Author Archives: 65th NY Guy

Before our recent visit to Arlington, Rachel and I were lucky enough to get a private tour of the Blenheim House in Fairfax, Virginia, where many Union soldiers had marked their names or drawn grafitti art on the walls as they passed through. Private Joseph Welte, a member of the 65th NY Volunteers, was amongContinue reading “Connecting with and Honoring Chausseurs at Arlington National Cemetery”

While most people are familiar with Arlington National Cemetery, our nation’s “Most Hallowed Ground,” and thousands of visitors tour the grounds on tour buses or on foot, the lovely grounds of the Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery and the Loudon Park National Cemetery, in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, respectively, see few visitors. On aContinue reading “The National Cemeteries of Baltimore and Washington D.C.”

Having found about twenty members of the 65th NY Volunteers from the Providence area, my daughter Rachel and I recently spent a few days in the area looking for their grave sites and placing flags there. Companies B, E, F, and H of the regiment were partially recruited in Rhode Island, and soldier correspondents “SergeantContinue reading “3 Days of Honoring Chasseurs from Rhode Island”

It made sense for me to go to Gettysburg first. Having secured an opportunity to return to Tiffin, Ohio, the place where Company K of the 65th NY Volunteers was largely raised, and where several of the men of the regiment are buried, a way to break up the drive out to Ohio was needed.Continue reading “A Civil War Return Trip to Tiffin, Ohio, and a Trip Up to Michigan in Search of 65th NY Graves”

They had a few things in common. Though they ranged in age from their 20s to their 40s, the men from the Sodus area who enlisted in the 65th NY Volunteer regiment, joining Companies I or K, all joined in Auburn in mid-March 1865. Hence, they all served at the very end of the war.Continue reading “The Chasseurs of Wayne County, New York”

I hope everyone is enjoying this holiday season, even if the Pandemic has put a damper on travels and family visits. With some time off from work this week, I have been tweaking a chapter of what I have been calling “Book #2.” The working title is “Following the Chasseurs: My Life with the 65thContinue reading “Happy Holidays! And Some Work to be Done…”

With the work on my regimental history of the 65th New York volunteers completed, but for fixing some typos and updating a few small things for a 2nd edition of No Flinching From Fire, it seems clear that a continuing connection to the men of the 65th NY is going to be my lot.  AtContinue reading “A Local Cemetery Trip to Rockland”

My daughter Rachel is something.  She spent 4 days traveling with me over the Memorial Day weekend this year, while socially distancing, to find the gravesites of 65th NY soldiers who are listed on a database made by the NY State Military History Museum as being buried across the state.  Finding the graves, we wouldContinue reading “4 Days Across New York State with My Daughter, Searching for Chasseur Graves”

Recently I found among my pile of papers a short narrative from the Longwood High School website with some letter excerpts from a 65th NY soldier which evidently I printed off the internet in 2002 and then forgot about for eighteen years. The narrative came from a collection of brief vignettes on local veterans apparentlyContinue reading “A Rediscovery of an Old Document Bears Fruit”

My daughter Rachel has been using the regimental roster and Findagrave.com to locate almost 100 more 65th NY soldier graves around the country. While it will necessitate another trip north to the Western part of New York state to visit up to 20 graves she has located, today I traveled to nearby New Rochelle, NYContinue reading “A trip on a hot day to two cemeteries near me to find two Chasseur graves”