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A Soldier Of The North And South: The Remembrance Day Legacy Of Minion Knott, Ryan Bilger
A Soldier Of The North And South: The Remembrance Day Legacy Of Minion Knott, Ryan Bilger
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
For the third straight semester, I have returned to the Killed at Gettysburg project to chronicle the life and death of another soldier who lost his life in southern Pennsylvania. My personal interest in this project has not waned since I authored the first of my five profiles of Union soldiers in Dr. Carmichael’s “Gettysburg in History and Memory” course in the spring of 2017. I firmly believe that no interpretation of the Battle of Gettysburg is complete without a strong understanding of the unique lives that were extinguished there. This reminds us all that the battle was fought by …
A Common Soldier: William H. P. Ivey, Isaac J. Shoop
A Common Soldier: William H. P. Ivey, Isaac J. Shoop
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
When I set out to pick a soldier for my first Killed at Gettysburg project, I did not know what I would find. I chose to research a Confederate soldier named William H. P. Ivey simply because he was born and raised on a farm, like me. As I did my research, I realized that Ivey’s life tells us a lot about the motivations and thoughts of a common southern soldier in the Civil War. Like most Confederate infantrymen, Ivey’s family was of the lower class and they were not slaveholders. Ivey, along with his brother Hinton, enlisted in the …