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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. (Under Construction)

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)