought in the war, but so far, we haven't found any documentation regarding him.  

I'm praying that things improve for us so we can get truly active in reenactment.  I'm still doing a lot of reading about nursing the troops, and I'm simply awed by the work that so many nameless women did over the years of the war to take care of the injured and ill.

Glad to be back!

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SusannahDaySprague wrote : But I really don't know where to start with my research.  Can anyone recommend some books to start with?

Madam:
 Inasmuch as you are contemplating the role of a Union nurse, perhaps the following may be of some help. This is taken from a suggested reading list we offer on the subject of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, but as such, it contains a bit on the topic of nursing. I hope you will find of some help.


Adams, George Washington – Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War – Press of Morningside (1985)
Alcott, Louisa May – Hospital Sketches: An Army Nurse’s True Account of Her Experience During the Civil War – Applewood Books (Modern Reprint- No Date)
Anon. (Wormley, Katherine Prescott) – United States Sanitary Commission: A Sketch of its Purposes and its Works – Little, Brown & Company  (1863)
Attie, Jeanie – Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War – Cornell University Press – (1998)
Austin, Anne L. – The Woolsey Sisters of New York  1860 – 1900 – American Philosophical Society   (1971)
Bains, Rae – Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield – Troll Associates  (1982)
Baker, Nina Brown – Cyclone in Calico: The Story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke – Little, Brown & Company  (1952)
Bennett, Gerald R. – Days of Uncertainty and Dread: The Ordeal Endured by the Citizens at Gettysburg – self published  (1994)
Bollet, Alfred Jay, M.D. – Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs – Galen Press, Ltd.  (2002)
Bremmer, Robert H. – The Public Good: Philanthropy & Welfare in the Civil War Era – Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (1980)
Broadwater, Robert P. – Daughters of the Cause: Women of the Civil War – Daisy Publishing (1993)
Brockett, L.P., M.D. – Woman’s Work in the Civil War – Ziegler, McCurdy & Company (1867)
Brumgardt, John R. (edited by) – Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes – University of Tennessee  (1980)
Cashman, Diane Cobb – Headstrong: The Biography of Amy Morris Bradley, 1823 – 1904: A Life of Noblest Usefulness - Broadfoot Publishing Company (1990)
Censer, Jane Turner – The Papers of Frederick Law Olmstead: Volume IV – Defending the Union 1861 – 1863 – John Hopkins University Press    (1986)
Clinton, Catherine – The Women’s War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War – Cumberland House (1999)
Coco, Gregory A. – A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg, The Aftermath of a Battle   - Thomas Publications      (1995)
Coco, Gregory A. – A Vast Sea of Misery: History and Guide to the Union and Confederate Hospitals at Gettysburg – Thomas Publications   (1988)
Conklin, E.F. – Women at Gettysburg – 1863  - Thomas Publications   (1993)
Conklin, Eileen – The Journal of Women’s Civil War History: From the Home Front to the Front Lines – Thomas Publications (2001)
Cross, Andrew E. – Battle of Gettysburg and the Christian Commission – Toomey Press  (1863 – New Reprint-No Date)
Cumming, Kate – Kate: A Journal of a Confederate Nurse  - Louisiana State University Press (1998)
Dannett, Sylvia G.L. – Noble Women of the North – Thomas Yoseloff (1959)
Denney, Robert E. – Civil War Medicine: Care & Comfort of the Wounded – Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. (1994)
Dreese, Michael A. – The Hospital on Seminary Ridge at the Battle of Gettysburg – McFarland and Company, Inc.  (2002)
Duncan, Louis C., Captain – The Medical Department of the United States Army in the Civil War – Reprint by Olde Soldiers Books, Inc. (no date)
Elliot, E.B. – Mortality and Sickness of the U.S. Volunteer Force 1861-2 (no. 46) – U.S. Sanitary Commission (1862)
Ernst, Kathleen A. – Too Afraid to Cry: Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign – Stackpole Books (199)
Fatout, Paul (Edited by) – Letters of a Civil War Surgeon – Purdue University Press  (1996)
Garrison, Nancy scrïpture – With Courage and Delicacy: Civil War on the Peninsula – Women and the U.S. Sanitary Commission – Savas Publishing Company  (1999)
[g]Giesberg, Judith Ann [/g]– [i]Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women’s Politics in Transition[/i] – Northeastern University Press  (2000)
[g]Ginzberg, Lori D.[/g] – [i]Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the 19th Century U.S.[/i] – Yale University Press (1990)
[g]Goodrich, Frank B.[/g] – [i]The Tribute Book: A Record of the Munificence, Self-Sacrifice and Patriotism of The American People During the War for the Union[/i] – Derby & Miller (1865)
[g]Greenbie, Marjorie Barstow [/g]– [i]Lincoln’s Daughters of Mercy [/i]-  G.P. Putnam’s Sons  (1944)
[g]Hamilton, Leni [/g]– [i]Clara Barton: Founder, American Red Cross [/i]– Chelsea House Publishers  (1988)
[g]Henshaw, Mrs. Sarah Edwards [/g]– [i]Our Branch and Its Tributaries: Being a History of the Work of the Northwestern Sanitary Commission and its Auxiliaries During the War of the Rebellion[/i] – Alfred L. Sewell (1868)
[g]Hoisington, Daniel J.[/g] – [i]Gettsyburg and the Christian Commission [/i]– Edinborough Press (2002)
[g]Holland, Mary Gardner [/g]– [i]Our Army Nurses: Stories From Women in the Civil War [/i]– Edinborough Press (1998)
[g]Jaquette, Henrietta Stratton [/g]– [i]Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863 – 1865 [/i]– Bison Books  (1971)
[g]Joslyn, Mauriel Phillips [/g](edited by) – [i]Valor and Lace: The Roles of Confederate Women 1861 – 1865[/i] – Southern Heritage Press (1996)
[g]Kantor, Alvin Robert & Kantor, Marjorie Sered [/g]– [i]Sanitary Fairs: A Philatelic and Historical Study of the Civil War Benevolences [/i]– Scott Publishing Company   (1992)
[g]Larson, Rebecca D.[/g] – [i]White Roses: Stories of Civil War Nurses[/i] – Thomas Publications (1997)
[g]Livermore, Mary A.[/g] – [i]My Story of the War [/i]– Corner House  (1978)
[g]MacCaskill, Libby & Novak, David [/g]– [i]Ladies on the Field: Two Civil War Nurses from Maine on the Battlefields of Virginia [/i]– Signal Tree Publications  (1996)
[g]Massey, Mary Elizabeth [/g]– [i]Women in the Civil War [/i]– University of Nebraska Press (1966)
[g]Maust, Roland R.[/g] – [i]Grappling With Death: The Union Second Corps Hospital at Gettysburg[/i] – Morningside (2001)
[g]Maxwell, William Quentin [/g]– [i]Lincoln’s Fifth Wheel: The Political History of the U.S. Sanitary Commission[/i] – Longman’s, Green and Company   (1956)
[g]McElroy, John Harmon [/g](edited by) – [i]The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman’s Experiences in the Civil War [/i]– David R. Godine  (1999)
[g]Moore, Frank [/g]– [i]Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice[/i] – Blue/Gray Books (1997)
[g]Mrs. H [/g]– [i]Three Years in Field Hospitals [/i]– J.B. Lippincott & Co.  (1867)
[g]Nightingale, Florence [/g]– [i]Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not[/i] – Buccaneer Books (1978)
[g]Oates, Stephen B.[/g] – [i]A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War[/i] – Free Press (1994)
[g]Patterson, Gerard A.[/g] – [i]Debris of Battle: The Wounded of Gettysburg[/i] – Stackpole Books  (1997)
[g]Pryor, Elizabeth Brown [/g]– [i]Clara Barton: Professional Angel[/i] – University of Pennsylvania Press (1987)
[g]Sanitary Commission, U.S.[/g] – [i]List of Officers & Associates of the USSC in Philadelphia & the Officers & Aids of the Women’s Pennsylvania Branch of the USSC: January 1st, 1864 [/i]– King & Baird Printers (1864)
[g]Sanitary Commission, U.S.[/g] – [i]Our Daily Fare  (Daily Publication of the Great Central Fair at Philadelphia)[/i] – U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864)
[g]Sanitary Commission, U.S.[/g] – [i]Report of the Operations of the Sanitary Commission During and After the Battles at Gettysburg (no. 71)[/i] – U.S. Sanitary Commission (1863)
[g]Sanitary Commission, U.S.[/g] – [i]The Sanitary Commission Bulletin (No.’s 1 – 40)[/i] – published and distributed by the U.S. Sanitary Commission  (1863 – 1865)
[g]Schlaifer, Charles & Freeman, Lucy [/g]– [i]Heart’s Work: Civil War Heroine and Champion of the Mentally Ill; Dorthea Lynde Dix[/i] – Paragon House  (1991)
[g]Snodgrass, Mary Ellen [/g]– [i]Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing [/i]-  ABC CLIO  (1999)
[g]Stillé, Charles J.[/g] – [i]History of the United States Sanitary Commission in the War of the Rebellion[/i] – Corner House Publications  (1997)
[g]Stillé, Charles J.[/g] – [i]Memorial of the Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission[/i] – Philadelphia United States Sanitary Commission (1864)
[g]Straubing, Harold Elk [/g]– [i]In Hospital and Camp: The Civil War Through the Eyes of its Doctors and Nurses [/i]– Stackpole Books  (1993)
[g]Strong, George Templeton [/g](Sanitary Commission Treasurer) – [i]Diary of the Civil War 1860 – 1865 [/i]– MacMillan Company  (1952)
[g]Sullivan, Walter [/g]– [i]The War the Women Lived: Female Voices from the Confederate South[/i] – J.S. Sanders and Company (1995)
[g]Wilbur, C. Keith, M.D.[/g] – [i]Civil War Medicine [/i]– The Globe Pequot Press  (1998)
[g]Williams, William G.[/g] – [i]Days of Darkness: The Gettysburg Civilians [/i]– White Mane Publishing Company   (1986)
[g]Wittenmyer, Annie [/g]– [i]Collection of Recipes of the Use of Special Diet Kitchens in Military Hospitals[/i] – J.M. Carrol & Company (Mattituck & Bryan)  (No Date)
[g]Woolsey (Georgeanna Woolsey Bacon & Eliza Woolsey Howland)[/g] – [i]My Heart Toward Home: Letters of a Family During the Civil War[/i] – Edinborough Press  (2001)
[g]Woolsey, Georgeanna [/g]– [i]Three Weeks at Gettysburg [/i]– Edinborough Press  (1996)
[g]Woolsey, Jane Stuart [/g]– [i]Hospital Days: Reminiscence of a Civil War Nurse [/i]– Edinborough Press  (1996)
[g]Wormeley, Katherine Prescott [/g]– [i]The Other Side of War: On the Hospital Transports with the Army of the Potomac[/i] – Corner House Publications (1998)

Ooops! It appears I must have a bit too much content here for for the bolding and italics to work properly. Sorry about that.
Bob


Again, despite the list being mostly pertaining to the subject of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (forerunner of the American Red Cross & USO), I think you may be able to find some works of interest.
Respectfully,  

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Greetings Susannah,
Glad Your Back.

The 6th Ohio just had a very good living history weekend at Battery Hooper in Northern Kentucky. (Fort Wright)The weather was great and we had a good number of visitors and they had hot dogs and bar-b-que sandwiches and home made ice cream for us both days.  
I also cooked for the troops on Saturday night. We had 3 slow cooked chuck roasts and boiled red potatoes and soft bread.
And Judi B brought home grown tomatoes and some of the best short bread you ever put in your mouth. MMMMMMMMMMM....

We did get in some training and talked to some men who might be interested in joining or merry band.  
The dark side was there also, but in small numbers and they did not stay long.

Real life does rear it's ugly head now and again. We look forward to seeing you and your DH soon. Mid September, we will be at Caesar's Creek. We get to shoot at the dark side then.

Take care of yourselves,
Your Obedient Servant, Sgt. Dan Girton  

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BobWerner wrote :   Madam:  Inasmuch as you are contemplating the role of a Union nurse, perhaps the following may be of some help. This is taken from a suggested reading list we offer on the subject of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, but as such, it contains a bit on the topic of nursing. I hope you will find of some help. <snip> Ooops! It appears I must have a bit too much content here for for the bolding and italics to work properly. Sorry about that. Bob Again, despite the list being mostly pertaining to the subject of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (forerunner of the American Red Cross & USO), I think you may be able to find some works of interest. Respectfully,

Thank you very much for the list.  I'll print it off and take it with me to the library when I go to exchange books.

I truly appreciate how friendly and helpful everyone is here.  

Sincerely,

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SusannahDaySprague wrote :   I'm praying that things improve for us so we can get truly active in reenactment.  I'm still doing a lot of reading about nursing the troops, and I'm simply awed by the work that so many nameless women did over the years of the war to take care of the injured and ill.

If you can do a reenactment at the end of September, and you have an interest in seeing the authentic side of the civilian hobby, there's a rare opportunity that opened up due to a few drop-outs at an event. It would require some travel, but my wife and I are going from Ohio. Events like this only come around a few times a year for civilians anywhere in the country, so this is a rare chance, and I'd dare say it will be more like stepping back in time than any reenactment you've seen. You could portray a relative, my wife's sister or cousin maybe, and hang out with us and we'd help you get ready, so you wouldn't be a newbie all alone.

If you think you might be interested, email me at hanktrent@voyager.net or my wife Linda at lindatrent@zoomnet.net and we can fill you in on the details. The opening isn't being publicly announced, so that's why I can't just post everything here.

By the way, this offer is for anyone else, too, male or female, with a civilian impression.

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net

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hanktrent wrote :   If you can do a reenactment at the end of September, and you have an interest in seeing the authentic side of the civilian hobby, there's a rare opportunity that opened up due to a few drop-outs at an event. It would require some travel, but my wife and I are going from Ohio. Events like this only come around a few times a year for civilians anywhere in the country, so this is a rare chance, and I'd dare say it will be more like stepping back in time than any reenactment you've seen. You could portray a relative, my wife's sister or cousin maybe, and hang out with us and we'd help you get ready, so you wouldn't be a newbie all alone. If you think you might be interested, email me at hanktrent@voyager.net or my wife Linda at lindatrent@zoomnet.net and we can fill you in on the details. The opening isn't being publicly announced, so that's why I can't just post everything here. By the way, this offer is for anyone else, too, male or female, with a civilian impression. Hank Trent hanktrent@voyager.net

Answered offline.