Confederate Pioneers?

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Confederate Pioneers?

06-04-2008, 04:31 PM

Does anyone have any pictures, accounts, or information on Confederate Pioneers?
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Chad

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06-05-2008, 08:05 PM

Re: Confederate Pioneers?

A couple of contemporary drawings showing CS pioneers are attached. The first shows CS troops entering York, Pa. prior to Gettysburg.The second shows a fatigued pioneer of the 26th NC asleep on his shovels along the Chickahominy in 1864.For more info, read John Casler's "Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade." He spent a bit of time in this service from Chancellorsville onward and his perspectives are enlightening.

Bob Williams
26th North Carolina Troops
Blogsite: http://26nc.org/blog/

As [one of our cavalry] passed by, the general halted him and inquired "what part of the army he belonged to." "I don't belong to the army, I belong to the cavalry." "That's a fact," says [the general], "you can pass on." Silas Grisamore, 18th Louisiana
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