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    Into the Piney Woods Impressions

    All,

    A quick note to start your minds to turning as you watch football and feast on turkey in the company of friends and family.

    Our guiding impressions for Into the Piney Woods are as follows:

    Confederate- 28th Louisiana, Gray's Brigade, Mouton's Division

    Union- 22nd Iowa, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 13th Corps

    Both were fine units who gave good account of themselves on several severely contested fields. For five days in March of '09 we'll walk in their footsteps and get a glimpse of what they experienced.

    Kind regards,
    Fred Baker

    "You may call a Texian anything but a gentleman or a coward." Zachary Taylor
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  • #2
    Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

    I can't wait Fred!! I am excited about doing a Louisiana soldier's impression. I need another BGR.

    Pards, Bill.
    Bill Treadway
    Co. A First Texas Infantry
    Co. A Forty-Fifth Mississippi Infantry
    Co. D Eighth Missouri Infantry (CS)

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    • #3
      Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

      Well I did Red River 1 and poured blood & flesh outta my brogans so this sounds right up my alley! Bring on the ticks & the mudbugs!

      Ted Parrott
      "Humbug"
      Edward Anthony Parrott
      "Humbug"

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      • #4
        Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

        Been wanting to do an Iowa unit for sometime. As a friend of mine would say, "OUTSTANDING." I starting to pray right now, that work doesn't screw me.
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        • #5
          Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

          One of the cool things about the 22nd Iowa is that they actually list several killed and wounded during this period prior to Mansfield - they were at the point of the spear as it were. Great job by Tom and Fred in picking these two hard fighting (and marching) units. There is beaucoup info on the 28th LA from the QM of Gray's Brigade - supply, movement, etc. It is a fantastic read - The Reminisences of Uncle Silas, Silas T. Grisamore, 18th Louisiana Infantry. Grisamore had risen to Brigade QM by the Red River Campaign. it is a witty and very informative book.
          Soli Deo Gloria
          Doug Cooper

          "The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner

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          • #6
            Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

            Fred, if I can recall the 28th Louisiana was from the Pleasant Hill area...correct me if I'm wrong. I know a number of post war graves are scattered throughout the area are of men who served in the 28th.

            Kind Regards,
            Last edited by Cfarrell; 11-26-2007, 11:19 AM. Reason: Spell'in
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            • #7
              Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

              Cody,
              The men of the 28th Louisiana were from Bienville, Jackson, Winn and Claiborne Parishes. All four parishes are in northcentral Louisiana. These men were from the piney woods and few owned slaves with the prominent occupations being subistent farmers, hunters, trappers and fishermen. In another words, they were backwoodsmen. Company G was from Winn Parish and Winn Parish was openly hostile to Confederate conscription officers and tax collectors.

              Grisamore's book is an excellent read. His tongue in cheek praise of conscripts and shirkers and the hot blood seccessionist from New Orleans who just couldn't find time to actually serve in the army are classic!
              Tom Yearby
              Texas Ground Hornets

              "I'd rather shoot a man than a snake." Robert Stumbling Bear

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              • #8
                Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

                Thanks Tom. I kind of felt after I had posted that I got my units mixed up.

                Regards,
                Last edited by Cfarrell; 11-26-2007, 01:45 PM.
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                • #9
                  Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

                  One good thing about both the 22nd Iowa and the 28th Louisiana is they were both made up of hardy lads from the same side of the big river and thus tough fellows.
                  Last edited by Old Reb; 11-26-2007, 12:13 PM.
                  Tom Yearby
                  Texas Ground Hornets

                  "I'd rather shoot a man than a snake." Robert Stumbling Bear

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                  • #10
                    Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

                    Tom or Fred, Is there any thing to read on the 22nd Iowa, along the lines of Edward Newsomes book on the 81 Ill.?
                    Rob Murray

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                    • #11
                      Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

                      Yes. The 22nd was well documented. Seven of the ten companies we recruited out of Iowa City/Johnson County.(This just happens to be my hometown) With the University of Iowa and the State Historical Society located in town the number of resources are endless. I am going December 15th to do some research.

                      As far as books. Try Camp Pope Bookstore.
                      Camp Pope Publishing
                      http://www.camppope.com/
                      Book publishing services

                      It is an online bookstore devoted to the Trans-Mississippi. Just so it happens to be located right here in Iowa City. Clark is a good guy and he will help you with whatever you need. Camp Pope Bookstore is named after the training camp of the 22nd here in Iowa City. There is a marker, placed in 1926 to dedicate the spot. The City High football team played games there until roughly the
                      1940's, the soccer team plays there now and Longfellow school is now located on the site.

                      We have been waiting a LONG TIME to portray the 22nd and to finally portray an Iowa regiment. Nothing against the Hoosiers, Badgers, Suckers and Buckeyes but we Hawkeyes seem to get the major shaft when it comes to reenactments.
                      A very proud Hawkeye!
                      Nathan Hellwig
                      AKA Harrison "Holler" Holloway
                      "It was the Union armies west of the Appalachians that struck the death knell of the Confederacy." Leslie Anders ,Preface, The Twenty-First Missouri

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                      • #12
                        Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

                        You're right about not seeing too many events doing Iowa impressions. Seems to be the same for Missouri Federal impresssions.
                        Michael Comer
                        one of the moderator guys

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                        • #13
                          Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

                          Yep, I'm thinking 1st Iowa, 30th Iowa, and 35th Iowa pretty much sum up the only Hawkeye impressions I've ever enjoyed, but then again, I don't get out much. The MHG is kinda-sorta like Iowa in a loaner bayonet sort of way at Athens, and um,....never mind. :-)
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                            Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

                            With the age of most of us in the hobby I thought we might be the 37th Iowa, "The Greybeard Reg't"?....:)
                            Dusty Lind
                            Running Discharge Mess
                            Texas Rifles
                            BGR Survivor


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                            • #15
                              Re: Into the Piney Woods Impressions

                              I am not ready for the Greybeards yet. :) Curtis King was 80 years old when he enlisted. Start recruiting at the old folks home.

                              I would some day like to portray the 21st Missouri at an event. They were the 1st NE Missouri Home Guard at Athens.

                              This winter I am going to write a history of the 22nd and Civil War Iowa City.
                              Nathan Hellwig
                              AKA Harrison "Holler" Holloway
                              "It was the Union armies west of the Appalachians that struck the death knell of the Confederacy." Leslie Anders ,Preface, The Twenty-First Missouri

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