Tag: The U.S. Civil War

• Notes from the heartland (Part 5: Home)

  

  I am home now after my road trip, a road trip long enough to permit some reflection. If you’ve read my previous posts, you won’t be surprised that I’ve been reflecting on our place in history. We Americans are living in a challenging time right now in terms of historical storytelling. Challenging but not unprecedented.…

  Jesse Rude

  November 11, 2025

  Miscellaneous

  Cherokee, Dakota, Dakota War, history, Ho-Chunk, identity, indigenous history, Iowa, Mankato, Minnesota, Minnesota history, Muscogee, musing, Native America, Nebraska, Oklahoma, settler colonialism, The U.S. Civil War, Trail of Tears, U.S. history, Winnebago, Wisconsin history

• Notes from the heartland (Part 2: Kansas and Missouri)

  

  It’s our second day on the road to Fort Worth, and Spence and I are traveling through the rolling hills of the Kansas and Missouri borderlands. Yesterday I told you a little about my 3x great-grandmother’s brothers, John and George Hitz, and how they settled in Iowa with their mother Maria Tontz Hitz after the…

  Jesse Rude

  November 5, 2025

  Family history

  Camp Crowder, emigration, Hitz, immigration, Kansas, migration, milling, Missouri, Neosho, Newtonia, Reiner, Signal Corps, Smith, socialism, The U.S. Civil War, Tontz, Wells, World War II

• How William Wells of Worcester ended up in Virginia’s bloody soil

  

  This is a reconstruction of my 3x great-grandfather’s brief and tragic Civil War experience, based on first-hand accounts of Wisconsin’s 37th Infantry written shortly after the war.

  Jesse Rude

  May 17, 2024

  Family history

  37th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Battle of the Crater, Civil War, England, Reiner, Siege of Petersburg, The U.S. Civil War, Virginia, Wells, West Midlands, Worcester