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Title |
Military Day at the Ice Palace |
Dates of Creation |
1895 |
Scope & Content |
Three separate newspaper clippings are pasted on a single sheet of paper. Handwritten notes indicate the clippings are from different newspapers. Each announces that George S. Bernard will deliver a lecture at the Ice Palace on July 5, [1895], designated "Military Day". The subject would be "War Sketches From 1861 to 1865", with recollections of the battle of the Crater. Military organizations and Confederate camps were to have reserved seats. A brief summary of the battle, which occurred thirty-one years earlier, was given. The summary of the battle included the time of the explosion, how many pounds of powder were used, how many Confederate soldiers were buried, and the size of the crater the blast created. It included the number of Federal soldiers involved in the assault, and what the Confederate army did to recapture the territory lost at the time of the explosion. Losses of Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia soldiers, and combined Union losses are given. The men who captured the nineteen Federal flags are named, along with their regiments. The names were published on the roll of honor by order of then Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon. One clipping states that the lecture would also feature photographs and pictures of Confederate and Union soldiers in uniform, and that the event was expected to be well attended. The proceeds from the lecture were intended to go to the city hospital. |
Year Range from |
1895 |
Creator |
Bernard, George S. |
Year Range to |
1895 |
Subjects |
Action Address ( Oration ) Artillery (Weaponry) Audiences Battery (military) Battle Battlefields Bayonets Brigade Camp Captors Charity City Civil War Civil war battles Clubs Column, [military] Commander Confederate soldiers Confederate veterans Corps Courts of inquiry Craters Dead persons Duty Earth Editors Entertainment Entrenchment Evidence Explosions Federal Flags Forts & fortifications Gentlemen Guns Hospitals Ladies Lawyers Lectures Mines (Warfare) Muskets Names Officers, Military Organizations Photographs Pictures Pits (Holes) Powder kegs Prisoners Prisoners of war Proceeds and profits Records (Information) Regiments Reminiscences Report Roll of honor Seat Soldiers Troops Uniforms Union soldiers Union veterans War |
Search Terms |
10th Corps 11th Alabama Infantry 16th Virginia Infantry 18th Corps 2nd Corps 3rd Georgia Infantry 41st Virginia Infantry 5th Corps 61st Virginia Infantry 6th Virginia Infantry 8th Alabama Infantry 8th Corps 9th Alabama Infantry 9th Army Corps Alabama Battle of the Crater Civil War Confederacy, the Confederate Confederate Army Confederate Veterans Crater (Petersburg) Eighteenth Corps Eighth Alabama Infantry Eighth Corps Eleventh Alabama Infantry Fifth Corps Forty-first Virginia Infantry G. A. R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Georgia Grand Army of the Republic (G. A. R.) Ice Palace Ninth Alabama Infantry Ninth Army Corps Norfolk Pilot Norfolk Virginian Norfolk, Virginia Petersburg, Virginia Portsmouth Star Portsmouth, Virginia Second Corps Secretary of War Sixteenth Virginia Infantry Sixth Virginia Infantry Sixty-first Virginia Infantry Tenth Corps Third Georgia Infantry Union Union Army Union Veterans Virginia War Between the States War Sketches from 1861 to 1865 War Talks of Confederate Veterans |
People |
Barnes, David Bartlett, W. [William] F. [Francis] Bates, Delevan Bernard, Geo. S. Bernard, George S. Bilisoly, Julius Burnside, [Ambrose E.] Butler, S. [Solomon] V. Butt, Alex B. Critcher, John M. Deaton, John H. Foreman, John E. Gayle, John H. Girardey, [Victor Jean Baptiste] Goodwin, Jos. [Joseph] B. Grimes, C. E. Hall, [unknown] Harrison, Wm. [William] H. Herndon, F. J. Howell, Peter F. Johnson, B. [Bushrod] R. Keeton, John N. Kilby, L. [Leroy] R. [Richardson] Lane, W. F. Mahone, William Marshall, E. G. McAlpine, Chas. [Charles] R. Miles, John W. Pegram, R. [Richard] G. Riddick, J. W. Sadler, A. [Addison] J. Saunders, [John Caldwell Calhoun] Seddon, James A. Tucker, Lemuel Weisiger, [David A.] Wellons, Walter B. Whitehead, R. [Richard] O. [Owen] Wilson, St. Julian Wright, [Ambrose R.] |
Event |
Civil War |
Collection |
George S. Bernard Collection |
Imagefile |
023\200975012.JPG |
Number of images |
1 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
2009.75.012 |
Extent of Description |
1 page, size 13 1/2" x 8" |