Fifty-First Illinois Infantry: Additions to Site

Additions to Site

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February 15, 2021 - William Edward Henry's New Book (2021) Civil War Diaries & Letters
September 27, 2009 - Charles Merrick, Co G; The 11-05-1862 Picket War
August 30, 2009 - To New Madrid, Feb-March 1862: T. J. Ames Letter
August 30, 2009 - Main Page. Memento: "The Grave of a Stranger Boy"
August 23, 2009 - The Sims Twins of Company C
August 9, 2009 - More on Building the Fifty-First (Formation of the Regiment Tab)
August 2, 2009 - How Big Was the Fifty-First Illinois?
July 26, 2009 - George Bellows: Major, Posthumously :: Sanford Perry Letter: Bellows Demise and Hope for the Majority of the Regiment
July 19, 2009 - 2 Updates: Theodore Brown: A Jail Sentence : : John McWilliams: The Regiment's Richest Man
July 18, 2009 - Updated: Shellenberger Tells More of the 51st at Kennesaw Mt.
July 12, 2009 - First Regimental Colors Presented at Farmington MS
June 29, 2009 - William Tidmarsh: The Bandleader and His Band
June 27, 2009 - Chaplain Raymond Letter: Railroad Guard, Aug 1862
June 24, 2009 - George Waterman: Augmented Biographical Sketch
June 20, 2009 - Thomas Lester: Building a New Company, Aug 1862
June 13, 2009 - Augmented List of Regiment's Prisoners of War
June 1, 2009 - George Hicks, Company A
May 23, 2009 - Frederick Siebert, Company K
May 17, 2009 - New Madrid, March 1862: A Note & Raymond's Letter
May 10, 2009 - Lieutenant Colonel Samuel B. Raymond
May 1, 2009 - Historical Memoranda Part III: Missionary Ridge to Reenlistment
April 25, 2009 - Daniel Ebert, Company K
April 21, 2009 - Historical Memoranda Part II: Stone's River to Chickamauga
April 19, 2009 - Thomas C. Gregg: An Incident of Franklin
April 12, 2009 - Mathew Romine: Biog. Sketch & 1861 Letter
April 10, 2009 - Captain John McWilliams: Enlarged Biographical Sketch
April 5, 2009 - More links on main page. Memento: Charles Wills, I haven't killed anybody yet.
April 2, 2009 - Historical Memoranda: From Organization of Regiment to Stone's River.
March 29, 2009 - To Fort Pillow & Pittsburg Landing, April 1862 (1862 Tab)
March 18, 2009 - The 51st on the Retreat from Pulaski to Nashville: Part I (Pulaski, Spring Hill, Franklin)
March 17, 2009 - Surgeon Thomas Magee
March 16, 2009 - Viniard Field - Chickamauga Photograph — Main Page
March 15, 2009 - April 1862, Island No. 10 to Hamburg Landing: Letter of Henry Buck
March 14, 2009 - Merritt Lewis, His Wartime Notes
March 9, 2009 - Albert Coe: The Second Quartermaster
March 8, 2009 - A Memento: The Fifty-First's First Colors — Main Page
March 8, 2009 - 3 More McBride Letters: 5-22-62 :: 6-13-62 :: 8-2-63
March 7, 2009 - Edward L. Tabler: A Photo
March 1, 2009 - 5 New McBride Letters: 11-16-62 :: 12-9-62 :: 3-3-63 :: 3-22-63 :: 4-6-63
February 21, 2009 - Col. Bradley Letter: Stones River
February 17, 2009 - Adjutant Hall: Just before Stones River
February 15, 2009 - Martin Riley: Back from Andersonville & Florence
February 14, 2009 - Graveyard: Capt. Theodore Brown ~ Capt John McWilliams
February 11, 2009 - Otis Moody's Account of Stones River: Part III
February 10, 2009 - Hiram Schoonover, Company F
February 8, 2009 - Henry Howland: Amplified Biographical Sketch; Obituary
February 7, 2009 - Howland's Quartermaster's Trunk: A Rare Artifact
February 4, 2009 - Otis Moody's Account of Stones River: Part II
January 31, 2009 - Otis Moody's Account of Stones River: Part I
January 26, 2009 - Printed Co G Roster, November 1863
January 15, 2009 - 51st at Kennesaw: What Was Sherman Thinking?
January 4, 2009 - James Skidmore: Company F Bids Good-Bye
December 29, 2008 - Millard Bowker, the Youngest
December 9, 2008 - Edward Hull aka Henry Davis
November 22, 2008 - A Memento: A Story of Col. Ed. Hatch, 2nd Iowa Cavalry (Main Page)
November 20, 2008 - Lt. Cummings: Death of Pvt. John McBride
November 10, 2008 - Daniel Flott, John & George Rambo, Co. C
October 31, 2008 - George Yuncker, "All But Shot to Pieces"
October 21, 2008 - Halladay, Co E - Dieter, Co B - Smedley, Company F
October 18, 2008 - J.L. McBride: 19 Letters, 1862-3
October 16, 2008 - Orson Butler, Company D
October 8, 2008 - David Walton, Company E: "Broken Down"
October 3, 2008 - Allen Eastburn, Company C
August 30, 2008 - Mark Cooper, Company F
August 28, 2008 - A Memento: The Officer's Other Name (Main Page)
August 16, 2008 - Joseph Caise, Company C
August 14, 2008 - William Nicholson, Co. H, Port Byron IL
August 2, 2008 - Franklin: Atwater's Account; Our Notes
July 21, 2008 - James Gilchrist, Company B
July 1, 2008 - A Memento: A Stubborn Rebel (Main Page)
June 7, 2008 - Jasper Newton Moore, Company C
May 19, 2008 - Oliver P. Yelton, Company B
May 12, 2008 - George Hoel, Co. C: His Two Letters
May 5, 2008 - Biographical Sketch of Harris Winterringer, Co E
March 25, 2008 - Chickamauga, Version 3.01 (Fuller, Truer, Better)
March 5, 2008 - Hermann Mengershausen, Company F
February 9, 2008 - Mementos of the 51st and the War: Volume 3
January 31, 2008 - Port Byron Graves: Buried Back Home (Biog. Sketches)
January 25, 2008 Restructured main page. Memento: "Just the Word"
January 20, 2008 - Regiment's Men Buried at Corinth and Pittsburg Landing
December 27, 2007 - A Dispute between Colonels
December 26, 2007 - A Rewrite of the Regiment's History on the First Day of Chickamauga
December 7, 2007 - Hetfield, 1866: Selling In-Memory-Of's
November 21, 2007 - Theo Eads: One of Last to Leave Andersonville
November 16, 2007 - Thompson of Company K Gives Account of 51st at Stones River
November 10, 2007 - Col. Cumming's Resignation, Sept 1862
October 20, 2007 - 51st at Stones River, December 1862, in Brief
October 20, 2007 - Graveyard: Anthony, Bailie, Davis, Lewis, Stott
September 17, 2007 - Historical Memoranda, March 1864 to August 1865, compiled by Major James Boyd and Lieutenant Cyrus Anthony
September 16, 2007 - Edward Tabler's grave, Aux Sable Cemetery, Grundy County, Illinois
August 11, 2007 - Holbert: First Man Disabled by Wounds
July 28, 2007 Mementos of the 51st and the War, Two
July 15, 2007 - Photos: James Stott, Harrison Renner, Leonard Wolfe
June 16, 2007 - Chickamauga: Tell Lucien's Sisters (Chaplain to Clarissa McBride upon death in battle of John Lucien McBride)
May 29, 2007 - Mementos of the 51st and the War, One
May 25, 2007 - Site Map - Site Table of Contents
May 22, 2007 - James Sedgwick: Deserted Twice (or Not)
May 18, 2007 - Geo. Waterman: Sturdy men are scattered all through the land
May 14, 2007 - Genung at Franklin: He did not get to the second line
May 13, 2007 - Albert Eads: Conductor Captured
May 3, 2007 - 1885 letter from 51st Illinois soldier upon visit to Chattanooga.
April 23, 2007 - Biog Sketches: Cyrus Anthony, Adolphus Minard, Jacob Shirts, Theodore Brown, Silas Cummings
April 21, 2007 - A Somber Detail: Finding Otis Moody
April 6, 2007 - James Stovall: As Though I Had Never Been a Slave
March 28, 2007 - Lewis Raymond: The Chaplain's Small Crimes
March 26, 2007 - Lyman Needham: Letters from Danville Prison
March 25, 2007 - From Andersonville to Feasting: Gilbert Bailie & His Brothers
March 24, 2007 - New Pictures: Men of the Regiment
March 16, 2007 - Losing Robert Tilton: Death by Disease in the 51st Illinois
March 10, 2007 - Frederick Grabbe, Co. G: From Hanover to Abana Spring
February 27, 2007 - Thaddeus Waters Andersonville momento on home page.
And, a Tenth Illinois section on regimental reenlistment politics added to the "Reenlistment" history of the Fifty-First on the Regimental History Page.
February 26, 2007 - General David Stanley's Story of Wm. Greenwood's Life
February 9, 2007 - Biographical Sketch of Captain George Bellows, Co. F
January 28, 2007 - Expanded Re-Ordered List of Soldiers of 51st Held in CSA Prisons
January 25, 2007 - Tiny Biography of Lt. Wm Morton, Co. E
January 23, 2007 - National Tribune section on main page. And, William Greenwood Letter, May 17, 1863
December 31, 2006 - Biographical Sketch and Photos of Captain William Greenwood.
December 1, 2006 - Biographical Sketches of Lt. Col. Charles Davis and Lt. Albert Eads.
November 22, 2006 - New Improved Misc. Notes on Chickamauga, Version 3.
November 15, 2006 - Photo of Gravestone of Col. L. P. Bradley at Arlington Natl. Cem.
November 6, 2006 - A Persimmon Tree: The 51st in Confederate Prisons.
October 26, 2006 - Two Tiltons: Albert and Robert.
October 22, 2006 - Partial list of members of regiment who were held in Confederate prisons.
October 14, 2006 - Beginning pieces on the regiment at Chickamauga.
October 11, 2006 - Biographical Notes, Gravesite: Pvt. George Wing, Co. C.
October 10, 2006 - Three 1862 Letters of Lt. Henry Buck, Co. K.
October 8, 2006 - Biographical Notes: Lt. Henry Buck, Co. K.
October 3, 2006 - Autobiographical sketch by Col. Luther Bradley.
October 1, 2006 - Louis Genung & Eli Harrington, Company H. Tiny biographies and gravesite pictures.
September 2, 2006 - William Mee died of sunstroke at Andersonville Prison in Georgia. A picture of his Andersonville grave, #6266.
August 22, 2006 - William Lindy of Company H was shot in the face at Chickamauga, captured, and died nine months later at Andersonville. A picture of his Andersonville grave, #1685.
August 2, 2006 - A vermilion section on regimental reenlistment politics added to the "Reenlistment" history of the Fifty-First on the Regimental History Page.
July 25, 2006 - A set of reenlistment papers for Fredrick Grabbe of the Fifty-First Illinois - typical of thousands of others at national and state archives. Updated figures sprinkled through the "Reenlistment" section of the Regimental History page. At the very top of the Regimental History page, the Illinois Adjutant General requests "compact" regimental histories (July 1865).
July 21, 2006 - Biographical notes on Col. Luther Bradley
July 19, 2006 - A page of regimental photographs
July 12, 2006 - Additions to "Organization of the Regiment" section of the Regimental History page: November 1861 letter from Col. G.W. Cumming to C.C.C. Carr regarding cavalry recruitment
June 25, 2006 - Additions to "Organization of the Regiment" section of the Regimental History page, including sketches of Camp Douglas where the Fifty-First Illinois trained
June 24, 2006 - Lt. Col. Luther P. Bradley's 1862 Regimental Journal
June 1, 2006 - Augmented "reenlistment" chapter on the Regimental History page, including information from Captain Albert Tilton's letters and the Governor of Vermont's thoughts on simmered-down regiments
May 30, 2006 - Additions to "Organization of the Regiment" section of the Regimental History page
May 28, 2006 - Notes on Private Edward Tabler's personality, by William Edward Henry; on the Private Tabler page
May 27, 2006 - William Edward Henry's extensive notes and comments on Tabler's diaires; on the Private Tabler page
May 25, 2006 - Tabler's unedited diary, Book I, now incorporates the Adjutant General's history - and gives it substance; on the Private Tabler page
May 12, 2006 - "Something More than Decimation" - Lt. Col. Luther Bradley letter of November 29, 1862
May 9, 2006 - Section, on Regimental History page, devoted to reenlistment of and recruitment for the regiment in Winter 1864
April 28, 2006 - Tabler's Diary in a transcription which is not edited for spelling and punctuation
April 23, 2006 - Private Tabler's letters now appear in a format that preserves Tabler's original spelling and line breaks. These unedited versions are appended to the versions transcribed and edited (for spelling and punctuation) by William Edward Henry
April 22, 2006 - Private Tabler's Obituary, Biographical Sketch of Tabler's Father Nathaniel, Fascinating Early History of Tabler-Cryder-Walley Settlement in Grundy County, Illinois, 1833
April 17, 2006 - A Dead Soldier Deserts: Thomas Hayes Letters on Documenting the 51st Page
April 12, 2006 - Engraving in Murrell Essay on Private Tabler Page
April 11, 2006 - Two Tabler Letters on Private Tabler Page
April 10, 2006 - October 1863 - June 1864 of Tabler Diary
April 9, 2006 - Months March through September of Tabler's 1863 Diary; Piece on Alfred Kaieser Lansdown
April 8, 2006 - Portions of Edward Tabler's 1863 Diary
April 5, 2006 - Modifications to Colonel Gilbert Cumming Mini-Biography
April 2, 2006 - July-December 1862 Diary of Private Edward L. Tabler; Col. Gilbert W. Cumming biographical information
March 31, 2006 - January-June 1862 Diary of Private Edward L. Tabler
March 25, 2006 - Regimental History Page
March 19, 2006 - William Edward Henry, Essay on John Murrell, the Great Western Land Pirate
March 5, 2006 - Private Edward L. Tabler's Genealogy; Private Edward Burns Diary
March 4, 2006 - Martin V. Riley's Account of Confinement in Confederate Prisons
March 1, 2006 - Tabler's Itinerary
February 27, 2006 - Burns Court Martial Papers, John Ekstrand letter of November, 1863
February 25, 2006 - William Gardner, "Decoration: Some Footprints of the Army of the Cumberland"
February 23, 2006 - Henry Howland Letter, April 17, 1862, Steamer D.G. Taylor, Mississippi River
February 23, 2006 - Private Tabler page; Tabler letter dated March 3, 1863, Murfreesboro
February 21, 2006 - George Sylvester letter, dated Feb. 8, 1863, regarding Stones River
February 19, 2006 - Fifty-First Illinois Infantry website established

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