15th Texas Cavalry Living Historians

08/30/2024

08/27/2024

Reenactors: 15th Texas, Co. A Captain and longtime reenactor Jeff Shropshire went Home with Jesus yesterday. Arrangements: family service in Alabama. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

10/25/2022

Learn more about the Battle of Ball's Bluff

09/23/2022

John "Johnny" Clem was only 12 years old when he fought in the Battle of Chickamauga, which took place September 18-20, 1863 during the Civil War. Clem was born in Ohio in 1851. He joined the 22nd Michigan regiment in 1863 after previously being refused due to his age. Clem earned the nickname "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" after legend spread that his drum was destroyed during the battle. However, the 22nd Michigan that Clem first appeared on the muster rolls of was formed in August 1862, about 4 months after Shiloh took place. The legend nonetheless persisted, with a song "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" based on the story. Clem did go on to serve with the regiment with distinction at Chickamauga, where he was decorated and promoted to sergeant for his actions.

Clem continued his career in the Army until his retirement in 1915 as a brigadier general. This carte-de-visite portrait of Clem in his Union military uniform at age twelve was taken at Baker's Art Gallery in Columbus, Ohio in 1863.

*This post has been amended after incorrectly stating that Clem was present at the Battle of Shiloh, and now provides additional information.

09/18/2022

Illustration of an Infantry Soldier's Basic Kit:

CLOTHING
1. shelter half
2. rain cover
3. knapsack with overcoat inside
4. stockings

EATING
5. plate
6. cup or boiler
7. utensils

TOILETRIES
8. soap and shoelaces
9. towel with toothbrush, shaving brush, razor, and comb

CLEANING AND POLISHING
10. button stick
11. tins of metal and shoe polish
12. shoe brushes
13. clothing brush

MISCELLANEOUS FIELD
21. haversack
22. “housewife”
23. canteen
24. blanket
25. gum blanket
26. cleaning rags

LEATHERS AND ACCESSORIES
14. bayonet scabbard
15. waist belt
16. ni**le pick
17. cap box
18. cartridge box
19. musket tool
20. cartridge box tins

WEAPON
27. tampion
28. bayonet
29. musket

Special thanks to JoJo Leto for this image.
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09/14/2022

/ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /
"Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher. He is considered one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of Western philosophy, with his influence extending to the entire range of contemporary philosophical issues, from aesthetics to ontology and politics, both in the analytic and continental tradition."
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Born: 27 August 1770, Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg
Died: November 14, 1831, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Nationality: German

09/06/2022

Studio photographer at work in 1855.

09/06/2022

Campsite in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, 1870.