Wayne will be on site all weekend to do drawings. He is a retired high school art teacher, with a Masters in Art from Ohio State.

If you are interested in a portrait, stop by and see Wayne. He will be set up on the lawn near the Gazebo.

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ARLINGTON CEREMONY
MAY 19, 2012

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BERKELEY PLANTATION PROGRAM
June 22-24, 2012

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for schedule

 Figure 1. PARADE REST (AT EASE). Feet apart relaxed position without locking knees. Bugler cradles instrument left hand parallel to the ground in left hand.
Figure 2. ATTENTION. Feet brought together, heels touching. Bugle is held in left hand parallel to the ground with the bell to the front. Right hand is placed on seam of trouser, feet are at a 45 degree angle.
Figure 3.  GRASP BUGLE
Figure 4. BRING BUGLE UP
Figure 5. PLACE BUGLE
Figure 6. SOUND BUGLE
Figure 7. SALUTE

FOR SOUNDING A CALL THE BUGLE IS BROUGHT UP IN A THREE-COUNT MOVEMENT:

ONE- From the position of attention, bugler reaches over and grasps bugle with right hand.
TWO-Bugler brings the bugle up and places the mouthpiece in a comfortable position for sounding the call. The left hand is used in helping place the mouthpiece in the proper location for the embouchure.
THREE-Once the mouthpiece is set on the embouchure, the left hand returns to the side.

AFTER SOUNDING A CALL THE BUGLE IS BROUGHT DOWN IN A THREE-COUNT MOVEMENT

ONE-Bugler returns bugle to left hand and cradles the bugle parallel to the ground
TWO-Bugler returns right hand to side of body (position of attention)
THREE-Bugler raises right hand in salute for three seconds, then returns hand to side and remains at position of attention

ALL MOVEMENTS ARE DONE IN A MILITARY MANNER THAT IS NOT RUSHED OR OVER EXAGGERATED.

Figure 1. PARADE REST (AT EASE)

PARADE REST (SIDE)

Figure 2. ATTENTION

ATTENTION (SIDE VIEW)

Figure 3. GRASP BUGLE

Figure 4. BRING BUGLE UP

BRING BUGLE UP (SIDE VIEW)

Figure 5. PLACE MOUTHPIECE

Figure 6. SOUND BUGLE

SOUND BUGLE (SIDE VIEW)

Figure 7. SALUTE

SALUTE (SIDE VIEW)

Greetings

We are going to have a little “contest” between now and Sunday May 13.

Please video yourself sounding Taps and post the video on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ANCBuglers/

Or post it on Youtube and send me the link at jari@taps150.org or post the link to the facebook page

The video does not need to be a super production. Just have someone video you preferably in the clothes you are wearing on the 19th.

We will listen/view all the videos and award a special gift to the one judged best for:
-Sound Quality
-Correct Performance
-Presentation

The only rule is that it is only Taps. You can sound the call on a Bugle, Trumpet, Cornet or Flugel. It can be in any key of your choosing. And it must be a complete version without interruption or editing.

The judging will be done by myself and two buglers (who will remain anonymous).

Their decision is final. This is purely voluntary. You need not enter. Deadline is May 13

Questions: Contact jari@taps150.org

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The 83^rdRegiment Pennsylvania Volunteers

by George E. Deutsch and Gerald English

The following material is Copyright © 2011 by George Deutsch

 During the Civil War, the 83^rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (PVI) earned a well-deserved reputation as “One of the very best regiments in the Army.”^[i]  It fought on virtually all the eastern battlefields and suffered the second highest number of battle deaths of any Union regiment. Historian Lt. Col. William Fox noted in his description of the 83^rd as one of the Three Hundred Fighting Regiments that: “None of its losses were caused by blunders, none occurred in disastrous routs, its dead always lay with their faces to the enemy.”^[ii]

Organizing the Regiment

The 83^rd PVI was mustered into Federal service in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 8, 1861, under the command of Colonel John McLane. Like many regiments from both the North and South recruited that first summer of the Civil War, the 83^rd’s history began with a pre-war militia unit, the Wayne Guards. General Anthony Wayne was the famous first commander of the U.S. Army who died in Erie on Dec. 15, 1796. The Guards was a large militia company organized by McLane in 1859, its ranks filled with men who would go on to become members of the later regiments from northwestern Pennsylvania, especially the 83^rd.

Colonel John McLane

When President Lincoln issued his first call for volunteers, the energetic McLane responded by organizing a three-month regiment, officially designated as the Erie Regiment.  The Wayne Guards formed the first three companies of the new regiment with five other companies recruited from Erie County and two from Crawford County.  The Erie Regiment, also called “McLane’s,” trained at Camp Wilkens near Pittsburgh, but was mustered out of the army on July 21, 1861, at the end of its service without seeing any action, missing the Union disaster at the Battle of First Bull Run.

On July 24, McLane received an order from Secretary of War Simon Cameron to raise a new regiment for three years service.  By September, more than 1,000 men had responded to McLane’s call, including about 300 from the Erie Regiment.  The ranks were filled with men from recruitment centers in the northwestern Pennsylvania counties of Erie, Crawford, and Forest.  The field officers were John W. McLane, Colonel; Strong Vincent, Lt. Colonel; and Dr. Louis H. Naghel, Major.  The unit was officially designated the 83^rd in the order of its acceptance into Pennsylvania service.

On September 18^th, the regiment proceeded to Halls Hill, Va., in the Washington, D.C., area, where the troops received their uniforms and were equipped with Harper’s Ferry muskets.  It was then assigned to the Third Brigade of Brigadier General Fitz-John Porter’s Division.  The organization of the brigade, commanded by Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, included the 12^th N.Y., 17^th N.Y., 16^th Mich. and eventually the 44^th N.Y. regiments.  Butterfield was a strict disciplinarian and subjected the troops to a firm course of instruction.  “Observance of orders was rigidly exacted, and instruction in the manual of arms and bayonet exercise was systematically given.  Company and regimental drills were daily practiced, brigade drills three times a week, and the men were held accountable for order and cleanliness, by a regular and minute inspection of clothing, arms, and accoutrements.  The best shots at target firing were publicly acknowledged.  The regiment soon became noted for the excellence of its drill and its soldierly appearance.  On one occasion, [army commander Major] General [George B.] McClellan, in passing along the lines with his staff, rode up to Col. McLane, and said, ‘Colonel, I congratulate you on having one of the very best regiments in the army!’”[iii]

That fall, the army held a competitive trial for drill proficiency.  The 83^rd was one of two regiments awarded prized imported French uniforms.  “It was the uniform of the Chasseur de Vincennes, consisting of a shako, two uniforms,” a cloak, a leather knapsack and complete sets of personal and mess gear.[iv] Although the new European uniforms were somewhat small for the typical American soldier, many men had their photographs taken in their new fancy clothes.

Oliver Willcox Norton

Chasseur Uniforms

In October, the 44^th N.Y. arrived and encamped next to the 83^rd. A strong bond of friendship grew between the two regiments. Both of their regimental histories fondly recite the story of celebrating New Year’s Eve 1861 together with their decorated camps, music, dancing and feasting. However, gaiety was short-lived when the mud and cold of winter quickly set in.

In camp

After months of prodding from President Lincoln, McClellan finally began offensive operations against the Confederate Army encamped nearby around Centerville and Manassas, Virginia. “On the morning of the 9^th of March [1862], the regiment received orders to be in readiness to move on the following morning. The whole grand army, which for six months had been encamped in front of Washington, was [ordered] to advance upon the enemy”[v] The French uniforms, impractical for field use were sent away. “On the morning of the 10^th… the regiment commenced its first march – prelude to four long eventful years of warfare – and arrived in the evening at Fairfax Court House. Here it ascertained that the enemy had abandoned his entrenched camp, and had retreated.”[vi]

 Blenheim House, around which the regiment camped that night, is now owned by the city of Fairfax. Its attic walls still contain graffiti and many signatures left by the soldiers of the 83^rd.

Blenheim House

The Peninsula Campaign

 George McClellan, the North’s “Little Napoleon” next decided to advance on his strategic target, the Confederate capital at Richmond, Va., through the indirect approach. Most of the Army of the Potomac was ferried to the Virginia peninsula, formed between the York and James Rivers. The 83^rd embarked at Alexandria and landed on March 24^th at Hampton. “On the 4^th of April it joined the advance on Yorktown…Around the town was a bastioned fort, mounted with over 70 guns of heavy artillery.”[vii] Rather than attempt an immediate direct assault on the formidable looking but weakly held line, General McClellan began siege operations. Porter’s command, armed with picks and spades dug rifle pits which “were widened and deepened until they were finally formed into covered ways, in which were constructed regular batteries, with embrasures for heavy ordinance. Among the works built, were 14 batteries, mounting from six to 16 guns…At length, on the third of May, when the works were all finished and the guns in position, ready to make the grand assault, the [Confederates] under cover of a heavy cannonade, retired from [their] fortifications, and retired up the Peninsula.”[viii]

McClellan reorganized the army in the field; on May 18, he gave his close friend Porter the command of the newly created Fifth Army Corps. The 83^rd was now part of the Third Brigade (Butterfield’s), First Division (Morell’s), Fifth Corps (Porter’s) and would remain in that designation until the end of the war.

As the Confederates retreated, the 83^rd moved on transports up the York River with the rest of Porter’s Corps, which eventually formed the right flank of the Union Army, northeast of Richmond.  As the opposing armies jockeyed for position just outside the gates of the city, McClellan ordered Porter, newly promoted to major general,  farther north to Hanover Court House where one or more Confederate brigades were reported.  On May 27^th, after a severe rain-soaked march, the regiment had its baptism of combat. McLane’s soldiers first came under artillery fire while leading the brigade’s advance towards the Court House against light opposition, overrunning a prized Confederate cannon, which was later claimed by the 17^th New York after the 83^rd had moved on. Butterfield then ordered a countermarch against a new threat to the rear. After a sharp engagement near dusk, the Confederates abandoned the field.[ix]  That day, the 83^rd captured over 100 of the enemy while suffering eight men wounded, one who later died, and two missing, out of a total of about 300 Union casualties. Writing of the 83^rd in his report, Butterfield stated: “They behaved…on each and every occasion like veterans.”[x] The next day as they buried many dead on the battlefield, the now blooded boys from northwestern Pennsylvania saw the true horrors of war.[xi] When the Corps began its march back towards the main army, a large number of freedom-seeking “contrabands” (slaves) returned with the 83^rd to camp, many becoming paid servants, cooks, laborers, teamsters and laundresses for the officers and regiment. Some of those men would later join “Colored” combat units to fight for their freedom.[xii]

Major General Daniel Butterfield

After being pulled back from Hanover, Porter’s Corps remained as the right flank of the Army of the Potomac.  The 83^rd was not engaged in the Battle of Fair Oaks/ Seven Pines, which was fought south of the Chickahominy River on May 31 and June 1. That battle, although a draw, had a momentous consequence due to the wounding of the Confederate commander, Joseph E. Johnston, whose replacement was General Robert E. Lee.

McClellan’s slow preparations for besieging Richmond gave the aggressive Lee the opportunity to strike first at the end of June in what would become known as the Seven Days Battles. The Chickahominy is a small river, but is bordered by dense swamp on both sides, making it passable only at bridges. It runs from northwest of Richmond then curves to the south and east. After Fair Oaks, McClellan had massed all of his army south of the Chickahominy except for Porter’s Corps, leaving it to shield the army’s supply base on the York River. Lee devised a plan to concentrate most of his army, about 60,000 men, including the newly arrived troops of Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, north of the Chickahominy against Porter’s isolated 27,000 soldiers, in the hopes of crushing that portion of the Union army and then driving McClellan away from Richmond.

The action opened on June 26^th when Porter repulsed the Confederate attack along Beaver Dam Creek.  The 83^rd was not involved in that action.  That night Porter withdrew to an even more formidable position near Gaines’s Mill.  The corps was drawn up on the high eastern bank of Boatswain’s Swamp with Butterfield’s brigade holding the left flank, closest to the Chickahominy.  The 44^th N.Y. stood on the extreme left with the 83^rd on its right.  This would be the first time these two regiments would fight side by side, a position they would adopt in nearly every battle over the next three years.  The friendship born in the first winter camp and further forged by the fire of battle, earned the two regiments the nickname “The Butterfield Twins.”  To the rear of the Twins were supporting artillery with the 16^th Mich. and the 12^th N.Y. in reserve.  Both the 83^rd and 44^th constructed log breastworks to further enhance their position.

Lee’s plan to pin Porter’s Corps frontally while sending Jackson’s divisions around to assault Porter’s right flank and rear fell apart when Jackson failed to arrive on the field.  The battle instead devolved into a series of bloody frontal assaults begun by Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill’s division attacking the right units of Morell’s division, later joined by Maj. Gen. James Longstreet’s division making repeated attacks on the 83^rd and 44^th.

Samuel Bates, Pennsylvania’s official historian of the war, wrote of the battle:

Under cover of a heavy artillery fire, Longstreet’s infantry advanced driving in the skirmishers, and when in full view, a well directed volley from front and rear lines of the 83^rd, and rapid fire from the batteries above it, checked him for an instance; but, closing up the gaping rents in his line, he rallied and pressed forward.  His color-bearer in front was repeatedly shot down; but the standard was as often caught up, and bravely did his line struggle to push on.  But vain were the attempts to face the fiery tempest, and it fell back in confusion.  Rallying with fresh troops, he again advanced, and was again repulsed.  In desperation, for a third time he pushed forward to the attack, but was driven in rout, not again to appear over the brow of that fatal hill.[xiii]

Throughout those assaults, Col. McLane stood near the center of the regiment encouraging and inspiring the men to hold their ground.

As the afternoon wore into evening, Jackson’s forces finally arrived on the battlefield but only continued the frontal assaults on Porter’s right, instead of sweeping to the rear as Lee had planned.  Unfortunately for Porter, McClellan supported his stout defense with few reinforcements and those only late in the day.  Porter’s command had suffered many losses in repulsing the earlier attacks and had few reserves to call on.  Sometime after 7:30 p.m., off to the right of the 83^rd, Chase Whiting’s crack Confederate division, which included John B. Hood’s Texas brigade and Evander Law’s Alabamians, finally broke through Morell’s line  and routed the brigades of John Martindale and Charles Griffin.  The Confederates poured through the gap. They were screened by woods and not initially observed by Butterfield’s men until they emerged on the right flank and rear of the brigade.

Battle of Gaines Mills

Bates continued:

Quickly changing front, [the 83^rd] faced to the north, at the right angles to the first line of battle, to meet the threatened danger.  It was hardly in position before it was attacked.  In the previous encounter, protected by breastworks, its loss had been trifling, while the enemy’s lines had been terribly shattered.  But now, forced into line in the open field, while the enemy was sheltered by the wood, it in turn was subjected to the fiery ordeal.  Nevertheless, it stood firm.  Here Col. McLane fell dead, pierced by a bullet [in the heart].  In a moment more Major Naghel fell, struck by the fragment of a shell, receiving a mortal wound, expiring on the following day.  In the absence of Lt. Col. Vincent, prostrated by fever, the command developed on Captain Hugh Campbell.  Through exposed to a fearful musketry fire, the line did not waver, and the enemy was driven from its front.  It was soon evident, however, that he was pushing past, and gaining its rear. The regiment again changed front, marching by the right flank, and forming on a line parallel to that held in the morning, but facing in the opposite direction, and to the east[xiv]

During this crisis, after McLane had fallen, Dan Butterfield “Seized the colors of the 83d Pennsylvania Volunteers at a critical moment and, under a galling fire of the enemy, encouraged the depleted ranks to renewed exertion.” In 1892, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for this action.[xv]

“It was now evident that the three regiments of the brigade, the 44^th N.Y., the 16^th Mich. and the 83^rd, were entirely cut off from the main body of the army, and surrounded on all sides, except the passage towards the river.”[xvi] At this point, “the enemy sent forward a flag of truce with an unsuccessful demand for its surrender.”[xvii] Lt. Plimpton White of Company D was ordered to go out to determine the identity of the approaching troops.  He had a white handkerchief attached to his sword that he held high.  An officer asked if he had come to surrender.  White responded, “Who are you?”  The reply was, “The 11^th South Carolina,” to which White shouted, “The 83^rd Pennsylvania never surrenders to South Carolinians.”  Then, the enemy officer demanded, “What do you want?”  White responded, “I have come to demand that you surrender unconditionally.” After parting, White heard Confederate muskets cock; he fell to the ground as their volley passed overhead.  The 83^rd, thinking he was shot down under a flag of truce was infuriated.  They returned the volley into the Confederate ranks and the battle raged on. White survived that day only to be wounded at Malvern Hill, five days later.^[xviii]

It was obvious that the brigade was facing imminent destruction. “The word was accordingly given to break, and seek the river. The open flats of the Chickahominy, which intervened, were raked by a heavy artillery fire, and many were struck down attempting to reach the stream. The regiment went into action five hundred and fifty strong. Of these two hundred and sixty-five were either killed, wounded or taken prisoners.”[xix]

Shortly after the war, a party from Erie, including Col. McLane’s widow visited the field. There they encountered a man named Magee, whose father owned the land upon which the 83^rd had fought. He had been a member of Pickett’s Brigade under Longstreet. He told them “Several charges on your left had been made when we were ordered in. It was the worst place I ever saw. We went in but we came out in a hurry, and didn’t care to go back. We then charged that battery that swept our approach to your left and we took it. I fought through the war… and I never saw your men fight as Butterfield’s brigade did that day, excepting on the center the last day of Gettysburg.”[xx]

Colors of the 83rd PA

Praise for the 83^rd also came from the historian of the other Twin, who wrote: “The 83^rd Pa., which held a position in the front line of battle to the right of the 44^th, occupied the position of greater danger and sustained itself in a most credible manner under most trying circumstances. Its loss was very heavy, but its brilliant record was unsurpassed on that field.”[xxi]

Amos Judson, who was an officer in the 83^rd until September 1864, wrote of Gaines’s Mills:

Although the battle resulted disastrously to our arms, yet the gallant behavior of the 83^rd upon that day covered them with glory; for never, in my opinion, did men fight with more obstinacy and acquit themselves with more honor. And I wish also to bear testimony to the gallant conduct of the other two regiments of the Third Brigade upon that occasion, the 44^th N.Y. and 16^th Mich. Out of all the regiments of Porter’s Corps, these three…although they fought alone and against hope, they fought until darkness, and the enemy in overwhelming numbers had closed around them.[xxii]

That night Porter crossed the Chickahominy downstream with the rest of his command. The 83^rd and the other regiments rejoined the corps the next day. McClellan’s army then began to retreat southeast towards the James River, with the V Corps in advance. The regiment took no part in the battles on June 28^th or 29^th.

On Monday afternoon June 30^th, McClellan reviewed the army. Shortly after the review ended, Confederate artillery bombarded the V Corps guns under Griffin, and the 83^rd was moved to a supporting position. The Union artillery out-dueled their opponent’s guns, who then withdrew.”[xxiii]

  On the night of the 30^th, for the first time during the Seven Days, the entire Union army was united. They stood on Malvern Hill, a broad open plateau, the front strongly posted with artillery batteries closely supported by infantry. Porter’s Corps held the left of the line.

The next day, July 1, Lee attacked the Malvern Hill position. For the first two hours of the battle, the 83^rd endured heavy artillery fire. It then hurried to the front line to closely support a battery which was in danger of being captured. For the next two hours the regiment stood exposed to a murderous fire. “With great gallantry and courage the line was maintained, and the battery, which had been on the point of moving to the rear, unlimbered and poured into the enemy’s massed lines grape and canister, until the ammunition failed, when the gunners cut the chains from their horses’ harnesses and hurled them at the foe.[xxiv]

Malvern Hill

Late in the day, “the 44^th N.Y. and the 83^rd Pa. united in a gallant charge under the eye of the corps commander, driving the enemy and capturing a battleflag.”[xxv] That day the 83^rd lost “about forty killed, and one hundred and ten wounded, of whom a number afterwards died. Among the [eight officers wounded] was Captain Campbell, in command of the regiment.”[xxvi]

Malvern Hill was a clear victory for the Union army. Although the Yankees took heavy losses, the Confederates suffered much more severely. Their series of uncoordinated brigade-sized assaults were each cut to pieces in turn.

That night Porter repeatedly proposed a counter-offensive “‘urging McClellan to move forward on Richmond at daylight.’ General McClellan, however, had long since made up his mind. His only thought was safe haven at Harrison’s Landing [10 miles further downstream on the James River]. Without even waiting for Porter’s verdict on the day’s events, in contradiction to all of Porter’s later arguments, he issued the order for the army to continue to retreat.”[xxvii]

 “On arriving at Harrison’s Landing [the 83^rd] stacked about 80 muskets. On the evening of July 4^th, an election to fill the vacancies occasioned by the deaths of Col. McLane and Major Naghel was held at which Lt. Col. Vincent was chosen Colonel; Captain Campbell, Lt. Col.; and Adjutant William Lamont, Major.”[xxviii] During the intervening weeks while camped at Harrison’s Landing (today’s Berkley Plantation) Butterfield, who had already established special bugle calls exclusive to his brigade, called in his bugler, Private Oliver Willcox Norton of the 83^rd and on a hot summer evening, they produced a tattoo which would become the most famous bugle call of all, Taps.

George Deutsch, Author

Historian and author, George Deutsch co-founded several historical organizations related to the Civil War and the War of 1812 in his hometown of Erie, Pa., including the Flagship Niagara League, the non-profit which championed the reconstruction of the US Brig Niagara. He has also published multiple articles on the Civil War era’s 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment and Commodore Oliver H. Perry’s Niagara, which played a critical role in the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie.

Deutsch annually teaches history courses at the Chautauqua Institution in New York and has led dozens of battlefield tours for Civil War roundtable and university groups. He has been honored twice by the Pa. Historical and Museum Commission and received the Local History Award in 2003 from the Erie County Historical Society.

Deutsch helped to lead the Niagara League for nearly two decades, including during the construction of the Erie Maritime Museum. He has also been involved in multiple historical preservation projects. He designed the wayside marker about Strong Vincent and Joshua Chamberlain on Gettysburg’s Little Round Top, led the effort to restore Erie County’s Civil War monument and worked to erect Vincent’s statue in Erie. He also helped to lead the conservation of the 83rd and 145th Pennsylvania’s battle flags now preserved in the Erie County Library.

He was educated at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Mercyhurst College, from where he earned a degree in history. He is currently writing, with a partner, a new book on the 83rd Pennsylvania, focusing on the untold history of its last year in the war. He now lives in Catonsville, Md., with his wife, Mary Fran.

Lincoln at Gettysburg Words: That Remade America by Garry Wills

Harrison’s Landing

Old Harrison Mansion

The Mansion

Headquarters Fifth Army Corps at Harrison’s Landing

            Col. Albert V. Colburn, Col. Delos B. Sacket,
and Gen. John Sedgwick

Hospital tent

General Butterfield’s Headquarters

Quaker soldiers at Harrison’s Landing

General Daniel Adams Butterfield

Oliver Willcox Norton (1863)

        Norton and Butterfield (not contemporary)

Funeral 1st Mass artillery

Skedaddlers Hall

U.S Mail boat dock, Harrison’s Landing, James River, Va
Note Contraband tents on dock

General McClellan reviewing the Troops

Harrison Mansion

Sunday Religious services at McClellan Headquarters

Contemporary map of Harrison’s Landing

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