GDG- "a year since the articles reappeared"

[Tom Gilbert]

JD:
  I sold an article to Blue & Gray magazine in 1995 .. it appeared in the April issue that year .. from what you just said below, can I now post it online if I want to? I had thought it was their property now.
  Tom Gilbert

"J. David Petruzzi" <jaydee at pennswoods.net> wrote:
  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


Thanks, Steve - if anyone would like reprints of that article or the one
from 2005 on Buford at Gettysburg, just let me know.

It's been over a year since the articles appeared, so I have the right to
have them duplicated anywhere - perhaps the Brothers Lawrence may want them
for the GDG site?

J.D.

J. David Petruzzi
My blog: http://petruzzi.wordpress.com
My book: http://www.stuartsride.com


>>Mike,

Here is a map of the fight at Fairfield that I did to accompany J.D.
Petruzzi's article that was in America's Civil War mag approximately a year
ago.

This should help answer any questions on the fight.

Steve Stanley

http://www.infofromdata.com/Downloads/Gettysburg_July_3rd_Fairfield_Cavalry_
Fight.jpg

http://www.infofromdata.com/Downloads/Gettysburg_July_3rd_Fairfield_Cavalry_
Fight.pdf>>




----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Stanley" 
To: "GDG" 
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: GDG- Some quick questions for the Calvary experts!


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> Mike,
>
> Here is a map of the fight at Fairfield that I did to accompany J.D.
> Petruzzi's article that was in America's Civil War mag approximately a
> year
> ago.
>
> This should help answer any questions on the fight.
>
> Steve Stanley
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Nugent" 
> To: "'GDG'" 
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:33 AM
> Subject: RE: GDG- Some quick questions for the Calvary experts!
>
>
>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>>
>> Ok Quick Calvary questions:
>>
>> 1. Battle of Fairfield- THat was Grumble Jones vs the US 6th Calvary.
>> Where
>> around Fairfield did they fight? ANy markers? Casuallties? Now the 6th
>> was
>> with Merritt the reserve brigade of Buford. I know they were at
>>
>> Mechanicstown on the 1st of July to protect the passes?? Where in MD is
>> that
>> located . Is there still a Mechanicstown today? Merritt came up to
>> Gettysburg eventually- he apparently tried to outflank Law and failed
>>
>> (because he chose to dismount). Was the 6th Calvary at Fairfield during
>> this
>> time or did they rejoin Merritt.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Mike,
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>>
>>
>> In addition to the War Department markers that J.D. mentions along the
>> Fairfield-Ortanna (Carroll's Tract) Road, a very nice fieldstone
>> farmhouse,
>> the Hugh Culbertson Farm (on the same road), also has a marker in front
>> of
>> it (erected by the Hospital and Healthsystem Assoc. of PA) noting that it
>> served as a temporary field hospital for the 6th US Cavalry on July 3rd,
>> 1863.
>>
>>
>>
>> Additionally, I have a slight disagreement with the number of casualties
>> J.D. reported. Of the 400 troopers engaged (the regiment went into the
>> fight under strength as it had detached a squadron for duty with
>> Pleasonton's headquarters) the 6th US suffered 242 troopers killed,
>> wounded
>> or captured. As a personal aside, one of these was my G-G-Grandfather,
>> one
>> of the wounded troopers treated at the Culbertson farm.
>>
>>
>>
>> The fight at Fairfield is well worth a side trip when you're in
>> Gettysburg.
>> Much of the ground is still as it was in 1863. Eric Wittenberg's
>> "Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions" has a chapter on Fairfield that
>> does a good job of laying out the action.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike Nugent
>>
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