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"Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business."
~ Union General Ulysses S. Grant
Declining to attend a White House party in his honor
in order to return to the front
Confederate General Stonewall Jackson's infantry was sometimes called "Foot Cavalry" because of their ability to endure forced marches. They once achieved a marching speed of almost six miles an hour, a remarkable speed for infantry.
The Union cavalry saw its greatest victory in the eastern theater on October 9, 1864. They captured 350 men, eleven artillery pieces and all of the southern cavalry's wagons and ambulances at the Battle of Tom's Brook, Virginia. The Union also pursues the retreating Confederates for over twenty miles, a fight called the Woodstock Races.
The Confederacy completed seven different issues of paper currency between 1861 and 1864 to finance the war effort. The face value was approximately one billion dollars. However, the currency was not backed by gold or silver, which, accompanied by increasing consumer goods shortages, led to some of the worst inflation in the history of the United States.
The Grand Rapids Civil War Round Table welcomes the return of Jim Pula and his presentation, "Union General Daniel Butterfield".
Dan Butterfield played a pivotal role during the Civil War. He led troops in the field at the brigade, division, and corps level, wrote the 1862 Army field manual, composed “Taps,” and served as the chief of staff for Joe Hooker in the Army of the Potomac. He introduced a custom that remains in the U.S. Army the use of distinctive hat or shoulder patches to denote the unit to which a soldier belongs and was a Medal of Honor winner. Butterfield was also controversial, not well-liked, and tainted by politics.
Award-winning author James S. Pula unspools fact from fiction to offer the first detailed and long overdue treatment of the man and the officer in Union General Daniel A Civil War Biography.
James S. Pula is a professor of History Emeritus at Purdue University Northwest and the former editor-in-chief of Gettysburg Magazine. Dr. Pula is the author or editor of more than two dozen books including Under the Crescent Moon with the Eleventh Corps in the Civil War (winner of the U. S. Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award); The Civil War from Its Origins to Reconstruction; The 117th New York Infantry in the Civil War: A History and Roster; For Liberty and Justice: A Biography of Brig. Gen. Włodzimierz B. Krzyżanowski; and The Sigel Regiment: A History of the 26th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865 (winner of the Gambrinus Prize in History from the Milwaukee County Historical Society).
Wednesday
October 16, 2024
Jim Pula
Union General
Daniel Butterfield
We Meet At:
Orchard View Church of God
2777 Leffingwell Ave. NE
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Located at the southwest corner of
3 Mile Road NE and Leffingwell Avenue NE
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Program begins at 7:00 pm
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Union General Daniel Butterfield
