Laura
Blake's Prairie Ranger
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Post by Laura on Jun 12, 2002 13:15:47 GMT -5
My gr grandfather and his brother were both in the 33rd Infantry, Company C. I found your website after doing a search on Gurley Hawks. I like the graphic on your page created by Tom Redman.
I tried to send M. Thorson an email, but it bounced back. I was asking if I might use the graphic on my page about my gr grandfather, of course giving credit to Tom Redman for it's creation and have it hyperlinked to your website.
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Post by Mike Thorson on Jun 12, 2002 14:51:11 GMT -5
Hi Laura. Long story short the website has been switched to a different address. The one you found is legit but is no longer updated. Also I have changed my e-mail address. The new website is at 33wis.comand the new website admin is Tad Salyards. Tad's e-mail is tsalyards@capella.edu Tom Redman's e-mail is tomredman@lycos.com Hope that helps. How did you know the name of the COmpany was "Gurley's Hawks"  ? |
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Laura
Blake's Prairie Ranger
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Post by Laura on Jun 12, 2002 16:36:50 GMT -5
Now it is working. I know about the name Gurley Hawks because my husband is a civil war buff, because of your website and the book by Robert A. Braun and because a cousin also researching my gr grandfather said he was in that company.
Thank you for the email addresses, I will change my bookmarks for the website also.
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Jim
Blake's Prairie Ranger
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Post by Jim on Jul 8, 2002 11:37:40 GMT -5
My great grandfather was Isaac B. Ross a drummer in
Co. G of the 33rd. Enlisted 8/15/62 and discharged
8/9/65 and listed as an original member of the
organization. Does anyone one have additional
info on Co. G and its members? How many drummers
would each Company have in it? I do have a copy of
his muster records, and a copy of a photograph of
him. This site has been very helpful, and I look
forward to any info that other members might be
able to provide.
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Post by RJ Samp on Jul 9, 2002 9:51:01 GMT -5
The normal complement was 2 musician's per company, 20 per 10 company regiment, plus 2 Principal Musicians.
This is the basis for the Field Musics (Fifers, Drummers, and Bugler(s)).
A band would be above and beyond this, listed with the Regimental Staff and usually commanded by one of the two alloted Principal Musicians.
Of the 20 Field Musicians, some were fifers, the majority were drummers.
When you look at a roster, most often they are listed as simply Musician, or Private. Which makes it VERY difficult to figure out how many buglers, fifers, drummers, a regiment carried. Also realize that many musician's could play more than one instrument!
Often it takes a thorough reading of diaries and regimental histories to discern the components of a Field Music group.
EXAMPLE: all of the books I've read on the 26th Wisconsin talk about German/Prussian drill and drummers. Nothing about buglers (which is normally part of German/Prussian/Hanoverian drill). Then in the diary of the Adjutant I find a quote : our [regimental] bugler sounded the "Forward" and the advance continued.
So what's this regimental bugler's name? What company was he from? When did he muster in? Where is he from? How did he learn the calls/how to play a brass instrument? What call's did he use (may have been the Hanoverian Bugle signals!!!).
Time for more research.
RJ Samp
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Post by Robert Braun on Jul 9, 2002 12:30:24 GMT -5
I think the indication here was that Isaac Ross of Co. G ("Boscobel Rangers") was a drummer, not a bugler.
There is no indication that the Thirty-third had or used buglers within the regiment. It IS clear that the regiment had and used its musicians throughout the war, the men waking up to "the tap of the drum."
I believe the Thirty-third eventually massed its music into one regimental band. It did maintain two principle musicians-- a fact I find interesting. Why two?
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