George Rosenbaum-A Nearly Forgotten Casualty of the Civil War

This presentation was written and designed by a human being (not A.I.) initially as a PowerPoint slide show with narration based on the article "George Rosenbaum: A Nearly Forgotten Casualty of the Civil War” by John Rodgers Rosenbaum, published in Retrospective: The Journal of the Wythe County Genealogical and Historical Association Fourteen (2018) pp. 15-27 and reprinted in Our Heritage Published by the Van Zandt County Genealogical Society 40:1 (February 2019) pp. 15-26. The music “Cripple Creek” was performed by Tracy Newman on the 5-string banjo for the WNET series "What's New" in 1965, directed by Joan Sheppard at Brooklyn College. It is the version of the original tune arranged by Bill Monroe in 1950, not the popular version “Up on Cripple Creek,” performed by The Band in 1969. Research for this presentation included location field inquiries, interviews, and original military reports on Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com). Slides and narration in this video adaptation uploaded to YouTube were recorded on an iPhone 14 Pro and edited on iMovie Version 10.4.3 by John Rodgers Rosenbaum. Also included in the presentation are excerpts from a recording of the Civil War reenactment by the Camp Ford Living History Project in 1988, produced and directed by Allen Morris for Fox Group Productions, Tyler, Texas. The reenactment was sponsored by the Carnegie History Center, Tyler, Texas, and the Tyler Chamber of Commerce. A digitization of the unedited recording of the reenactment is available on YouTube at    • MEDIA194 Camp Ford Living History, recorde...  . Another look at Camp Ford is provided by historian Randy Gilbert in “Camp Ford Civil War Prison,” which aired in May 2018 on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 (recording embedded at https://tinyurl.com/y2cnwwc3). Camp Ford Historical Park is open daily from dawn to dusk at 6600 US Highway 271, 0.8 miles outside Loop 323 in Tyler, Texas. Admission is free. George Rosenbaum was a lawyer and District Attorney in Smith County, Texas, who was arrested in 1863 when he and others were accused of conspiring with Union prisoners to escape from Camp Ford, the largest Confederate prison west of the Mississippi. While the other suspects were released, George Rosenbaum died still imprisoned in 1864, even though he had never been tried or convicted of any crime. John Rodgers Rosenbaum is a first cousin, four times removed, from George Rosenbaum.