GDG- 1st Rhode Island article

[Eric J. Wittenberg]

J.D.,

It certainly wouldn't be the first time that that happened.....

Eric

On Jul 23, 2007, at 10:52 PM, J. David Petruzzi wrote:

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> Tom,
>
> I haven't yet read that article, but based on what you say, it  
> appears the
> author actually knew very little about the episode before writing  
> about it.
> Most of us very familiar with the 1st RI Cav and their thrashing,  
> Duffie,
> and Alf and Kil's scheming, would know those details.
>
> Sounds like Grandchamp may have been writing about something he wasn't
> qualified to...
>
> J.D.
>
> J. David Petruzzi
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>
>
>>> Just finished reading "'Our Regiment Has Just Been Cleaned Up':   
>>> The 1st
> Rhode Island Cavalry at Middleburg" by Robert Grandchamp in the  
> latest issue
> of Gettysburg Magazine.  While interesting, I was a little  
> disappointed in
> some aspects of the article.
>
> In providing the background of Col. Alfred Duffie, the author  
> either was
> unaware of or chose to ignore Eric Wittenburg's article in North &  
> South
> Magazine that revealed some of the fabrications regarding his  
> background and
> training that Duffie invented when he came to America and joined  
> the Union
> army.
>
> In addition, the article does not go into enough depth about the
> responsibility of Union cavalry leaders Kilpatrick and Pleasonton for
> hanging the 1st Rhode Island out to dry at Middleburg.  This  
> situation was
> frought with inside-the-military politics, and xenophobia on the  
> part of
> American-born officers, particularly Pleasonton.
>
> Not that Duffie wasn't responsible for his own fate in many ways,  
> yet the
> other side of the story needs to accompany that aspect in order to  
> get a
> complete picture.
>
> Also note that for some reason references to the OR in the  
> footnotes cites
> Volume 26 rather than 27.  This may just have been a typo, but it is
> repeated.
>
> Tom>>
>
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