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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: War Papers (MOLLUS) – District of Columbia

By Michael K. Shaffer · Originally published September 2018 · pp. 12–13

The District of Columbia Commandery published several papers over the years, and their resultant work serves as the focus of this month’s overview. Spanning 1887-1918, the D.C. Legion produced more than 100 papers, which resulted in four volumes, 42-45, for the MOLLUS collection, and included accounts from the Eastern, Western, and Trans-Mississippi Theaters. A reminder on the background of this series, the first two volumes of the Broadfoot 1990s reprint set, unnumbered, consist of ‘Biographical Sketches of

Contributors,’ and ‘Companions.’ The second volume offers hundreds of photographs of the various members. The collected papers from the commanderies appear in the following order. Ohio, volumes 1-9; Illinois, 1013D; Missouri, vol. 14; Kansas, 15; Maine, volumes 16-19; New York, 20-23; Indiana, 24; Nebraska, 25; Minnesota, 26-31; Rhode Island, 32-41; District of Columbia, 42-45; Wisconsin, 46-49; Michigan, 50-51; Massachusetts, 52-54; Iowa, 5556; Vermont, 57; Pennsylvania, 58-59; California and Oregon, volume 60; and a four-volume index completes the Broadfoot set. Next month, this column will provide the table of contents of the MOLLUS Papers from Wisconsin. Digitized-versions of MOLLUS exist online at the organization’s website: http:// suvcw.org/mollus/warpapers/ warpapers.htm (also check h t t p : / / s u v c w. o r g / m o l l u s / molid.htm) and at the Internet

Archives, http://bit.ly/2EVfpPC. Researchers wishing to purchase the printed set may do so at Broadfoot Publishing, http:// www.broadfootpublishing.com. Remember to check WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org/ for help in finding the Papers in a local library; search ISBN 1568370016. Continued good luck in researching the Civil War! Readers wishing to view all the articles in this series thus far can visit https://issuu.com/mshaffe3. Michael K. Shaffer is a Civil War historian, author, lecturer, instructor, and a member of the Society of Civil War Historians, the Historians of the Civil War Western Theater, and the Georgia Association of Historians. Readers may contact him at mkscdr11@ gmail.com, or to request speaking engagements via his website www.civilwarhistorian.net. Follow Michael on Facebook www. facebook.com/michael.k.shaffer and Twitter @michaelkshaffer.

Wisconsin Battery in 1862- By James H. Dodge The Cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland in 1863 - By Gilbert C. Kniffin The Capture of Fort Fisher - By Zera L. Tanner The Last Days of the Rebel IronClad Merrimac and Occupation of Norfolk, As Seen from the U.S.S. Susquehanna - By Alfred L. B. Zerega Early’s Attack Upon Washington, July, 1864 - By Henry E. Alvord

Vol. 1 (1887-97) Article/Author The First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg - By E. P. Halstead

The Life and Services of Major General George H. Thomas - By Gilbert C. Kniffin The Battle of Gettysburg as Seen from Little Round Top - By Benjamin F. Rittenhouse Our Second Bombardment of Fort Fisher - By Daniel Ammen A Conundrum of the Days of ‘64 By Frederick W. Mitchell An Incident of the Battle of Vicksburg - By Peter C. Hains A Personal Narrative of the Capture of Fort Harrison - By Cecil Clay Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton - By Thomas M. Vincent Incidents of the Blockade - By John J. Almy

The Battle Above the Clouds - By Gilbert C. Kniffin The Chaplains in the Volunteer Army - By James H. Bradford Bentonville: What a Bummer Knows About It - By Charles E. Belknap General Hardee’s Escape from Savannah - By E. A. Carman Engagement at Thompson Station, Tennessee - By Charles P. Lincoln The U.S.S. Mississippi at the Capture of New Orleans, 1862 - By J. W. Shively Some Personal Recollections and Reminiscences of the Battle of Port Hudson - By Harrie Webster The Campaign Ending with the Capture of Mobile - By John M. Wilson The Days of Sixty-Three - By Marcus S. Hopkins A Sailor on Horseback - By G. C. Kniffin A Volunteer’s Reminiscences of Life in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-65 - By Frances P. B. Sands A Tribute to Tom; or, The “Servant Question” Among Volunteers - By J. H. Bradford With the Army of the Potomac From the Defences of Washington to Harrison’s Landing - By John W. Donn Across the Plains with the Ninth Wisconsin Battery in 1862- By James H. Dodge The Cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland in 1863 - By Gilbert C. Kniffin The Capture of Fort Fisher - By Zera L. Tanner The Last Days of the Rebel IronClad Merrimac and Occupation of Norfolk, As Seen from the U.S.S. Susquehanna - By Alfred L. B. Zerega Early’s Attack Upon Washington, July, 1864 - By Henry E. Alvord

A Non-Commissioned Officer’s Interview with Lincoln - By Samuel K. Hall Battle of Nashville - By Leverett M. Kelly “Lest We Forget”, Memories of Service Afloat From 1862 to 1866 By Francis P. B. Sands Major General William Starke Rosecrans, U.S. Army - By Gilbert C. Kniffin Edwin MacMasters Stanton, The Great War Secretary; His Place in History - By Thomas H. McKee The Brilliant Career of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamon, U.S. Navy - By Francis P. B. Sands

District of Columbia Vol. 2 (1897-1903) Article/Author Crises of the Civil War - By James H. Bradford

Recollections of a Bummer - By Charles E. Belknap McCook’s Raid in the Rear of Atlanta and Hood’s Army, August, 1864 - By Granville C. West The Attack Upon and Defense of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., November 29, 1863 - By Robert Armour Flusser and the Albemarle - By Frank Warren Hackett General Capron’s Narrative of Stoneman’s Raid South of Atlanta By Gilbert C. Kniffin Personal Recollections of General Nathaniel Lyon - By William A. Hammond Sheridan With the Army of the Cumberland - By Henry A. Castle The Expedition for the Capture of the Forts at Port Royal, November 7, 1861, As Seen from the U.S.S. Susquehanna - By Alfred L. B. Zerega Personal Reminiscences. The Battalion of Regular Infantry at the First Battle of Bull Run - By Daingerfield Parker The Army of the Cumberland at Missionary Ridge - By Gilbert C. Kniffin The Defenses of Washington, 1861-1865 - By John M. Wilson Recollections of Burnside’s East Tennessee Campaign of 1863 - By Byron M. Cutcheon The Last of the Blockade and the Fall of Fort Fisher - By Frances P. B. Sands A Charge at Fort Donelson, February 15, 1862 - By John G. Greenwalt The Battles of Franklin and Nashville - By Henry M. Kendall

Vol. 3 (1903-07) Article/Author The Battle of Stone[s] River - By Henry M. Kendall

Personal Experiences in the Volunteer Navy During the Civil War - By Joseph M. Simms With Colored Troops in the Army of the Cumberland - By Henry Romeyn Prairie Grove - By Eugene B. Payne The Skirmish Line in the Atlanta Campaign - By Samuel W. Price Personal Recollections of Chattanooga and Vicinity - By Jefferson H. Jenings Chancellorsville, May 2 and 3, 1863 - By William R. Hillyer

An Irish Non-Commissioned Officer’s Lieutenant of the Old Interview with Lincoln - By Samuel Second Dragoons - By Frederick W. K. Hall Mitchell Battle Nashville - By Leverett M. Echoesofand Incidents from a Kelly Gunboat Flotilla - By Thomas Nelson “Lest We the Forget”, Memories Showing Way - By Colbyof M. Service Chester Afloat From 1862 to 1866 By Francis P. B. Sands Major General William Starke Aid to the Enemy By John G. Rosecrans, U.S. Army - By Gilbert Greenwalt C. Kniffin Edwin MacMasters Stanton, The Great War Secretary; His Place in History - By Thomas H. McKee The Brilliant Career of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamon, U.S. Navy - By Francis P. B. Sands

Vol. 4 (1907-18) Article/Author A Loyal ManofinFort Florida, 1858-1861 The Capture Henry and Fort -Donaldson, By Oliver D. Kinsman February, 1862 - By John G. Greenwalt Streight’sof Raid Through Tennessee Opening the Battle of Shiloh andCharles Northern Georgia in 1863 - By By Morton Gilbert C. Kniffin MyMemory Messmates Shipmates Who A of and Resaca - By William Are Gone, 1862-1865 - By Francis M. Meredith P. B. Sands Estimated Strength of of the The Test ofEffective Loyalty in the State Union and Confederate Armies,H.and Virginia in 1861 - By Thomas Their Respective Losses During the McKee War of the Rebellion - By Gilbert C. Kniffin A Personal Episode of the First Stoneman Raid - By Frederick W. Mitchell The Loyal Legion and the Civil War - By Francis P. B. Sands

The Place of the Unionof the Soldier in Some Reminiscences Early History ByArmy JusticeofJob Days of -the the Barnard Potomac - By George B. Davis A Glimpse Retrospect Gilbert C. of- By Sherman Fifty KniffinAgo - By Maxwell Van Years Zandt Woodhull My Threeand Recruits Frederick Farragut Mobile- By BayW. Mitchell Personal Reminiscences - By John C. Watson The Hoe Cake-of Appomattox Loyal Legion By Stanton J. By Ellis Spear Peelle

An Address - By Nelson A. Miles Chasing Blockaders - By Colby M. Chester Personal Recollections of the Chickamauga Campaign - By Greenville C. West

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Fighting Guerrillas on the La Fourche, LA. - By Frederick W. Mitchell The East Tennessee Campaign, September, 1863 - By Gilbert C. Kniffin The Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 - By Thomas M. Vincent Scouting in Tennessee - By Henry Romeyn The Pea Ridge Campaign Considered - By Cyrus Bussey Libby - By John W. Lewis The Cracker Line - By Samuel W. Price Views and Reviews of the Civil War - By Thomas H. McKee Life in Rebel Prisons - By Nathaniel A. Robbins

The Battle of Perryville - By Henry M. KendallPage 1 of 3

Raising the Siege of Knoxville By Gilbert C. Kniffin

East Tennessee in the War of the Rebellion - By Felix A. Reeve New Mexico in the Civil War - By Stevens T. Norvell The Story of Raising and Organization of a Regiment of Volunteers in 1862 - By Ellis Spear

Personal Recollections of Hood in Tennessee - By Granville C. West The Cumberland - By Thomas O. Selfridge Army of the Cumberland and the Battle of Stone’s River - By Gilbert C. Kniffin

An Interview with Abraham Lincoln - By G. C. Kniffin

The Third Day at Stone’s River By Gilbert C. Kniffin

The 37th Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry and the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas - By Eugene B. Payne

The Making of a Volunteer Cavalryman - By James Albert Clark