Some Truths about Prentiss and the Hornets' Nest
2020年7月11日 · Prentiss and a group of other prisoners boarded a train that night and headed to Chicago through Harrisburg, PA, Pittsburg and then probably Indianapolis to Chicago. That is a distance of over 700 miles. Prentiss was scheduled to arrive in Chicago on October 20 in time for a planned serenade.
Prentiss, Benjamin M. | Biographic Profiles - We Will Remember
2020年11月18日 · Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss Sr. :us34stars: Born: November 23, 1819 Birthplace: Belleville, Virginia (West Virginia) Father: Henry Leonidas Prentiss 1788 – 1849 Mother: Rebecca Mayberry 1797 – 1850 1st Wife: Margaret Ann Sowdosky 1823 – 1860 (Buried: Woodland Cemetery, Quincy, Illinois)...
General Prentiss capture | Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing
2013年1月6日 · Prentiss and his capture at Shiloh is a pretty fascinating subject. Very head-scratching as to why he was so chatty with his captors, and why he was willing to freely give them so much information about Grant's army and the (apparent) arrival of Buell's army.
Hornets Nest Myth ? | Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing
2019年5月29日 · Where Prentiss crossed the line, in my opinion, was when he ; a) ignored Peabody---other than mentioning he commanded a brigade---taking the credit Peabody deserved for ordering his men to probe and meet the Confederates in Rhea field thus allowing more warning for the Federals; b) downplaying the contribution made by W.H.L Wallace and his ...
3rd Ohio Battery at Shiloh? | Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing
2022年7月5日 · What's interesting is that in the primary accounts I've read from the other two batteries assigned to Prentiss - 1st Minn. Light (Munch) and 5th Ohio Light (Hickenlooper) - I recall literally no mention of them. (The 1st Minn. Light, IIRC, was reassigned from Sherman to Prentiss only on April 4.)
Chrysler, Morgan Henry | Biographic Profiles - We Will Remember
Morgan Henry Chrysler :us34stars: Born: September 30, 1822 Birthplace: Ghent, New York Father: Johannes Chrysler 1798 – 1823 Mother: Frances Prentiss Wife: Amelia Groat 1825 – 1897 Children: Gifford W. Chrysler 1846 – 1901 Occupation before War: Farmer in …
1st Minnesota Battery at Shiloh | Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing
2017年12月9日 · Prentiss was here joined by the Twenty-third Missouri, which gave him about 1,000 men at his third position. With this force he held his line against the attacks of Shaver, Stephens, and Gibson, as described in account of Tuttle's brigade, until 4 p. m. when Hurlbut fell back and Prentiss was obliged to swing his division back at right angles ...
Captain Samuel H. Lockett and his "Scout" to the Union Left and ...
2024年6月18日 · General Prentiss, the time given when he fell into the left of Tuttle and the right of Hurlbut as around 9:00 A.M. Colonel Thomas Sweeny, he gave no times of arrival in his After Action Report, but a Newspaper account from April 18th, 1862, says the 58th Illinois Infantry arrived in the area, the Northern side of Duncan field next to Colonel ...
15th Michigan Infantry at Shiloh | Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing
2017年12月9日 · The 15th Michigan left Moore, Michigan on March 26, 1862, 869 men strong and arrived at Pittsburg Landing on April 5th. They were assigned to join General Prentiss’s Division and camped near Pittsburg Landing that Saturday evening. Rudely awoken by the Confederate attack, the 15th under the...
Two brothers, different sides, both injured | Soldier's Tales
2017年2月5日 · Major Clifton Prentiss of the 6th Maryland Union Volunteers personally led the attack and penetrated the enemy fortifications, only to be shot in the lung. Prentiss's younger brother, William, was one of the Confederate soldiers defending the fortification, and, in the same battle, he received a shell fragment in his knee.