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The Regimental Meeting 2013
The Regimental Meeting Heritage CenterSpringfield, Ohio March 2, 2013 Finally, we take a look at the year ahead of us. Capt. Sharp opened the meeting with a review of 2012, going through each of the events that were on the 1st Tennessee’s schedule and bringing up what was remembered about them. Ten events were up…
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The Wall
Fredericksburg, VA December 8, 2012 The last event of the season finally arrived and I began my long trek to Fredericksburg, Virginia crammed into a Ford Explorer with three other guys and their gear. I joined Quinn Marcotte, Charles Russ, with Butch Foster in his SUV. It was a long 11-hour trip with Butch arguing…
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Guyandotte and Weenie Dogs
Guyandotte WV 2012 November 3-4, 2012 Sgt Mergle getting carried off the battlefield. He was dropped four times.photo courtesy Toril Lavender For The Herald-Dispatch Cpl Carte and I arrived early on Friday at Guyandotte WV to get settled in and kick back for the rest of the day. It was around 2 when we pulled up…
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Fallen Friend
October 27, 2012 One of our beloved comrades in arms suffered a heart attack. Last week, Gary Shaw, former 1st Sergeant of the 1st Tennessee Company B, was admitted to Mount Carmel East in Columbus, Ohio. A few of us visited him after the Ohio Leadership Conference. He is doing fine, and is expected to…
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Gone with the Windy Shiloh of Indiana
Hartford City IN October 13-14, 2012 Hartford City was always one of my largest events every year, and I had probably attended that last six years there. But going there just a week after Perryville seemed anti-climatic. None of the 1stTennessee joined me to continue recovering from the onslaught experienced at Perryville (or perhaps they…
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The First National
Perryville Battle, 150th Commemoration Perryville KY I grew up in Ohio, and my idea of seafood was something from Red Lobster. It was something passable for supper, but stank fishy. But then I visited Barcelona, Spain, and had fish fresh from the Mediterranean. I realized Ohio does not have seafood—it only serves spoiled fish. Seafood…