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What did these heroes lack that becomes a hero? Or, what quality did they display unbecoming a hero? These men showed godlike valor, but died the death of men. The Epitaphios of Gorgias

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Narrative Accounts

• First Battle of the Weldon Railroad June 23, 1864

• Medal of Honor -- Color Sergeant James Drury

• Why did the Vermonters die at Andersonville? -- The Deadly Hookworm

Photographs

• Photographic Tour of Battlefield

• Principal participants from the Vermont Brigade including some of the enlisted men who were killed or captured. The Vermont Historical Society has a collection of photographs of the Civil War officers of Vermont units. A collection of 78 photograph of most of the principal Federal participants at the Weldon Railroad on June 23, 1864 including some of the killed, wounded, or captured, from the Vermont Brigade is in the possession of the webmaster and will be donated to the VHS.

Links

• Information relative to Weldon Railroad

Purchase the Book

• A Melancholy Affair at the Weldon Railroad
  Released April 2005. Available at Amazon or the publisher.

Updates

• Casualties from the Vermont Brigade at the Battle of the Weldon Railroad on June 23, 1864 (Updated Appendix C from A Melancholy Affair at the Weldon Railroad.)

Errata

• Corrections to A Melancholy Affair at the Weldon Railroad

Contact

• Please contact David F. Cross, MD, with questions or input at davidcross@weldonrailroad.com

"We Are Coming Father Abra'am 300,000 More" (1862)
Music By Luther Orlando Emerson
From Songs of the Civil War (Columbia 1991)