GDG- Re: The role of the Quartermaster Sergeant

Mon Oct 9 18:07:29 CDT 2006

In doing some research for a painting,  I have a question that perhaps 
someone in the group could help me with.  In  battle, where, generally 
speaking, would the quartermaster sergeant be stationed?  And specifically, 
if anyone knows, where would the quartermaster sergeant of the 40th New 
York, Edward Marshall, have been?  Thanks for your help,

Charles Joyce
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> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:50:48 -0400
> From: "Dennis J. Francis" <donncadhf at wowway.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- to be shot to-morrow, as a deserter
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> From: "Dennis Lawrence" <denlaw at kc.rr.com>
>> I am appealed to in behalf of August Blittersdorf, at Mitchells Station,
>> Va. to be shot to-morrow, as a deserter. I am unwilling for any boy under
>> eighteen to be shot; and his father affirms that he is yet under sixteen.
>>
>> Please answer. His Regt. or Co. not given me.
> -----------------------------------
> My curiosity got the better of me and I tried looking him up.
> No August Blittersdorf is listed in the Soldiers and Sailors System; the
> only Blittersdorf is a Charles who was in the 28th OH Inf (not a A of P
> unit).
> Ancestry lists an August B in the pension index, but I'm unsubbed from 
> that
> database so I couldn't find out more.  Census data for 1860-1920 lists an
> August B born Germany whose year of birth ranges from 1846 to 1851; the 
> 1860
> census shows him in Philly, age 12.
> Took a chance he enlisted in a PA unit, so tried the index cards at the PA
> Archives site.  Didn't see him, but there is an August Blitt, who was in 
> Co
> M, 13th PA Cav.  That's all the info there.  Bates says Blitt mustered in 
> 17
> Apr 1863, but is not on muster-out roll.  Maybe this is him, and he got 
> sent
> packing home.
>
> DJ
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>
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> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:16:24 -0400
> From: Kathy Cronin <kcronin at rcn.com>
> Subject: Re: GDG- Which General?
> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
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> Thanks DJ!
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> Dennis J. Francis wrote:
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>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Cronin" <kcronin at rcn.com>
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>>>
>>> Someone is asking me for the link to the "Which General Are You" quiz
>>> that was posted a few months ago.  Does anyone remember it?
>>
>> -----------------------------------
>> Believe it was on the okcupid.com site but they've dropped it.
>>
>> Current history test list: http://www.okcupid.com/tests/list?category=305
>>
>> DJ
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> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 09:45:54 -0400
> From: "John McTague" <jamct at hvc.rr.com>
> Subject: GDG- Civilian photo
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> I'm trying to locate a picture of 1863 civilian Fannie Buehler of 
> Baltimore
> St.
>
> Does anyone know where a copy could be found?
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:42:04 -0600
> From: Dennis Lawrence <denlaw at kc.rr.com>
> Subject: GDG- an immense amount of `sound and fury
> To: gettysburg at gdg.org
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> Monday, October 9, 1848.
> Peoria, IL.
>
>
> Lincoln and J. Y. Scammon speak at courthouse in evening. After chairman
> "designated the spot where he should stand," reported Democratic Free 
> Press
> (October 11, 1848), "Mr. L. blew his nose, bobbed his head, threw up his
> coat tail, and in the course of two hours was delivered of an immense
> amount of `sound and fury'." He defends Taylor's seeming lack of 
> principles
> and urges Free Soil men to support Taylor rather than Van Buren.
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:58:23 +0000
> From: mdblough1 at comcast.net (Margaret D. Blough)
> Subject: Re: GDG- an immense amount of `sound and fury
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> Not to mention being a rather elegant insult; the full quote, from Act 5, 
> Scene 5 of Macbeth, has Macbeth saying
> "it is a tale
> Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
> Signifying nothing."
>
> Regards,
>
> Margaret
>
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: Dennis Lawrence <denlaw at kc.rr.com>
>
>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>>
>>
>> Monday, October 9, 1848.
>> Peoria, IL.
>>
>>
>> Lincoln and J. Y. Scammon speak at courthouse in evening. After chairman
>> "designated the spot where he should stand," reported Democratic Free 
>> Press
>> (October 11, 1848), "Mr. L. blew his nose, bobbed his head, threw up his
>> coat tail, and in the course of two hours was delivered of an immense
>> amount of `sound and fury'." He defends Taylor's seeming lack of 
>> principles
>> and urges Free Soil men to support Taylor rather than Van Buren.
>>
>>
>>
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> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 11:11:32 EDT
> From: FannieCAC at aol.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- Civilian photo
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> In a message dated 10/9/2006 9:48:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jamct at hvc.rr.com writes:
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> I'm  trying to locate a picture of 1863 civilian Fannie Buehler of 
> Baltimore
> St.
>
>
>
> ========
>
> Well, there's one on the wall in the Visitors' Center, IIRC...   I'm at my
> parents', so I don't have it with me, but try FIRESTORM AT GETTYSBURG  - 
> there
> may be one in there.
>
> Sherrie
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