Category Archives: Nimrod Newton Nash

Gettysburg Protests

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Dick Stanley

“Civil War re-enactors and the National Parks Service are bracing for Anti-Confederate—and Antifa—protests July 4th weekend as Gettysburg battlefield and memorial in Pennsylvania celebrates the 154th anniversary of the pivotal battle. “According to local media, rumors are swirling that several … Continue reading →

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Private Edward P. Stanley

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Dick Stanley

My great grandfather Edward P. Stanley in an iPhone camera copy of a tintype photo taken in the late 1850s-early 1860s. The image, as with all tintypes, is reversed. E.P. was a private in the Minutemen of Attala from the … Continue reading →

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Mollie L. Campbell Nash

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Dick Stanley

Minutemen of Attala Private Nimrod Newton Nash’s wife Mollie L. Campbell whom he married in 1855. She was the principal recipient of most of his good letters which lend so much verisimilitude to The Bloody Thirteenth and an understanding of the … Continue reading →

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Nimrod Newton Nash

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Dick Stanley

Newt Nash was a rifleman in the 13th Mississippi whose letters home to his wife Mollie go a long way to illuminating the Civil War from the Confederate viewpoint. Copies of the letters, transcribed by Newt’s descendants, were given to … Continue reading →

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Praise for The Bloody Thirteenth

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Dick Stanley

Elaine F. Boatin, a retired University of Maine literature and writing professor, recently posted a review of our new regimental history on its sales page at Amazon. She is a descendant of the regiment’s Private John Nicholas Ford: “First, a … Continue reading →

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The Sherfy Farm Today

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Dick Stanley

As it looked about this time last year from the approximate point at which Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade began its charge around 6 p.m. on July 2, 1863, the subject of historian Phillip Thomas Tucker’s new book. Tucker thinks Minutemen of … Continue reading →

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Barksdale’s Charge: The True High Tide of the Confederacy…

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Dick Stanley

No descendant of a 13th Mississippi soldier or aficionado of the regiment could fail to be pleased and intrigued by historian Phillip Thomas Tucker’s new book Barksdale’s Charge: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. … Continue reading →

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Visiting a 13th soldier’s Richmond grave

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Dick Stanley

Texan Weldon Nash, Jr., whose ancestor Nimrod Newton Nash wrote so many of the good letters in this digital regimental until he was killed at Gettysburg, recently visited the Richmond grave of Henry T. Nash, another Minute Men private. Henry, … Continue reading →

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