GDG- A Question on the Bachelder papers

[cameron2 at optonline.net]

<<   Coddington talks about that in the preface to his work.  He states that 
Bachelder disappeared from the scene after his death in 1894.  He says 
that  when he asked about him at the GNMP in the early 60's no one was sure 
who he was.   >>

Which, when you think of how pervasive Bachelder's influence was during his time, is almost astounding.  The sad thing is that the surviving documents represent only a portion of what he had amassed.  If memory serves me right, a large part of his papers were stored in a barn, and destroyed in a fire.  These included such priceless items as notebooks of his early interviews with veterans of the battle.