Category Archives: The Kemper Legion

Reprise: One of the Immortal Six Hundred

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Dick Stanley

While the 13th regiment was in the Shenandoah Valley, on Sept. 7, 1864, Third Lieutenant Absalom H. Farrar of the Kemper Legion arrived at Morris Island in the harbor opposite Charleston, SC. He was to become one of what the … Continue reading →

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Americus Mitchell Gill

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Dick Stanley

Gill was a private of the Kemper Legion who was captured twice, the first time at Fredericksburg in 1862, and, after having been exchanged, again at Spotsylvania in 1864. That time he spend a year at Fort Delaware prison until … Continue reading →

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The Bradley brothers at Gettysburg

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Dick Stanley

The Civil War blog Battlefield Back Stories has a poignant tale of the Bradley brothers, John and George, who were killed at Gettysburg. Both had started out in the Winston Guards of Louisville, Mississippi, as had their younger brother, Joseph, … Continue reading →

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Captured at Saylor’s Creek

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Dick Stanley

One hundred and forty-eight years ago this morning, on a cloudy Thursday, the Army of Northern Virginia fought its last battle. It was little more than a skirmish, actually, though it extinguished Humphreys’ Mississippi Brigade and most of the 13th … Continue reading →

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One of the Immortal Six Hundred

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dick Stanley

While the 13th regiment was in the Shenandoah Valley, on Sept. 7, 1864, Third Lieutenant Absalom H. Farrar of the Kemper Legion arrived at Morris Island in the harbor opposite Charleston, SC. He was to become one of what the … Continue reading →

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Battles: Cold Harbor

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Dick Stanley

On the night of May 31, 1864, the First Corps, including the 13th Mississippi Regiment, marched for Cold Harbor. Plans called for getting onto Grant’s left flank and rolling it up while the rest of Lee’s army attacked Grant’s front. … Continue reading →

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One deserter and two patriots

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Dick Stanley

The fortunes of the regiment and, indeed, the Confederacy, were declining in the spring of 1864, but the men were affected in different ways, according to records gathered by independent historian Jess N. McLean. Professor T. Dwight Nutting, leader of … Continue reading →

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The 13th’s POWs

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Dick Stanley

Camp Chase Prison, then on the western outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, was not the worst Union prisoner of war camp. Some say that distinction goes to Point Lookout, in Maryland. But overcrowding and little food encouraged diseases such as smallpox … Continue reading →

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