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    L’infolettre du 22 décembre 2025 : la pause de Fem van Empel, le parcours de la Vuelta 2026…

    Fem van Empel, une pause pour enfin être apaisée

    On l’avait quittée le 1er novembre dernier sur le Koppenbergcross : diminuée par un coup de froid, disait-on à l’époque, la triple championne du monde de cyclo-cross Fem van Empel avait dû abandonner dès les premiers tours de roue. Une simple pause dans une saison du renouveau pour celle qui avait décidé de faire un pas de côté de toute compétition sportive en mars dernier, en raison de doutes, déjà sur sa santé mentale et de problèmes physiques en cascade. La Néerlandaise était restée silencieuse depuis lors, préférant se concentrer, logiquement, sur un rétablissement tant physique que mental, en vue de la prochaine saison de cyclo-cross. Van Empel semblait ainsi sur une bonne pente, avec un retour discret à la sixième place sur le Superprestige de Ruddervoorde, avant deux victoires sur ses terres, à Woerden puis Heerde. Mais l’abandon sur le Koppenberg a visiblement été la goutte qui a fait déborder le vase pour la cycliste de 23 ans, absente depuis lors de toute course dans les labourés.

    C’est finalement le 19 décembre, à la veille du début de la période particulièrement intense des cyclo-cross des fêtes de fin d’année, que le Team Visma | Lease a Bike a publié un communiqué de presse donnant enfin quelques infos sur l’avenir de Fem van Empel. Celui-ci ne s’annonce malheureusement pas sous les meilleurs augures. La Néerlandaise a confirmé que le Koppenbergcross a mené à de nouveaux doutes sur sa capacité à retrouver son meilleur niveau. “Mon corps et mon esprit m’ont donné un signal très clair. Je suis quelqu’un qui n’abandonne pas facilement, mais inconsciemment, une décision avait déjà été prise. Cela me semble être, pour moi, la bonne chose à faire maintenant”, a-t-elle confié par voie de communiqué. Cette bonne chose, c’est tout simplement un nouveau pas en retrait du peloton, mais surtout la fin de son contrat avec Visma | Lease a Bike. L’équipe et la cycliste ont indiqué avoir tout fait, ces dernières semaines, pour trouver une issue positive à ces problèmes, mais rien n’y a fait.

    La championne du monde Fem van Empel (Visma-Lease a Bike) lors de la course des élites femmes, sur la Coupe du monde de cyclo-cross à Anvers, le 24 novembre 2024. – Photo : Alain Vandepontseele/Alain VDP Photography

    “C’est une décision bien réfléchie avec laquelle je me sens bien”, a encore déclaré Fem van Empel, certaine de son choix, malgré son jeune âge et le talent dévoilé depuis ses débuts chez les juniores en 2019, enchaînant depuis lors 50 succès professionnels, dont trois titres de championne du monde et de championne d’Europe chez les élites. “Pour le moment, tant la motivation que le plaisir que j’avais pour le cyclisme ne sont plus là. Je voulais être honnête et juste avec l’équipe à ce propos. Pour le moment, c’est le meilleur choix. Cela semble être le bon moment pour un nouveau chapitre. Je suis très redevable de tout le soutien que j’ai reçu de la part de l’équipe, ma famille, et les supporters, et j’attends avec impatience ce que le futur apportera”, a-t-elle ajouté.

    Qu’une athlète aussi importante que Fem van Empel prenne une décision aussi radicale rappelle toute la fragilité de ces athlètes. La vie de sportif victorieux peut évidemment sembler rêvée, avec ses podiums, sa gloire, sa popularité… Elle n’en reste pas moins usante et sollicite bien plus que quelques entraînements physiques. Il faut également se placer dans une bulle aux moments opportuns, éviter les désillusions que peuvent provoquer des contre-performances, se relancer par la suite, conserver une auto-critique, répondre aux appels des partenaires, faire face aux critiques dans la presse et les réseaux sociaux, enchaîner les interviews… Autant de petites actions qui peuvent mettre à mal l’inconscient.

    Fem van Empel n’est pas la première à faire une pause à la suite d’un bien-être mental en berne. Mais la championne du monde est l’une des premières avec un tel palmarès à se décider malgré les risques sportifs et en termes de réputation. L’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) et les équipes ne doivent pas prendre cet exemple à la légère : s’occuper du résultat sportif ne suffit plus aujourd’hui à assurer l’avenir d’un.e cycliste. La santé psychologique doit également être scrutée et mise en avant, surtout à l’heure où les plus jeunes sont déjà engagés à un rythme soutenu, au risque de “brûler” leur énergie bien plus vite. Le cas de la championne du monde a au moins remis cet aspect sur le devant de la scène. On espère pour Fem van Empel qu’elle pourra pour sa part trouver la sérénité dans la suite de sa vie, que ce soit sur un vélo ou loin de celui-ci. Malheureusement, le monde du cyclo-cross, lui, voit une grande dame s’en aller.

    Grégory Ienco

    Toujours plus haut, toujours plus fort : la prochaine Vuelta enchaînera encore la montagne

    Dernier Grand Tour de la saison et dernier à être présenté au public, le Tour d’Espagne 2026 proposera à nouveau un parcours démentiel. L’argument, pour l’organisation, est évidemment marketing. L’annonce de “l’édition la plus montagneuse de la dernière décennie” permet de rappeler la différence avec le Giro, qui a pourtant fait également de la montagne sa proposition, et le Tour de France, qui bénéficie de son statut légendaire de par son histoire. Mais cette année, le marketing est suivi par la révélation des profils : entre Monaco et Grenade (l’arrivée à Madrid n’a pu être organisée en raison du Grand Prix de Formule 1 prévu ce même week-end), l’enchaînement des cols risque bien de mettre les organismes à rude épreuve.

    L’épreuve espagnole débutera donc, une nouvelle fois de l’étranger, avec un départ de Monaco, autour d’un contre-la-montre d’à peine 9 kilomètres tout autour du Rocher. Le peloton ira en France, du côté de Manosque et de Fort-Romeu, premier sommet des Pyrénées, avant l’arrivée… en Principauté d’Andorre.

    L’étape principautaire proposera seulement 105 kilomètres de course, mais quatre cols, de quoi déjà bien mettre les cuisses dans le rouge. Et la première semaine n’est pas finie : le peloton découvrira le Puerto El Bartolo, et sa section en gravier, en juge de paix de la sixième étape, avant de nouvelles arrivées en altitude, à Aramon Valdelinares sur la 7e étape, et sur l’Alto de Aitana sur la 9e étape.

    La deuxième semaine fera encore la part belle aux grimpeurs avec l’ascension de Calar Alto en conclusion de la 12e étape et de Sierra de la Pandera sur la 14e étape.

    L’enchaînement décisif s’annonce en fin de parcours. D’abord un contre-la-montre de 32 kilomètres à Jerez de la Frontera pour la 18e étape, une étape de moyenne montagne de plus de 200 bornes jusqu’à la montée de Peñas Blancas le lendemain, et un enchaînement de cinq cols jusqu’au Collado del Alguacil pour la 20e étape. C’est certainement sur ces dernières pentes que le maillot rouge se jouera, avant une étape en circuit autour de Grenade, avec une petite côte attendue au milieu du parcours.

    Il n’y aura donc pas de grande surprise à attendre pour la lutte pour le classement général : les spécialistes de la grimpe seront clairement les favoris de cette édition particulièrement rude, avec huit arrivées au sommet. Mais attention à ce chrono prévu en milieu de troisième semaine, ce qui pourrait bousculer le général avant les deux dernières étapes en altitude. Autant dire que cette Vuelta semble taillée pour un certain Tadej Pogacar, qui n’a pas encore officialisé sa participation au seul Grand Tour qui manque pour l’heure à son palmarès.

    ➡️ Cliquez sur ce lien pour découvrir les étapes du Tour d’Espagne 2026 en détails

    Les nouvelles des derniers jours

    ✍ Transferts

    • Les contacts étaient annoncés de longue date, mais la nouvelle n’a été officialisée qu’à l’occasion du stage de décembre : INEOS Grenadiers a signé le sprinteur australien Sam Welsford, en provenance de Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe. Le coureur de 29 ans a signé un contrat de deux ans avec la WorldTeam britannique. Il sera notamment entraîné par un autre ancien sprinteur, Elia Viviani, désormais dans le staff d’INEOS Grenadiers. Welsford a remporté ces deux dernières années six étapes du Tour Down Under, mais aussi, par le passé, une étape du Renewi Tour, deux étapes du Tour de San Juan, le GP Criquielion ou encore une étape du Tour de Hongrie.

     

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    Une publication partagée par Unibet Rose Rockets (@rocketscycling)

    • L’équipe Unibet Rose Rockets a complété son effectif avec l’arrivée du Néerlandais Martijn Rasenberg (Parkhotel Valkenburg), âgé de 24 ans. Le sprinteur viendra rejoindre le train de Dylan Groenewegen, mais il a déjà prouvé des qualités complètes, à l’image de son succès en 2025 sur la Flèche du Sud. Celui qui a été stagiaire chez Q36.5 a signé pour deux ans avec la ProTeam.
    • La Belge Febe Jooris, 21 ans, passera professionnelle en 2026 au sein de l’équipe UAE Team ADQ, après une saison dans la structure de développement. La rouleuse de 21 ans a connu une saison 2025 plus difficile après un titre de vice-championne de Belgique du chrono en 2023.
    • L’Américain Tyler Stites, en fin de contrat chez Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, rejoindra en 2026 la nouvelle ProTeam américaine Modern Adventure Pro Cycling, menée par George Hincapie. Le puncheur de 27 ans, qui a signé pour un an, y tentera de retrouver les sensations qui lui avaient permis notamment de remporter en 2024 le Tour de Gila et le GP de Rhodes.
    • L’équipe Solution Tech NIPPO Rali (ex-Solution Tech Vini Fantini) a confirmé son effectif avec l’arrivée du Colombien Santiago Umba, en provenance de XDS Astana Development Team. Le grimpeur de 23 ans, deuxième du Tour du Frioul et cinquième du Tour de République tchèque cette saison, a signé pour une saison. Il sera rejoint par le Belge Kamiel Bonneu, qui retrouve un contrat après la fusion d’Intermarché-Wanty et de Lotto. Le coureur de 26 ans, qui a signé pour un an également, a terminé cette saison 7e du Tour de Guangxi après un succès et une sixième place finale sur l’Arctic Race of Norway en 2024. Le Panaméen Franklin Archibold, âgé de 28 ans, découvrira pour sa part une ProTeam. Le rouleur, quatre fois champion national du contre-la-montre et deux fois champion national sur route, a aussi été deux fois champion du chrono aux championnats d’Amérique centrale.
    • Serpent de mer depuis plusieurs années, l’équipe INEOS Grenadiers proposera enfin en 2026 une structure de développement baptisée sobrement INEOS Grenadiers Academy. La formation britannique n’avait auparavant signé qu’une collaboration avec l’équipe continentale allemande Team Lotto Kern-Haus PSD Bank. L’initiative, appuyée par le nouveau directeur de la compétition Geraint Thomas, permet ainsi à 12 jeunes cyclistes de 18 à 21 ans de faire leur preuve parmi les espoirs et les professionnels. On y retrouve notamment l’Érythréen Milkias Maekele, lauréat de quatre courses en 2025, l’Australien Cameron Rogers, neveu de l’ancien champion du monde du contre-la-montre Michael Rogers et deuxième du prologue du dernier Tour de Hollande, l’Italien Nicolas Milesi, troisième du Tour du Poitou-Charentes cette saison, ou encore le champion de Grande-Bretagne espoir du contre-la-montre Joshua Charlton.

    ➡️ Prolongations

    • Malgré des propos qui semblaient confirmer une certaine réticence à un travail collectif pour la nouvelle star du groupe Juan Ayuso, le Danois Mattias Skjelmose a décidé de prolonger jusqu’en 2028 avec l’équipe Lidl-Trek. Le grimpeur de 25 ans, présent dans l’équipe allemande depuis ses débuts professionnels en 2021, confirme son sentiment d’être “à la maison” au sein de ce groupe et de pouvoir aligner “des objectifs individuels avec les objectifs collectifs”. Il visera en 2026 les classiques ardennaises et la Vuelta.
    • Le talent britannique Matthew Brennan, âgé de 20 ans, a prolongé jusqu’en 2029 avec le Team Visma | Lease a Bike. Le sprinteur, également en verve sur les classiques du Nord, a réalisé une première saison professionnelle exceptionnelle, avec 14 succès dont deux étapes du Tour de Catalogne, une du Tour de Romandie, une du Tour de Pologne, deux du Tour de Norvège en plus du classement général ou encore le GP de Denain.

    ❌ Sur le départ

    • La vice-championne de Belgique de cyclo-cross Laura Verdonschot (De Ceuster-Bouwpunt) a annoncé sur les réseaux sociaux sa décision de quitter le peloton à la fin de la saison. La cycliste de 29 ans enchaîne depuis plusieurs saisons les blessures à l’artère iliaque, la forçant à de nombreux forfaits. Face à ces douleurs, Verdonschot a décidé de ne pas poursuivre au-delà de février 2026, malgré son contrat courant jusqu’à fin 2027 avec De Ceuster-Bouwpunt, l’équipe dont elle était la leader depuis 2022. “Après 17 ans dans ce sport, 17 ans de hauts et de bas”, confie la Belge, qui a été quatre fois vice-championne de Belgique de cyclo-cross et a remporté 26 courses dans sa carrière, dont le Parkcross de Maldegem en 2024 et le Zilvermeercross de Mol en 2019.
    La Belge Laura Verdonschot (De Ceuster-Bouwpunt) devant la Britannique Zoe Backstedt (Canyon//SRAM Racing) lors de la course des élites femmes, sur la Coupe du monde de cyclo-cross à Anvers, le 24 novembre 2024. – Photo : Alain Vandepontseele/Alain VDP Photography

    📅 Programme

    • On ne change pas une course qui fait le bonheur du peloton. La prochaine édition de Paris-Nice proposera tout ce qui fait le sel de cette épreuve en début de saison, à l’aube des classiques : des étapes de sprint, des bordures potentielles, des étapes pour puncheurs, un contre-la-montre par équipes, de la montagne… Tout ce qu’il faut pour couronner un coureur complet, à l’image de Matteo Jorgenson, lauréat des deux dernières éditions. La Course au Soleil débutera dans les Yvelines avec une étape de “murs”, mais la course prendra une autre dimension dès la troisième étape, un contre-la-montre par équipes vallonné de 23,5 kilomètres autour de la Loire, qui servira de répétition générale en vue du Tour de France, puisque les temps seront encore pris sur le premier coureur de chaque formation. La lutte pour le maillot jaune se jouera sur la 6e étape vers Apt, avec un enchaînement de collines, sur la 7e étape vers Auron (7,3 km à 7,2% de moyenne) et enfin sur une 8e étape autour de Nice, différente de la tradition. En raison des élections municipales prévues ce jour-là, le peloton conclura sa journée sur la côte du Linguador (3,3 km à 8,8%), à une vingtaine de kilomètres de l’arrivée tracée devant l’Allianz Arena, le stade de la ville côtière.

    ➡️ Cliquez sur ce lien pour découvrir les étapes en détails.

    • Pas de grand changement dans le programme de la saison 2026 du grimpeur français Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) : le coureur de 22 ans débutera par la Classic Var (21 février) et visera notamment Paris-Nice (du 8 au 15 mars), la Flèche Wallonne (23 avril) et le Tour de Romandie (du 29 avril au 4 mai). Il passera par le Tour de Suisse (du 17 au 21 juin) en vue du Tour de France (du 4 au 26 juillet), sur lequel il n’a pas encore précisé ses objectifs précis.
    • Toujours chez Bahrain Victorious, le Belge Alec Segaert, transfuge de Lotto, reprendra la compétition dès le 23 janvier sur la Classica Camp de Morvedre, en Espagne, et sera notamment attendu sur le Circuit Het Nieuwsblad (28 février), le Tour des Flandres (5 avril) et Paris-Roubaix (12 avril). Il participera ensuite à son premier Tour d’Italie, du 8 au 31 mai.
    • La Ville de Bruxelles a révélé dans La DH sa candidature à l’organisation du Grand Départ du Tour de France Femmes en 2030. La capitale belge accueillera déjà les championnats du monde de cyclisme sur route en septembre 2030, mais à l’occasion du bicentenaire de la Belgique, elle souhaite marquer le coup avec divers événements, dont ce premier passage du Tour féminin dans ses rues. Aucun détail n’a toutefois été évoqué quant à un éventuel parcours ou au nombre d’étapes prévues dans le projet. Le Tour de France Femmes partira en 2026 de Suisse et en 2027 de Grande-Bretagne. Les départs des éditions 2028 et 2029 n’ont pas encore été désignés.
    • La ville de Gand et l’organisateur Flanders Classics ont signé un nouvel accord pour six ans afin d’accueillir le départ du Circuit Het Nieuwsblad, la traditionnelle classique d’ouverture de la saison belge, au Kuipke de Gand, le vélodrome des Six Jours.

    🖤 Carnet noir

    • L’Italien Michele Dancelli est décédé à l’âge de 83 ans. L’ancien professionnel, de 1963 à 1974, a enchaîné 53 victoires dont onze étapes du Tour d’Italie, une étape du Tour de France, deux titres de champion d’Italie sur route, une Flèche Wallonne et surtout un Milan-Sanremo d’anthologie. En 1970, le Lombard s’était lancé dans une échappée en solitaire de près de 70 kilomètres pour s’offrir la Primavera, un succès que l’Italie attendait depuis…1953. Il avait toutefois pris sa retraite quatre ans plus tard, à l’âge de 32 ans, miné par des problèmes physiques consécutifs à une fracture de la jambe lors de sa première saison sous le maillot noir et blanc de Scic en 1971. Le blog INRNG revient longuement sur la carrière de Dancelli, c’est à lire en anglais en cliquant sur ce lien.
    Michele Dancelli – Photo : Wikimedia

    🦸‍♀️ Maillots

    • L’équipe Soudal Quick-Step n’a pas proposé de grand bouleversement sur son maillot pour la prochaine saison : le mélange de bleu, blanc et rouge accueille un nouveau profil vert pour ajouter “de la visibilité” à la tunique, selon la formation belge.
    Photo : Wout Beel/Soudal Quick-Step
    • La formation AG Insurance-Soudal propose le même changement pour 2026 : un peu de vert pour agrémenter le maillot de la saison dernière. La grande nouveauté concerne le maillot de championne de l’Île Maurice de Kim Le Court, désormais bien moins proche de celui de championne du monde.
    Photo : AG Insurance-SoudalPhoto : AG Insurance-Soudal
    • Pour FDJ United-Suez, le maillot de 2026 ressemblera à celui proposé par l’équipe française sur le dernier Tour de France : plus de rouge et de bleu pour mettre en avant la nouvelle identité de la Loterie française, FDJ United.
    Photo : FDJ United-Suez
    • Groupama-FDJ proposera un changement similaire, avec une tunique qui avait déjà été présentée lors du récent Tour de France.
    Photo : capture Instagram Groupama-FDJ United
    • L’équipe INEOS Grenadiers a pris un virage particulier : le noir disparaît au profit du blanc, alors que l’orange domine le haut du maillot.
    Photo : INEOS Grenadiers/Gobik
    • Comme souvent, la WorldTeam féminine Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto fait dans l’originalité avec un patchwork de couleurs vives pour représenter ses partenaires en 2026.
    Photo : Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto
    • La tendance reste également la même que la saison dernière pour UAE Team ADQ, qui conserve une base blanche avec des teintes rose et orange.
    Photo : capture Instagram UAE Team ADQ
    • La ProTeam suisse Tudor Pro Cycling ne propose pas de révolution : le maillot noir restera la base de l’équipe de Fabian Cancellara.
    Photo : Tudor Pro Cycling Team

    🤑 Économie

    • Le média Wielerflits confirme que les équipes de cyclo-cross Charles Liégeois Roastery, liée à Intermarché-Wanty, et Deschacht-Hens CX, liée à Lotto, fusionneront également à partir du 1er janvier. La nouvelle structure s’appellera Charles Liégeois-Deschacht. Le champion d’Europe Toon Aerts, déjà sous contrat avec Intermarché-Lotto, a confirmé qu’il fera partie du projet. Victor Van de Putte, Sterre Vervloet et Ilken Seynaeve, qui étaient chez Deschacht-Hens CX, feront aussi partie de cette nouvelle équipe, tout comme Kelje Solen et Julie Brouwers, du côté de Charles Liégeois Roastery. Bart Verschueren, de Deschacht Hens CX, sera le seul directeur sportif de la structure, alors que Bart Wellens devra donc trouver un nouveau poste dans le monde des labourés.

    💉 Dopage

    • Le Portugais Antonio Carvalho, habitué des victoires d’étape et places d’honneur sur le Tour du Portugal, a été suspendu pour quatre ans par l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), après la révélation “d’anomalies non-expliquées” dans son passeport biologique en 2018, 2023 et 2024. Ces anomalies sont expliquées par la prise d’une substance interdite ou l’utilisation d’une méthode interdite selon l’UCI. Le cycliste de 36 ans ne pourra dès lors pas reprendre la compétition avant le 3 novembre 2029.

    📌 Autres

    • Après Vincent Lavenu dégagé de sa structure Ag2r La Mondiale (devenu depuis Decathlon CMA CGM) et Jean-René Bernaudeau qui cède sa place à Stéphane Heulot chez TotalEnergies, c’est autour de Marc Madiot de quitter son poste de manager chez Groupama-FDJ. L’ex-coureur de 66 ans a décidé de faire un pas de côté, tout en restant président de Groupama-FDJ. Thierry Cornec, arrivé comme directeur général adjoint de la structure en juin 2024, passera manager dès l’an prochain, a-t-il été annoncé.
    • Thierry Maréchal, président de la Fédération Cycliste Wallonie-Bruxelles (FCWB) depuis sa création en 2002, a cédé sa place à Luc Fontaine, élu par ses pairs à la tête de l’entité dirigeante dans le sud de la Belgique. L’homme, jusqu’ici coordinateur de la commission route de la fédération fédérale Belgian Cycling, a reçu un mandat de quatre ans, après avoir obtenu 25 votes des clubs de la FCWB, contre 16 pour le vice-président de la fédération Benoît Squelin et 7 pour le Liégeois Thierry Alken, organisateur d’événements sportifs et cyclistes.
    • Lidl-Trek a réuni les frères Schleck : après Frank qui sera directeur sportif dès la saison prochaine, son cadet Andy deviendra dès la saison prochaine manager adjoint, auprès de Luca Guercilena. “Je ne suis pas ici par accident, je suis ici parce que je connais encore l’ADN de ce sport. Je sais ce que ça signifie de porter le maillot jaune, de subir la pression des réunions dans le bus et de rouler des heures sous la chaleur”, a commenté le Luxembourgeois, vainqueur de Liège-Bastogne-Liège en 2009 et du Tour de France (après le déclassement d’Alberto Contador) en 2010, et deuxième du Giro en 2007.

    À lire, voir, écouter…

    • La championne du monde sur route Magdeleine Vallières s’est confiée dans un récent numéro de L’Équipe Magazine sur les troubles alimentaires dont elle a pu souffrir durant ses jeunes années et le management toxique qui l’ont poussée dans ces problèmes de santé. Elle raconte ainsi qu’un changement d’entraîneur a bouleversé sa carrière, lui permettant de retrouver ses meilleures sensations, jusqu’à son titre mondial remporté en septembre dans la capitale rwandaise de Kigali. L’entretien est à lire sur le site de L’Équipe en cliquant sur ce lien.
    • Difficile d’arrêter les cyclistes, même quand l’heure de la retraite a sonné. Chacun à leur manière, Philippe Gilbert, Greg Van Avermaet et Maxime Monfort continuent de mettre leur corps à contribution malgré leur décision de quitter le peloton. Van Avermaet est devenu champion du monde de semi-Ironman dans sa catégorie d’âge (40-44 ans), Monfort a terminé son premier Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, et Gilbert continue de disputer des cyclo-cross et courses de gravel. Autant de disciplines qui permettent à ces fans de sport d’assouvir leur soif. Leur interview est à lire sur Sudinfo en cliquant sur ce lien.
    • De retour dans les labourés depuis Namur, la championne des Pays-Bas de cyclo-cross Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) a également repris ses vidéos sur YouTube. Pour bien débuter l’hiver, elle propose une immersion dans le stage des équipes Fenix-Deceuninck et Alpecin-Deceuninck, lors d’une journée bien remplie entre entraînement, exercices de gym et test de VO2 Max. C’est à voir sur la chaîne YouTube de Puck Pieterse.

    Le coin promo

    • Notre photographe Alain Vandepontseele était ce week-end sur le pont à l’occasion des Coupes du monde de cyclo-cross à Anvers et Coxyde. Il a ainsi pu assister aux dominations de Lucinda Brand et de Mathieu van der Poel, en maîtrise sur le sable. Les galeries sont à voir en cliquant sur ce lien.

    • Comme chaque année, nous vous proposons un calendrier à télécharger et à installer sur votre téléphone ou votre ordinateur, pour ne rien manquer des différentes courses professionnelles sur route de l’année, que ce soit chez les femmes ou les hommes. Tous les détails pratiques sont sur ce lien.
    • Découvrez le programme TV complet des courses cyclistes (route, piste, cyclo-cross, VTT…) diffusées ces prochaines semaines en Belgique et en France sur notre page spéciale, mise à jour quotidiennement : c’est à voir sur ce lien.

    Les résultats des derniers jours

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    • Tour du Costa Rica 🇨🇷 (2.2)
      • 4e étape (15/12 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Luis Daniel Oses 🇨🇷 (7C-Economy Hyundai)
      • 5e étape (16/12) : Steven Haro 🇪🇨 (Giant Toscana)
      • 6e étape (17/12) : Sebastian Calderon 🇨🇷 (7C-Economy Hyundai)
      • 7e étape (18/12) : Joseph Ramirez 🇨🇷 (Team Colono Bikestation Kölbi)
      • 8e étape (19/12) : Luis Aguilar 🇨🇷 (7C-Economy Hyundai)
      • 9e étape (20/12) : Luis Daniel Oses 🇨🇷 (7C-Economy Hyundai)
      • 10e et dernière étape (21/12) : Sebastian Moya 🇨🇷 (Manza Te-La Selva-Scott)
      • Classement général : Luis Daniel Oses 🇨🇷 (7C-Economy Hyundai)
    • Jeux d’Asie du Sud-Est en Thaïlande 🇹🇭 (JR)
      • Contre-la-montre – Élites femmes ⏱️ (15/12) : Ayustina Delia Priatna 🇮🇩 (Indonésie)
      • Contre-la-montre – Élites hommes ⏱️ (15/12) : Peerapol Chawchiangkwang 🇹🇭 (Thaïlande)
      • Course en ligne – Élites hommes (16/12) : Sarawut Sirironnachai 🇹🇭 (Thaïlande)
      • Course en ligne – Élites femmes (17/12) : Jutatip Maneephan 🇹🇭 (Thaïlande)

    Cyclo-cross

    • Coupe du monde #5 – Anvers 🇧🇪 (CDM)
      • Élites femmes (20/12) : Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱 (Baloise Glowi Lions)
      • Élites hommes (20/12) : Mathieu van der Poel 🇳🇱 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
    • Cyclo-cross international de Béthune 🇫🇷 (C2)
      • Élites femmes (20/12) : Noémie Garnier 🇫🇷 (Team GUEVEL Roadborn)
      • Élites hommes (20/12) : Lander Loockx 🇧🇪 (Unibet Tietema Rockets)
    • Coupe du monde #6 – Coxyde 🇧🇪 (CDM)
      • Élites femmes (21/12) : Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱 (Baloise Glowi Lions)
      • Élites hommes (21/12) : Mathieu van der Poel 🇳🇱 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
    • Trophée X2O Badkamers #4 – Plage Cross à Hofstade 🇧🇪 (C1)
      • Élites femmes (22/12) : Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱 (Baloise Glowi Lions)
      • Élites hommes (22/12) : Mathieu van der Poel 🇳🇱 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)

    L’agenda des prochains jours

    Mardi 23 décembre

    CYCLO-CROSS

    • Superprestige #5 – Heusden-Zolder 🇧🇪 (C1)

    Mercredi 24 décembre

    • Aucune course UCI prévue ce jour

    Jeudi 25 décembre

    • Aucune course UCI prévue ce jour

    Vendredi 26 décembre

    CYCLO-CROSS

    • Coupe du monde #7 – Gavere 🇧🇪 (CDM)
      • Infos et partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h30 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 13h35 sur Pickx Pop-up Sports, Pickx Showcase et Pickx+ Sports 1

    Samedi 27 décembre

    • Aucune course UCI prévue ce jour

    Dimanche 28 décembre

    CYCLO-CROSS

    • Coupe du monde #8 – Termonde 🇧🇪 (CDM)
      • Infos et partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h35 sur HBO Max, Pickx Pop-up Sports, Pickx Showcase et Pickx+ Sports 1

    Lundi 29 décembre

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    • Trophée X2O Badkamers #5 – Azencross à Loenhout 🇧🇪 (C1)
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      • 📺 Direct dès 13h35 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max, et dès 13h40 sur RTL Club, RTL Play, Eurosport 2 et HBO Max

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    L’infolettre du 22 décembre 2025 : la pause de Fem van Empel, le parcours de la Vuelta 2026…

    Fem van Empel, une pause pour enfin être apaisée

    On l’avait quittée le 1er novembre dernier sur le Koppenbergcross : diminuée par un coup de froid, disait-on à l’époque, la triple championne du monde de cyclo-cross Fem van Empel avait dû abandonner dès les premiers tours de roue. Une simple pause dans une saison du renouveau pour celle qui avait décidé de faire un pas de côté de toute compétition sportive en mars dernier, en raison de doutes, déjà sur sa santé mentale et de problèmes physiques en cascade. La Néerlandaise était restée silencieuse depuis lors, préférant se concentrer, logiquement, sur un rétablissement tant physique que mental, en vue de la prochaine saison de cyclo-cross. Van Empel semblait ainsi sur une bonne pente, avec un retour discret à la sixième place sur le Superprestige de Ruddervoorde, avant deux victoires sur ses terres, à Woerden puis Heerde. Mais l’abandon sur le Koppenberg a visiblement été la goutte qui a fait déborder le vase pour la cycliste de 23 ans, absente depuis lors de toute course dans les labourés.

    C’est finalement le 19 décembre, à la veille du début de la période particulièrement intense des cyclo-cross des fêtes de fin d’année, que le Team Visma | Lease a Bike a publié un communiqué de presse donnant enfin quelques infos sur l’avenir de Fem van Empel. Celui-ci ne s’annonce malheureusement pas sous les meilleurs augures. La Néerlandaise a confirmé que le Koppenbergcross a mené à de nouveaux doutes sur sa capacité à retrouver son meilleur niveau. “Mon corps et mon esprit m’ont donné un signal très clair. Je suis quelqu’un qui n’abandonne pas facilement, mais inconsciemment, une décision avait déjà été prise. Cela me semble être, pour moi, la bonne chose à faire maintenant”, a-t-elle confié par voie de communiqué. Cette bonne chose, c’est tout simplement un nouveau pas en retrait du peloton, mais surtout la fin de son contrat avec Visma | Lease a Bike. L’équipe et la cycliste ont indiqué avoir tout fait, ces dernières semaines, pour trouver une issue positive à ces problèmes, mais rien n’y a fait.

    La championne du monde Fem van Empel (Visma-Lease a Bike) lors de la course des élites femmes, sur la Coupe du monde de cyclo-cross à Anvers, le 24 novembre 2024. – Photo : Alain Vandepontseele/Alain VDP Photography

    “C’est une décision bien réfléchie avec laquelle je me sens bien”, a encore déclaré Fem van Empel, certaine de son choix, malgré son jeune âge et le talent dévoilé depuis ses débuts chez les juniores en 2019, enchaînant depuis lors 50 succès professionnels, dont trois titres de championne du monde et de championne d’Europe chez les élites. “Pour le moment, tant la motivation que le plaisir que j’avais pour le cyclisme ne sont plus là. Je voulais être honnête et juste avec l’équipe à ce propos. Pour le moment, c’est le meilleur choix. Cela semble être le bon moment pour un nouveau chapitre. Je suis très redevable de tout le soutien que j’ai reçu de la part de l’équipe, ma famille, et les supporters, et j’attends avec impatience ce que le futur apportera”, a-t-elle ajouté.

    Qu’une athlète aussi importante que Fem van Empel prenne une décision aussi radicale rappelle toute la fragilité de ces athlètes. La vie de sportif victorieux peut évidemment sembler rêvée, avec ses podiums, sa gloire, sa popularité… Elle n’en reste pas moins usante et sollicite bien plus que quelques entraînements physiques. Il faut également se placer dans une bulle aux moments opportuns, éviter les désillusions que peuvent provoquer des contre-performances, se relancer par la suite, conserver une auto-critique, répondre aux appels des partenaires, faire face aux critiques dans la presse et les réseaux sociaux, enchaîner les interviews… Autant de petites actions qui peuvent mettre à mal l’inconscient.

    Fem van Empel n’est pas la première à faire une pause à la suite d’un bien-être mental en berne. Mais la championne du monde est l’une des premières avec un tel palmarès à se décider malgré les risques sportifs et en termes de réputation. L’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) et les équipes ne doivent pas prendre cet exemple à la légère : s’occuper du résultat sportif ne suffit plus aujourd’hui à assurer l’avenir d’un.e cycliste. La santé psychologique doit également être scrutée et mise en avant, surtout à l’heure où les plus jeunes sont déjà engagés à un rythme soutenu, au risque de “brûler” leur énergie bien plus vite. Le cas de la championne du monde a au moins remis cet aspect sur le devant de la scène. On espère pour Fem van Empel qu’elle pourra pour sa part trouver la sérénité dans la suite de sa vie, que ce soit sur un vélo ou loin de celui-ci. Malheureusement, le monde du cyclo-cross, lui, voit une grande dame s’en aller.

    Grégory Ienco

    Toujours plus haut, toujours plus fort : la prochaine Vuelta enchaînera encore la montagne

    Dernier Grand Tour de la saison et dernier à être présenté au public, le Tour d’Espagne 2026 proposera à nouveau un parcours démentiel. L’argument, pour l’organisation, est évidemment marketing. L’annonce de “l’édition la plus montagneuse de la dernière décennie” permet de rappeler la différence avec le Giro, qui a pourtant fait également de la montagne sa proposition, et le Tour de France, qui bénéficie de son statut légendaire de par son histoire. Mais cette année, le marketing est suivi par la révélation des profils : entre Monaco et Grenade (l’arrivée à Madrid n’a pu être organisée en raison du Grand Prix de Formule 1 prévu ce même week-end), l’enchaînement des cols risque bien de mettre les organismes à rude épreuve.

    L’épreuve espagnole débutera donc, une nouvelle fois de l’étranger, avec un départ de Monaco, autour d’un contre-la-montre d’à peine 9 kilomètres tout autour du Rocher. Le peloton ira en France, du côté de Manosque et de Fort-Romeu, premier sommet des Pyrénées, avant l’arrivée… en Principauté d’Andorre.

    L’étape principautaire proposera seulement 105 kilomètres de course, mais quatre cols, de quoi déjà bien mettre les cuisses dans le rouge. Et la première semaine n’est pas finie : le peloton découvrira le Puerto El Bartolo, et sa section en gravier, en juge de paix de la sixième étape, avant de nouvelles arrivées en altitude, à Aramon Valdelinares sur la 7e étape, et sur l’Alto de Aitana sur la 9e étape.

    La deuxième semaine fera encore la part belle aux grimpeurs avec l’ascension de Calar Alto en conclusion de la 12e étape et de Sierra de la Pandera sur la 14e étape.

    L’enchaînement décisif s’annonce en fin de parcours. D’abord un contre-la-montre de 32 kilomètres à Jerez de la Frontera pour la 18e étape, une étape de moyenne montagne de plus de 200 bornes jusqu’à la montée de Peñas Blancas le lendemain, et un enchaînement de cinq cols jusqu’au Collado del Alguacil pour la 20e étape. C’est certainement sur ces dernières pentes que le maillot rouge se jouera, avant une étape en circuit autour de Grenade, avec une petite côte attendue au milieu du parcours.

    Il n’y aura donc pas de grande surprise à attendre pour la lutte pour le classement général : les spécialistes de la grimpe seront clairement les favoris de cette édition particulièrement rude, avec huit arrivées au sommet. Mais attention à ce chrono prévu en milieu de troisième semaine, ce qui pourrait bousculer le général avant les deux dernières étapes en altitude. Autant dire que cette Vuelta semble taillée pour un certain Tadej Pogacar, qui n’a pas encore officialisé sa participation au seul Grand Tour qui manque pour l’heure à son palmarès.

    ➡️ Cliquez sur ce lien pour découvrir les étapes du Tour d’Espagne 2026 en détails

    Les nouvelles des derniers jours

    ✍ Transferts

    • Les contacts étaient annoncés de longue date, mais la nouvelle n’a été officialisée qu’à l’occasion du stage de décembre : INEOS Grenadiers a signé le sprinteur australien Sam Welsford, en provenance de Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe. Le coureur de 29 ans a signé un contrat de deux ans avec la WorldTeam britannique. Il sera notamment entraîné par un autre ancien sprinteur, Elia Viviani, désormais dans le staff d’INEOS Grenadiers. Welsford a remporté ces deux dernières années six étapes du Tour Down Under, mais aussi, par le passé, une étape du Renewi Tour, deux étapes du Tour de San Juan, le GP Criquielion ou encore une étape du Tour de Hongrie.

     

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    Une publication partagée par Unibet Rose Rockets (@rocketscycling)

    • L’équipe Unibet Rose Rockets a complété son effectif avec l’arrivée du Néerlandais Martijn Rasenberg (Parkhotel Valkenburg), âgé de 24 ans. Le sprinteur viendra rejoindre le train de Dylan Groenewegen, mais il a déjà prouvé des qualités complètes, à l’image de son succès en 2025 sur la Flèche du Sud. Celui qui a été stagiaire chez Q36.5 a signé pour deux ans avec la ProTeam.
    • La Belge Febe Jooris, 21 ans, passera professionnelle en 2026 au sein de l’équipe UAE Team ADQ, après une saison dans la structure de développement. La rouleuse de 21 ans a connu une saison 2025 plus difficile après un titre de vice-championne de Belgique du chrono en 2023.
    • L’Américain Tyler Stites, en fin de contrat chez Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, rejoindra en 2026 la nouvelle ProTeam américaine Modern Adventure Pro Cycling, menée par George Hincapie. Le puncheur de 27 ans, qui a signé pour un an, y tentera de retrouver les sensations qui lui avaient permis notamment de remporter en 2024 le Tour de Gila et le GP de Rhodes.
    • L’équipe Solution Tech NIPPO Rali (ex-Solution Tech Vini Fantini) a confirmé son effectif avec l’arrivée du Colombien Santiago Umba, en provenance de XDS Astana Development Team. Le grimpeur de 23 ans, deuxième du Tour du Frioul et cinquième du Tour de République tchèque cette saison, a signé pour une saison. Il sera rejoint par le Belge Kamiel Bonneu, qui retrouve un contrat après la fusion d’Intermarché-Wanty et de Lotto. Le coureur de 26 ans, qui a signé pour un an également, a terminé cette saison 7e du Tour de Guangxi après un succès et une sixième place finale sur l’Arctic Race of Norway en 2024. Le Panaméen Franklin Archibold, âgé de 28 ans, découvrira pour sa part une ProTeam. Le rouleur, quatre fois champion national du contre-la-montre et deux fois champion national sur route, a aussi été deux fois champion du chrono aux championnats d’Amérique centrale.
    • Serpent de mer depuis plusieurs années, l’équipe INEOS Grenadiers proposera enfin en 2026 une structure de développement baptisée sobrement INEOS Grenadiers Academy. La formation britannique n’avait auparavant signé qu’une collaboration avec l’équipe continentale allemande Team Lotto Kern-Haus PSD Bank. L’initiative, appuyée par le nouveau directeur de la compétition Geraint Thomas, permet ainsi à 12 jeunes cyclistes de 18 à 21 ans de faire leur preuve parmi les espoirs et les professionnels. On y retrouve notamment l’Érythréen Milkias Maekele, lauréat de quatre courses en 2025, l’Australien Cameron Rogers, neveu de l’ancien champion du monde du contre-la-montre Michael Rogers et deuxième du prologue du dernier Tour de Hollande, l’Italien Nicolas Milesi, troisième du Tour du Poitou-Charentes cette saison, ou encore le champion de Grande-Bretagne espoir du contre-la-montre Joshua Charlton.

    ➡️ Prolongations

    • Malgré des propos qui semblaient confirmer une certaine réticence à un travail collectif pour la nouvelle star du groupe Juan Ayuso, le Danois Mattias Skjelmose a décidé de prolonger jusqu’en 2028 avec l’équipe Lidl-Trek. Le grimpeur de 25 ans, présent dans l’équipe allemande depuis ses débuts professionnels en 2021, confirme son sentiment d’être “à la maison” au sein de ce groupe et de pouvoir aligner “des objectifs individuels avec les objectifs collectifs”. Il visera en 2026 les classiques ardennaises et la Vuelta.
    • Le talent britannique Matthew Brennan, âgé de 20 ans, a prolongé jusqu’en 2029 avec le Team Visma | Lease a Bike. Le sprinteur, également en verve sur les classiques du Nord, a réalisé une première saison professionnelle exceptionnelle, avec 14 succès dont deux étapes du Tour de Catalogne, une du Tour de Romandie, une du Tour de Pologne, deux du Tour de Norvège en plus du classement général ou encore le GP de Denain.

    ❌ Sur le départ

    • La vice-championne de Belgique de cyclo-cross Laura Verdonschot (De Ceuster-Bouwpunt) a annoncé sur les réseaux sociaux sa décision de quitter le peloton à la fin de la saison. La cycliste de 29 ans enchaîne depuis plusieurs saisons les blessures à l’artère iliaque, la forçant à de nombreux forfaits. Face à ces douleurs, Verdonschot a décidé de ne pas poursuivre au-delà de février 2026, malgré son contrat courant jusqu’à fin 2027 avec De Ceuster-Bouwpunt, l’équipe dont elle était la leader depuis 2022. “Après 17 ans dans ce sport, 17 ans de hauts et de bas”, confie la Belge, qui a été quatre fois vice-championne de Belgique de cyclo-cross et a remporté 26 courses dans sa carrière, dont le Parkcross de Maldegem en 2024 et le Zilvermeercross de Mol en 2019.
    La Belge Laura Verdonschot (De Ceuster-Bouwpunt) devant la Britannique Zoe Backstedt (Canyon//SRAM Racing) lors de la course des élites femmes, sur la Coupe du monde de cyclo-cross à Anvers, le 24 novembre 2024. – Photo : Alain Vandepontseele/Alain VDP Photography

    📅 Programme

    • On ne change pas une course qui fait le bonheur du peloton. La prochaine édition de Paris-Nice proposera tout ce qui fait le sel de cette épreuve en début de saison, à l’aube des classiques : des étapes de sprint, des bordures potentielles, des étapes pour puncheurs, un contre-la-montre par équipes, de la montagne… Tout ce qu’il faut pour couronner un coureur complet, à l’image de Matteo Jorgenson, lauréat des deux dernières éditions. La Course au Soleil débutera dans les Yvelines avec une étape de “murs”, mais la course prendra une autre dimension dès la troisième étape, un contre-la-montre par équipes vallonné de 23,5 kilomètres autour de la Loire, qui servira de répétition générale en vue du Tour de France, puisque les temps seront encore pris sur le premier coureur de chaque formation. La lutte pour le maillot jaune se jouera sur la 6e étape vers Apt, avec un enchaînement de collines, sur la 7e étape vers Auron (7,3 km à 7,2% de moyenne) et enfin sur une 8e étape autour de Nice, différente de la tradition. En raison des élections municipales prévues ce jour-là, le peloton conclura sa journée sur la côte du Linguador (3,3 km à 8,8%), à une vingtaine de kilomètres de l’arrivée tracée devant l’Allianz Arena, le stade de la ville côtière.

    ➡️ Cliquez sur ce lien pour découvrir les étapes en détails.

    • Pas de grand changement dans le programme de la saison 2026 du grimpeur français Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) : le coureur de 22 ans débutera par la Classic Var (21 février) et visera notamment Paris-Nice (du 8 au 15 mars), la Flèche Wallonne (23 avril) et le Tour de Romandie (du 29 avril au 4 mai). Il passera par le Tour de Suisse (du 17 au 21 juin) en vue du Tour de France (du 4 au 26 juillet), sur lequel il n’a pas encore précisé ses objectifs précis.
    • Toujours chez Bahrain Victorious, le Belge Alec Segaert, transfuge de Lotto, reprendra la compétition dès le 23 janvier sur la Classica Camp de Morvedre, en Espagne, et sera notamment attendu sur le Circuit Het Nieuwsblad (28 février), le Tour des Flandres (5 avril) et Paris-Roubaix (12 avril). Il participera ensuite à son premier Tour d’Italie, du 8 au 31 mai.
    • La Ville de Bruxelles a révélé dans La DH sa candidature à l’organisation du Grand Départ du Tour de France Femmes en 2030. La capitale belge accueillera déjà les championnats du monde de cyclisme sur route en septembre 2030, mais à l’occasion du bicentenaire de la Belgique, elle souhaite marquer le coup avec divers événements, dont ce premier passage du Tour féminin dans ses rues. Aucun détail n’a toutefois été évoqué quant à un éventuel parcours ou au nombre d’étapes prévues dans le projet. Le Tour de France Femmes partira en 2026 de Suisse et en 2027 de Grande-Bretagne. Les départs des éditions 2028 et 2029 n’ont pas encore été désignés.
    • La ville de Gand et l’organisateur Flanders Classics ont signé un nouvel accord pour six ans afin d’accueillir le départ du Circuit Het Nieuwsblad, la traditionnelle classique d’ouverture de la saison belge, au Kuipke de Gand, le vélodrome des Six Jours.

    🖤 Carnet noir

    • L’Italien Michele Dancelli est décédé à l’âge de 83 ans. L’ancien professionnel, de 1963 à 1974, a enchaîné 53 victoires dont onze étapes du Tour d’Italie, une étape du Tour de France, deux titres de champion d’Italie sur route, une Flèche Wallonne et surtout un Milan-Sanremo d’anthologie. En 1970, le Lombard s’était lancé dans une échappée en solitaire de près de 70 kilomètres pour s’offrir la Primavera, un succès que l’Italie attendait depuis…1953. Il avait toutefois pris sa retraite quatre ans plus tard, à l’âge de 32 ans, miné par des problèmes physiques consécutifs à une fracture de la jambe lors de sa première saison sous le maillot noir et blanc de Scic en 1971. Le blog INRNG revient longuement sur la carrière de Dancelli, c’est à lire en anglais en cliquant sur ce lien.
    Michele Dancelli – Photo : Wikimedia

    🦸‍♀️ Maillots

    • L’équipe Soudal Quick-Step n’a pas proposé de grand bouleversement sur son maillot pour la prochaine saison : le mélange de bleu, blanc et rouge accueille un nouveau profil vert pour ajouter “de la visibilité” à la tunique, selon la formation belge.
    Photo : Wout Beel/Soudal Quick-Step
    • La formation AG Insurance-Soudal propose le même changement pour 2026 : un peu de vert pour agrémenter le maillot de la saison dernière. La grande nouveauté concerne le maillot de championne de l’Île Maurice de Kim Le Court, désormais bien moins proche de celui de championne du monde.
    Photo : AG Insurance-SoudalPhoto : AG Insurance-Soudal
    • Pour FDJ United-Suez, le maillot de 2026 ressemblera à celui proposé par l’équipe française sur le dernier Tour de France : plus de rouge et de bleu pour mettre en avant la nouvelle identité de la Loterie française, FDJ United.
    Photo : FDJ United-Suez
    • Groupama-FDJ proposera un changement similaire, avec une tunique qui avait déjà été présentée lors du récent Tour de France.
    Photo : capture Instagram Groupama-FDJ United
    • L’équipe INEOS Grenadiers a pris un virage particulier : le noir disparaît au profit du blanc, alors que l’orange domine le haut du maillot.
    Photo : INEOS Grenadiers/Gobik
    • Comme souvent, la WorldTeam féminine Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto fait dans l’originalité avec un patchwork de couleurs vives pour représenter ses partenaires en 2026.
    Photo : Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto
    • La tendance reste également la même que la saison dernière pour UAE Team ADQ, qui conserve une base blanche avec des teintes rose et orange.
    Photo : capture Instagram UAE Team ADQ
    • La ProTeam suisse Tudor Pro Cycling ne propose pas de révolution : le maillot noir restera la base de l’équipe de Fabian Cancellara.
    Photo : Tudor Pro Cycling Team

    🤑 Économie

    • Le média Wielerflits confirme que les équipes de cyclo-cross Charles Liégeois Roastery, liée à Intermarché-Wanty, et Deschacht-Hens CX, liée à Lotto, fusionneront également à partir du 1er janvier. La nouvelle structure s’appellera Charles Liégeois-Deschacht. Le champion d’Europe Toon Aerts, déjà sous contrat avec Intermarché-Lotto, a confirmé qu’il fera partie du projet. Victor Van de Putte, Sterre Vervloet et Ilken Seynaeve, qui étaient chez Deschacht-Hens CX, feront aussi partie de cette nouvelle équipe, tout comme Kelje Solen et Julie Brouwers, du côté de Charles Liégeois Roastery. Bart Verschueren, de Deschacht Hens CX, sera le seul directeur sportif de la structure, alors que Bart Wellens devra donc trouver un nouveau poste dans le monde des labourés.

    💉 Dopage

    • Le Portugais Antonio Carvalho, habitué des victoires d’étape et places d’honneur sur le Tour du Portugal, a été suspendu pour quatre ans par l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), après la révélation “d’anomalies non-expliquées” dans son passeport biologique en 2018, 2023 et 2024. Ces anomalies sont expliquées par la prise d’une substance interdite ou l’utilisation d’une méthode interdite selon l’UCI. Le cycliste de 36 ans ne pourra dès lors pas reprendre la compétition avant le 3 novembre 2029.

    📌 Autres

    • Après Vincent Lavenu dégagé de sa structure Ag2r La Mondiale (devenu depuis Decathlon CMA CGM) et Jean-René Bernaudeau qui cède sa place à Stéphane Heulot chez TotalEnergies, c’est autour de Marc Madiot de quitter son poste de manager chez Groupama-FDJ. L’ex-coureur de 66 ans a décidé de faire un pas de côté, tout en restant président de Groupama-FDJ. Thierry Cornec, arrivé comme directeur général adjoint de la structure en juin 2024, passera manager dès l’an prochain, a-t-il été annoncé.
    • Thierry Maréchal, président de la Fédération Cycliste Wallonie-Bruxelles (FCWB) depuis sa création en 2002, a cédé sa place à Luc Fontaine, élu par ses pairs à la tête de l’entité dirigeante dans le sud de la Belgique. L’homme, jusqu’ici coordinateur de la commission route de la fédération fédérale Belgian Cycling, a reçu un mandat de quatre ans, après avoir obtenu 25 votes des clubs de la FCWB, contre 16 pour le vice-président de la fédération Benoît Squelin et 7 pour le Liégeois Thierry Alken, organisateur d’événements sportifs et cyclistes.
    • Lidl-Trek a réuni les frères Schleck : après Frank qui sera directeur sportif dès la saison prochaine, son cadet Andy deviendra dès la saison prochaine manager adjoint, auprès de Luca Guercilena. “Je ne suis pas ici par accident, je suis ici parce que je connais encore l’ADN de ce sport. Je sais ce que ça signifie de porter le maillot jaune, de subir la pression des réunions dans le bus et de rouler des heures sous la chaleur”, a commenté le Luxembourgeois, vainqueur de Liège-Bastogne-Liège en 2009 et du Tour de France (après le déclassement d’Alberto Contador) en 2010, et deuxième du Giro en 2007.

    À lire, voir, écouter…

    • La championne du monde sur route Magdeleine Vallières s’est confiée dans un récent numéro de L’Équipe Magazine sur les troubles alimentaires dont elle a pu souffrir durant ses jeunes années et le management toxique qui l’ont poussée dans ces problèmes de santé. Elle raconte ainsi qu’un changement d’entraîneur a bouleversé sa carrière, lui permettant de retrouver ses meilleures sensations, jusqu’à son titre mondial remporté en septembre dans la capitale rwandaise de Kigali. L’entretien est à lire sur le site de L’Équipe en cliquant sur ce lien.
    • Difficile d’arrêter les cyclistes, même quand l’heure de la retraite a sonné. Chacun à leur manière, Philippe Gilbert, Greg Van Avermaet et Maxime Monfort continuent de mettre leur corps à contribution malgré leur décision de quitter le peloton. Van Avermaet est devenu champion du monde de semi-Ironman dans sa catégorie d’âge (40-44 ans), Monfort a terminé son premier Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, et Gilbert continue de disputer des cyclo-cross et courses de gravel. Autant de disciplines qui permettent à ces fans de sport d’assouvir leur soif. Leur interview est à lire sur Sudinfo en cliquant sur ce lien.
    • De retour dans les labourés depuis Namur, la championne des Pays-Bas de cyclo-cross Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) a également repris ses vidéos sur YouTube. Pour bien débuter l’hiver, elle propose une immersion dans le stage des équipes Fenix-Deceuninck et Alpecin-Deceuninck, lors d’une journée bien remplie entre entraînement, exercices de gym et test de VO2 Max. C’est à voir sur la chaîne YouTube de Puck Pieterse.

    Le coin promo

    • Notre photographe Alain Vandepontseele était ce week-end sur le pont à l’occasion des Coupes du monde de cyclo-cross à Anvers et Coxyde. Il a ainsi pu assister aux dominations de Lucinda Brand et de Mathieu van der Poel, en maîtrise sur le sable. Les galeries sont à voir en cliquant sur ce lien.

    • Comme chaque année, nous vous proposons un calendrier à télécharger et à installer sur votre téléphone ou votre ordinateur, pour ne rien manquer des différentes courses professionnelles sur route de l’année, que ce soit chez les femmes ou les hommes. Tous les détails pratiques sont sur ce lien.
    • Découvrez le programme TV complet des courses cyclistes (route, piste, cyclo-cross, VTT…) diffusées ces prochaines semaines en Belgique et en France sur notre page spéciale, mise à jour quotidiennement : c’est à voir sur ce lien.

    Les résultats des derniers jours

    Route

    • Tour du Costa Rica 🇨🇷 (2.2)
      • 4e étape (15/12 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Luis Daniel Oses 🇨🇷 (7C-Economy Hyundai)
      • 5e étape (16/12) : Steven Haro 🇪🇨 (Giant Toscana)
      • 6e étape (17/12) : Sebastian Calderon 🇨🇷 (7C-Economy Hyundai)
      • 7e étape (18/12) : Joseph Ramirez 🇨🇷 (Team Colono Bikestation Kölbi)
      • 8e étape (19/12) : Luis Aguilar 🇨🇷 (7C-Economy Hyundai)
      • 9e étape (20/12) : Luis Daniel Oses 🇨🇷 (7C-Economy Hyundai)
      • 10e et dernière étape (21/12) : Sebastian Moya 🇨🇷 (Manza Te-La Selva-Scott)
      • Classement général : Luis Daniel Oses 🇨🇷 (7C-Economy Hyundai)
    • Jeux d’Asie du Sud-Est en Thaïlande 🇹🇭 (JR)
      • Contre-la-montre – Élites femmes ⏱️ (15/12) : Ayustina Delia Priatna 🇮🇩 (Indonésie)
      • Contre-la-montre – Élites hommes ⏱️ (15/12) : Peerapol Chawchiangkwang 🇹🇭 (Thaïlande)
      • Course en ligne – Élites hommes (16/12) : Sarawut Sirironnachai 🇹🇭 (Thaïlande)
      • Course en ligne – Élites femmes (17/12) : Jutatip Maneephan 🇹🇭 (Thaïlande)

    Cyclo-cross

    • Coupe du monde #5 – Anvers 🇧🇪 (CDM)
      • Élites femmes (20/12) : Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱 (Baloise Glowi Lions)
      • Élites hommes (20/12) : Mathieu van der Poel 🇳🇱 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
    • Cyclo-cross international de Béthune 🇫🇷 (C2)
      • Élites femmes (20/12) : Noémie Garnier 🇫🇷 (Team GUEVEL Roadborn)
      • Élites hommes (20/12) : Lander Loockx 🇧🇪 (Unibet Tietema Rockets)
    • Coupe du monde #6 – Coxyde 🇧🇪 (CDM)
      • Élites femmes (21/12) : Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱 (Baloise Glowi Lions)
      • Élites hommes (21/12) : Mathieu van der Poel 🇳🇱 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
    • Trophée X2O Badkamers #4 – Plage Cross à Hofstade 🇧🇪 (C1)
      • Élites femmes (22/12) : Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱 (Baloise Glowi Lions)
      • Élites hommes (22/12) : Mathieu van der Poel 🇳🇱 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)

    L’agenda des prochains jours

    Mardi 23 décembre

    CYCLO-CROSS

    • Superprestige #5 – Heusden-Zolder 🇧🇪 (C1)

    Mercredi 24 décembre

    • Aucune course UCI prévue ce jour

    Jeudi 25 décembre

    • Aucune course UCI prévue ce jour

    Vendredi 26 décembre

    CYCLO-CROSS

    • Coupe du monde #7 – Gavere 🇧🇪 (CDM)
      • Infos et partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h30 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 13h35 sur Pickx Pop-up Sports, Pickx Showcase et Pickx+ Sports 1

    Samedi 27 décembre

    • Aucune course UCI prévue ce jour

    Dimanche 28 décembre

    CYCLO-CROSS

    • Coupe du monde #8 – Termonde 🇧🇪 (CDM)
      • Infos et partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h35 sur HBO Max, Pickx Pop-up Sports, Pickx Showcase et Pickx+ Sports 1

    Lundi 29 décembre

    CYCLO-CROSS

    • Trophée X2O Badkamers #5 – Azencross à Loenhout 🇧🇪 (C1)
      • Infos et partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h35 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max, et dès 13h40 sur RTL Club, RTL Play, Eurosport 2 et HBO Max

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    L’infolettre du 15 septembre 2025 : Vingegaard gagne une Vuelta tronquée, les Mondiaux de chrono…

    Vingegaard, vainqueur défensif d’une Vuelta par défaut

    Pas de podium, pas de cérémonie protocolaire, pas d’arrivée, pas de cava, pas d’hymne, pas de félicitations… Le Tour d’Espagne s’est terminé en eau de boudin. Comme ce fut le cas quasi quotidiennement depuis l’arrivée du peloton dans la péninsule ibérique, des manifestants pro-palestiniens ont bouleversé le cours d’un Grand Tour amputé d’une bonne partie de ses juges de paix. Deux étapes annulées, un contre-la-montre réduit, une montée finale évitée : cela n’aurait peut-être pas bouleverser le classement général établi avant l’arrivée du peloton à Madrid, mais ces modifications de parcours ont donné une autre valeur à cette Vuelta, celle d’une course par défaut, au spectacle toujours sur le fil. Difficile de profiter d’un tel divertissement sportif quand les protestataires viennent rappeler la réalité du monde et du poids politique que peut avoir le cyclisme, ou du moins ceux qui financent ce sport. Protestataires eux-mêmes soutenus par le Premier ministre et le ministre des Affaires étrangères espagnols, pendant que la présidente de la Communauté de Madrid venait, elle, soutenir l’équipe Israel Premier Tech, devenue IPT le temps de conclure la saison.

    Alors, tout le monde est rentré dans les voitures, à plus de 50 kilomètres de l’arrivée finale de ce Tour d’Espagne. Avant même de sortir du parc du Retiro, au centre de la capitale. Pas de passage par les bus non plus, l’organisation a voulu éviter tout contact rapproché entre les manifestants, éparpillés aux quatre coins de la ville, et les coureurs qui ne cherchent qu’à faire leur métier. On a pourtant eu peur, la veille, en voyant des manifestants débouler sur la route pour bloquer les hommes de tête et le reste de la caravane alors qu’ils déboulaient à plus de 50 km/h sur une route en légère descente. Heureusement, aucun cycliste n’a été blessé dans l’aventure, après quelques évitements de dernière minute. Mais cela en disait déjà long sur les tensions autour de cette Vuelta. La course a finalement pu aller quasiment à son terme. Dommage pour les sprinters qui espéraient une dernière joute à Madrid, mais continuer dans de telles conditions aurait tout simplement mis en danger tout le monde.

    On en a déjà souvent parlé dans cette infolettre : ces manifestations existent parce que la Vuelta est un événement international bénéficiant d’une médiatisation d’envergure ; parce que le propriétaire de l’équipe Israel Premier Tech a clairement affiché son soutien à l’État d’Israël dans un conflit à Gaza, officiellement contre le mouvement islamiste palestinien Hamas, qui a déjà mené à la famine et à la mort de plus de 60.000 personnes en deux ans ; parce que l’Union Cycliste Internationale s’est toujours tue à ce sujet malgré ses positions sur la guerre en Ukraine ces dernières années. L’organisation de la Vuelta a tenté de poursuivre sa course, logiquement, tant que possible, mais les manifestants ont aussi vu que plus la protestation créait la surprise, plus elle entraînait de médiatisation. C’est toutefois un danger pour le futur du cyclisme : et si d’autres mouvements décidaient que ces courses pouvaient représenter une plateforme pour s’exprimer en bloquant les routes et le peloton ? Cela crée un dangereux précédent qu’aucune autorité cycliste n’est parvenue à contenir jusqu’ici. Au grand dam des coureurs, qui ont essayé de faire la course comme ils le pouvaient.

    C’est ainsi que le Danois Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) a conclu sa Vuelta en serrant les mains de ses équipiers et de sa direction sportive. L’ancien vainqueur du Tour de France avait, la veille, réussi à conforter son maillot rouge grâce à une nouvelle victoire d’étape au sommet du pentu Bola del Mundo, dernier sommet de ce Tour d’Espagne particulier. Le Danois est apparu très défensif, préférant se laisser porter par ses équipiers le plus longtemps possible en montagne. Vingegaard a avoué un coup de moins bien en deuxième semaine, alors que certains dans le peloton évoquaient un virus dans le peloton. La fatigue de son Tour de France incisif face à Tadej Pogacar a également pu peser sur ce deuxième Grand Tour disputé en deux mois. Mais il a assuré la victoire dès que nécessaire, dès la première arrivée au sommet à Limone Piemonte, puis à Bola del Mundo, sans jamais lâcher la roue de João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates XRG), habitué des places d’honneur.

    Photo : ASO/ASO/Unipublic/Cxcling/Antonio Baixauli

    Le duel entre les deux hommes a pourtant été l’un des plus intéressants de ces dernières années sur les Grands Tours. Avec 44 secondes entre les deux premiers avant la dernière étape de montagne, on pouvait espérer un feu d’artifice sur l’ultime sommet de l’épreuve. Mais UAE Team Emirates XRG n’a jamais semblé capable de perturber le collectif défensif des “abeilles”. Car elle sait tout simplement trop disperser durant ces trois dernières semaines, en tout cas pour espérer prendre le maillot rouge. Car la formation émiratie a réalisé une Vuelta exceptionnelle avec sept victoires d’étape (dont deux pour Jay Vine et Juan Ayuso), le classement de la montagne via Jay Vine, le classement par équipes et la deuxième place finale d’Almeida. Mais le groupe a également paru incapable de délivrer une prestation collective pour aider le même Almeida à conquérir ce Tour d’Espagne. Outre la dispute par médias interposés entre Juan Ayuso et sa direction sportive, Almeida n’a quasiment pu compter que sur Grossschartner et Vine dans les huit dernières étapes, pendant que Soler et Ayuso faisaient leur course pour aller conquérir des étapes. Ce n’est que vers le Bola del Mundo qu’UAE Team Emirates XRG a enfin tenté de se mettre à la planche pour son leader portugais, mais la tactique était trop simple : mener le train et espérer qu’Almeida attaque dans le final. Sauf que le N.2 de cette Vuelta n’est pas connu pour son explosivité et qu’il n’a jamais semblé en mesure de bousculer Vingegaard sur cette étape. Il y avait pourtant des ouvertures bien avant, notamment sur l’Angliru ou la Farrapona, mais il manquait d’un ou l’autre équipier et d’une tactique plus audacieuse et offensive. Car tout le monde n’est pas Tadej Pogacar et ne peut pas accélérer en puissance à chaque changement de rythme… Mais l’image du Portugais tombant dans les bras de Vingegaard en dit long sur son état d’esprit : une deuxième place, ce n’est pas si mal…

    Photo : ASO/Unipublic/Rafa Gómez/Sprint Cycling Agency

    Le podium est complété par un impressionnant Tom Pidcock (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team), qui a prouvé au bout de son sixième Grand Tour qu’il est bien capable de viser la victoire sur trois semaines. Le vététiste a pris le risque d’éviter les Mondiaux de Crans-Montana pour espérer un résultat de prestige en Espagne, et il n’a pas manqué son objectif, malgré une dernière étape exigeante vers Bola del Mundo. Offensif dès qu’il le fallait (notamment à Bilbao, sur un tracé parfait pour ses qualités explosives), défensif au bon moment (dans les longs cols de cette Vuelta), Pidcock a tout simplement appris comment gérer un classement général, sans s’exténuer sur des objectifs secondaires, comme une victoire d’étape. Cela ne veut pas dire qu’il deviendra forcément un coureur de Grand Tour à l’avenir, mais il grandit et se fait une place de renom sur la route après avoir déjà dominé le VTT et le cyclo-cross.

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    Côté belge, Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) a poursuivi sa moisson qu’il aurait certainement continué sur le Tour de France sans sa chute sur la troisième étape. Avec trois victoires d’étape, dont une dernière en troisième semaine, il s’est affirmé comme le plus rapide sur les Grands Tours cette saison. Junior Lecerf (Soudal Quick-Step) s’est pour sa part distingué par ses belles performances dans les grands cols de cette Vuelta. Une échappée bien gérée sur la 15e étape lui a même permis d’accrocher le Top 10, avant de finalement se faire déborder. Mais sa 11e place confirme à 22 ans son potentiel pour les Grands Tours, un mois après son succès sur le Tour de République tchèque. Il manque encore d’expérience sur les montées explosives, mais sans équipe à son service, le jeune coureur peut déjà se targuer d’une sacrée expérience.

    Photo : Instagram/Team Visma | Lease a Bike

    Avant de dire “hasta la proxima”, les acteurs de ce Tour d’Espagne d’un autre genre ont au moins eu une dernière occasion de célébrer ces trois semaines, non pas à Madrid, mais… sur le parking de l’hôtel des Visma | Lease a Bike, à l’occasion d’une cérémonie improvisée par les équipes, avec des frigo-box et du cava. La solidarité affichée par le peloton contrastait avec le tumulte du monde. Une parenthèse de bonheur et de fête pour au moins conclure trois semaines étranges, durant lesquelles on a parfois douté d’une course allant à son terme. Cette dernière image renvoie celle de cyclistes qui sont au moins heureux de faire le métier qu’ils font. Devrions-nous célébrer avec eux ? Peut-être pas. Mais le peloton a au moins le droit d’un peu profiter, avant une prochaine discussion politique.

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    Mondiaux sur route à Kigali : la présentation des contre-la-montre

    Parcours

    Les organisateurs de ces premiers championnats du monde sur territoire africain n’ont pas fait dans la demi-mesure pour le parcours des contre-la-montre individuels et du relais mixte. Comme sur les courses en ligne, le profil montagneux de la capitale rwandaise sera clairement dessiné sur le tracé, laissant place à un dénivelé particulièrement élevé pour des épreuves habituellement prévues pour des coureurs puissants. Cette fois, il faudra afficher des qualités plus complètes pour croire en un succès sur les hauteurs de Kigali.

    Le chrono destiné aux élites hommes proposera ainsi la côte de Nyanza (2,5 km à 5,8% de moyenne) comme apéritif au bout d’une dizaine de kilomètres, avant de descendre puis de remonter la même route dans l’autre sens, pour une nouvelle ascension de 4,1 km à 3,1%, donc bien moins pentue mais plus irrégulière, après la mi-course. Suivront encore la côte de Péage (2 km à 6%) et la côte de Kimihurura (1,3 km à 6,3% sur des pavés) pour conclure les huit derniers kilomètres d’un chrono qui se terminera sur une dernière rampe à 5% après 41 km. Rien de bien compliqué pour les rouleurs-grimpeurs qui s’annoncent au départ, mais ce profil donne certainement plus de chances à des coureurs habitués des pourcentages que ceux qui jouent le tout sur la puissance générée sur près de 45 minutes d’efforts.

    Les élites femmes devront parcourir 10 km de moins, avec la côte du Péage supprimée du tracé, mais toujours les trois autres ascensions au programme. Il en sera de même pour les espoirs hommes. Les juniors hommes et les espoirs femmes parcourront 22,6 km avec un seul passage par la côte de Nyanza (les 2,5 km à près de 6%) avant l’arrivée via la côte de Kimihurura, alors que les juniors femmes ne dépasseront pas 18,3 km et n’auront que la côte de Kimihurura comme juge de paix dans les tout derniers kilomètres.

    Favoris

    Le duel tant attendu entre le Belge Remco Evenepoel et le Slovène Tadej Pogacar sera bien réalité, après la confirmation du n°1 mondial qu’il participera également au contre-la-montre du premier jour des championnats du monde. Au vu des duels précédents entre les deux hommes, le champion olympique part avec un temps d’avance sur son adversaire qui survole les classiques et les cols. Mais sur un tracé plus vallonné tel que celui présenté à Kigali, “Pogi” peut espérer bousculer Evenepoel, du moins sur les parties en montée et éventuellement les descentes quelque peu techniques. Mais nul doute que le Belge, qui a déjà repris la compétition et levé les bras sur le Tour de Grande-Bretagne début du mois, sera prêt pour ce rendez-vous.

    Qui d’autre pourrait détrôner les deux stars de la discipline ? L’Australien Jay Vine, meilleur grimpeur du Tour d’Espagne et à l’aise sur l’effort en solitaire, aura également une occasion de se faire un nom sur un tel circuit, tout comme l’Italien Mattia Cattaneo, habituel équipier d’Evenepoel le reste de la saison, et leader en l’absence de Filippo Ganna. Difficile de trouver d’autres outsiders à la hauteur des deux grands noms du peloton : le Suisse Stefan Küng semble trop juste pour ce type de profil, tout comme l’Américain Magnus Sheffield ou l’Allemand Maximilian Schachmann.

    Le Belge Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), avec le maillot blanc du meilleur jaune, lors du contre-la-montre de la 5e étape du Tour de France, le 9 juillet 2025 – Photo : ASO/Charly Lopez

    Côté féminin, on devrait assister à un combat des cheffes, entre la Néerlandaise Demi Vollering, désireuse de se refaire la cerise après un Tour de France en demi-teinte, et l’Américaine Chloe Dygert, qui a montré cette saison une plus grande polyvalence sur les terrains plus accidentés. La Suissesse Marlen Reusser peut aussi s’intercaler dans le duel, vu ses qualités affichées sur le Giro notamment et sa volonté d’enfin s’offrir un maillot arc-en-ciel. La Néerlandaise Anna van der Breggen, la Française Cédrine Kerbaol ou encore l’Allemande Antonia Niedermaier pourraient aussi croire en un podium sur un tel parcours.

    Chez les espoirs, les Belges Jarno Widar et Jonathan Vervenne ont une chance de se faire une place au sommet au vu du parcours, mais attention au Slovaque Matthias Schwarzbacher ou à l’Espagnol Hector Alvarez. Pour la première édition du contre-la-montre individuel à destination des espoirs femmes, l’Espagnole Paula Blasi aura tous les regards fixés sur elle au vu de son éclosion cette saison. La Belge Lore De Schepper fera office d’outsider.

    Parmi les juniors, le Belge Steff Van Kerckhove aura un statut de favori, tout comme le Néerlandais Michiel Mouris ou l’Américain Ashlin Barry, du côté masculin, alors que l’Espagnole Paula Ostiz, l’Américaine Liliana Edwards et la Norvégienne Oda Aune Gissingerd seront surveillées dans le groupe féminin.

    Les nouvelles des derniers jours

    ✍ Transferts

    • L’Espagnol Raúl García Pierna (Arkéa-B&B Hôtels) s’est engagé dès 2026, pour trois saisons, avec l’équipe Movistar. Le Madrilène de 24 ans, ex-champion d’Espagne du contre-la-montre, a affiché ses qualités complètes sur la dernière saison avec une 6e place sur le Tour de la Provence et une 26e place sur le Tour de France, en équipier-modèle pour Kévin Vauquelin.

    • L’ex-championne de Grande-Bretagne Alice Towers (Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto) rejoindra EF Education-Oatly la saison prochaine, pour un contrat dont la durée n’a pas été communqiuée. La coureuse de 22 ans, transformée en équipière sur les courses par étapes et les classiques, espère faire grandir son ambition, notamment sur les Ardennaises.
    • La Canadienne Sarah Van Dam (Ceratizit) rejoindra le Team Visma | Lease a Bike dès la saison prochaine pour deux ans. L’ex-pistarde de 23 ans a explosé cette saison avec une cinquième place sur le Tour de Grande-Bretagne et une troisième sur le Tour du Pays basque, après une série de places d’honneur sur des classiques luxembourgeoises et françaises. Son objectif ? Briller sur les classiques ardennaises et les courses par étapes.
    • L’équipe FDJ-Suez a poursuivi son recrutement de coureuses d’expérience avec l’arrivée de l’Italienne Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Team ADQ). La cycliste de 28 ans a signé dès 2026 pour un contrat dont la durée n’a pas été précisée. Rapide et explosive, Bertizzolo est aussi connue pour son travail d’équipière de luxe sur les classiques et courses par étapes.
    • La Serbe Jelena Eric quittera cet hiver la Movistar pour rejoindre, pour deux saisons, l’équipe Uno-X. La championne de Serbie, âgée de 29 ans, sera une capitaine de route chargée de faire évoluer positivement l’équipe, au côté notamment de son ex-équipière Katrine Aalerud.

    ➡️ Prolongations

    • Le Danois Christopher Juul-Jensen restera deux années supplémentaires dans l’équipe Jayco-AlUla qu’il n’a pas quitté depuis 2016. L’équipier-modèle de 36 ans terminera ainsi probablement sa carrière au sein de la formation australienne d’ici à fin 2027. Juul-Jensen n’a plus connu un succès individuel depuis une étape du Tour de Suisse en 2018.

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    🏥 Sur la touche

    • Terrible nouvelle venue de l’équipe Cofidis ce week-end : le Tubizien Ludovic Robeet (Cofidis) a été victime d’un accident vasculaire cérébral et est hospitalisé depuis lors. Il devait se rendre au Canada pour disputer les GP de Québec et de Montréal. “Les nouvelles de sa santé sont positives et encourageantes”, a simplement confié Thierry Marichal, directeur sportif de l’équipe française à propos de Robeet, 31 ans. La formation a publié une vidéo lui transmettant des souhaits de rétablissement. Le Brabançon venait de signer une prolongation de deux ans avec Cofidis.

     

    Voir cette publication sur Instagram

     

    Une publication partagée par Team Cofidis Équipe Cycliste (@teamcofidis)

    • Après un début d’année prometteur, marqué par une huitième place sur le Tour de Catalogne, le Belge Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto) met finalement un terme définitif à une saison minée par les blessures. Le puncheur de 24 ans a enchaîné les coups de malchance, avec une fracture du métatarse avant le Tour des Flandres, en avril, puis une contusion osseuse au niveau des vertèbres lombaires après une chute sur le championnat de Belgique, fin juin, qui l’avait contraint à l’abandon sur le Tour de France. D’abord annoncé sur la Vuelta, Van Eetvelt avait décidé de postposer son retour à la compétition aux Grands Prix de Québec et de Montréal. Lotto a finalement annoncé qu’il ne courra plus cette saison en raison d’une gêne persistante. Une décision raisonnable pour lui permettre de revenir en 2026 avec l’espoir d’être enfin débarrassée des pépins physiques qui ont eu raison de sa saison 2025.

     

    • La champione du monde Lotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx-Protime) avait parfaitement débuté le Tour de l’Ardèche avec une victoire dès la première étape. Puis une chute sur la troisième étape l’a contrainte à l’abandon. Pire : une fracture d’une vertèbre met fin prématurément à sa saison sur route. Kopecky a déjà annoncé qu’elle allait désormais prendre du repos pour préparer la prochaine saison sur piste, son autre discipline de prédilection.

     

    • Les saisons se suivent et se ressemblent pour la Néerlandaise Annemarie Worst (29 ans, Fenix-Deceuninck)… Victime d’une chute sur la 4e étape du Simac Ladies Tour, elle a subi une fracture de la clavicule et devra donc patienter quelques semaines avant de reprendre l’entraînement pour préparer son retour en cyclo-cross, où elle performe habituellement parmi les meilleurs Néerlandaises.

    ❌ Sur le départ

    • Au lendemain de son abandon sur le Tour de l’Ardèche, l’Italienne Marta Cavalli (Team Picnic-PostNL) a annoncé la fin de sa carrière avec effet immédiat. La coureuse de 27 ans a connu de nombreuses chutes et n’a jamais pu revenir au niveau qui lui avait permis de remporter en 2022 l’Amstel Gold Race et la Flèche Wallonne coup sur coup. Sa lourde chute sur le Tour de France Femmes, violemment percutée par une autre concurrente, a eu raison de ses ambitions par la suite, malgré des retours encourageants après chaque blessure, avec notamment des succès sur le Tour des Pyrénées et le Tour de l’Ardèche en 2023. “Des années passées à chasser mes rêves et mes objectifs ont coûté cher, et après avoir laissé des litres de sueur, enchaîné les kilomètres et poussé mes limites tant et plus, je me sens fatiguée”, a-t-elle écrit sur Instagram. “Ces dernières années ont été très difficiles, avec constamment des hauts et des bas, et durant longtemps, j’ai chassé une forme qui n’est jamais revenue. Mes jambes ne sont plus aussi fortes que ce que j’aurais aimé qu’elles soient, et ma motivation a été en baisse”, a ajouté celle qui avait changé cette année d’écurie entre FDJ-Suez et Picnic-PostNL. Elle quitte donc le monde cycliste à 27 ans après huit saisons professionnelles, durant lesquelles elle a notamment terminé deuxième du Giro, cinquième de Paris-Roubaix et sixième de Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

    • Le Français Adrien Petit (Intermarché-Wanty) prendra sa retraite en fin de saison. Le puissant coureur nordiste de 34 ans a décidé de s’arrêter au bout de 15 saisons professionnelles, marquées par dix succès, mais aussi une sixième place sur Paris-Roubaix, sa course de coeur, sur laquelle il a enchaîné trois Top 10. Il s’était transformé ces dernières saisons en poisson-pilote pour les sprinters d’Intermarché-Wanty.

    📅 Programme

    • La triple championne du monde de cyclo-cross Fem van Empel (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) revient à ses premiers amours : elle a décidé de ne plus se consacrer à la route pour se concentrer à 100% au cyclo-cross, a-t-elle annoncé par voie de communiqué. “Ma motivation et ma joie sur la route étaient moins fortes que sur le cyclo-cross. Dès que j’ai fait mon choix, cela m’est directement apparu être le bon. Je poursuis pleinement ma décision”, a-t-elle commenté. L’hiver dernier, malgré une saison raccourcie, Van Empel avait remporté onze cyclo-cross, dont un troisième titre européen et un troisième titre mondial. Elle n’a disputé cette saison que trois courses sur route, dont le Strade Bianche (31e) et, dimanche dernier, la Choralis Fourmies (63e).

    💉 Dopage

    • La paracycliste polonaise Otylia Marczuk a été suspendue pour quatre ans par l’UCI, cette fois pour un contrôle positif au Stanozolol, un anabolisant, et à l’EPO, lors des Jeux paralympiques de Paris 2024, desquels elle avait été disqualifiée. Elle sera privée de compétition jusqu’au 27 août 2028.

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    🌈 Sélections

    • La Slovénie dévoilera une sélection costaude sur les prochains championnats du monde sur route à Kigali. Le tenant du titre Tadej Pogačar sera le leader naturel pour la course en ligne, mais également pour le contre-la-montre, et sera épaulé par un costaud Primož Roglič, mais aussi Matej Mohorič, Luka Mezgec, Domen Novak, Matevz Govekar, Gal Glivar, Jaka Primozic et Matic Zumer.
    • Du côté néerlandais, Thymen Arensman et Bauke Mollema devraient être les leadrs de la course en ligne masculine des Mondiaux, avec à leurs côtés Koen Bouwman, Sam Oomen, Wout Poels et Frank van den Broek. Chez les femmes, la sélection est tout simplement la favorite pour le titre : Demi Vollering sera aux avant-postes, avec Anna van der Breggen et Marianne Vos comme jokers, et Shirin van Anrooij, Yara Kastelijn et Pauliena Rooijakkers comme équipières de luxe.
    • L’île Maurice bénéficiera de ses plus grands contingents jamais alignés sur les championnats du monde grâce à Kim Le Court, chez les élites femmes, accompagnée de Lucie De Marigny-Lagesse et Aurélie Halbwachs, alors que du côté masculin, Alexandre Mayer sera présent avec Aurélien De Comarmond.
    • La Suisse comptera sur Mauro Schmid et Jan Christen lors de la course masculine des championnats du monde, avec Marc Hirschi, Fabio Christen et Fabian Weiss pour les accompagner. Marlen Reusser et Elise Chabbey seront pour leur part les patronnes de la sélection féminine, au côté de Noemi Rüegg, Steffi Häberlin, Jasmin Liechti, Elena Hartmann et Ginia Caluori.
    • Du côté des États-Unis, Chloe Dygert et Ruth Edwards seront présentes à Kigali, alors que la sélection masculine sera menée par Quinn Simmons, avec Will Barta, Luke Lamperti, Magnus Sheffield, Kevin Vermaerke et Larry Warbasse.

    📌 Autres

     

    Voir cette publication sur Instagram

     

    Une publication partagée par Annemiek van Vleuten (@annemiekvanvleuten)

    À lire, voir, écouter…

    • Les vols de vélos par dizaines se multiplient ces derniers mois dans le monde professionnel. Que ce soit sur des courses, aux hôtels entre les épreuves ou dans les services course des équipes, plusieurs formations ont connu pareille mésaventure cette année, que ce soit Cofidis, TotalEnergies ou même Visma | Lease a Bike. Le Soir et Sudinfo ont enquêté sur ce phénomène et demandé aux équipes ce qu’ils pouvaient mettre en œuvre pour prévenir ces vols ou mieux sécuriser les vélos, dans un sport toujours en mouvement. C’est à lire en cliquant sur ce lien (payant).
    • L’équipe Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale, qui deviendra Decathlon CMA CGM la saison prochaine, a réalisé un grand coup en annonçant l’arrivée du jeune sprinter néerlandais Olav Kooij, mais aussi de quatre équipiers également capables de sprinter. Le journaliste Daniel Benson a écrit un long article sur les coulisses de ces transferts et la manière dont les dirigeants de la formation française ont réussi à convaincre l’un des espoirs les plus rapides du peloton actuel. C’est à lire en cliquant sur ce lien (en anglais, payant).
    • Pourquoi les équipes européennes et du WorldTour ne signent plus de coureurs africains ces dernières saisons ? Le journaliste Dan Challis a parlé avec l’ancien professionnel Robbie Hunter, devenu agent, pour évoquer avec lui les raisons de ces difficultés : des problèmes de visa, la difficulté de s’intégrer ou même les problèmes pour s’habituer à des courses plus intenses. C’est à lire en cliquant sur ce lien (en anglais).

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    Les résultats des derniers jours

    Route

    • Tour d’Espagne 🇪🇸 (2.UWT)
      • 16e étape (09/09) : Egan Bernal 🇨🇴 (INEOS Grenadiers) – étape arrêtée à 8 km de l’arrivée en raison d’une manifestation pro-Palestine dans la montée finale
      • 17e étape (10/09) : Giulio Pellizzari 🇮🇹 (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)
      • 18e étape (11/09 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Filippo Ganna 🇮🇹 (INEOS Grenadiers)
      • 19e étape (12/09) : Jasper Philipsen 🇧🇪 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
      • 20e étape (13/09) : Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 21e et dernière étape (14/09) : étape annulée en raison d’une manifestation pro-Palestine
      • Classement général : Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • Classement par points : Mads Pedersen 🇩🇰 (Lidl-Trek)
      • Classement de la montagne : Jay Vine 🇦🇺 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
      • Classement des jeunes : Matthew Riccitello 🇺🇸 (Israel Premier Tech)
      • Classement par équipes : UAE Team Emirates XRG
    • Grand Prix de Québec 🇨🇦 (1.UWT)
      • 12/09 : Julian Alaphilippe 🇫🇷 (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)

    • Grand Prix de Montréal 🇨🇦 (1.UWT)
      • 14/09 : Brandon McNulty 🇺🇸 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)

    • Coppa Sabatini 🇮🇹 (1.Pro)
      • 11/09 : Isaac del Toro 🇲🇽 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
    • Grand Prix de Fourmies 🇫🇷 (1.Pro)
      • 14/09 : Paul Magnier 🇫🇷 (Soudal Quick-Step)
    • La Choralis Fourmies 🇫🇷 (1.Pro)
      • 14/09 : Lorena Wiebes 🇳🇱 (Team SD Worx-Protime)
    • Grand Prix Stuttgart & Region 🇩🇪 (1.Pro)
      • 14/09 : Eleonora Gasparrini 🇮🇹 (UAE Team ADQ)
    • Tour de Binzhou 🇨🇳 (1.1)
      • 09/09 : Simon Pellaud 🇨🇭 (Li Ning Star)
    • Tour de Toscane 🇮🇹 (1.1)
      • 10/09 : Isaac del Toro 🇲🇽 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
    • Memorial Marco Pantani 🇮🇹 (1.1)
      • 13/09 : Michael Storer 🇦🇺 (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)
    • À Travers les Hauts de France 🇫🇷 (1.1)
      • 13/09 : Lara Gillepsie 🇮🇪 (UAE Team ADQ)
    • Trophée Matteotti 🇮🇹 (1.1)
      • 14/09 : Isaac del Toro 🇲🇽 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
    • Tour féminin international de l’Ardèche 🇫🇷 (2.1)
      • 1re étape (09/09) : Lotte Kopecky 🇧🇪 (Team SD Worx-Protime)
      • 2e étape (10/09) : étape annulée en raison de manifestations hors de la course
      • 3e étape (11/09) : Mischa Bredewold 🇳🇱 (Team SD Worx-Protime)
      • 4e étape (12/09 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Mischa Bredewold 🇳🇱 (Team SD Worx-Protime)
      • 5e étape (13/09) : Marion Bunel 🇫🇷 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 6e et dernière étape (14/09) : Monica Trinca Colonel 🇮🇹 (Liv AlUla Jayco)
      • Classement général : Monica Trinca Colonel 🇮🇹 (Liv AlUla Jayco)
    • Tour de Salalah 🇴🇲 (2.2)
      • 3e étape (09/09) : Jeroen Meijers 🇳🇱 (Victoria Sports Pro Cycling)
      • 4e et dernière étape (10/09) : Abdulla Jasim Al-Ali 🇦🇪 (UAE)
      • Classement général : Adne van Engelen 🇳🇱 (Terengganu Cycling Team)
    • Tour du Venezuela 🇻🇪 (2.2)
      • 3e étape (09/09) : Leangel Linarez 🇻🇪 (Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortágua)
      • 4e étape (10/09) : Camilo Gomez Gomez 🇨🇴 (GW Erco Shimano)
      • 5e étape (11/09) : José Dominguez 🇨🇺 (Cuba)
      • 6e étape A (12/09 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Rafael Barbas 🇵🇹 (Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortágua)
      • 6e étape B (12/09) : Luis Gomez 🇻🇪 (Fina Arroz-Multimarcas Sport)
      • 7e étape (13/09) : Leangel Linarez 🇻🇪 (Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortágua)
      • 8e et dernière étape (14/09) : Cristian Damian Velez 🇨🇴 (GW Erco Shimano)
      • Classement général : Luis Mora 🇻🇪 (Gobierno Trujillo)
    • Turul Romaniei 🇷🇴 (2.2)
      • 1re étape (10/09) : Maximilian Schmidbauer 🇦🇹 (WSA KTM Graz)
      • 2e étape (11/09) : Cesare Chesini 🇮🇹 (MBH Bank Ballan CSB)
      • 3e étape (12/09) : Seth Dunwoody 🇮🇪 (Bahrain Victorious Development Team)
      • 4e étape (13/09) : Jonathan Rottmann 🇩🇪 (REMBE | Rad-net)
      • 5e et dernière étape (14/09) : Radoslaw Fratczak 🇵🇱 (Voster ATS Team)
      • Classement général : Cesare Chesini 🇮🇹 (MBH Bank Ballan CSB)
    • Grand Prix Chantal Biya 🇨🇲 (2.2)
      • 1re étape (10/09) : Alexandre Mayer 🇲🇺 (Maurice)
      • 2e étape (11/09) : Guillaume Gaboriaud 🇫🇷 (Team France Clubs Défense)
      • 3e étape (12/09) : Clovis Kamzong 🇨🇲 (SNH Velo Club)
      • 4e étape (13/09) : Alexandre Mayer 🇲🇺 (Maurice)
      • 5e et dernière étape (14/09) : Alexandre Mayer 🇲🇺 (Maurice)
      • Classement général : Alexandre Mayer 🇲🇺 (Maurice)
    • Grand Prix Rik Van Looy 🇧🇪 (1.2)
      • 14/09 : Mads Andersen 🇩🇰 (Airtox-Carl Ras)

    VTT

    • Championnats du monde de VTT en Valais 🇨🇭 (CM)
      • Short-track – Espoirs femmes (09/09) : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • Short-track – Espoirs hommes (09/09) : Adrien Boichis 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Short-track – Élites femmes (09/09) : Alessandra Keller 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Short-track – Élites hommes (09/09) : Victor Koretzky 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Cross-country – Relais par équipes mixte (11/09) : France 🇫🇷 (Adrien Boichis, Lucas Teste, Loana Lecomte, Olivia Onesti, Lise Revol et Joshua Dubau)
      • Cross-country – Juniors femmes (12/09) : Marusa Tereza Serkezi 🇸🇰 (Slovaquie)
      • Cross-country – Juniors hommes (12/09) : Lucas Teste 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Cross-country – Espoirs hommes (13/09) : Finn Treudler 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Cross-country – Élites femmes (13/09) : Jenny Rissveds 🇸🇪 (Suède)
      • Cross-country – Espoirs femmes (14/09) : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • Cross-country – Élites hommes (14/09) : Alan Hatherly 🇿🇦 (Afrique du Sud)

    L’agenda des prochains jours

    Mardi 16 septembre 2025

    • Tour du Lac Poyang 🇨🇳 (2.2) – 2e étape

    Mercredi 17 septembre 2025

    • Grand Prix de Wallonie – Hommes 🇧🇪 (1.Pro)
      • Dison > Citadelle de Namur (187 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 16h00 sur RTL Club, RTL Play et HBO Max
    • Tour de Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (2.Pro) – 1re étape
      • Luxembourg > Luxembourg (152,8 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h50 sur HBO Max, dès 17h00 sur Eurosport 2, et dès 15h50 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe
    • Grand Prix de Wallonie – Femmes 🇧🇪 (1.1)
      • Dison > Citadelle de Namur (128,7 km)
      • Liste des partantes
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h00 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h00 sur RTL Club et RTL Play
    • Tour de Slovaquie 🇸🇰 (2.1) – 1re étape
      • Bardejov > Bardejov (141,2 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h00 sur HBO Max et Eurosport 2
    • Tour du Lac Poyang 🇨🇳 (2.2) – 3e étape

    Jeudi 18 septembre 2025

    • Tour de Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (2.Pro) – 2e étape
      • Remich > Mamer (168,4 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h50 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h00 sur Eurosport 2, et dès 15h50 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe
    • Tour de Slovaquie 🇸🇰 (2.1) – 2e étape
      • Svidník > Kosice (170,6 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h00 sur HBO Max et Eurosport 2
    • Tour du Lac Poyang 🇨🇳 (2.2) – 4e étape

    Vendredi 19 septembre 2025

    • Tour de Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (2.Pro) – 3e étape
      • Mertert > Vianden (170,5 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h50 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h00 sur Eurosport 2, et dès 15h50 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe
    • Championnat des Flandres 🇧🇪 (1.1)
      • Koolskamp > Koolskamp (180 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h30 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h30 sur Tipik et RTBF Auvio
    • Tour de Slovaquie 🇸🇰 (2.1) – 3e étape
      • Kezmarok > Banská Bystrica (191,7 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h00 sur HBO Max et Eurosport 2
    • Giro Mediterraneo in Rosa 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 1re étape
    • Tour du Lac Poyang 🇨🇳 (2.2) – 5e étape

    VTT

    • UCI Mountain Bike World Series à Lenzerheide🇨🇭 (CDM) – Short-track
      • 📺 Direct dès 17h15 sur HBO Max et Eurosport 2

    Samedi 20 septembre 2025

    • Super 8 Classic 🇧🇪 (1.Pro)
      • Brakel > Haacht (200,7 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h00 sur RTL Club et RTL Play, dès 15h45 sur VTM et VTM Go, et dès 16h15 sur HBO Max
    • Tour de Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (2.Pro) – 4e étape
      • Niederanven > Niederanven (26,3 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h50 sur HBO Max, dès 17h00 sur Eurosport 1, et dès 15h55 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe
    • Tour de Slovaquie 🇸🇰 (2.1) – 4e étape
      • Vráble > Sládkovicovo (169,1 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h00 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h30 sur Eurosport 1
    • Giro Mediterraneo in Rosa 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 2e étape

    VTT

    • UCI Mountain Bike World Series à Lenzerheide🇨🇭 (CDM) – Descente
      • 📺 Direct dès 11h15 sur HBO Max, et dès 13h00 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe

    Dimanche 21 septembre 2025

    • Championnats du monde sur route à Kigali 🇷🇼 (CM) – CLM individuel élites femmes
      • Kigali > Kigali (31,2 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partantes
      • 📺 Direct dès 10h00 sur HBO Max, Eurosport 2, Canvas, Sporza.be et VRT Max, et dès 10h10 sur RTBF Auvio
    • Championnats du monde sur route à Kigali 🇷🇼 (CM) – CLM individuel élites hommes
      • Kigali > Kigali (40,6 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h35 sur HBO Max, VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max, dès 14h30 sur Eurosport 1, dès 13h45 sur La Une et RTBF Auvio, et dès 14h50 sur France 3 et France.tv
    • Tour de Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (2.Pro) – 5e et dernière étape
      • Mersch > Luxembourg (176,4 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 12h40 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h55 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe
    • Flèche de Gooik 🇧🇪 (1.1)
      • Roosdaal > Gooik
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h30 sur Pickx.be, Pickx Pop-Up Sports et Pickx Showcase
    • Grand Prix d’Isbergues 🇫🇷 (1.1)
    • Tour de Slovaquie 🇸🇰 (2.1) – 5e et dernière étape
    • Giro Mediterraneo in Rosa 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 3e et dernière étape

    VTT

    • UCI Mountain Bike World Series à Lenzerheide🇨🇭 (CDM) – Cross-country
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h00 sur HBO Max

    Lundi 22 septembre 2025

    • Championnats du monde sur route à Kigali 🇷🇼 (CM) – CLM individuel espoirs femmes
      • Kigali > Kigali (22,5 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partantes
      • 📺 Direct dès 10h25 sur HBO Max et sur Eurosport 1, et dès 11h30 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Championnats du monde sur route à Kigali 🇷🇼 (CM) – CLM individuel espoirs hommes
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    L’infolettre du 15 septembre 2025 : Vingegaard gagne une Vuelta tronquée, les Mondiaux de chrono…

    Vingegaard, vainqueur défensif d’une Vuelta par défaut

    Pas de podium, pas de cérémonie protocolaire, pas d’arrivée, pas de cava, pas d’hymne, pas de félicitations… Le Tour d’Espagne s’est terminé en eau de boudin. Comme ce fut le cas quasi quotidiennement depuis l’arrivée du peloton dans la péninsule ibérique, des manifestants pro-palestiniens ont bouleversé le cours d’un Grand Tour amputé d’une bonne partie de ses juges de paix. Deux étapes annulées, un contre-la-montre réduit, une montée finale évitée : cela n’aurait peut-être pas bouleverser le classement général établi avant l’arrivée du peloton à Madrid, mais ces modifications de parcours ont donné une autre valeur à cette Vuelta, celle d’une course par défaut, au spectacle toujours sur le fil. Difficile de profiter d’un tel divertissement sportif quand les protestataires viennent rappeler la réalité du monde et du poids politique que peut avoir le cyclisme, ou du moins ceux qui financent ce sport. Protestataires eux-mêmes soutenus par le Premier ministre et le ministre des Affaires étrangères espagnols, pendant que la présidente de la Communauté de Madrid venait, elle, soutenir l’équipe Israel Premier Tech, devenue IPT le temps de conclure la saison.

    Alors, tout le monde est rentré dans les voitures, à plus de 50 kilomètres de l’arrivée finale de ce Tour d’Espagne. Avant même de sortir du parc du Retiro, au centre de la capitale. Pas de passage par les bus non plus, l’organisation a voulu éviter tout contact rapproché entre les manifestants, éparpillés aux quatre coins de la ville, et les coureurs qui ne cherchent qu’à faire leur métier. On a pourtant eu peur, la veille, en voyant des manifestants débouler sur la route pour bloquer les hommes de tête et le reste de la caravane alors qu’ils déboulaient à plus de 50 km/h sur une route en légère descente. Heureusement, aucun cycliste n’a été blessé dans l’aventure, après quelques évitements de dernière minute. Mais cela en disait déjà long sur les tensions autour de cette Vuelta. La course a finalement pu aller quasiment à son terme. Dommage pour les sprinters qui espéraient une dernière joute à Madrid, mais continuer dans de telles conditions aurait tout simplement mis en danger tout le monde.

    On en a déjà souvent parlé dans cette infolettre : ces manifestations existent parce que la Vuelta est un événement international bénéficiant d’une médiatisation d’envergure ; parce que le propriétaire de l’équipe Israel Premier Tech a clairement affiché son soutien à l’État d’Israël dans un conflit à Gaza, officiellement contre le mouvement islamiste palestinien Hamas, qui a déjà mené à la famine et à la mort de plus de 60.000 personnes en deux ans ; parce que l’Union Cycliste Internationale s’est toujours tue à ce sujet malgré ses positions sur la guerre en Ukraine ces dernières années. L’organisation de la Vuelta a tenté de poursuivre sa course, logiquement, tant que possible, mais les manifestants ont aussi vu que plus la protestation créait la surprise, plus elle entraînait de médiatisation. C’est toutefois un danger pour le futur du cyclisme : et si d’autres mouvements décidaient que ces courses pouvaient représenter une plateforme pour s’exprimer en bloquant les routes et le peloton ? Cela crée un dangereux précédent qu’aucune autorité cycliste n’est parvenue à contenir jusqu’ici. Au grand dam des coureurs, qui ont essayé de faire la course comme ils le pouvaient.

    C’est ainsi que le Danois Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) a conclu sa Vuelta en serrant les mains de ses équipiers et de sa direction sportive. L’ancien vainqueur du Tour de France avait, la veille, réussi à conforter son maillot rouge grâce à une nouvelle victoire d’étape au sommet du pentu Bola del Mundo, dernier sommet de ce Tour d’Espagne particulier. Le Danois est apparu très défensif, préférant se laisser porter par ses équipiers le plus longtemps possible en montagne. Vingegaard a avoué un coup de moins bien en deuxième semaine, alors que certains dans le peloton évoquaient un virus dans le peloton. La fatigue de son Tour de France incisif face à Tadej Pogacar a également pu peser sur ce deuxième Grand Tour disputé en deux mois. Mais il a assuré la victoire dès que nécessaire, dès la première arrivée au sommet à Limone Piemonte, puis à Bola del Mundo, sans jamais lâcher la roue de João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates XRG), habitué des places d’honneur.

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    Le duel entre les deux hommes a pourtant été l’un des plus intéressants de ces dernières années sur les Grands Tours. Avec 44 secondes entre les deux premiers avant la dernière étape de montagne, on pouvait espérer un feu d’artifice sur l’ultime sommet de l’épreuve. Mais UAE Team Emirates XRG n’a jamais semblé capable de perturber le collectif défensif des “abeilles”. Car elle sait tout simplement trop disperser durant ces trois dernières semaines, en tout cas pour espérer prendre le maillot rouge. Car la formation émiratie a réalisé une Vuelta exceptionnelle avec sept victoires d’étape (dont deux pour Jay Vine et Juan Ayuso), le classement de la montagne via Jay Vine, le classement par équipes et la deuxième place finale d’Almeida. Mais le groupe a également paru incapable de délivrer une prestation collective pour aider le même Almeida à conquérir ce Tour d’Espagne. Outre la dispute par médias interposés entre Juan Ayuso et sa direction sportive, Almeida n’a quasiment pu compter que sur Grossschartner et Vine dans les huit dernières étapes, pendant que Soler et Ayuso faisaient leur course pour aller conquérir des étapes. Ce n’est que vers le Bola del Mundo qu’UAE Team Emirates XRG a enfin tenté de se mettre à la planche pour son leader portugais, mais la tactique était trop simple : mener le train et espérer qu’Almeida attaque dans le final. Sauf que le N.2 de cette Vuelta n’est pas connu pour son explosivité et qu’il n’a jamais semblé en mesure de bousculer Vingegaard sur cette étape. Il y avait pourtant des ouvertures bien avant, notamment sur l’Angliru ou la Farrapona, mais il manquait d’un ou l’autre équipier et d’une tactique plus audacieuse et offensive. Car tout le monde n’est pas Tadej Pogacar et ne peut pas accélérer en puissance à chaque changement de rythme… Mais l’image du Portugais tombant dans les bras de Vingegaard en dit long sur son état d’esprit : une deuxième place, ce n’est pas si mal…

    Photo : ASO/Unipublic/Rafa Gómez/Sprint Cycling Agency

    Le podium est complété par un impressionnant Tom Pidcock (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team), qui a prouvé au bout de son sixième Grand Tour qu’il est bien capable de viser la victoire sur trois semaines. Le vététiste a pris le risque d’éviter les Mondiaux de Crans-Montana pour espérer un résultat de prestige en Espagne, et il n’a pas manqué son objectif, malgré une dernière étape exigeante vers Bola del Mundo. Offensif dès qu’il le fallait (notamment à Bilbao, sur un tracé parfait pour ses qualités explosives), défensif au bon moment (dans les longs cols de cette Vuelta), Pidcock a tout simplement appris comment gérer un classement général, sans s’exténuer sur des objectifs secondaires, comme une victoire d’étape. Cela ne veut pas dire qu’il deviendra forcément un coureur de Grand Tour à l’avenir, mais il grandit et se fait une place de renom sur la route après avoir déjà dominé le VTT et le cyclo-cross.

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    Côté belge, Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) a poursuivi sa moisson qu’il aurait certainement continué sur le Tour de France sans sa chute sur la troisième étape. Avec trois victoires d’étape, dont une dernière en troisième semaine, il s’est affirmé comme le plus rapide sur les Grands Tours cette saison. Junior Lecerf (Soudal Quick-Step) s’est pour sa part distingué par ses belles performances dans les grands cols de cette Vuelta. Une échappée bien gérée sur la 15e étape lui a même permis d’accrocher le Top 10, avant de finalement se faire déborder. Mais sa 11e place confirme à 22 ans son potentiel pour les Grands Tours, un mois après son succès sur le Tour de République tchèque. Il manque encore d’expérience sur les montées explosives, mais sans équipe à son service, le jeune coureur peut déjà se targuer d’une sacrée expérience.

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    Avant de dire “hasta la proxima”, les acteurs de ce Tour d’Espagne d’un autre genre ont au moins eu une dernière occasion de célébrer ces trois semaines, non pas à Madrid, mais… sur le parking de l’hôtel des Visma | Lease a Bike, à l’occasion d’une cérémonie improvisée par les équipes, avec des frigo-box et du cava. La solidarité affichée par le peloton contrastait avec le tumulte du monde. Une parenthèse de bonheur et de fête pour au moins conclure trois semaines étranges, durant lesquelles on a parfois douté d’une course allant à son terme. Cette dernière image renvoie celle de cyclistes qui sont au moins heureux de faire le métier qu’ils font. Devrions-nous célébrer avec eux ? Peut-être pas. Mais le peloton a au moins le droit d’un peu profiter, avant une prochaine discussion politique.

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    Mondiaux sur route à Kigali : la présentation des contre-la-montre

    Parcours

    Les organisateurs de ces premiers championnats du monde sur territoire africain n’ont pas fait dans la demi-mesure pour le parcours des contre-la-montre individuels et du relais mixte. Comme sur les courses en ligne, le profil montagneux de la capitale rwandaise sera clairement dessiné sur le tracé, laissant place à un dénivelé particulièrement élevé pour des épreuves habituellement prévues pour des coureurs puissants. Cette fois, il faudra afficher des qualités plus complètes pour croire en un succès sur les hauteurs de Kigali.

    Le chrono destiné aux élites hommes proposera ainsi la côte de Nyanza (2,5 km à 5,8% de moyenne) comme apéritif au bout d’une dizaine de kilomètres, avant de descendre puis de remonter la même route dans l’autre sens, pour une nouvelle ascension de 4,1 km à 3,1%, donc bien moins pentue mais plus irrégulière, après la mi-course. Suivront encore la côte de Péage (2 km à 6%) et la côte de Kimihurura (1,3 km à 6,3% sur des pavés) pour conclure les huit derniers kilomètres d’un chrono qui se terminera sur une dernière rampe à 5% après 41 km. Rien de bien compliqué pour les rouleurs-grimpeurs qui s’annoncent au départ, mais ce profil donne certainement plus de chances à des coureurs habitués des pourcentages que ceux qui jouent le tout sur la puissance générée sur près de 45 minutes d’efforts.

    Les élites femmes devront parcourir 10 km de moins, avec la côte du Péage supprimée du tracé, mais toujours les trois autres ascensions au programme. Il en sera de même pour les espoirs hommes. Les juniors hommes et les espoirs femmes parcourront 22,6 km avec un seul passage par la côte de Nyanza (les 2,5 km à près de 6%) avant l’arrivée via la côte de Kimihurura, alors que les juniors femmes ne dépasseront pas 18,3 km et n’auront que la côte de Kimihurura comme juge de paix dans les tout derniers kilomètres.

    Favoris

    Le duel tant attendu entre le Belge Remco Evenepoel et le Slovène Tadej Pogacar sera bien réalité, après la confirmation du n°1 mondial qu’il participera également au contre-la-montre du premier jour des championnats du monde. Au vu des duels précédents entre les deux hommes, le champion olympique part avec un temps d’avance sur son adversaire qui survole les classiques et les cols. Mais sur un tracé plus vallonné tel que celui présenté à Kigali, “Pogi” peut espérer bousculer Evenepoel, du moins sur les parties en montée et éventuellement les descentes quelque peu techniques. Mais nul doute que le Belge, qui a déjà repris la compétition et levé les bras sur le Tour de Grande-Bretagne début du mois, sera prêt pour ce rendez-vous.

    Qui d’autre pourrait détrôner les deux stars de la discipline ? L’Australien Jay Vine, meilleur grimpeur du Tour d’Espagne et à l’aise sur l’effort en solitaire, aura également une occasion de se faire un nom sur un tel circuit, tout comme l’Italien Mattia Cattaneo, habituel équipier d’Evenepoel le reste de la saison, et leader en l’absence de Filippo Ganna. Difficile de trouver d’autres outsiders à la hauteur des deux grands noms du peloton : le Suisse Stefan Küng semble trop juste pour ce type de profil, tout comme l’Américain Magnus Sheffield ou l’Allemand Maximilian Schachmann.

    Le Belge Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), avec le maillot blanc du meilleur jaune, lors du contre-la-montre de la 5e étape du Tour de France, le 9 juillet 2025 – Photo : ASO/Charly Lopez

    Côté féminin, on devrait assister à un combat des cheffes, entre la Néerlandaise Demi Vollering, désireuse de se refaire la cerise après un Tour de France en demi-teinte, et l’Américaine Chloe Dygert, qui a montré cette saison une plus grande polyvalence sur les terrains plus accidentés. La Suissesse Marlen Reusser peut aussi s’intercaler dans le duel, vu ses qualités affichées sur le Giro notamment et sa volonté d’enfin s’offrir un maillot arc-en-ciel. La Néerlandaise Anna van der Breggen, la Française Cédrine Kerbaol ou encore l’Allemande Antonia Niedermaier pourraient aussi croire en un podium sur un tel parcours.

    Chez les espoirs, les Belges Jarno Widar et Jonathan Vervenne ont une chance de se faire une place au sommet au vu du parcours, mais attention au Slovaque Matthias Schwarzbacher ou à l’Espagnol Hector Alvarez. Pour la première édition du contre-la-montre individuel à destination des espoirs femmes, l’Espagnole Paula Blasi aura tous les regards fixés sur elle au vu de son éclosion cette saison. La Belge Lore De Schepper fera office d’outsider.

    Parmi les juniors, le Belge Steff Van Kerckhove aura un statut de favori, tout comme le Néerlandais Michiel Mouris ou l’Américain Ashlin Barry, du côté masculin, alors que l’Espagnole Paula Ostiz, l’Américaine Liliana Edwards et la Norvégienne Oda Aune Gissingerd seront surveillées dans le groupe féminin.

    Les nouvelles des derniers jours

    ✍ Transferts

    • L’Espagnol Raúl García Pierna (Arkéa-B&B Hôtels) s’est engagé dès 2026, pour trois saisons, avec l’équipe Movistar. Le Madrilène de 24 ans, ex-champion d’Espagne du contre-la-montre, a affiché ses qualités complètes sur la dernière saison avec une 6e place sur le Tour de la Provence et une 26e place sur le Tour de France, en équipier-modèle pour Kévin Vauquelin.

    • L’ex-championne de Grande-Bretagne Alice Towers (Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto) rejoindra EF Education-Oatly la saison prochaine, pour un contrat dont la durée n’a pas été communqiuée. La coureuse de 22 ans, transformée en équipière sur les courses par étapes et les classiques, espère faire grandir son ambition, notamment sur les Ardennaises.
    • La Canadienne Sarah Van Dam (Ceratizit) rejoindra le Team Visma | Lease a Bike dès la saison prochaine pour deux ans. L’ex-pistarde de 23 ans a explosé cette saison avec une cinquième place sur le Tour de Grande-Bretagne et une troisième sur le Tour du Pays basque, après une série de places d’honneur sur des classiques luxembourgeoises et françaises. Son objectif ? Briller sur les classiques ardennaises et les courses par étapes.
    • L’équipe FDJ-Suez a poursuivi son recrutement de coureuses d’expérience avec l’arrivée de l’Italienne Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Team ADQ). La cycliste de 28 ans a signé dès 2026 pour un contrat dont la durée n’a pas été précisée. Rapide et explosive, Bertizzolo est aussi connue pour son travail d’équipière de luxe sur les classiques et courses par étapes.
    • La Serbe Jelena Eric quittera cet hiver la Movistar pour rejoindre, pour deux saisons, l’équipe Uno-X. La championne de Serbie, âgée de 29 ans, sera une capitaine de route chargée de faire évoluer positivement l’équipe, au côté notamment de son ex-équipière Katrine Aalerud.

    ➡️ Prolongations

    • Le Danois Christopher Juul-Jensen restera deux années supplémentaires dans l’équipe Jayco-AlUla qu’il n’a pas quitté depuis 2016. L’équipier-modèle de 36 ans terminera ainsi probablement sa carrière au sein de la formation australienne d’ici à fin 2027. Juul-Jensen n’a plus connu un succès individuel depuis une étape du Tour de Suisse en 2018.

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    🏥 Sur la touche

    • Terrible nouvelle venue de l’équipe Cofidis ce week-end : le Tubizien Ludovic Robeet (Cofidis) a été victime d’un accident vasculaire cérébral et est hospitalisé depuis lors. Il devait se rendre au Canada pour disputer les GP de Québec et de Montréal. “Les nouvelles de sa santé sont positives et encourageantes”, a simplement confié Thierry Marichal, directeur sportif de l’équipe française à propos de Robeet, 31 ans. La formation a publié une vidéo lui transmettant des souhaits de rétablissement. Le Brabançon venait de signer une prolongation de deux ans avec Cofidis.

     

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    • Après un début d’année prometteur, marqué par une huitième place sur le Tour de Catalogne, le Belge Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto) met finalement un terme définitif à une saison minée par les blessures. Le puncheur de 24 ans a enchaîné les coups de malchance, avec une fracture du métatarse avant le Tour des Flandres, en avril, puis une contusion osseuse au niveau des vertèbres lombaires après une chute sur le championnat de Belgique, fin juin, qui l’avait contraint à l’abandon sur le Tour de France. D’abord annoncé sur la Vuelta, Van Eetvelt avait décidé de postposer son retour à la compétition aux Grands Prix de Québec et de Montréal. Lotto a finalement annoncé qu’il ne courra plus cette saison en raison d’une gêne persistante. Une décision raisonnable pour lui permettre de revenir en 2026 avec l’espoir d’être enfin débarrassée des pépins physiques qui ont eu raison de sa saison 2025.

     

    • La champione du monde Lotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx-Protime) avait parfaitement débuté le Tour de l’Ardèche avec une victoire dès la première étape. Puis une chute sur la troisième étape l’a contrainte à l’abandon. Pire : une fracture d’une vertèbre met fin prématurément à sa saison sur route. Kopecky a déjà annoncé qu’elle allait désormais prendre du repos pour préparer la prochaine saison sur piste, son autre discipline de prédilection.

     

    • Les saisons se suivent et se ressemblent pour la Néerlandaise Annemarie Worst (29 ans, Fenix-Deceuninck)… Victime d’une chute sur la 4e étape du Simac Ladies Tour, elle a subi une fracture de la clavicule et devra donc patienter quelques semaines avant de reprendre l’entraînement pour préparer son retour en cyclo-cross, où elle performe habituellement parmi les meilleurs Néerlandaises.

    ❌ Sur le départ

    • Au lendemain de son abandon sur le Tour de l’Ardèche, l’Italienne Marta Cavalli (Team Picnic-PostNL) a annoncé la fin de sa carrière avec effet immédiat. La coureuse de 27 ans a connu de nombreuses chutes et n’a jamais pu revenir au niveau qui lui avait permis de remporter en 2022 l’Amstel Gold Race et la Flèche Wallonne coup sur coup. Sa lourde chute sur le Tour de France Femmes, violemment percutée par une autre concurrente, a eu raison de ses ambitions par la suite, malgré des retours encourageants après chaque blessure, avec notamment des succès sur le Tour des Pyrénées et le Tour de l’Ardèche en 2023. “Des années passées à chasser mes rêves et mes objectifs ont coûté cher, et après avoir laissé des litres de sueur, enchaîné les kilomètres et poussé mes limites tant et plus, je me sens fatiguée”, a-t-elle écrit sur Instagram. “Ces dernières années ont été très difficiles, avec constamment des hauts et des bas, et durant longtemps, j’ai chassé une forme qui n’est jamais revenue. Mes jambes ne sont plus aussi fortes que ce que j’aurais aimé qu’elles soient, et ma motivation a été en baisse”, a ajouté celle qui avait changé cette année d’écurie entre FDJ-Suez et Picnic-PostNL. Elle quitte donc le monde cycliste à 27 ans après huit saisons professionnelles, durant lesquelles elle a notamment terminé deuxième du Giro, cinquième de Paris-Roubaix et sixième de Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

    • Le Français Adrien Petit (Intermarché-Wanty) prendra sa retraite en fin de saison. Le puissant coureur nordiste de 34 ans a décidé de s’arrêter au bout de 15 saisons professionnelles, marquées par dix succès, mais aussi une sixième place sur Paris-Roubaix, sa course de coeur, sur laquelle il a enchaîné trois Top 10. Il s’était transformé ces dernières saisons en poisson-pilote pour les sprinters d’Intermarché-Wanty.

    📅 Programme

    • La triple championne du monde de cyclo-cross Fem van Empel (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) revient à ses premiers amours : elle a décidé de ne plus se consacrer à la route pour se concentrer à 100% au cyclo-cross, a-t-elle annoncé par voie de communiqué. “Ma motivation et ma joie sur la route étaient moins fortes que sur le cyclo-cross. Dès que j’ai fait mon choix, cela m’est directement apparu être le bon. Je poursuis pleinement ma décision”, a-t-elle commenté. L’hiver dernier, malgré une saison raccourcie, Van Empel avait remporté onze cyclo-cross, dont un troisième titre européen et un troisième titre mondial. Elle n’a disputé cette saison que trois courses sur route, dont le Strade Bianche (31e) et, dimanche dernier, la Choralis Fourmies (63e).

    💉 Dopage

    • La paracycliste polonaise Otylia Marczuk a été suspendue pour quatre ans par l’UCI, cette fois pour un contrôle positif au Stanozolol, un anabolisant, et à l’EPO, lors des Jeux paralympiques de Paris 2024, desquels elle avait été disqualifiée. Elle sera privée de compétition jusqu’au 27 août 2028.

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    🌈 Sélections

    • La Slovénie dévoilera une sélection costaude sur les prochains championnats du monde sur route à Kigali. Le tenant du titre Tadej Pogačar sera le leader naturel pour la course en ligne, mais également pour le contre-la-montre, et sera épaulé par un costaud Primož Roglič, mais aussi Matej Mohorič, Luka Mezgec, Domen Novak, Matevz Govekar, Gal Glivar, Jaka Primozic et Matic Zumer.
    • Du côté néerlandais, Thymen Arensman et Bauke Mollema devraient être les leadrs de la course en ligne masculine des Mondiaux, avec à leurs côtés Koen Bouwman, Sam Oomen, Wout Poels et Frank van den Broek. Chez les femmes, la sélection est tout simplement la favorite pour le titre : Demi Vollering sera aux avant-postes, avec Anna van der Breggen et Marianne Vos comme jokers, et Shirin van Anrooij, Yara Kastelijn et Pauliena Rooijakkers comme équipières de luxe.
    • L’île Maurice bénéficiera de ses plus grands contingents jamais alignés sur les championnats du monde grâce à Kim Le Court, chez les élites femmes, accompagnée de Lucie De Marigny-Lagesse et Aurélie Halbwachs, alors que du côté masculin, Alexandre Mayer sera présent avec Aurélien De Comarmond.
    • La Suisse comptera sur Mauro Schmid et Jan Christen lors de la course masculine des championnats du monde, avec Marc Hirschi, Fabio Christen et Fabian Weiss pour les accompagner. Marlen Reusser et Elise Chabbey seront pour leur part les patronnes de la sélection féminine, au côté de Noemi Rüegg, Steffi Häberlin, Jasmin Liechti, Elena Hartmann et Ginia Caluori.
    • Du côté des États-Unis, Chloe Dygert et Ruth Edwards seront présentes à Kigali, alors que la sélection masculine sera menée par Quinn Simmons, avec Will Barta, Luke Lamperti, Magnus Sheffield, Kevin Vermaerke et Larry Warbasse.

    📌 Autres

     

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    • Les vols de vélos par dizaines se multiplient ces derniers mois dans le monde professionnel. Que ce soit sur des courses, aux hôtels entre les épreuves ou dans les services course des équipes, plusieurs formations ont connu pareille mésaventure cette année, que ce soit Cofidis, TotalEnergies ou même Visma | Lease a Bike. Le Soir et Sudinfo ont enquêté sur ce phénomène et demandé aux équipes ce qu’ils pouvaient mettre en œuvre pour prévenir ces vols ou mieux sécuriser les vélos, dans un sport toujours en mouvement. C’est à lire en cliquant sur ce lien (payant).
    • L’équipe Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale, qui deviendra Decathlon CMA CGM la saison prochaine, a réalisé un grand coup en annonçant l’arrivée du jeune sprinter néerlandais Olav Kooij, mais aussi de quatre équipiers également capables de sprinter. Le journaliste Daniel Benson a écrit un long article sur les coulisses de ces transferts et la manière dont les dirigeants de la formation française ont réussi à convaincre l’un des espoirs les plus rapides du peloton actuel. C’est à lire en cliquant sur ce lien (en anglais, payant).
    • Pourquoi les équipes européennes et du WorldTour ne signent plus de coureurs africains ces dernières saisons ? Le journaliste Dan Challis a parlé avec l’ancien professionnel Robbie Hunter, devenu agent, pour évoquer avec lui les raisons de ces difficultés : des problèmes de visa, la difficulté de s’intégrer ou même les problèmes pour s’habituer à des courses plus intenses. C’est à lire en cliquant sur ce lien (en anglais).

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    Les résultats des derniers jours

    Route

    • Tour d’Espagne 🇪🇸 (2.UWT)
      • 16e étape (09/09) : Egan Bernal 🇨🇴 (INEOS Grenadiers) – étape arrêtée à 8 km de l’arrivée en raison d’une manifestation pro-Palestine dans la montée finale
      • 17e étape (10/09) : Giulio Pellizzari 🇮🇹 (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)
      • 18e étape (11/09 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Filippo Ganna 🇮🇹 (INEOS Grenadiers)
      • 19e étape (12/09) : Jasper Philipsen 🇧🇪 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
      • 20e étape (13/09) : Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 21e et dernière étape (14/09) : étape annulée en raison d’une manifestation pro-Palestine
      • Classement général : Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • Classement par points : Mads Pedersen 🇩🇰 (Lidl-Trek)
      • Classement de la montagne : Jay Vine 🇦🇺 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
      • Classement des jeunes : Matthew Riccitello 🇺🇸 (Israel Premier Tech)
      • Classement par équipes : UAE Team Emirates XRG
    • Grand Prix de Québec 🇨🇦 (1.UWT)
      • 12/09 : Julian Alaphilippe 🇫🇷 (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)

    • Grand Prix de Montréal 🇨🇦 (1.UWT)
      • 14/09 : Brandon McNulty 🇺🇸 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)

    • Coppa Sabatini 🇮🇹 (1.Pro)
      • 11/09 : Isaac del Toro 🇲🇽 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
    • Grand Prix de Fourmies 🇫🇷 (1.Pro)
      • 14/09 : Paul Magnier 🇫🇷 (Soudal Quick-Step)
    • La Choralis Fourmies 🇫🇷 (1.Pro)
      • 14/09 : Lorena Wiebes 🇳🇱 (Team SD Worx-Protime)
    • Grand Prix Stuttgart & Region 🇩🇪 (1.Pro)
      • 14/09 : Eleonora Gasparrini 🇮🇹 (UAE Team ADQ)
    • Tour de Binzhou 🇨🇳 (1.1)
      • 09/09 : Simon Pellaud 🇨🇭 (Li Ning Star)
    • Tour de Toscane 🇮🇹 (1.1)
      • 10/09 : Isaac del Toro 🇲🇽 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
    • Memorial Marco Pantani 🇮🇹 (1.1)
      • 13/09 : Michael Storer 🇦🇺 (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)
    • À Travers les Hauts de France 🇫🇷 (1.1)
      • 13/09 : Lara Gillepsie 🇮🇪 (UAE Team ADQ)
    • Trophée Matteotti 🇮🇹 (1.1)
      • 14/09 : Isaac del Toro 🇲🇽 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
    • Tour féminin international de l’Ardèche 🇫🇷 (2.1)
      • 1re étape (09/09) : Lotte Kopecky 🇧🇪 (Team SD Worx-Protime)
      • 2e étape (10/09) : étape annulée en raison de manifestations hors de la course
      • 3e étape (11/09) : Mischa Bredewold 🇳🇱 (Team SD Worx-Protime)
      • 4e étape (12/09 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Mischa Bredewold 🇳🇱 (Team SD Worx-Protime)
      • 5e étape (13/09) : Marion Bunel 🇫🇷 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 6e et dernière étape (14/09) : Monica Trinca Colonel 🇮🇹 (Liv AlUla Jayco)
      • Classement général : Monica Trinca Colonel 🇮🇹 (Liv AlUla Jayco)
    • Tour de Salalah 🇴🇲 (2.2)
      • 3e étape (09/09) : Jeroen Meijers 🇳🇱 (Victoria Sports Pro Cycling)
      • 4e et dernière étape (10/09) : Abdulla Jasim Al-Ali 🇦🇪 (UAE)
      • Classement général : Adne van Engelen 🇳🇱 (Terengganu Cycling Team)
    • Tour du Venezuela 🇻🇪 (2.2)
      • 3e étape (09/09) : Leangel Linarez 🇻🇪 (Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortágua)
      • 4e étape (10/09) : Camilo Gomez Gomez 🇨🇴 (GW Erco Shimano)
      • 5e étape (11/09) : José Dominguez 🇨🇺 (Cuba)
      • 6e étape A (12/09 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Rafael Barbas 🇵🇹 (Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortágua)
      • 6e étape B (12/09) : Luis Gomez 🇻🇪 (Fina Arroz-Multimarcas Sport)
      • 7e étape (13/09) : Leangel Linarez 🇻🇪 (Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortágua)
      • 8e et dernière étape (14/09) : Cristian Damian Velez 🇨🇴 (GW Erco Shimano)
      • Classement général : Luis Mora 🇻🇪 (Gobierno Trujillo)
    • Turul Romaniei 🇷🇴 (2.2)
      • 1re étape (10/09) : Maximilian Schmidbauer 🇦🇹 (WSA KTM Graz)
      • 2e étape (11/09) : Cesare Chesini 🇮🇹 (MBH Bank Ballan CSB)
      • 3e étape (12/09) : Seth Dunwoody 🇮🇪 (Bahrain Victorious Development Team)
      • 4e étape (13/09) : Jonathan Rottmann 🇩🇪 (REMBE | Rad-net)
      • 5e et dernière étape (14/09) : Radoslaw Fratczak 🇵🇱 (Voster ATS Team)
      • Classement général : Cesare Chesini 🇮🇹 (MBH Bank Ballan CSB)
    • Grand Prix Chantal Biya 🇨🇲 (2.2)
      • 1re étape (10/09) : Alexandre Mayer 🇲🇺 (Maurice)
      • 2e étape (11/09) : Guillaume Gaboriaud 🇫🇷 (Team France Clubs Défense)
      • 3e étape (12/09) : Clovis Kamzong 🇨🇲 (SNH Velo Club)
      • 4e étape (13/09) : Alexandre Mayer 🇲🇺 (Maurice)
      • 5e et dernière étape (14/09) : Alexandre Mayer 🇲🇺 (Maurice)
      • Classement général : Alexandre Mayer 🇲🇺 (Maurice)
    • Grand Prix Rik Van Looy 🇧🇪 (1.2)
      • 14/09 : Mads Andersen 🇩🇰 (Airtox-Carl Ras)

    VTT

    • Championnats du monde de VTT en Valais 🇨🇭 (CM)
      • Short-track – Espoirs femmes (09/09) : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • Short-track – Espoirs hommes (09/09) : Adrien Boichis 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Short-track – Élites femmes (09/09) : Alessandra Keller 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Short-track – Élites hommes (09/09) : Victor Koretzky 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Cross-country – Relais par équipes mixte (11/09) : France 🇫🇷 (Adrien Boichis, Lucas Teste, Loana Lecomte, Olivia Onesti, Lise Revol et Joshua Dubau)
      • Cross-country – Juniors femmes (12/09) : Marusa Tereza Serkezi 🇸🇰 (Slovaquie)
      • Cross-country – Juniors hommes (12/09) : Lucas Teste 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Cross-country – Espoirs hommes (13/09) : Finn Treudler 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Cross-country – Élites femmes (13/09) : Jenny Rissveds 🇸🇪 (Suède)
      • Cross-country – Espoirs femmes (14/09) : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • Cross-country – Élites hommes (14/09) : Alan Hatherly 🇿🇦 (Afrique du Sud)

    L’agenda des prochains jours

    Mardi 16 septembre 2025

    • Tour du Lac Poyang 🇨🇳 (2.2) – 2e étape

    Mercredi 17 septembre 2025

    • Grand Prix de Wallonie – Hommes 🇧🇪 (1.Pro)
      • Dison > Citadelle de Namur (187 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 16h00 sur RTL Club, RTL Play et HBO Max
    • Tour de Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (2.Pro) – 1re étape
      • Luxembourg > Luxembourg (152,8 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h50 sur HBO Max, dès 17h00 sur Eurosport 2, et dès 15h50 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe
    • Grand Prix de Wallonie – Femmes 🇧🇪 (1.1)
      • Dison > Citadelle de Namur (128,7 km)
      • Liste des partantes
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h00 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h00 sur RTL Club et RTL Play
    • Tour de Slovaquie 🇸🇰 (2.1) – 1re étape
      • Bardejov > Bardejov (141,2 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h00 sur HBO Max et Eurosport 2
    • Tour du Lac Poyang 🇨🇳 (2.2) – 3e étape

    Jeudi 18 septembre 2025

    • Tour de Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (2.Pro) – 2e étape
      • Remich > Mamer (168,4 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h50 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h00 sur Eurosport 2, et dès 15h50 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe
    • Tour de Slovaquie 🇸🇰 (2.1) – 2e étape
      • Svidník > Kosice (170,6 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h00 sur HBO Max et Eurosport 2
    • Tour du Lac Poyang 🇨🇳 (2.2) – 4e étape

    Vendredi 19 septembre 2025

    • Tour de Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (2.Pro) – 3e étape
      • Mertert > Vianden (170,5 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h50 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h00 sur Eurosport 2, et dès 15h50 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe
    • Championnat des Flandres 🇧🇪 (1.1)
      • Koolskamp > Koolskamp (180 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h30 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h30 sur Tipik et RTBF Auvio
    • Tour de Slovaquie 🇸🇰 (2.1) – 3e étape
      • Kezmarok > Banská Bystrica (191,7 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h00 sur HBO Max et Eurosport 2
    • Giro Mediterraneo in Rosa 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 1re étape
    • Tour du Lac Poyang 🇨🇳 (2.2) – 5e étape

    VTT

    • UCI Mountain Bike World Series à Lenzerheide🇨🇭 (CDM) – Short-track
      • 📺 Direct dès 17h15 sur HBO Max et Eurosport 2

    Samedi 20 septembre 2025

    • Super 8 Classic 🇧🇪 (1.Pro)
      • Brakel > Haacht (200,7 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h00 sur RTL Club et RTL Play, dès 15h45 sur VTM et VTM Go, et dès 16h15 sur HBO Max
    • Tour de Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (2.Pro) – 4e étape
      • Niederanven > Niederanven (26,3 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h50 sur HBO Max, dès 17h00 sur Eurosport 1, et dès 15h55 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe
    • Tour de Slovaquie 🇸🇰 (2.1) – 4e étape
      • Vráble > Sládkovicovo (169,1 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h00 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h30 sur Eurosport 1
    • Giro Mediterraneo in Rosa 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 2e étape

    VTT

    • UCI Mountain Bike World Series à Lenzerheide🇨🇭 (CDM) – Descente
      • 📺 Direct dès 11h15 sur HBO Max, et dès 13h00 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe

    Dimanche 21 septembre 2025

    • Championnats du monde sur route à Kigali 🇷🇼 (CM) – CLM individuel élites femmes
      • Kigali > Kigali (31,2 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partantes
      • 📺 Direct dès 10h00 sur HBO Max, Eurosport 2, Canvas, Sporza.be et VRT Max, et dès 10h10 sur RTBF Auvio
    • Championnats du monde sur route à Kigali 🇷🇼 (CM) – CLM individuel élites hommes
      • Kigali > Kigali (40,6 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h35 sur HBO Max, VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max, dès 14h30 sur Eurosport 1, dès 13h45 sur La Une et RTBF Auvio, et dès 14h50 sur France 3 et France.tv
    • Tour de Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (2.Pro) – 5e et dernière étape
      • Mersch > Luxembourg (176,4 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 12h40 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h55 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe
    • Flèche de Gooik 🇧🇪 (1.1)
      • Roosdaal > Gooik
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h30 sur Pickx.be, Pickx Pop-Up Sports et Pickx Showcase
    • Grand Prix d’Isbergues 🇫🇷 (1.1)
    • Tour de Slovaquie 🇸🇰 (2.1) – 5e et dernière étape
    • Giro Mediterraneo in Rosa 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 3e et dernière étape

    VTT

    • UCI Mountain Bike World Series à Lenzerheide🇨🇭 (CDM) – Cross-country
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h00 sur HBO Max

    Lundi 22 septembre 2025

    • Championnats du monde sur route à Kigali 🇷🇼 (CM) – CLM individuel espoirs femmes
      • Kigali > Kigali (22,5 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partantes
      • 📺 Direct dès 10h25 sur HBO Max et sur Eurosport 1, et dès 11h30 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Championnats du monde sur route à Kigali 🇷🇼 (CM) – CLM individuel espoirs hommes
      • Kigali > Kigali (31,2 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h25 sur HBO Max et sur Eurosport 1, dès 13h35 sur RTBF Auvio, et dès 15h00 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max

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    L’infolettre du 1er septembre 2025 : les revanches de Widar et De Lie, l’inextricable problème Israel Premier Tech…

    Jarno Widar et Arnaud De Lie, revanches croisées

    Les Belges de la Lotto ont connu une semaine de rêve pour conclure l’été. À l’aube de la dernière partie de saison, Jarno Widar et Arnaud De Lie ont géré à leur manière leurs objectifs d’août, malgré des questions toujours en suspens quant à leur état de forme ou leurs capacités à se défaire de précédents revers. L’un a connu l’an dernier une déception après deux derniers jours infernaux sur le Tour de l’Avenir en raison d’une surcharge de courses, avant un retrait sur le dernier Tour d’Italie espoirs, qu’il a quitté en larmes. L’autre a enchaîné les difficultés au printemps, entre changements dans son entourage sportif et problèmes psychologiques qui ont failli le dégoûter du vélo.

    Quelques mois plus tard, le contraste est saisissant. Le sourire est revenu, le plaisir se voit dans le coup de pédale et en interview. Il faut dire que les deux leaders (l’un de l’équipe de développement, l’autre du noyau professionnel) ont retrouvé le goût de la victoire durant ce mois d’août déterminant pour leur avenir. Jarno Widar, malgré son forfait sur le Tour d’Italie, visait un rebond sur le Tour de l’Avenir, avec l’espoir de ne pas connaître pareille défaillance que l’an dernier. Sa victoire autoritaire, en juillet, sur le Tour du Val d’Aoste avait donné le ton, mais un obstacle important s’annonçait au départ du Tour de l’Avenir, en la personne de Paul Seixas (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale). Malgré ses 18 ans, celui qui a déjà terminé 8e du Critérium du Dauphiné se présentait au départ de la plus importante course par étapes dédiée aux moins de 23 ans comme le grand favori au vu de ses performances parmi les professionnels. Cela n’empêchait pas le sélectionneur belge Serge Pauwels d’arriver avec confiance dans les Alpes : “Il est dans son meilleur état de forme”, disait-il avant le départ d’une édition encore plus montagneuse que ces dernières saisons.

    Seixas a finalement assuré sa victoire finale sur les deux contre-la-montre en montée de l’épreuve, sa discipline de prédilection, alors que Widar a prouvé son explosivité sur les deux arrivées au sommet d’étapes en ligne, au bout de parfaites gestions d’arrivée. Le grimpeur belge de 19 ans s’est affirmé comme le meilleur sur les longues ascensions, avec en prime une amélioration de plus en plus probante sur les arrivées explosives. Finalement deuxième du général derrière Seixas, Widar a tout de même pris une revanche importante sur le plan psychologique : “Après ma défaillance l’an dernier, ce succès est très important pour moi. Gagner en plus l’étape-reine est très spécial”, a-t-il confié au bout d’une course qui sert également de rampe de lancement en vue des championnats du monde, sur lesquels le coureur de Lotto visera un premier maillot arc-en-ciel chez les espoirs.

    Arnaud De Lie, pour sa part, a connu un début de mois d’août frustrant, avec notamment une deuxième place sur la Cyclassics d’Hambourg sur laquelle il n’a échoué que derrière l’unique survivant de l’échappée matinale, Rory Townsend (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team). Ses places d’honneur sur le Tour de France, outre sa médaille d’argent en Allemagne, ont toutefois donné confiance au Taureau de Lescheret. Un avantage psychologique suffisant pour le replacer en position de force sur le Renewi Tour, dont les étapes vers le mur de Grammont (sur lequel il avait brillé en 2024) et à Louvain pouvaient lui donner un avantage en tant que puncheur-sprinter. La présence de Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), de retour depuis sa pneumonie sur le Tour de France, compliquait toutefois la tâche du coureur wallon.

    Cela s’est confirmé à Grammont, où De Lie n’a pu déposer son rival néerlandais dans le final, lui laissant la victoire d’étape, mais prenant personnellement la tête du classement général. Sur la dernière étape, le leader de Lotto a été longtemps mis en difficulté, avant de jouer au poker, comme il l’a admis. Resté dans les roues, il a espéré un retour du peloton dans le final pour jouer la victoire au sprint. Bien lui en a pris, au bout d’un sprint de mort de 150 mètres, il a débordé Van der Poel et Dries De Bondt (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale) pour finalement s’offrir la victoire d’étape et au classement général en prime ! Soit sa première course par étapes WorldTour.

    Le sprinteur ardennais a enchaîné la semaine suivante en Bretagne avec le Grand Prix de Plouay, habituelle classique qui peut tant faire briller les plus véloces que les plus explosifs. Là encore, De Lie a joué au poker. S’il a essayé à une reprise de rentrer sur des attaquants dangereux, il a passé les quinze derniers kilomètres dans le peloton, espérant un sprint massif qui a finalement eu lieu. Bien dans la roue du favori néerlandais Olav Kooij (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), De Lie a surgi dans les 150 derniers mètres pour s’offrir un nouveau succès WorldTour. “C’est une fin d’année folle pour moi”, a commenté l’ex-champion de Belgique à Plouay. “Les années précédentes, j’ai toujours couru agressivement ici, mais aujourd’hui, je devais être plus intelligent. Suivre dans les côtes et laisse les décisions tactiques dans le final à (mon équipier) Jenno Berckmoes. Cela a parfaitement fonctionné”. Des déclarations qui confirment un changement de paradigme pour De Lie : trop souvent offensif ou mal positionné, le coureur wallon semble cette fois bien mieux gérer ses finales et jouer la carte de l’attente, comme ses adversaires. Désormais en confiance quant à sa capacité à suivre dans les côtes et à sortir au bon moment, le sociétaire de Lotto doit profiter de cette série de victoires lors des prochaines courses canadiennes, les Grand Prix de Québec et de Montréal. Le parcours plus difficile de Québec risque toutefois de bousculer les repères de l’Ardennais.

    Ces victoires belges au sein d’une équipe toujours à la recherche de nouveaux partenaires pour la saison prochaine permettent au moins de confirmer la politique de la Lotto et la bonne gestion de ses leaders durant cette saison particulièrement mitigée. Widar et De Lie ont encore des objectifs précis en cette fin d’année, mais ces revanches offrent déjà une bonne dose d’ondes positives pour continuer à grandir dans un environnement plus constructif. À tel point qu’on en vient à rêver de 2026 !

    Grégory Ienco

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    Israel Premier Tech : l’inextricable problème des sponsors cyclistes

    Vous n’avez certainement pas manqué les centaines de drapeaux palestiniens qui pullulent sur les routes du Tour d’Espagne si vous suivez l’épreuve à la télévision. La protestation a même pris une tournure plus sérieuse encore avec la manifestation organisée sur le parcours de la 5e étape de la Vuelta, lors du passage de l’équipe Israel Premier Tech durant le contre-la-montre de Figueres. Heureusement, aucun coureur n’a été blessé durant cet événement qui n’a finalement causé uniquement le freinage des coureurs. Les Espagnols sont visiblement nombreux à faire savoir qu’ils soutiennent le petit pays enclavé, en première ligne de la guerre menée par l’armée israélienne sur la bande de Gaza, en représailles à l’attaque sanglante du mouvement islamiste Hamas le 7 octobre 2023. La situation humanitaire à Gaza est de plus en plus inquiétante, a déjà alerté à plusieurs reprises l’Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU), alors qu’une famine a officiellement été annoncée dans la région visée par une nouvelle opération d’envergure de l’armée israélienne. Et ce, alors qu’on a déjà comptabilisé plus de 63.000 morts côté palestinien.

    Dans ce contexte géopolitique délicat, la présence de l’équipe israélienne Israel Premier Tech au sein du peloton fait logiquement débat. Est-il éthique qu’une équipe soutenue par un État qui mène une guerre particulièrement mortifère parmi les civils, puisse continuer à participer à des courses cyclistes ? Car dans le même temps, l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) a pris position contre la guerre menée par la Russie en Ukraine. Mais sur le conflit à Gaza, pas un mot, comme bon nombre d’autres organisations internationales qui ménagent la chèvre et le chou.

    Le débat peut évidemment s’étendre à l’infini, tant les partenaires d’équipes cyclistes qui causent un débat moral sont nombreux. Les sponsors liés aux hydrocarbures qui causent tant de problèmes à la planète (UAE Team Emirates XRG, TotalEnergies), ceux qui émanent d’États où les droits humains ne sont que trop peu respectés (UAE Team Emirates XRG (encore), Bahrain Victorious, Team Jayco AlUla), les autres qui mettent en avant des pratiques addictives (Unibet Tietema Rockets)… L’économie cycliste actuelle fait que l’argent est pris là où il est disponible, qu’importe l’origine éthique discutable. Et si certains partenaires ne peuvent être arborés sur un maillot, cela n’est dû qu’à une décision politique, comme cela fut le cas en Belgique avec l’interdiction de la publicité par les sociétés de paris (même si cette réglementation a été quelque peu détournée grâce à la création de sites d’actualité… gérés par ces mêmes boîtes).

    L’inextricable problème se pose ici : sans décision forte de gouvernements ou de l’Union Cycliste Internationale, les débats sur la présence de ces sponsors ne cesseront pas, et le cyclisme continuera à être financé par des entreprises ou des États problématiques. Le cas israélien est un de plus dans l’histoire de ce sport qui n’a toujours pas trouvé d’autres méthodes de financement pour aider les cyclistes.

    L’équipe Israel Premier Tech fait face à de plus en plus de critiques au sein du peloton également, avec des coureurs qui déclarent clairement leur opposition aux actions israéliennes à Gaza. Mais il faudra bien plus, notamment des cyclistes qui boycottent tout engagement au sein d’une telle formation, pour que la pression soit efficace. Le public, lui, maintient son étreinte, avec des manifestations, des appels… Cela sera-t-il suffisant pour enfin faire bouger l’UCI ? Rien n’est moins sûr.

    Les nouvelles des derniers jours

    ✍ Transferts

    • Absent des pelotons depuis son titre de champion du Canada sur route, le 28 juin dernier, Derek Gee est réapparu dans les médias à la fin de l’été. Des rumeurs ont fait état de son désir de quitter l’équipe Israel Premier Tech, avant que l’intéressé publié sur son compte Instagram un communiqué annonçant que son contrat était effectivement cassé après une intervention d’avocats. Il a ajouté qu’il n’avait pas encore négocié ou signé avec une autre équipe, comme pour rappeler qu’il s’agit d’un cas différent des dossiers Remco Evenepoel ou Cian Uijtdebroeks, dont les contrats respectifs chez Soudal Quick-Step et Bora-Hansgrohe avaient été rachetés en partie par leur nouvelle formation. Gee n’a pas donné plus de raisons sur son souhait de quitter Israel Premier Tech en pleine saison. L’équipe a en tout cas réagi en affirmant que le coureur canadien était toujours sous contrat (jusqu’à fin 2028 normalement) avec elle, et que la situation était désormais entre les mains d’avocats et de l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Bref, la situation semble pour l’heure complexe, mais il est certain qu’on ne verra pas Gee prochainement au départ d’une course…

     

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    • La ProTeam suisse Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team a enchaîné les annonces en cette fin d’été, pour compléter son effectif dès 2026. Elle a d’abord confirmé la venue de spécialistes de la montagne, d’abord avec l’Irlandais Eddie Dunbar (28 ans, Team Jayco-AlUla) qui a signé pour deux saisons, puis avec l’Australien Chris Harper (30 ans, Team Jayco-AlUla), récent vainqueur de la 20e étape du Tour d’Italie et sous contrat pour deux ans également. Le Britannique Fred Wright (26 ans, Bahrain Victorious), récent quatrième du Renewi Tour, a pour sa part signé pour trois saisons, avant l’annonce de l’arrivée de deux Belges d’Alpecin-Deceuninck : Xandro Meurisse (33 ans), un puncheur-grimpeur d’expérience qui s’est engagé pour deux ans, et Quinten Hermans (30 ans), l’ancien cyclo-crossman spécialiste des classiques qui a aussi paraphé un contrat de deux saisons. Enfin, l’effectif sera complété par l’arrivée du Belge Brent Van Moer (27 ans, Lotto), pour les deux prochaines saisons.
    • L’équipe Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe a ajouté de l’expérience dans son armada avec l’arrivée du Belge Gianni Vermeersch (32 ans) pour une période indéterminée. Le spécialiste des classiques et du gravel (il en a été le premier champion du monde en 2022) sera principalement attendu pour les courses flandriennes du printemps, a annoncé le staff de la formation allemande.
    • En ce début de semaine, le “Wolfpack” a par ailleurs indiqué que son effectif pour 2026 était désormais complet après l’arrivée de l’ancien champion d’Italie Filippo Zana (26 ans, Team Jayco-AlUla). Le puncheur-grimpeur, arrivé en 2020 dans les rangs professionnels, sera principlement attendu dans les courses par étapes et les classiques pour coureurs explosifs.
    • Le Belge Jenthe Biermans (29 ans) va changer de crémerie française : il passera la saison prochaine d’Arkéa-B&B Hôtels à Cofidis. L’ex-vainqueur de la Route Adélie de Vitré (2024) et de la Muscat Classic (2023) sera jusqu’à fin 2027 dans la formation nordiste, avec l’ambition de mener Milan Fretin dans les sprints et de saisir sa chance si possible.
    • Le champion de France Dorian Godon (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale) changera d’air la saison prochaine : le coureur de 29 ans s’est engagé pour trois saisons avec INEOS Grenadiers. L’ancien vainqueur de la Flèche Brabançonne (2023) et de deux étapes du Tour de Romandie (2024) espère ainsi poursuivre sa progression sur les courses d’un jour et sur les courtes courses par étapes au sein de l’équipe britannique.

    • Pour sa quatrième saison professionnelle, l’équipe Tudor continue de grandir et annonce l’arrivée de deux coureurs expérimentés dans son effectif pour 2026. Tout d’abord, l’ex-champion d’Europe du contre-la-montre Stefan Küng (31 ans, Groupama-FDJ), rouleur inarrêtable et candidat habituel aux classiques flandriennes, a signé pour trois saisons au sein d’une équipe menée par l’ancien multiple champion du monde du chrono Fabian Cancellara. Il sera accompagné de l’Italien Luca Mozzato (27 ans, Arkéa-B&B Hôtels), deuxième du Tour des Flandres l’an dernier et spécialiste du sprint, qui s’est engagé pour trois ans également. Enfin, la formation helvète a promu le jeune grimpeur suisse Robin Donzé (22 ans) de son équipe de développement vers le noyau professionnel, avec un contrat de deux ans à la clé.
    • Si elle perd Küng, son leader pour les courses printannières, l’équipe Groupama-FDJ a annoncé l’arrivée dès 2026, et pour trois saisons, du Français Bastien Tronchon (23 ans, Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale). Cinquième du Tour Down Under, deuxième du Tour du Finistère et vainqueur du Tro Bro Léon cette saison, le natif de Chambéry, également habitué aux cyclo-cross, sera attendu pour ses qualités de puncheur.
    • Autre départ chez Groupama-FDJ : le Britannique Lewis Askey (24 ans) a décidé de quitter la formation française rejointe dès 2020 (en développement puis le noyau pro) pour signer pour trois ans avec Israel Premier Tech. Le puncheur rapide, vainqueur cette année des Boucles de l’Aulne et d’une étape des Quatre Jours de Dunkerque, ses premiers succès pros, souhaite y devenir un futur leader pour les courses d’un jour et les classiques printanières.

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    • L’équipe féminine FDJ-Suez a pour sa part confirmé l’arrivée de deux nouvelles recrues pour 2026. D’abord, l’Écossaise Lauren Dickson (25 ans, Handsling Alba Development Team), venue du trail et du triathlon, qui a signé pour deux saisons dans l’espoir de progresser parmi les professionnelles après, notamment, une 3e place sur le Tour de Norvège et une 2e sur la Pointe du Raz Classic. Ensuite, la double championne d’Allemagne sur route Franziska Koch (25 ans, Team Picnic PostNL), qui s’est engagée pour deux ans après une 5e place sur le récent Tour de Belgique féminin et une 8e sur la Classic Lorient Agglomération, après un travail de parfaite équipière sur le Tour de France Femmes.
    • Chez Lidl-Trek, aussi, on a fait son marché : la Néerlandaise Loes Adegeest (29 ans) quittera FDJ-Suez en fin de saison pour rejoindre pour deux saisons l’équipe américaine. Vainqueure cette saison d’une étape du Tour de Catalogne, la rouleuse-grimpeuse a également gagné la Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race en 2023. L’Allemande Ricarda Bauernfeind (25 ans, Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto) a pour sa part décidé de quitter l’équipe qu’elle avait rejointe en 2022 pour signer pour deux ans sous les couleurs “arlequin”, elle qui avait gagné une étape du Tour de France Femmes et terminé 5e de la Vuelta en 2023. Enfin, la Belge Marhot Vanpachtenbeke (26 ans, VolkerWessels) fera ses débuts dans le WorldTour l’an prochain, avec un contrat jusqu’à fin 2027 avec Lidl-Trek. Et chez les hommes, le costaud Max Walscheid (32 ans, Team Jayco-AlUla) s’est engagé pour trois ans et sera un nouvel atout pour les sprints de l’équipe. L’Allemand de près de 2 mètres a remporté par le passé le GP de Denain, le Circuit du Houtland (à deux reprises) et le Sparkassen Münsterland Giro. Enfin, le Danois Mathias Norsgaard (28 ans, Movistar) a paraphé un contrat de deux saisons et poursuivra son travail d’équipier de luxe pour les sprinters.

    • L’Espagnol Pau Miquel (25 ans, Equipo Kern Pharma) a accepté un contrat de deux saisons avec l’équipe Bahrain Victorious, dès 2026. Celui qui est devenu pro en 2022 est connu pour ses offensives et son explosivité. Il attend toujours son premier succès professionnel, mais a déjà terminé troisième d’une étape de la Vuelta et de la Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia l’an dernier.
    • Le Team Jayco-AlUla a annoncé l’arrivée jusqu’à fin 2027 de l’Italien Alessandro Covi (26 ans, UAE Team Emirates XRG), récent vainqueur d’étape sur le Tour des Asturies et le Tour des Abruzzes. Le vice-champion d’Italie sur route quitte ainsi la formation émiratie après six saisons et compte désormais faire grandir son palmarès au sein de sa nouvelle équipe.
    • Cette fois, du côté de son effectif féminin, Liv AlUla Jayco a signé dès 2026 et pour deux saisons la Canadienne Nadia Gontova (25 ans, Winspace-Orange Seal). Cette dernière s’est lancée dans le cyclisme professionnel durant la crise sanitaire du Covid-19 et a obtenu cette saison une deuxième place sur le Tour des Pyrénées et une troisième sur l’Alpes Gresivaudan Classic, confirmant son talent de grimpeuse. Elle a aussi conclu le dernier Tour de France Femmes en 23e place.
    • L’équipe néerlandaise a également annoncé, pour son groupe masculin, l’arrivée de l’Italien Filippo Fiorelli (30 ans, VF Group-Bardiani CSF Faizanè). Le puncheur sera surtout attendu sur les classiques et en tant que soutien au Britannique Matthew Brennan, la nouvelle pépite du sprint britannique. Fiorelli n’a jusqu’ici remporté qu’une course, une étape du Sibiu Tour en 2022.

    ➡️ Prolongations

    • En verve sur le dernier Tour de France, sur lequel il a remporté deux étapes et le maillot vert, l’Italien Jonathan Milan (24 ans, Lidl-Trek) a prolongé son contrat avec sa formation jusqu’en 2029, soit quatre saisons en plus des deux déjà prolifiques sous la tunique “arlequin”. Dans le même temps, ses poissons-pilotes, l’Italien Simone Consonni (30 ans) et le Belge Edward Theuns (34 ans), ont prolongé pour deux saisons, de même que le Français Julien Bernard (33 ans).
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    • Outre une large série de transferts (lire plus haut), l’équipe Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team a prolongé le contrat du grimpeur espagnol David De La Cruz pour une saison supplémentaire. Le coureur de 36 ans, qui a récemment terminé deuxième du Tour des Abruzzes, du Sibiu Tour et du championnat d’Espagne du contre-la-montre, enchaînera ainsi sa seizième saison professionnelle.

    ❌ Sur le départ

    • C’est la fin de l’aventure pour le Canadien Michael Woods (Israel Premier Tech) : l’ex-athlète devenu cycliste professionnel sur le tard a décidé de ranger son vélo au bout de treize saisons. Le coureur de 38 ans a décidé de ne pas rempiler avec l’équipe qu’il avait rejoint en 2021. Woods a été l’un des grands grimpeurs de ces dernières années avec trois succès d’étape sur le Tour d’Espagne, une étape sur le Tour de France, un Milan-Turin, deux Routes d’Occitanie, mais aussi une troisième place sur le championnat du monde en 2018, une septième place finale sur le Tour d’Espagne en 2017 et une deuxième place sur Liège-Bastogne-Liège en 2018. Woods a expliqué sa décision de quitter le peloton par un risque de plus en plus important sur les routes et des vitesses toujours plus dangereuses. Des déclarations qui reviennent souvent ces derniers mois…

     

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    • Après dix saisons professionnelles, le Sud-Africain Ryan Gibbons (Lidl-Trek) quittera également le peloton en fin d’année. L’un des meilleurs poisson-pilotes du moment, prendra donc sa retraite à 31 ans, après deux dernières saisons chez Lidl-Trek. Double champion d’Afrique du Sud sur route, champion d’Afrique du contre-la-montre et sur route, Gibbons a également remporté une étape et le général du Tour de Langkawi (2017) et le Trophée Calvia (2021).

     

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    • L’Australienne Sarah Roy (EF Education-Oatly) pendra également son vélo au clou en fin d’année après treize saisons dans le peloton professionnel. La coureuse de 39 ans, ancienne championne d’Australie sur route, a surtout été une spécialiste des classiques durant sa longue carrière, avec des succès sur le Tour de Grande-Bretagne (une étape en 2017 et en 2018), sur Grammont-Gooik (2018), la Navarra Elite Classics (2019), le Simac Ladies Tour (une étape en 2016) et le Bretagne Ladies Tour (une étape en 2024).

     

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    📅 Programme

    • Attendu sur le Tour d’Espagne après avoir manqué de peu le Tour de France en raison d’une infection gastro-intestinale, l’Équatorien Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), troisième du Tour d’Italie, poursuivra finalement sa saison en septembre à l’occasion des championnats du monde au Rwanda, sur lequel il visera un premier maillot arc-en-ciel sur la course sur route. Le “condor” se mettra ensuite en direction de l’Italie pour y enchaîner les classiques automnales qui conviennent à ses qualités de puncheur-grimpeur. Il visera principalement le Tour de Lombardie, remporté ces quatre dernières années par l’indétrônable Tadej Pogacar.
    • L’Union Cycliste Internationale a présenté le calendrier de la Coupe du monde 2026 de VTT, organisée en collaboration avec le groupe médiatique Warner Bros. Discovery. Cette nouvelle édition annonce une première historique en Asie, avec le démarrage de la saison prévu en Corée du Sud du 1er au 3 mai, en lieu et place des précédentes ouvertures brésiliennes. La suite se passera en Europe, avant trois manches finales en Amérique du Nord, jusqu’à début octobre. Voici les épreuves prévues en 2026 :
      • Du 1er au 3 mai : Race of South Korea 🇰🇷 – Cross-country, short-track et descente
      • Du 22 au 24 mai : Nové Mesto na Morave 🇨🇿 – Cross-country et short-track
      • Du 28 au 31 mai : Loudenvielle-Peyragudes 🇫🇷 – Descente et enduro
      • Du 11 au 14 juin : Saalfelden-Leogang 🇦🇹 – Cross-country, short-track, descente et enduro
      • Du 19 au 21 juin : Lenzerheide 🇨🇭 – Cross-country, short-track et descente
      • Du 26 au 28 juin : Val di Fassa-Trentino 🇮🇹 – Enduro
      • Du 3 au 5 juillet : La Thuile-Valle d’Aosta 🇮🇹 – Cross-country, short-track, descente et enduro
      • Du 8 au 12 juillet : Pal Arinsal 🇦🇩 – Cross-country, short-track et descente
      • Du 17 au 19 juillet : Aletsch Arena-Bellwald-Valais 🇨🇭 – Enduro
      • Du 14 au 16 août : Haute-Savoie 🇫🇷 – Cross-country, short-track et descente
      • Du 21 au 23 août : Haute-Savoie 🇫🇷 – Enduro
      • Du 19 au 20 septembre : Soldier Hollow-Midway-Utah 🇺🇸 – Cross-country et short-track
      • Du 26 au 27 septembre : Whistler Mountain Bike Park-Colombie britannique 🇨🇦 – Descente
      • Du 2 au 4 octobre : Lake Placid-New York 🇺🇸 – Cross-country, short-track et descente
    • L’UCI a également publié les calendriers des trois prochaines saisons de la Coupe du monde de cyclisme sur piste, qui fait son retour après l’échec commercial de la Ligue des champions. Les spécialistes de l’anneau se retrouveront dès mars 2026 en Australie, pour trois manches par saison, dont au moins une par an en Asie. Voici les épreuves prévues jusqu’en 2028 :
      • 1re manche 2026 : du 6 au 8 mars à Perth 🇦🇺
      • 2e manche 2026 : du 17 au 19 avril à Hong Kong 🇭🇰
      • 3e et dernière manche 2026 : du 24 au 26 avril à Nilai 🇲🇾
      • 1re manche 2027 : du 2 au 4 avril à Milton 🇨🇦
      • 2e manche 2027 : du 23 au 25 avril à Hong Kong 🇭🇰
      • 3e et dernière manche 2027 : du 30 avril au 2 mai en Chine, sur un site à confirmer 🇨🇳
      • 1re manche 2028 : du 4 au 6 février en Australie, sur un site à confirmer 🇦🇺
      • 2e manche 2028 : du 10 au 12 mars à Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines 🇫🇷
      • 3e et dernière manche 2028 : du 7 au 9 avril en Chine, sur un site à confirmer 🇨🇳

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    💉 Dopage

    • Près de trois ans après l’annonce de deux anomalies (en 2018, puis sur le Tour de France 2022) sur son passeport biologique, le Français Franck Bonnamour est enfin fixé sur son sort : il est suspendu pour quatre saisons, sur décision du tribunal antidopage de l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Le Breton de 30 ans était provisoirement suspendu depuis février 2024 et avait été licencié par son équipe d’alors, Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale. L’UCI a estimé que les deux anomalies étaient bien des violations au règlement antidopage. Il est dès lors suspendu jusqu’au 4 février 2028. Bonnamour peut faire appel dans le mois suivant la décision auprès du Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (TAS) de Lausanne, mais le cycliste français a seulement commenté sur Instagram : “La douleur est temporaire, la fierté est éternelle”. L’appel ne semble donc pas d’actualité.
    • Nous en avions parlé dans cette infolettre en mai 2024 : au bout de près de deux ans de combat, la Britannique Lizzy Banks a finalement appris en juillet dernier que le Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (TAS) de Lausanne a rejeté sa défense devant l’agence britannique antidopage (UKAD). Cette dernière avait pourtant accepté cette explication, confirmant qu’elle ne suspendrait pas Banks malgré un contrôle positif au chlortalidone, un diurétique considéré comme un potentiel produit masquant et interdit par le règlement antidopage, à très légère dose. Mais l’Agence mondiale antidopage (AMA) a décidé de faire appel de cette décision de l’UKAD auprès du TAS, et a donc obtenu gain de cause. Encore une fois, Lizzy Banks a décidé de publier un long article explicatif (en anglais), revenant en détails sur les suites de son affaire, les errances de l’AMA et les arguments d’une agence internationale qui voulait visiblement faire de ce cas un exemple. L’article évoque également les difficultés des athlètes face à une telle instance, et le manque de justice dans un système qui devrait pourtant être équitable pour tous.
    • Le Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (TAS) de Lausanne a également confirmé cette semaine la suspension de la vététiste ukrainienne Iryna Popova. Cette dernière avait été suspendue par le tribunal antidopage de l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) pour quatre ans, du 20 septembre 2024 au 19 septembre 2028, en raison d’anomalies sur son passeport biologique en 2016 et 2022. Popova, double championne d’Europe de VTT Eliminator, avait aussi été double championne d’Ukraine de VTT cross-country.

    🌈 Sélections

     

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    📌 Autres

    • L’équipe Soudal Quick-Step a annoncé un large renouvellement de son staff pour la saison prochaine, en annonçant l’arrivée d’anciennes figures de l’équipe dans son équipe technique. Le Néerlandais Niki Terpstra fera ainsi partie des nouveaux directeurs sportifs de la formation belge, au côté des anciens pros belges Eliot Lietaer et Sep Vanmarcke (après avoir quitté Israel Premier Tech fin 2024). Tim Declercq, qui a récemment annoncé sa retraite en fin d’année, rejoindra pour sa part le staff en tant qu’entraîneur, au côté de Michel Geerinck et Dimitri Peyskens (jusqu’ici entraîneur auprès de l’équipe des jeunes de Remco Evenepoel). Il a également été confirmé les prolongations des directeurs sportifs Davide Bramati, Tom Steels, Wilfried Peeters et Kevin Hulsmans et des entraîneurs Koen Pelgrim (qui avait un temps été envisagé au côté de Remco Evenepoel chez Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) et Frederik Broché.

    À lire, voir, écouter…

    • Le Tour d’Espagne a déjà offert une bonne dose de spectacle durant une première semaine mêlant montagne, contre-la-montre par équipes et sprints. Le Danois Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) a déjà frappé fort en remportant deux étapes au sommet, notamment la 9e ce dimanche vers Valdezcaray, lui assurant la première position parmi les favoris. Le Portugais João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates XRG), malgré une victoire de son équipe sur le chrono de Figueres, a paru en deçà dans les grands cols, alors que le Britannique Tom Pidcock (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) et l’Autrichien Felix Gall (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale) surprennent en ce début d’épreuve. Mais la course est encore longue, avec la plupart des grands sommets encore à gravir d’ici Madrid (dont l’Angliru et le Bola del Mundo). C’est d’ailleurs ce qu’analyse Jacky Durand, consultant pour Eurosport dans cette vidéo.

    • S’il a pris sa retraite des pelotons professionnels il y a plus de cinq ans, le Belge Maxime Monfort, aujourd’hui directeur sportif chez Lidl-Trek, a décidé de chausser… des baskets de trail pour participer à l’Ultratrail du Mont Blanc (UTMB), le rendez-vous le plus important de la discipline. L’Ardennais a déjà enchaîné les compétitions ces dernières années, mais a déclaré dans le podcast “Fartlek” qu’il n’avait pas forcément prévu une telle évolution jusqu’à une participation à l’une des plus difficiles épreuves de la saison. “En tant que cycliste, je n’étais pas un sportif complet. Je le suis plus aujourd’hui”, confie-t-il notamment quant aux différences que les deux sports ont sur son physique et sa préparation. Il a finalement conclu l’épreuve, dimanche, en 42e position de la course la plus médiatique du calendrier, soit le troisième Belge du plateau, avec un temps de 24h45 pour couvrir les 175 kilomètres et près de 10.000 mètres de dénivelé.

    • L’équipe Unibet Tietema Rockets a lancé en août une mini-série sur l’un des points saillants de sa saison : le mois d’août, particulièrement intéressant pour la formation française en quête de points pour se maintenir dans le Top 30 du classement UCI, et ainsi espérer une invitation pour le Tour de France (ou un autre Grand Tour) la saison prochaine. Le premier épisode est revenu sur la déception de l’Arctic Race of Norway, course sur laquelle le puncheur belge Lander Loockx a lourdement chuté, avec une fracture de la clavicule en prime. Le second se veut plus optimiste, et raconte le Tour du Danemark, sur lequel Lukas Kubis a tout donné pour faire face à la domination des Lidl-Trek et de Mads Pedersen. Évidemment, l’équipe choisit son propre narratif, mais la vidéo se veut très intéressante sur la bataille entre les ProTeams, loin de celles qui font la Une.

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    Les résultats des derniers jours

    Route

    • Tour d’Espagne 🇪🇸 (2.UWT)
      • 1re étape (23/08) : Jasper Philipsen 🇧🇪 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
      • 2e étape (24/08) : Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 3e étape (25/08) : David Gaudu 🇫🇷 (Groupama-FDJ)
      • 4e étape (26/08) : Ben Turner 🇬🇧 (INEOS Grenadiers)
      • 5e étape (27/08 – CLM par équipes ⏱️) : UAE Team Emirates XRG 🇦🇪
      • 6e étape (28/08) : Jay Vine 🇦🇺 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
      • 7e étape (29/08) : Juan Ayuso 🇪🇸 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
      • 8e étape (30/08) : Jasper Philipsen 🇧🇪 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
      • 9e étape (31/08) : Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 (Team Visma | Leade a Bike)
      • Classement général provisoire : Torstein Træen 🇳🇴 (Bahrain Victorious)

    • Renewi Tour 🇧🇪 (2.UWT)
      • 1re étape (20/08) : Tim Merlier 🇧🇪 (Soudal Quick-Step)
      • 2e étape (21/08) : Olav Kooij 🇳🇱 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 3e étape (22/08) : Mathieu van der Poel 🇳🇱 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
      • 4e étape (23/08) : Tim Merlier 🇧🇪 (Soudal Quick-Step)
      • 5e et dernière étape (24/08) : Arnaud De Lie 🇧🇪 (Lotto)
      • Classement général : Arnaud De Lie 🇧🇪 (Lotto)
    • Classic Lorient Agglomération – Ceratizit 🇫🇷 (1.WWT)
      • 30/08 : Mischa Bredewold 🇳🇱 (Team SD Worx-Protime)
    • Bretagne Classic – Ouest-France 🇫🇷 (1.UWT)
      • 31/08 : Arnaud De Lie 🇧🇪 (Lotto)
    • Lidl Tour d’Allemagne 🇩🇪 (2.Pro)
      • Prologue (20/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Søren Wærenskjold 🇳🇴 (Uno-X Mobility)
      • 1re étape (21/08) : Matthew Brennan 🇬🇧 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 2e étape (22/08) : Jhonatan Narváez 🇪🇨 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
      • 3e étape (23/08) : Søren Wærenskjold 🇳🇴 (Uno-X Mobility)
      • 4e et dernière étape (24/08) : Matthew Brennan 🇬🇧 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • Classement général : Søren Wærenskjold 🇳🇴 (Uno-X Mobility)

    • Grand Prix Lucien Van Impe 🇧🇪 (1.1)
      • 21/08 : Lorena Wiebes 🇳🇱 (SD Worx-Protime)
    • Muur Classic Geraardsbergen 🇧🇪 (1.1)
      • 27/08 : Jonas Abrahamsen 🇳🇴 (Uno-X Mobility)
    • Kreiz Breizh Élites Dames 🇫🇷 (1.1)
      • 28/08 : Elisa Longo Borghini 🇮🇹 (UAE Team ADQ)
    • Tour du Limousin-Périgord Nouvelle-Aquitaine 🇫🇷 (2.1)
      • 1re étape (19/08) : Thomas Gachignard 🇫🇷 (TotalEnergies)
      • 2e étape (20/08) : Sylvain Moniquet 🇧🇪 (Cofidis)
      • 3e étape (21/08) : Paul Lapeira 🇫🇷 (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
      • 4e et dernière étape (22/08) : Andrea Vendrame 🇮🇹 (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
      • Classement général : Ewen Costiou 🇫🇷 (Arkéa-B&B Hôtels)
    • Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 🇫🇷 (2.1)
      • 1re étape (26/08) : Jason Tesson 🇫🇷 (TotalEnergies)
      • 2e étape (27/08) : Dorian Godon 🇫🇷 (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
      • 3e étape (28/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Samuel Leroux 🇫🇷 (TotalEnergies)
      • 4e et dernière étape (29/08) : Dorian Godon 🇫🇷 (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
      • Classement général : Samuel Leroux 🇫🇷 (TotalEnergies)
    • Egmont Cycling Race Women 🇧🇪 (1.2)
      • 19/08 : Martina Alzini 🇮🇹 (Cofidis)
    • Grand Prix Ordu 🇹🇷 (1.2)
      • 24/08 : Rein Taaramäe 🇪🇪 (Kinan Racing Team)
    • Slag om Norg 🇳🇱 (1.2)
      • 30/08 : Finn Crockett 🇮🇪 (VolkerWessels Cycling Team)
    • Ixina Classic – Grand Prix de la Ville de Hal 🇧🇪 (1.2)
      • 31/08 : Stijn Appel 🇳🇱 (BEAT Cycling Club)
    • Grand Prix de la Somme Conseil Départemental 80 🇫🇷 (1.2)
      • 31/08 : Romain Breant 🇫🇷 (SCO Dijon-Team Matériel-Velo.com)
    • Grand Prix de Plouay – Espoirs 🇫🇷 (1.2)
      • 31/08 : Giovanni Lonardi 🇮🇹 (Team Polti VisitMalta)
    • Ronde van de Achterhoek 🇳🇱 (1.2)
      • 31/08 : Johan Dorussen 🇳🇱 (Development Team Picnic PostNL)
    • Grand Prix Kranj 🇸🇮 (1.2)
      • 31/08 : José Juan Prieto 🇲🇽 (Petrolike)
    • Tour Bitwa Warszawska 🇵🇱 (2.2)
      • 1re étape (20/08) : Martin Voltr 🇨🇿 (ATT Investments)
      • 2e étape (21/08) : Finnegan Murphy 🇳🇿 (XSpeed United Continental)
      • 3e étape (22/08) : Hubert Grygowski 🇵🇱 (Mazowsze Serce Polski)
      • 4e étape (23/08) : Marceli Boguslawski 🇵🇱 (ATT Investments)
      • 5e et dernière étape (24/08) : Marceli Boguslawski 🇵🇱 (ATT Investments)
      • Classement général : Martin Voltr 🇨🇿 (ATT Investments)
    • Baltic Chain Tour 🇪🇪 (2.2)
      • 1re étape A (22/08 – CLM par équipes ⏱️) : Estonie 🇪🇪
      • 1re étape B (22/08) : Markus Pajur 🇪🇪 (Estonie)
      • 2e étape (23/08) : Rait Ärm 🇪🇪 (Estonie)
      • 3e et dernière étape (24/08) : Kristians Belohvosciks 🇱🇻 (Lettonie)
      • Classement général : Rait Ärm 🇪🇪 (Estonie)
    • Tour de Kurpie 🇵🇱 (2.2)
      • 1re étape (27/08) : Yacine Hamza 🇩🇿 (Madar Pro Cycling Team)
      • 2e étape (28/08) : George Radcliffe 🇬🇧 (XSpeed United Continental)
      • 3e étape (29/08) : Alan Banaszek 🇵🇱 (ATT Investments)
      • 4e et dernière étape (30/08) : Norbert Banaszek 🇵🇱 (ATT Investments)
      • Classement général : Konrad Czabok 🇵🇱 (Mazowsze Serce Polski)
    • Tour of Route Salvation 🇹🇷 (2.2)
      • 1re étape (27/08) : Mathias Bregnhøj 🇩🇰 (Terengganu Cycling Team)
      • 2e étape (28/08) : Mathias Bregnhøj 🇩🇰 (Terengganu Cycling Team)
      • 3e étape (29/08) : Wan Abdul Rahman Hamdan 🇲🇾 (Terengganu Cycling Team)
      • 4e et dernière étape (30/08) : Milkias Maekele 🇪🇷 (Bike Aid)
      • Classement général : Mathias Bregnhøj 🇩🇰 (Terengganu Cycling Team)
    • Tour de Bulgarie 🇧🇬 (2.2)
      • Prologue (30/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Ognjen Ilic 🇷🇸 (Borac-Cacak)
      • 1re étape (31/08) : Lorenzo Cataldo 🇮🇹 (Gragnano Sporting Club)
    • West Bohemia Tour 🇨🇿 (2.2U)
      • Prologue (21/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Mauro Cuylits 🇧🇪 (Lotto Development Team)
      • 1re étape (22/08) : Reef Roberts 🇳🇿 (Équipe Continentale Groupama-FDJ)
      • 2e étape (23/08) : Liam Van Bylen 🇧🇪 (Lotto Development Team)
      • 3e et dernière étape (24/08) : Alfredo Bueno 🇺🇸 (EF Education-Aevolo)
      • Classement général : Federico Savino 🇮🇹 (Soudal Quick-Step Devo Team)
    • Tour de l’Avenir Femmes 🇫🇷 (2.2U)
      • Prologue (23/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • 1re étape (24/08) : Célia Géry 🇫🇷 (France)
      • 2e étape (25/08) : Scarlett Souren 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • 3e étape (26/08) : Célia Géry 🇫🇷 (France)
      • 4e étape (27/08) : Célia Géry 🇫🇷 (France)
      • 5e étape A (29/08) : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • 5e étape B et dernière étape (29/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • Classement général : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)

    • Tour de l’Avenir Hommes 🇫🇷 (2.Ncup)
      • Prologue (23/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Paul Seixas 🇫🇷 (France)
      • 1re étape (24/08) : Noah Hobbs 🇬🇧 (Grande-Bretagne)
      • 2e étape (25/08) : Eliott Rowe 🇬🇧 (Grande-Bretagne)
      • 3e étape (26/08) : Carl-Frederik Bévort 🇩🇰 (Danemark)
      • 4e étape (27/08) : Mathieu Kockelmann 🇱🇺 (Luxembourg)
      • 5e étape (28/08) : Jarno Widar 🇧🇪 (Belgique)
      • 6e étape A (29/08) : Jarno Widar 🇧🇪 (Belgique)
      • 6e étape B et dernière étape (29/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Paul Seixas 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Classement général : Paul Seixas 🇫🇷 (France)
    • Championnats d’Israël sur route 🇮🇱 (CN)
      • Course en ligne élites hommes (30/08) : Rotem Tene 🇮🇱 (Israel Premier Tech Academy)

    Paracyclisme sur route

    • Championnats du monde de paracyclisme sur route à Renaix 🇧🇪 – Contre-la-montre individuels (CM)
      • Femmes B (29/08) : Katie-George Dunlevy et Linda Kelly 🇮🇪 (Irlande)
      • Femmes C1 (29/08) : Tahlia Clayton-Goodie 🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes C2 (29/08) : Flurina Rigling 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Femmes C3 (29/08) : Emily Petricola 🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes C4 (29/08) : Tara Neyland  🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes C5 (29/08) : Alana Forster  🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes H1 (28/08) : Manuela Vos van den Bouwhuijsen 🇪🇸 (Espagne)
      • Femmes H2 (28/08) : Roberta Amadeo 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Femmes H3 (28/08) : Lauren Parker 🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes H4 (28/08) : Svetlana Moshkovich 🇦🇹 (Autriche)
      • Femmes H5 (28/08) : Chantal Haenen 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Femmes T1 (28/08) : Marieke van Soeste 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Femmes T2 (28/08) : Celine Van Till 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Hommes B (29/08) : Elie De Carvalho et Mickaël Guichard 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C1 (29/08) : Ricardo Ten Argiles 🇪🇸 (Espagne)
      • Hommes C2 (29/08) : Alexandre Leaute 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C3 (29/08) : Alexandre Hayward 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • Hommes C4 (29/08) : Mattis Lebeau 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C5 (29/08) : Franz-Josef Lässer 🇦🇹 (Autriche)
      • Hommes H1 (28/08) : Fabrizio Cornegliani 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Hommes H2 (28/08) : Florian Jouanny 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes H3 (28/08) : Mathieu Bosredon 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes H4 (28/08) : Thomas Frühwirth 🇦🇹 (Autriche)
      • Hommes H5 (28/08) : Mitch Valize 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Hommes T1 (28/08) : Giorgio Farroni 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Hommes T2 (28/08) : Tim Celen 🇧🇪 (Belgique)
    • Championnats du monde de paracyclisme sur route à Renaix 🇧🇪 – Courses en ligne (CM)
      • Femmes B (31/08) : Katie-George Dunlevy et Linda Kelly 🇮🇪 (Irlande)
      • Femmes C1 (31/08) : Tahlia Clayton-Goodie 🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes C2 (31/08) : Flurina Rigling 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Femmes C3 (31/08) : Clara Brown 🇺🇸 (États-Unis)
      • Femmes C4 (31/08) : Tara Neyland  🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes C5 (31/08) : Alana Forster  🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes H1 (30/08) : Manuela Vos van den Bouwhuijsen 🇪🇸 (Espagne)
      • Femmes H2 (30/08) : Roberta Amadeo 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Femmes H3 (30/08) : Lauren Parker 🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes H4 (30/08) : Sandra Fuhrer 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Femmes H5 (30/08) : Chantal Haenen 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Femmes T1 (30/08) : Marieke van Soeste 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Femmes T2 (30/08) : Celine Van Till 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Hommes B (31/08) : Federico Andreoli et Francesco Di Felice 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Hommes C1 (31/08) : Thomas Tarou 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C2 (31/08) : Alexandre Leaute 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C3 (31/08) : Finlay Graham 🇬🇧 (Grande-Bretagne)
      • Hommes C4 (31/08) : Mattis Lebeau 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C5 (31/08) : Lauro Cesar Mouro Chaman 🇧🇷 (Brésil)
      • Hommes H1 (30/08) : Fabrizio Cornegliani 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Hommes H2 (30/08) : Florian Jouanny 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes H3 (30/08) : Mathieu Bosredon 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes H4 (30/08) : Joseph Fritsch 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes H5 (30/08) : Mitch Valize 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Hommes T1 (30/08) : Giorgio Farroni 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Hommes T2 (30/08) : Tim Celen 🇧🇪 (Belgique)

    VTT

    • UCI Mountain Bike World Series aux Gets 🇫🇷 (CDM)
      • Short-track – Élites femmes (29/08) : Jenny Risveds 🇸🇪
      • Short-track – Élites hommes (29/08) : Charlie Aldridge 🇬🇧
      • Descente – Élites femmes (30/08) : Gracey Hemstreet 🇨🇦
      • Descente – Élites hommes (30/08) : Roman Dunne 🇮🇪
      • Cross-country – Élites femmes (31/08) : Jenny Risveds 🇸🇪
      • Cross-country – Élites hommes (31/08) : Luca Martin 🇫🇷

    L’agenda des prochains jours

    Mardi 2 septembre 2025

    • Tour d’Espagne masculin – La Vuelta a España 🇪🇸 (2.UWT) – 10e étape
      • Parque de la Naturaleza Sendaviva > El Ferrial Larra Belagua (175,3 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h45 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 15h50 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Simac Ladies Tour 🇳🇱 (2.WWT) – 1re étape
      • Louvain 🇧🇪 > Louvain 🇧🇪 (81,3 km)
      • Liste des partantes
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h30 sur HBO Max
    • Tour de Grande-Bretagne masculin 🇬🇧 (2.Pro) – 1re étape
      • Woodbridge > Southwold (167,6 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h00 sur Pickx+ Sports 1
    • Tour de Bulgarie 🇧🇬 (2.2) – 3e étape

    Mercredi 3 septembre 2025

    • Tour d’Espagne masculin – La Vuelta a España 🇪🇸 (2.UWT) – 11e étape
      • Bilbao > Bilbao (157,4 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h15 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 14h20 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Simac Ladies Tour 🇳🇱 (2.WWT) – 2e étape
    • Tour de Grande-Bretagne masculin 🇬🇧 (2.Pro) – 2e étape
      • Stowmarket > Stowmarket (173,6 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h00 sur Pickx+ Sports 1
    • Tour de Bulgarie 🇧🇬 (2.2) – 4e étape

    Jeudi 4 septembre 2025

    • Tour d’Espagne masculin – La Vuelta a España 🇪🇸 (2.UWT) – 12e étape
      • Laredo > Los Corrales de Buelna (144,9 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h45 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 15h50 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Simac Ladies Tour 🇳🇱 (2.WWT) – 3e étape
    • Tour de Grande-Bretagne masculin 🇬🇧 (2.Pro) – 3e étape
      • Milton Keyes > Ampthill (132,7 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h45 sur Pickx+ Sports 1
    • Tour d’Istanbul 🇹🇷 (2.1) – 1re étape
    • Tour de Bulgarie 🇧🇬 (2.2) – 5e et dernière étape
    • Tour du Kosovo 🇽🇰 (2.2) – 1re étape
    • Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 1re étape
    • Premondiale Giro Toscana Internazionale Femminile 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 1re étape
    • Okolo Jiznich Cech 🇨🇿 (2.2) – 1re étape

    Vendredi 5 septembre 2025

    • Tour d’Espagne masculin – La Vuelta a España 🇪🇸 (2.UWT) – 13e étape
      • Cabezón de la Sal > L’Angliru (202,7 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h50 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 15h50 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Simac Ladies Tour 🇳🇱 (2.WWT) – 4e étape
    • Tour de Grande-Bretagne masculin 🇬🇧 (2.Pro) – 4e étape
      • Atherstone > Buron Dasset Hills Park (194,9 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h00 sur Pickx+ Sports 1
    • Tour du Kosovo 🇽🇰 (2.2) – 2e étape
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    L’infolettre du 1er septembre 2025 : les revanches de Widar et De Lie, l’inextricable problème Israel Premier Tech…

    Jarno Widar et Arnaud De Lie, revanches croisées

    Les Belges de la Lotto ont connu une semaine de rêve pour conclure l’été. À l’aube de la dernière partie de saison, Jarno Widar et Arnaud De Lie ont géré à leur manière leurs objectifs d’août, malgré des questions toujours en suspens quant à leur état de forme ou leurs capacités à se défaire de précédents revers. L’un a connu l’an dernier une déception après deux derniers jours infernaux sur le Tour de l’Avenir en raison d’une surcharge de courses, avant un retrait sur le dernier Tour d’Italie espoirs, qu’il a quitté en larmes. L’autre a enchaîné les difficultés au printemps, entre changements dans son entourage sportif et problèmes psychologiques qui ont failli le dégoûter du vélo.

    Quelques mois plus tard, le contraste est saisissant. Le sourire est revenu, le plaisir se voit dans le coup de pédale et en interview. Il faut dire que les deux leaders (l’un de l’équipe de développement, l’autre du noyau professionnel) ont retrouvé le goût de la victoire durant ce mois d’août déterminant pour leur avenir. Jarno Widar, malgré son forfait sur le Tour d’Italie, visait un rebond sur le Tour de l’Avenir, avec l’espoir de ne pas connaître pareille défaillance que l’an dernier. Sa victoire autoritaire, en juillet, sur le Tour du Val d’Aoste avait donné le ton, mais un obstacle important s’annonçait au départ du Tour de l’Avenir, en la personne de Paul Seixas (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale). Malgré ses 18 ans, celui qui a déjà terminé 8e du Critérium du Dauphiné se présentait au départ de la plus importante course par étapes dédiée aux moins de 23 ans comme le grand favori au vu de ses performances parmi les professionnels. Cela n’empêchait pas le sélectionneur belge Serge Pauwels d’arriver avec confiance dans les Alpes : “Il est dans son meilleur état de forme”, disait-il avant le départ d’une édition encore plus montagneuse que ces dernières saisons.

    Seixas a finalement assuré sa victoire finale sur les deux contre-la-montre en montée de l’épreuve, sa discipline de prédilection, alors que Widar a prouvé son explosivité sur les deux arrivées au sommet d’étapes en ligne, au bout de parfaites gestions d’arrivée. Le grimpeur belge de 19 ans s’est affirmé comme le meilleur sur les longues ascensions, avec en prime une amélioration de plus en plus probante sur les arrivées explosives. Finalement deuxième du général derrière Seixas, Widar a tout de même pris une revanche importante sur le plan psychologique : “Après ma défaillance l’an dernier, ce succès est très important pour moi. Gagner en plus l’étape-reine est très spécial”, a-t-il confié au bout d’une course qui sert également de rampe de lancement en vue des championnats du monde, sur lesquels le coureur de Lotto visera un premier maillot arc-en-ciel chez les espoirs.

    Arnaud De Lie, pour sa part, a connu un début de mois d’août frustrant, avec notamment une deuxième place sur la Cyclassics d’Hambourg sur laquelle il n’a échoué que derrière l’unique survivant de l’échappée matinale, Rory Townsend (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team). Ses places d’honneur sur le Tour de France, outre sa médaille d’argent en Allemagne, ont toutefois donné confiance au Taureau de Lescheret. Un avantage psychologique suffisant pour le replacer en position de force sur le Renewi Tour, dont les étapes vers le mur de Grammont (sur lequel il avait brillé en 2024) et à Louvain pouvaient lui donner un avantage en tant que puncheur-sprinter. La présence de Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), de retour depuis sa pneumonie sur le Tour de France, compliquait toutefois la tâche du coureur wallon.

    Cela s’est confirmé à Grammont, où De Lie n’a pu déposer son rival néerlandais dans le final, lui laissant la victoire d’étape, mais prenant personnellement la tête du classement général. Sur la dernière étape, le leader de Lotto a été longtemps mis en difficulté, avant de jouer au poker, comme il l’a admis. Resté dans les roues, il a espéré un retour du peloton dans le final pour jouer la victoire au sprint. Bien lui en a pris, au bout d’un sprint de mort de 150 mètres, il a débordé Van der Poel et Dries De Bondt (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale) pour finalement s’offrir la victoire d’étape et au classement général en prime ! Soit sa première course par étapes WorldTour.

    Le sprinteur ardennais a enchaîné la semaine suivante en Bretagne avec le Grand Prix de Plouay, habituelle classique qui peut tant faire briller les plus véloces que les plus explosifs. Là encore, De Lie a joué au poker. S’il a essayé à une reprise de rentrer sur des attaquants dangereux, il a passé les quinze derniers kilomètres dans le peloton, espérant un sprint massif qui a finalement eu lieu. Bien dans la roue du favori néerlandais Olav Kooij (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), De Lie a surgi dans les 150 derniers mètres pour s’offrir un nouveau succès WorldTour. “C’est une fin d’année folle pour moi”, a commenté l’ex-champion de Belgique à Plouay. “Les années précédentes, j’ai toujours couru agressivement ici, mais aujourd’hui, je devais être plus intelligent. Suivre dans les côtes et laisse les décisions tactiques dans le final à (mon équipier) Jenno Berckmoes. Cela a parfaitement fonctionné”. Des déclarations qui confirment un changement de paradigme pour De Lie : trop souvent offensif ou mal positionné, le coureur wallon semble cette fois bien mieux gérer ses finales et jouer la carte de l’attente, comme ses adversaires. Désormais en confiance quant à sa capacité à suivre dans les côtes et à sortir au bon moment, le sociétaire de Lotto doit profiter de cette série de victoires lors des prochaines courses canadiennes, les Grand Prix de Québec et de Montréal. Le parcours plus difficile de Québec risque toutefois de bousculer les repères de l’Ardennais.

    Ces victoires belges au sein d’une équipe toujours à la recherche de nouveaux partenaires pour la saison prochaine permettent au moins de confirmer la politique de la Lotto et la bonne gestion de ses leaders durant cette saison particulièrement mitigée. Widar et De Lie ont encore des objectifs précis en cette fin d’année, mais ces revanches offrent déjà une bonne dose d’ondes positives pour continuer à grandir dans un environnement plus constructif. À tel point qu’on en vient à rêver de 2026 !

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    Israel Premier Tech : l’inextricable problème des sponsors cyclistes

    Vous n’avez certainement pas manqué les centaines de drapeaux palestiniens qui pullulent sur les routes du Tour d’Espagne si vous suivez l’épreuve à la télévision. La protestation a même pris une tournure plus sérieuse encore avec la manifestation organisée sur le parcours de la 5e étape de la Vuelta, lors du passage de l’équipe Israel Premier Tech durant le contre-la-montre de Figueres. Heureusement, aucun coureur n’a été blessé durant cet événement qui n’a finalement causé uniquement le freinage des coureurs. Les Espagnols sont visiblement nombreux à faire savoir qu’ils soutiennent le petit pays enclavé, en première ligne de la guerre menée par l’armée israélienne sur la bande de Gaza, en représailles à l’attaque sanglante du mouvement islamiste Hamas le 7 octobre 2023. La situation humanitaire à Gaza est de plus en plus inquiétante, a déjà alerté à plusieurs reprises l’Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU), alors qu’une famine a officiellement été annoncée dans la région visée par une nouvelle opération d’envergure de l’armée israélienne. Et ce, alors qu’on a déjà comptabilisé plus de 63.000 morts côté palestinien.

    Dans ce contexte géopolitique délicat, la présence de l’équipe israélienne Israel Premier Tech au sein du peloton fait logiquement débat. Est-il éthique qu’une équipe soutenue par un État qui mène une guerre particulièrement mortifère parmi les civils, puisse continuer à participer à des courses cyclistes ? Car dans le même temps, l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) a pris position contre la guerre menée par la Russie en Ukraine. Mais sur le conflit à Gaza, pas un mot, comme bon nombre d’autres organisations internationales qui ménagent la chèvre et le chou.

    Le débat peut évidemment s’étendre à l’infini, tant les partenaires d’équipes cyclistes qui causent un débat moral sont nombreux. Les sponsors liés aux hydrocarbures qui causent tant de problèmes à la planète (UAE Team Emirates XRG, TotalEnergies), ceux qui émanent d’États où les droits humains ne sont que trop peu respectés (UAE Team Emirates XRG (encore), Bahrain Victorious, Team Jayco AlUla), les autres qui mettent en avant des pratiques addictives (Unibet Tietema Rockets)… L’économie cycliste actuelle fait que l’argent est pris là où il est disponible, qu’importe l’origine éthique discutable. Et si certains partenaires ne peuvent être arborés sur un maillot, cela n’est dû qu’à une décision politique, comme cela fut le cas en Belgique avec l’interdiction de la publicité par les sociétés de paris (même si cette réglementation a été quelque peu détournée grâce à la création de sites d’actualité… gérés par ces mêmes boîtes).

    L’inextricable problème se pose ici : sans décision forte de gouvernements ou de l’Union Cycliste Internationale, les débats sur la présence de ces sponsors ne cesseront pas, et le cyclisme continuera à être financé par des entreprises ou des États problématiques. Le cas israélien est un de plus dans l’histoire de ce sport qui n’a toujours pas trouvé d’autres méthodes de financement pour aider les cyclistes.

    L’équipe Israel Premier Tech fait face à de plus en plus de critiques au sein du peloton également, avec des coureurs qui déclarent clairement leur opposition aux actions israéliennes à Gaza. Mais il faudra bien plus, notamment des cyclistes qui boycottent tout engagement au sein d’une telle formation, pour que la pression soit efficace. Le public, lui, maintient son étreinte, avec des manifestations, des appels… Cela sera-t-il suffisant pour enfin faire bouger l’UCI ? Rien n’est moins sûr.

    Les nouvelles des derniers jours

    ✍ Transferts

    • Absent des pelotons depuis son titre de champion du Canada sur route, le 28 juin dernier, Derek Gee est réapparu dans les médias à la fin de l’été. Des rumeurs ont fait état de son désir de quitter l’équipe Israel Premier Tech, avant que l’intéressé publié sur son compte Instagram un communiqué annonçant que son contrat était effectivement cassé après une intervention d’avocats. Il a ajouté qu’il n’avait pas encore négocié ou signé avec une autre équipe, comme pour rappeler qu’il s’agit d’un cas différent des dossiers Remco Evenepoel ou Cian Uijtdebroeks, dont les contrats respectifs chez Soudal Quick-Step et Bora-Hansgrohe avaient été rachetés en partie par leur nouvelle formation. Gee n’a pas donné plus de raisons sur son souhait de quitter Israel Premier Tech en pleine saison. L’équipe a en tout cas réagi en affirmant que le coureur canadien était toujours sous contrat (jusqu’à fin 2028 normalement) avec elle, et que la situation était désormais entre les mains d’avocats et de l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Bref, la situation semble pour l’heure complexe, mais il est certain qu’on ne verra pas Gee prochainement au départ d’une course…

     

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    • La ProTeam suisse Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team a enchaîné les annonces en cette fin d’été, pour compléter son effectif dès 2026. Elle a d’abord confirmé la venue de spécialistes de la montagne, d’abord avec l’Irlandais Eddie Dunbar (28 ans, Team Jayco-AlUla) qui a signé pour deux saisons, puis avec l’Australien Chris Harper (30 ans, Team Jayco-AlUla), récent vainqueur de la 20e étape du Tour d’Italie et sous contrat pour deux ans également. Le Britannique Fred Wright (26 ans, Bahrain Victorious), récent quatrième du Renewi Tour, a pour sa part signé pour trois saisons, avant l’annonce de l’arrivée de deux Belges d’Alpecin-Deceuninck : Xandro Meurisse (33 ans), un puncheur-grimpeur d’expérience qui s’est engagé pour deux ans, et Quinten Hermans (30 ans), l’ancien cyclo-crossman spécialiste des classiques qui a aussi paraphé un contrat de deux saisons. Enfin, l’effectif sera complété par l’arrivée du Belge Brent Van Moer (27 ans, Lotto), pour les deux prochaines saisons.
    • L’équipe Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe a ajouté de l’expérience dans son armada avec l’arrivée du Belge Gianni Vermeersch (32 ans) pour une période indéterminée. Le spécialiste des classiques et du gravel (il en a été le premier champion du monde en 2022) sera principalement attendu pour les courses flandriennes du printemps, a annoncé le staff de la formation allemande.
    • En ce début de semaine, le “Wolfpack” a par ailleurs indiqué que son effectif pour 2026 était désormais complet après l’arrivée de l’ancien champion d’Italie Filippo Zana (26 ans, Team Jayco-AlUla). Le puncheur-grimpeur, arrivé en 2020 dans les rangs professionnels, sera principlement attendu dans les courses par étapes et les classiques pour coureurs explosifs.
    • Le Belge Jenthe Biermans (29 ans) va changer de crémerie française : il passera la saison prochaine d’Arkéa-B&B Hôtels à Cofidis. L’ex-vainqueur de la Route Adélie de Vitré (2024) et de la Muscat Classic (2023) sera jusqu’à fin 2027 dans la formation nordiste, avec l’ambition de mener Milan Fretin dans les sprints et de saisir sa chance si possible.
    • Le champion de France Dorian Godon (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale) changera d’air la saison prochaine : le coureur de 29 ans s’est engagé pour trois saisons avec INEOS Grenadiers. L’ancien vainqueur de la Flèche Brabançonne (2023) et de deux étapes du Tour de Romandie (2024) espère ainsi poursuivre sa progression sur les courses d’un jour et sur les courtes courses par étapes au sein de l’équipe britannique.

    • Pour sa quatrième saison professionnelle, l’équipe Tudor continue de grandir et annonce l’arrivée de deux coureurs expérimentés dans son effectif pour 2026. Tout d’abord, l’ex-champion d’Europe du contre-la-montre Stefan Küng (31 ans, Groupama-FDJ), rouleur inarrêtable et candidat habituel aux classiques flandriennes, a signé pour trois saisons au sein d’une équipe menée par l’ancien multiple champion du monde du chrono Fabian Cancellara. Il sera accompagné de l’Italien Luca Mozzato (27 ans, Arkéa-B&B Hôtels), deuxième du Tour des Flandres l’an dernier et spécialiste du sprint, qui s’est engagé pour trois ans également. Enfin, la formation helvète a promu le jeune grimpeur suisse Robin Donzé (22 ans) de son équipe de développement vers le noyau professionnel, avec un contrat de deux ans à la clé.
    • Si elle perd Küng, son leader pour les courses printannières, l’équipe Groupama-FDJ a annoncé l’arrivée dès 2026, et pour trois saisons, du Français Bastien Tronchon (23 ans, Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale). Cinquième du Tour Down Under, deuxième du Tour du Finistère et vainqueur du Tro Bro Léon cette saison, le natif de Chambéry, également habitué aux cyclo-cross, sera attendu pour ses qualités de puncheur.
    • Autre départ chez Groupama-FDJ : le Britannique Lewis Askey (24 ans) a décidé de quitter la formation française rejointe dès 2020 (en développement puis le noyau pro) pour signer pour trois ans avec Israel Premier Tech. Le puncheur rapide, vainqueur cette année des Boucles de l’Aulne et d’une étape des Quatre Jours de Dunkerque, ses premiers succès pros, souhaite y devenir un futur leader pour les courses d’un jour et les classiques printanières.

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    • L’équipe féminine FDJ-Suez a pour sa part confirmé l’arrivée de deux nouvelles recrues pour 2026. D’abord, l’Écossaise Lauren Dickson (25 ans, Handsling Alba Development Team), venue du trail et du triathlon, qui a signé pour deux saisons dans l’espoir de progresser parmi les professionnelles après, notamment, une 3e place sur le Tour de Norvège et une 2e sur la Pointe du Raz Classic. Ensuite, la double championne d’Allemagne sur route Franziska Koch (25 ans, Team Picnic PostNL), qui s’est engagée pour deux ans après une 5e place sur le récent Tour de Belgique féminin et une 8e sur la Classic Lorient Agglomération, après un travail de parfaite équipière sur le Tour de France Femmes.
    • Chez Lidl-Trek, aussi, on a fait son marché : la Néerlandaise Loes Adegeest (29 ans) quittera FDJ-Suez en fin de saison pour rejoindre pour deux saisons l’équipe américaine. Vainqueure cette saison d’une étape du Tour de Catalogne, la rouleuse-grimpeuse a également gagné la Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race en 2023. L’Allemande Ricarda Bauernfeind (25 ans, Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto) a pour sa part décidé de quitter l’équipe qu’elle avait rejointe en 2022 pour signer pour deux ans sous les couleurs “arlequin”, elle qui avait gagné une étape du Tour de France Femmes et terminé 5e de la Vuelta en 2023. Enfin, la Belge Marhot Vanpachtenbeke (26 ans, VolkerWessels) fera ses débuts dans le WorldTour l’an prochain, avec un contrat jusqu’à fin 2027 avec Lidl-Trek. Et chez les hommes, le costaud Max Walscheid (32 ans, Team Jayco-AlUla) s’est engagé pour trois ans et sera un nouvel atout pour les sprints de l’équipe. L’Allemand de près de 2 mètres a remporté par le passé le GP de Denain, le Circuit du Houtland (à deux reprises) et le Sparkassen Münsterland Giro. Enfin, le Danois Mathias Norsgaard (28 ans, Movistar) a paraphé un contrat de deux saisons et poursuivra son travail d’équipier de luxe pour les sprinters.

    • L’Espagnol Pau Miquel (25 ans, Equipo Kern Pharma) a accepté un contrat de deux saisons avec l’équipe Bahrain Victorious, dès 2026. Celui qui est devenu pro en 2022 est connu pour ses offensives et son explosivité. Il attend toujours son premier succès professionnel, mais a déjà terminé troisième d’une étape de la Vuelta et de la Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia l’an dernier.
    • Le Team Jayco-AlUla a annoncé l’arrivée jusqu’à fin 2027 de l’Italien Alessandro Covi (26 ans, UAE Team Emirates XRG), récent vainqueur d’étape sur le Tour des Asturies et le Tour des Abruzzes. Le vice-champion d’Italie sur route quitte ainsi la formation émiratie après six saisons et compte désormais faire grandir son palmarès au sein de sa nouvelle équipe.
    • Cette fois, du côté de son effectif féminin, Liv AlUla Jayco a signé dès 2026 et pour deux saisons la Canadienne Nadia Gontova (25 ans, Winspace-Orange Seal). Cette dernière s’est lancée dans le cyclisme professionnel durant la crise sanitaire du Covid-19 et a obtenu cette saison une deuxième place sur le Tour des Pyrénées et une troisième sur l’Alpes Gresivaudan Classic, confirmant son talent de grimpeuse. Elle a aussi conclu le dernier Tour de France Femmes en 23e place.
    • L’équipe néerlandaise a également annoncé, pour son groupe masculin, l’arrivée de l’Italien Filippo Fiorelli (30 ans, VF Group-Bardiani CSF Faizanè). Le puncheur sera surtout attendu sur les classiques et en tant que soutien au Britannique Matthew Brennan, la nouvelle pépite du sprint britannique. Fiorelli n’a jusqu’ici remporté qu’une course, une étape du Sibiu Tour en 2022.

    ➡️ Prolongations

    • En verve sur le dernier Tour de France, sur lequel il a remporté deux étapes et le maillot vert, l’Italien Jonathan Milan (24 ans, Lidl-Trek) a prolongé son contrat avec sa formation jusqu’en 2029, soit quatre saisons en plus des deux déjà prolifiques sous la tunique “arlequin”. Dans le même temps, ses poissons-pilotes, l’Italien Simone Consonni (30 ans) et le Belge Edward Theuns (34 ans), ont prolongé pour deux saisons, de même que le Français Julien Bernard (33 ans).
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    • Outre une large série de transferts (lire plus haut), l’équipe Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team a prolongé le contrat du grimpeur espagnol David De La Cruz pour une saison supplémentaire. Le coureur de 36 ans, qui a récemment terminé deuxième du Tour des Abruzzes, du Sibiu Tour et du championnat d’Espagne du contre-la-montre, enchaînera ainsi sa seizième saison professionnelle.

    ❌ Sur le départ

    • C’est la fin de l’aventure pour le Canadien Michael Woods (Israel Premier Tech) : l’ex-athlète devenu cycliste professionnel sur le tard a décidé de ranger son vélo au bout de treize saisons. Le coureur de 38 ans a décidé de ne pas rempiler avec l’équipe qu’il avait rejoint en 2021. Woods a été l’un des grands grimpeurs de ces dernières années avec trois succès d’étape sur le Tour d’Espagne, une étape sur le Tour de France, un Milan-Turin, deux Routes d’Occitanie, mais aussi une troisième place sur le championnat du monde en 2018, une septième place finale sur le Tour d’Espagne en 2017 et une deuxième place sur Liège-Bastogne-Liège en 2018. Woods a expliqué sa décision de quitter le peloton par un risque de plus en plus important sur les routes et des vitesses toujours plus dangereuses. Des déclarations qui reviennent souvent ces derniers mois…

     

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    • Après dix saisons professionnelles, le Sud-Africain Ryan Gibbons (Lidl-Trek) quittera également le peloton en fin d’année. L’un des meilleurs poisson-pilotes du moment, prendra donc sa retraite à 31 ans, après deux dernières saisons chez Lidl-Trek. Double champion d’Afrique du Sud sur route, champion d’Afrique du contre-la-montre et sur route, Gibbons a également remporté une étape et le général du Tour de Langkawi (2017) et le Trophée Calvia (2021).

     

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    • L’Australienne Sarah Roy (EF Education-Oatly) pendra également son vélo au clou en fin d’année après treize saisons dans le peloton professionnel. La coureuse de 39 ans, ancienne championne d’Australie sur route, a surtout été une spécialiste des classiques durant sa longue carrière, avec des succès sur le Tour de Grande-Bretagne (une étape en 2017 et en 2018), sur Grammont-Gooik (2018), la Navarra Elite Classics (2019), le Simac Ladies Tour (une étape en 2016) et le Bretagne Ladies Tour (une étape en 2024).

     

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    📅 Programme

    • Attendu sur le Tour d’Espagne après avoir manqué de peu le Tour de France en raison d’une infection gastro-intestinale, l’Équatorien Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), troisième du Tour d’Italie, poursuivra finalement sa saison en septembre à l’occasion des championnats du monde au Rwanda, sur lequel il visera un premier maillot arc-en-ciel sur la course sur route. Le “condor” se mettra ensuite en direction de l’Italie pour y enchaîner les classiques automnales qui conviennent à ses qualités de puncheur-grimpeur. Il visera principalement le Tour de Lombardie, remporté ces quatre dernières années par l’indétrônable Tadej Pogacar.
    • L’Union Cycliste Internationale a présenté le calendrier de la Coupe du monde 2026 de VTT, organisée en collaboration avec le groupe médiatique Warner Bros. Discovery. Cette nouvelle édition annonce une première historique en Asie, avec le démarrage de la saison prévu en Corée du Sud du 1er au 3 mai, en lieu et place des précédentes ouvertures brésiliennes. La suite se passera en Europe, avant trois manches finales en Amérique du Nord, jusqu’à début octobre. Voici les épreuves prévues en 2026 :
      • Du 1er au 3 mai : Race of South Korea 🇰🇷 – Cross-country, short-track et descente
      • Du 22 au 24 mai : Nové Mesto na Morave 🇨🇿 – Cross-country et short-track
      • Du 28 au 31 mai : Loudenvielle-Peyragudes 🇫🇷 – Descente et enduro
      • Du 11 au 14 juin : Saalfelden-Leogang 🇦🇹 – Cross-country, short-track, descente et enduro
      • Du 19 au 21 juin : Lenzerheide 🇨🇭 – Cross-country, short-track et descente
      • Du 26 au 28 juin : Val di Fassa-Trentino 🇮🇹 – Enduro
      • Du 3 au 5 juillet : La Thuile-Valle d’Aosta 🇮🇹 – Cross-country, short-track, descente et enduro
      • Du 8 au 12 juillet : Pal Arinsal 🇦🇩 – Cross-country, short-track et descente
      • Du 17 au 19 juillet : Aletsch Arena-Bellwald-Valais 🇨🇭 – Enduro
      • Du 14 au 16 août : Haute-Savoie 🇫🇷 – Cross-country, short-track et descente
      • Du 21 au 23 août : Haute-Savoie 🇫🇷 – Enduro
      • Du 19 au 20 septembre : Soldier Hollow-Midway-Utah 🇺🇸 – Cross-country et short-track
      • Du 26 au 27 septembre : Whistler Mountain Bike Park-Colombie britannique 🇨🇦 – Descente
      • Du 2 au 4 octobre : Lake Placid-New York 🇺🇸 – Cross-country, short-track et descente
    • L’UCI a également publié les calendriers des trois prochaines saisons de la Coupe du monde de cyclisme sur piste, qui fait son retour après l’échec commercial de la Ligue des champions. Les spécialistes de l’anneau se retrouveront dès mars 2026 en Australie, pour trois manches par saison, dont au moins une par an en Asie. Voici les épreuves prévues jusqu’en 2028 :
      • 1re manche 2026 : du 6 au 8 mars à Perth 🇦🇺
      • 2e manche 2026 : du 17 au 19 avril à Hong Kong 🇭🇰
      • 3e et dernière manche 2026 : du 24 au 26 avril à Nilai 🇲🇾
      • 1re manche 2027 : du 2 au 4 avril à Milton 🇨🇦
      • 2e manche 2027 : du 23 au 25 avril à Hong Kong 🇭🇰
      • 3e et dernière manche 2027 : du 30 avril au 2 mai en Chine, sur un site à confirmer 🇨🇳
      • 1re manche 2028 : du 4 au 6 février en Australie, sur un site à confirmer 🇦🇺
      • 2e manche 2028 : du 10 au 12 mars à Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines 🇫🇷
      • 3e et dernière manche 2028 : du 7 au 9 avril en Chine, sur un site à confirmer 🇨🇳

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    💉 Dopage

    • Près de trois ans après l’annonce de deux anomalies (en 2018, puis sur le Tour de France 2022) sur son passeport biologique, le Français Franck Bonnamour est enfin fixé sur son sort : il est suspendu pour quatre saisons, sur décision du tribunal antidopage de l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Le Breton de 30 ans était provisoirement suspendu depuis février 2024 et avait été licencié par son équipe d’alors, Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale. L’UCI a estimé que les deux anomalies étaient bien des violations au règlement antidopage. Il est dès lors suspendu jusqu’au 4 février 2028. Bonnamour peut faire appel dans le mois suivant la décision auprès du Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (TAS) de Lausanne, mais le cycliste français a seulement commenté sur Instagram : “La douleur est temporaire, la fierté est éternelle”. L’appel ne semble donc pas d’actualité.
    • Nous en avions parlé dans cette infolettre en mai 2024 : au bout de près de deux ans de combat, la Britannique Lizzy Banks a finalement appris en juillet dernier que le Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (TAS) de Lausanne a rejeté sa défense devant l’agence britannique antidopage (UKAD). Cette dernière avait pourtant accepté cette explication, confirmant qu’elle ne suspendrait pas Banks malgré un contrôle positif au chlortalidone, un diurétique considéré comme un potentiel produit masquant et interdit par le règlement antidopage, à très légère dose. Mais l’Agence mondiale antidopage (AMA) a décidé de faire appel de cette décision de l’UKAD auprès du TAS, et a donc obtenu gain de cause. Encore une fois, Lizzy Banks a décidé de publier un long article explicatif (en anglais), revenant en détails sur les suites de son affaire, les errances de l’AMA et les arguments d’une agence internationale qui voulait visiblement faire de ce cas un exemple. L’article évoque également les difficultés des athlètes face à une telle instance, et le manque de justice dans un système qui devrait pourtant être équitable pour tous.
    • Le Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (TAS) de Lausanne a également confirmé cette semaine la suspension de la vététiste ukrainienne Iryna Popova. Cette dernière avait été suspendue par le tribunal antidopage de l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) pour quatre ans, du 20 septembre 2024 au 19 septembre 2028, en raison d’anomalies sur son passeport biologique en 2016 et 2022. Popova, double championne d’Europe de VTT Eliminator, avait aussi été double championne d’Ukraine de VTT cross-country.

    🌈 Sélections

     

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    📌 Autres

    • L’équipe Soudal Quick-Step a annoncé un large renouvellement de son staff pour la saison prochaine, en annonçant l’arrivée d’anciennes figures de l’équipe dans son équipe technique. Le Néerlandais Niki Terpstra fera ainsi partie des nouveaux directeurs sportifs de la formation belge, au côté des anciens pros belges Eliot Lietaer et Sep Vanmarcke (après avoir quitté Israel Premier Tech fin 2024). Tim Declercq, qui a récemment annoncé sa retraite en fin d’année, rejoindra pour sa part le staff en tant qu’entraîneur, au côté de Michel Geerinck et Dimitri Peyskens (jusqu’ici entraîneur auprès de l’équipe des jeunes de Remco Evenepoel). Il a également été confirmé les prolongations des directeurs sportifs Davide Bramati, Tom Steels, Wilfried Peeters et Kevin Hulsmans et des entraîneurs Koen Pelgrim (qui avait un temps été envisagé au côté de Remco Evenepoel chez Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) et Frederik Broché.

    À lire, voir, écouter…

    • Le Tour d’Espagne a déjà offert une bonne dose de spectacle durant une première semaine mêlant montagne, contre-la-montre par équipes et sprints. Le Danois Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) a déjà frappé fort en remportant deux étapes au sommet, notamment la 9e ce dimanche vers Valdezcaray, lui assurant la première position parmi les favoris. Le Portugais João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates XRG), malgré une victoire de son équipe sur le chrono de Figueres, a paru en deçà dans les grands cols, alors que le Britannique Tom Pidcock (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) et l’Autrichien Felix Gall (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale) surprennent en ce début d’épreuve. Mais la course est encore longue, avec la plupart des grands sommets encore à gravir d’ici Madrid (dont l’Angliru et le Bola del Mundo). C’est d’ailleurs ce qu’analyse Jacky Durand, consultant pour Eurosport dans cette vidéo.

    • S’il a pris sa retraite des pelotons professionnels il y a plus de cinq ans, le Belge Maxime Monfort, aujourd’hui directeur sportif chez Lidl-Trek, a décidé de chausser… des baskets de trail pour participer à l’Ultratrail du Mont Blanc (UTMB), le rendez-vous le plus important de la discipline. L’Ardennais a déjà enchaîné les compétitions ces dernières années, mais a déclaré dans le podcast “Fartlek” qu’il n’avait pas forcément prévu une telle évolution jusqu’à une participation à l’une des plus difficiles épreuves de la saison. “En tant que cycliste, je n’étais pas un sportif complet. Je le suis plus aujourd’hui”, confie-t-il notamment quant aux différences que les deux sports ont sur son physique et sa préparation. Il a finalement conclu l’épreuve, dimanche, en 42e position de la course la plus médiatique du calendrier, soit le troisième Belge du plateau, avec un temps de 24h45 pour couvrir les 175 kilomètres et près de 10.000 mètres de dénivelé.

    • L’équipe Unibet Tietema Rockets a lancé en août une mini-série sur l’un des points saillants de sa saison : le mois d’août, particulièrement intéressant pour la formation française en quête de points pour se maintenir dans le Top 30 du classement UCI, et ainsi espérer une invitation pour le Tour de France (ou un autre Grand Tour) la saison prochaine. Le premier épisode est revenu sur la déception de l’Arctic Race of Norway, course sur laquelle le puncheur belge Lander Loockx a lourdement chuté, avec une fracture de la clavicule en prime. Le second se veut plus optimiste, et raconte le Tour du Danemark, sur lequel Lukas Kubis a tout donné pour faire face à la domination des Lidl-Trek et de Mads Pedersen. Évidemment, l’équipe choisit son propre narratif, mais la vidéo se veut très intéressante sur la bataille entre les ProTeams, loin de celles qui font la Une.

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    Route

    • Tour d’Espagne 🇪🇸 (2.UWT)
      • 1re étape (23/08) : Jasper Philipsen 🇧🇪 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
      • 2e étape (24/08) : Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 3e étape (25/08) : David Gaudu 🇫🇷 (Groupama-FDJ)
      • 4e étape (26/08) : Ben Turner 🇬🇧 (INEOS Grenadiers)
      • 5e étape (27/08 – CLM par équipes ⏱️) : UAE Team Emirates XRG 🇦🇪
      • 6e étape (28/08) : Jay Vine 🇦🇺 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
      • 7e étape (29/08) : Juan Ayuso 🇪🇸 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
      • 8e étape (30/08) : Jasper Philipsen 🇧🇪 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
      • 9e étape (31/08) : Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 (Team Visma | Leade a Bike)
      • Classement général provisoire : Torstein Træen 🇳🇴 (Bahrain Victorious)

    • Renewi Tour 🇧🇪 (2.UWT)
      • 1re étape (20/08) : Tim Merlier 🇧🇪 (Soudal Quick-Step)
      • 2e étape (21/08) : Olav Kooij 🇳🇱 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 3e étape (22/08) : Mathieu van der Poel 🇳🇱 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
      • 4e étape (23/08) : Tim Merlier 🇧🇪 (Soudal Quick-Step)
      • 5e et dernière étape (24/08) : Arnaud De Lie 🇧🇪 (Lotto)
      • Classement général : Arnaud De Lie 🇧🇪 (Lotto)
    • Classic Lorient Agglomération – Ceratizit 🇫🇷 (1.WWT)
      • 30/08 : Mischa Bredewold 🇳🇱 (Team SD Worx-Protime)
    • Bretagne Classic – Ouest-France 🇫🇷 (1.UWT)
      • 31/08 : Arnaud De Lie 🇧🇪 (Lotto)
    • Lidl Tour d’Allemagne 🇩🇪 (2.Pro)
      • Prologue (20/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Søren Wærenskjold 🇳🇴 (Uno-X Mobility)
      • 1re étape (21/08) : Matthew Brennan 🇬🇧 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 2e étape (22/08) : Jhonatan Narváez 🇪🇨 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
      • 3e étape (23/08) : Søren Wærenskjold 🇳🇴 (Uno-X Mobility)
      • 4e et dernière étape (24/08) : Matthew Brennan 🇬🇧 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • Classement général : Søren Wærenskjold 🇳🇴 (Uno-X Mobility)

    • Grand Prix Lucien Van Impe 🇧🇪 (1.1)
      • 21/08 : Lorena Wiebes 🇳🇱 (SD Worx-Protime)
    • Muur Classic Geraardsbergen 🇧🇪 (1.1)
      • 27/08 : Jonas Abrahamsen 🇳🇴 (Uno-X Mobility)
    • Kreiz Breizh Élites Dames 🇫🇷 (1.1)
      • 28/08 : Elisa Longo Borghini 🇮🇹 (UAE Team ADQ)
    • Tour du Limousin-Périgord Nouvelle-Aquitaine 🇫🇷 (2.1)
      • 1re étape (19/08) : Thomas Gachignard 🇫🇷 (TotalEnergies)
      • 2e étape (20/08) : Sylvain Moniquet 🇧🇪 (Cofidis)
      • 3e étape (21/08) : Paul Lapeira 🇫🇷 (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
      • 4e et dernière étape (22/08) : Andrea Vendrame 🇮🇹 (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
      • Classement général : Ewen Costiou 🇫🇷 (Arkéa-B&B Hôtels)
    • Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 🇫🇷 (2.1)
      • 1re étape (26/08) : Jason Tesson 🇫🇷 (TotalEnergies)
      • 2e étape (27/08) : Dorian Godon 🇫🇷 (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
      • 3e étape (28/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Samuel Leroux 🇫🇷 (TotalEnergies)
      • 4e et dernière étape (29/08) : Dorian Godon 🇫🇷 (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
      • Classement général : Samuel Leroux 🇫🇷 (TotalEnergies)
    • Egmont Cycling Race Women 🇧🇪 (1.2)
      • 19/08 : Martina Alzini 🇮🇹 (Cofidis)
    • Grand Prix Ordu 🇹🇷 (1.2)
      • 24/08 : Rein Taaramäe 🇪🇪 (Kinan Racing Team)
    • Slag om Norg 🇳🇱 (1.2)
      • 30/08 : Finn Crockett 🇮🇪 (VolkerWessels Cycling Team)
    • Ixina Classic – Grand Prix de la Ville de Hal 🇧🇪 (1.2)
      • 31/08 : Stijn Appel 🇳🇱 (BEAT Cycling Club)
    • Grand Prix de la Somme Conseil Départemental 80 🇫🇷 (1.2)
      • 31/08 : Romain Breant 🇫🇷 (SCO Dijon-Team Matériel-Velo.com)
    • Grand Prix de Plouay – Espoirs 🇫🇷 (1.2)
      • 31/08 : Giovanni Lonardi 🇮🇹 (Team Polti VisitMalta)
    • Ronde van de Achterhoek 🇳🇱 (1.2)
      • 31/08 : Johan Dorussen 🇳🇱 (Development Team Picnic PostNL)
    • Grand Prix Kranj 🇸🇮 (1.2)
      • 31/08 : José Juan Prieto 🇲🇽 (Petrolike)
    • Tour Bitwa Warszawska 🇵🇱 (2.2)
      • 1re étape (20/08) : Martin Voltr 🇨🇿 (ATT Investments)
      • 2e étape (21/08) : Finnegan Murphy 🇳🇿 (XSpeed United Continental)
      • 3e étape (22/08) : Hubert Grygowski 🇵🇱 (Mazowsze Serce Polski)
      • 4e étape (23/08) : Marceli Boguslawski 🇵🇱 (ATT Investments)
      • 5e et dernière étape (24/08) : Marceli Boguslawski 🇵🇱 (ATT Investments)
      • Classement général : Martin Voltr 🇨🇿 (ATT Investments)
    • Baltic Chain Tour 🇪🇪 (2.2)
      • 1re étape A (22/08 – CLM par équipes ⏱️) : Estonie 🇪🇪
      • 1re étape B (22/08) : Markus Pajur 🇪🇪 (Estonie)
      • 2e étape (23/08) : Rait Ärm 🇪🇪 (Estonie)
      • 3e et dernière étape (24/08) : Kristians Belohvosciks 🇱🇻 (Lettonie)
      • Classement général : Rait Ärm 🇪🇪 (Estonie)
    • Tour de Kurpie 🇵🇱 (2.2)
      • 1re étape (27/08) : Yacine Hamza 🇩🇿 (Madar Pro Cycling Team)
      • 2e étape (28/08) : George Radcliffe 🇬🇧 (XSpeed United Continental)
      • 3e étape (29/08) : Alan Banaszek 🇵🇱 (ATT Investments)
      • 4e et dernière étape (30/08) : Norbert Banaszek 🇵🇱 (ATT Investments)
      • Classement général : Konrad Czabok 🇵🇱 (Mazowsze Serce Polski)
    • Tour of Route Salvation 🇹🇷 (2.2)
      • 1re étape (27/08) : Mathias Bregnhøj 🇩🇰 (Terengganu Cycling Team)
      • 2e étape (28/08) : Mathias Bregnhøj 🇩🇰 (Terengganu Cycling Team)
      • 3e étape (29/08) : Wan Abdul Rahman Hamdan 🇲🇾 (Terengganu Cycling Team)
      • 4e et dernière étape (30/08) : Milkias Maekele 🇪🇷 (Bike Aid)
      • Classement général : Mathias Bregnhøj 🇩🇰 (Terengganu Cycling Team)
    • Tour de Bulgarie 🇧🇬 (2.2)
      • Prologue (30/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Ognjen Ilic 🇷🇸 (Borac-Cacak)
      • 1re étape (31/08) : Lorenzo Cataldo 🇮🇹 (Gragnano Sporting Club)
    • West Bohemia Tour 🇨🇿 (2.2U)
      • Prologue (21/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Mauro Cuylits 🇧🇪 (Lotto Development Team)
      • 1re étape (22/08) : Reef Roberts 🇳🇿 (Équipe Continentale Groupama-FDJ)
      • 2e étape (23/08) : Liam Van Bylen 🇧🇪 (Lotto Development Team)
      • 3e et dernière étape (24/08) : Alfredo Bueno 🇺🇸 (EF Education-Aevolo)
      • Classement général : Federico Savino 🇮🇹 (Soudal Quick-Step Devo Team)
    • Tour de l’Avenir Femmes 🇫🇷 (2.2U)
      • Prologue (23/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • 1re étape (24/08) : Célia Géry 🇫🇷 (France)
      • 2e étape (25/08) : Scarlett Souren 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • 3e étape (26/08) : Célia Géry 🇫🇷 (France)
      • 4e étape (27/08) : Célia Géry 🇫🇷 (France)
      • 5e étape A (29/08) : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • 5e étape B et dernière étape (29/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • Classement général : Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 (Canada)

    • Tour de l’Avenir Hommes 🇫🇷 (2.Ncup)
      • Prologue (23/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Paul Seixas 🇫🇷 (France)
      • 1re étape (24/08) : Noah Hobbs 🇬🇧 (Grande-Bretagne)
      • 2e étape (25/08) : Eliott Rowe 🇬🇧 (Grande-Bretagne)
      • 3e étape (26/08) : Carl-Frederik Bévort 🇩🇰 (Danemark)
      • 4e étape (27/08) : Mathieu Kockelmann 🇱🇺 (Luxembourg)
      • 5e étape (28/08) : Jarno Widar 🇧🇪 (Belgique)
      • 6e étape A (29/08) : Jarno Widar 🇧🇪 (Belgique)
      • 6e étape B et dernière étape (29/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Paul Seixas 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Classement général : Paul Seixas 🇫🇷 (France)
    • Championnats d’Israël sur route 🇮🇱 (CN)
      • Course en ligne élites hommes (30/08) : Rotem Tene 🇮🇱 (Israel Premier Tech Academy)

    Paracyclisme sur route

    • Championnats du monde de paracyclisme sur route à Renaix 🇧🇪 – Contre-la-montre individuels (CM)
      • Femmes B (29/08) : Katie-George Dunlevy et Linda Kelly 🇮🇪 (Irlande)
      • Femmes C1 (29/08) : Tahlia Clayton-Goodie 🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes C2 (29/08) : Flurina Rigling 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Femmes C3 (29/08) : Emily Petricola 🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes C4 (29/08) : Tara Neyland  🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes C5 (29/08) : Alana Forster  🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes H1 (28/08) : Manuela Vos van den Bouwhuijsen 🇪🇸 (Espagne)
      • Femmes H2 (28/08) : Roberta Amadeo 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Femmes H3 (28/08) : Lauren Parker 🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes H4 (28/08) : Svetlana Moshkovich 🇦🇹 (Autriche)
      • Femmes H5 (28/08) : Chantal Haenen 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Femmes T1 (28/08) : Marieke van Soeste 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Femmes T2 (28/08) : Celine Van Till 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Hommes B (29/08) : Elie De Carvalho et Mickaël Guichard 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C1 (29/08) : Ricardo Ten Argiles 🇪🇸 (Espagne)
      • Hommes C2 (29/08) : Alexandre Leaute 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C3 (29/08) : Alexandre Hayward 🇨🇦 (Canada)
      • Hommes C4 (29/08) : Mattis Lebeau 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C5 (29/08) : Franz-Josef Lässer 🇦🇹 (Autriche)
      • Hommes H1 (28/08) : Fabrizio Cornegliani 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Hommes H2 (28/08) : Florian Jouanny 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes H3 (28/08) : Mathieu Bosredon 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes H4 (28/08) : Thomas Frühwirth 🇦🇹 (Autriche)
      • Hommes H5 (28/08) : Mitch Valize 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Hommes T1 (28/08) : Giorgio Farroni 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Hommes T2 (28/08) : Tim Celen 🇧🇪 (Belgique)
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      • Femmes B (31/08) : Katie-George Dunlevy et Linda Kelly 🇮🇪 (Irlande)
      • Femmes C1 (31/08) : Tahlia Clayton-Goodie 🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes C2 (31/08) : Flurina Rigling 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Femmes C3 (31/08) : Clara Brown 🇺🇸 (États-Unis)
      • Femmes C4 (31/08) : Tara Neyland  🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes C5 (31/08) : Alana Forster  🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes H1 (30/08) : Manuela Vos van den Bouwhuijsen 🇪🇸 (Espagne)
      • Femmes H2 (30/08) : Roberta Amadeo 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Femmes H3 (30/08) : Lauren Parker 🇦🇺 (Australie)
      • Femmes H4 (30/08) : Sandra Fuhrer 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Femmes H5 (30/08) : Chantal Haenen 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Femmes T1 (30/08) : Marieke van Soeste 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Femmes T2 (30/08) : Celine Van Till 🇨🇭 (Suisse)
      • Hommes B (31/08) : Federico Andreoli et Francesco Di Felice 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Hommes C1 (31/08) : Thomas Tarou 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C2 (31/08) : Alexandre Leaute 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C3 (31/08) : Finlay Graham 🇬🇧 (Grande-Bretagne)
      • Hommes C4 (31/08) : Mattis Lebeau 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes C5 (31/08) : Lauro Cesar Mouro Chaman 🇧🇷 (Brésil)
      • Hommes H1 (30/08) : Fabrizio Cornegliani 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Hommes H2 (30/08) : Florian Jouanny 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes H3 (30/08) : Mathieu Bosredon 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes H4 (30/08) : Joseph Fritsch 🇫🇷 (France)
      • Hommes H5 (30/08) : Mitch Valize 🇳🇱 (Pays-Bas)
      • Hommes T1 (30/08) : Giorgio Farroni 🇮🇹 (Italie)
      • Hommes T2 (30/08) : Tim Celen 🇧🇪 (Belgique)

    VTT

    • UCI Mountain Bike World Series aux Gets 🇫🇷 (CDM)
      • Short-track – Élites femmes (29/08) : Jenny Risveds 🇸🇪
      • Short-track – Élites hommes (29/08) : Charlie Aldridge 🇬🇧
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    L’agenda des prochains jours

    Mardi 2 septembre 2025

    • Tour d’Espagne masculin – La Vuelta a España 🇪🇸 (2.UWT) – 10e étape
      • Parque de la Naturaleza Sendaviva > El Ferrial Larra Belagua (175,3 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h45 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 15h50 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Simac Ladies Tour 🇳🇱 (2.WWT) – 1re étape
      • Louvain 🇧🇪 > Louvain 🇧🇪 (81,3 km)
      • Liste des partantes
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h30 sur HBO Max
    • Tour de Grande-Bretagne masculin 🇬🇧 (2.Pro) – 1re étape
      • Woodbridge > Southwold (167,6 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h00 sur Pickx+ Sports 1
    • Tour de Bulgarie 🇧🇬 (2.2) – 3e étape

    Mercredi 3 septembre 2025

    • Tour d’Espagne masculin – La Vuelta a España 🇪🇸 (2.UWT) – 11e étape
      • Bilbao > Bilbao (157,4 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h15 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 14h20 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Simac Ladies Tour 🇳🇱 (2.WWT) – 2e étape
    • Tour de Grande-Bretagne masculin 🇬🇧 (2.Pro) – 2e étape
      • Stowmarket > Stowmarket (173,6 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h00 sur Pickx+ Sports 1
    • Tour de Bulgarie 🇧🇬 (2.2) – 4e étape

    Jeudi 4 septembre 2025

    • Tour d’Espagne masculin – La Vuelta a España 🇪🇸 (2.UWT) – 12e étape
      • Laredo > Los Corrales de Buelna (144,9 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h45 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 15h50 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Simac Ladies Tour 🇳🇱 (2.WWT) – 3e étape
    • Tour de Grande-Bretagne masculin 🇬🇧 (2.Pro) – 3e étape
      • Milton Keyes > Ampthill (132,7 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h45 sur Pickx+ Sports 1
    • Tour d’Istanbul 🇹🇷 (2.1) – 1re étape
    • Tour de Bulgarie 🇧🇬 (2.2) – 5e et dernière étape
    • Tour du Kosovo 🇽🇰 (2.2) – 1re étape
    • Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 1re étape
    • Premondiale Giro Toscana Internazionale Femminile 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 1re étape
    • Okolo Jiznich Cech 🇨🇿 (2.2) – 1re étape

    Vendredi 5 septembre 2025

    • Tour d’Espagne masculin – La Vuelta a España 🇪🇸 (2.UWT) – 13e étape
      • Cabezón de la Sal > L’Angliru (202,7 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h50 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 15h50 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Simac Ladies Tour 🇳🇱 (2.WWT) – 4e étape
    • Tour de Grande-Bretagne masculin 🇬🇧 (2.Pro) – 4e étape
      • Atherstone > Buron Dasset Hills Park (194,9 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h00 sur Pickx+ Sports 1
    • Tour du Kosovo 🇽🇰 (2.2) – 2e étape
    • Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 2e étape
    • Premondiale Giro Toscana Internazionale Femminile 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 2e étape
    • Okolo Jiznich Cech 🇨🇿 (2.2) – 2e étape

    Samedi 6 septembre 2025

    • Tour d’Espagne masculin – La Vuelta a España 🇪🇸 (2.UWT) – 14e étape
      • Avilés > Alto de la Farrapona/Lagos de Somiedo (135,9 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h15 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 14h20 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Simac Ladies Tour 🇳🇱 (2.WWT) – 5e étape
      • Doetinchem > Westerndorp (10,2 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partantes
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h30 sur HBO Max
    • Tour de Grande-Bretagne masculin 🇬🇧 (2.Pro) – 5e étape
      • Pontypool > The Tumble (138,4 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h45 sur Pickx+ Sports 1
    • Maryland Cycling Classic – Hommes 🇺🇸 (1.Pro)
    • Maryland Cycling Classic – Femmes 🇺🇸 (1.1)
    • Tour d’Istanbul 🇹🇷 (2.1) – 3e étape
    • Tour du Kosovo 🇽🇰 (2.2) – 3e et dernière étape
    • Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 3e étape
    • Premondiale Giro Toscana Internazionale Femminile 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 3e étape
    • Okolo Jiznich Cech 🇨🇿 (2.2) – 3e étape

    VTT

    • Championnats du monde de VTT en Valais 🇨🇭 (CM)
      • Descente juniors
      • 📺 Direct dès 10h50 sur HBO Max et dès 11h00 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe

    Dimanche 7 septembre 2025

    • Tour d’Espagne masculin – La Vuelta a España 🇪🇸 (2.UWT) – 15e étape
      • A Veiga/Vegadeo > Monforte de Lemos (167,8 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h45 sur Eurosport 1 et HBO Max, et dès 15h00 sur VRT 1, Sporza.be et VRT Max
    • Simac Ladies Tour 🇳🇱 (2.WWT) – 6e et dernière étape
    • Tour de Grande-Bretagne masculin 🇬🇧 (2.Pro) – 6e et dernière étape
    • Grand Prix de l’Industrie et de l’Artisanat de Larciano 🇮🇹 (1.1)
    • Tour d’Istanbul 🇹🇷 (2.1) – 4e et dernière étape
    • Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 4e et dernière étape
    • Premondiale Giro Toscana Internazionale Femminile 🇮🇹 (2.2) – 4e et dernière étape
    • Okolo Jiznich Cech 🇨🇿 (2.2) – 4e et dernière étape
    • Tour du Venezuela masculin 🇻🇪 (2.2) – 1re étape

    VTT

    • Championnats du monde de VTT en Valais 🇨🇭 (CM)
      • Descente élites
      • 📺 Direct dès 10h50 sur HBO Max et dès 11h00 sur La Chaîne L’Équipe

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    • Tour du Venezuela masculin 🇻🇪 (2.2) – 2e étape

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    L’infolettre du 11 août 2025 : Evenepoel chez Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, le pari d’Unibet Tietema Rockets…

    Remco Evenepoel chez Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe : faire dans les sentiments n’est plus une option en cyclisme

    Il serait hypocrite de feindre la surprise lorsque mardi dernier vers 17h00, les équipes Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe et Soudal Quick-Step ont envoyé un communiqué de presse annonçant le transfert attendu depuis les révélations de divers médias cet été : Remco Evenepoel rejoindra la formation allemande à partir de 2026, mettant fin un an plus tôt à son contrat avec son équipe actuelle. Les phrases sont courtes, bien choisies. Les communications ont eu le temps d’être fignolées après plusieurs semaines de tractations. L’annonce devait attendre le début du mois d’août pour respecter la réglementation (obsolète) de l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), elle a été finalement bien plus sobre que l’ensemble des analyses qui allait lui succéder.

    D’un côté, Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe évoque “un nouveau chapitre” avec un coureur qui entre dans “la nouvelle phase de sa carrière”, prêt à “viser les plus grands défis sportifs”. La prudence est de mise : aucun de ces objectifs n’est défini. L’équipe, elle, confirme qu’avec son “ambition audacieuse”, elle veut “devenir l’une des plus importantes forces d’attraction sur la scène cycliste internationale ces prochaines années”.

    Chez Soudal Quick-Step, on confirme le transfert, indiquant que Remco Evenepoel “n’a pas souhaité discuter d’une prolongation de son contrat actuel”, ce que plusieurs sources nient pour l’heure. “Les propriétaires de l’équipe et la direction ont décidé qu’il était dans le meilleur intérêt de chacun que Remco puisse changer d’équipe à la fin de cette saison 2025”, indique l’équipe belge, avant de défendre son modèle et de confirmer son ambition de rester un collectif solide malgré le départ du leader sur lequel la formation s’était concentrée depuis 2019. “Nous croyons fermement en l’esprit collectif qui nous a offert le titre de ‘Wolfpack’ (NDLR : que l’équipe s’est elle-même adjugé plutôt) et nous continuerons à nous battre pour être un collectif plus fort que n’importe quel individu”, clame encore le communiqué.

    Le transfert était effectivement inévitable après trois saisons durant lesquelles Evenepoel n’a cessé d’être approché par quasiment tout ce qui se fait de mieux au niveau du WorldTour. Mais Soudal Quick-Step, contrôlé auparavant par Patrick Lefevere, avait jusqu’ici tout fait pour retenir au mieux sa pépite belge. Prolongation de contrat, valorisation salariale, promesses de recrutement (Louis Vervaeke, Ilan Van Wilder, Mikel Landa, Valentin Paret-Peintre, Maximilian Schachmann…), renforcement du staff technique… Tout a été fait pour transformer l’équipe familiale au tempérament flandrien en futur conquérant des Grands Tours, pour l’ambition d’une star capable d’approcher les meilleurs grimpeurs du plateau mondial.

    La victoire sur la Vuelta 2022 et la troisième place obtenue sur le Tour de France 2024, au-delà des titres mondiaux et olympiques obtenus sur cette même période, avaient confirmé le potentiel d’Evenepoel et les sacrifices nécessaires dans une équipe qui a su se transformer. Mais cela restait trop juste face à d’autres collectifs qui ont consacré des dizaines de milliers d’euros et des budgets quasiment deux fois supérieurs pour atteindre le sommet sur ces courses de trois semaines. Rivaliser avec Tadej Pogacar et Jonas Vingegaard, ce n’est pas simplement rivaliser avec des individus, mais bien avec des structures rodées, des moyens financiers décuplés, des technologies toujours plus avancées. Sans autre capital à mettre dans la balance, Soudal Quick-Step était condamnée à voir son leader s’intéresser à ce qui se fait dans les autres formations.

    Le maillot rouge Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) gagne la 19e étape du Tour d’Espagne 2022 au sommet de l’Alto de Piornal – Photo : ASO/Unipublic/Sprint Cycling Agency/Miwa Iijima

    Surtout que depuis le début de l’année, l’équipe belge n’est plus dirigée par celui qui a mis toute son âme dans le groupe. Patrick Lefevere a officiellement pris sa retraite et laissé le flambeau de CEO à Jurgen Foré. Si le premier avait une affection particulière pour cet ancien footballeur repéré parmi les juniors alors qu’il flambait sur toutes les courses qu’il découvrait, le second a pris sa tâche comme n’importe quel chef d’entreprise et regardé aux finances et à la vision à long terme qui pouvait le mieux correspondre à l’équipe. Encore construire une équipe dédiée aux Grands Tours malgré des moyens deux fois moindre aux grandes écuries du WorldTour ? Le risque est important en cas d’échec, comme cela s’est vu cette année lorsque Remco Evenepoel a dû s’arrêter dans le col du Tourmalet. Certes, la Soudal Quick-Step a remporté quatre étapes sur ce Tour de France, mais au bout de sprints et d’efforts en solitaire. Mener un collectif à viser les courses d’un jour et les offensives, voici ce qui semble le mieux correspondre à l’esprit d’une meute de loups – le fameux “Wolfpack”.

    C’est dans cette optique que Jurgen Foré a mené une grande refonte du changement opéré ces cinq dernières saisons au sein du groupe belge. Les recrutements d’équipiers-grimpeurs ne sont plus à l’ordre du jour, il est temps d’amener des esprits combatifs et des capitaines de route solides pour apprendre aux jeunes qui arrivent à collecter les succès. Jasper Stuyven, Edward Planckaert et Dylan van Baarle, notamment, ont été engagés dans cet objectif, pour apprendre aux Paul Magnier, Luke Lamperti et Junior Lecerf à briller. Laisser Remco Evenepoel voguer vers de nouvelles ambitions, c’est obtenir une rentrée d’argent substantielle pour faire grandir à terme un autre collectif, qui jouera dans une autre cour que celle des superstars du peloton. Soudal Quick-Step reviendra ainsi à ce qui faisait son ADN de ces vingt dernières années : la recherche de la victoire d’un jour, du coup d’éclat, quitte à oublier les classements généraux.

    Le Belge Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), avec le maillot blanc du meilleur jaune, au départ de la 9e étape du Tour de France, le 13 juillet 2025 – Photo : ASO/Charly Lopez

    “Sur le plan budgétaire, nous ne pouvons plus rivaliser avec les Émirats arabes unis et les Red Bull de ce monde”, a logiquement analysé Patrick Lefevere dans sa chronique hebdomadaire dans le quotidien Het Nieuwsblad, quatre jours après avoir appelé les journalistes à ne plus le contacter pour réagir au transfert le plus grandiloquent de ces cinq dernières années. L’ancien patron a confirmé qu’il était au courant, mais qu’il a dû faire le deuil de tout ce qu’il a construit durant sa fin de carrière. Il ne démontre aucune amertume envers le double champion olympique, indiquant qu’il ne peut pas assurer que ce départ ne se serait pas produit s’il était encore à la barre de son équipe.

    Patrick Lefevere a bien compris, malgré son côté traditionnel, que le cyclisme s’est transformé ces dernières années. Le temps des méga-écuries est venu, avec des budgets déraisonnables pour ce qu’était le peloton du début du siècle, et il est désormais impossible d’espérer conserver une pépite, quelle que soit la relation investie depuis plusieurs années avec celle-ci. Les transferts sont aujourd’hui autant scrutés qu’en football : quelle équipe se renforcera le mieux pour l’un ou l’autre leader ? Il aurait été émouvant de voir Remco Evenepoel résister aux sirènes financières et ambitieuses de Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe pour poursuivre son histoire avec l’équipe qui l’a lancé. Mais le peloton actuel ne permet plus ce genre de sacrifice. L’heure est à l’optimisation, à la recherche du moindre élément qui fera progresser la carrière vers les sommets. Ce n’est pas pour rien si la structure allemande a annoncé le départ des directeurs sportifs Rolf Aldag et Enrico Gasparotto et l’arrivée de l’ancien sélectionneur belge Sven Vanthourenhout. Le projet est de construire autour du nouveau leader annoncé.

    Evenepoel a fait son choix, Soudal Quick-Step également. Chacun se serre la main et se reverra avec respect dans le peloton. Sans oublier un passé glorieux, avec l’espoir d’un avenir aussi brillant.

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    Dylan Groenewegen chez Unibet : Tietema en passe de réussir son pari

    L’équipe franco-néerlandaise Unibet Tietema Rockets a frappé un grand coup dans le mercato cycliste en annonçant l’arrivée dès 2026, et pour deux saisons, de l’ex-champion des Pays-Bas Dylan Groenewegen, en partance de Jayco-AlUla. Cela faisait plusieurs semaines que le transfert avait été ébruité, en raison d’une signature réalisée en juin, mais l’officialisation a permis à la formation de se faire une place intéressante sur les réseaux sociaux. Il faut dire que le groupe de l’ancien professionnel Bas Tietema sait comment assurer une communication efficace depuis ses débuts au niveau continental. La ProTeam (depuis 2024) a fait grandir sa base de fans depuis les débuts sur YouTube de Tietema et ses potes sur le Tour de France, ce qui a fait grandir l’intérêt de partenaires qui ont accepté de faire grandir le budget d’une équipe qui a clairement indiqué son ambition, dès ses débuts professionnels en 2023, de participer un jour au Tour de France. Et si possible le plus rapidement possible…

    L’arrivée de Groenewegen rend cette ambition encore plus crédible. Non pas que l’équipe galère sur le plan sportif, loin de là. Si elle n’a levé les bras qu’à quatre reprises depuis le début de la saison, elle a enchaîné les places d’honneur, lui permettant ainsi de se classer en 26e position du classement par équipes de la saison 2025 et en 30e place du classement cumulé de 2023 à 2025. Elle peut ainsi envisager un billet qualificatif pour les Grands Tours, selon le règlement de l’UCI qui permet aux 30 premières formations de la dernière saison de pouvoir participer aux courses de trois semaines.

    C’est cette ambition qui a mené Groenewegen à accepter le défi de devenir leader d’une jeune formation. “Dès les premières discussions, j’ai ressenti l’énergie et la vision. J’aime la façon dont les Rockets osent faire les choses différemment et je crois en leur plan de construire quelque chose de spécial”, a-t-il confié après la signature du contrat, au côté de son équipier chez Jayco-AlUla, Elmar Reinders. Ce processus de recrutement a été documenté dès les premières discussions entre le staff et le sprinter néerlandais dans une vidéo YouTube de près d’une demi-heure qui permet ainsi de mieux comprendre comment une telle équipe peut négocier un tel transfert. C’est très instructif sur la manière dont fonctionne encore le cyclisme aujourd’hui.

    Maintenant, à partir de quand Unibet Tietema Rockets peut-il rêver du Tour de France ? L’équipe a progressé pas à pas sur le plan sportif, avant de faire un grand saut cette saison en prenant une licence française, permettant ainsi au groupe de se distinguer sur les courses de Coupe de France, afin de titiller le regard de l’organisateur de la Grande Boucle. Désormais dans le Top 30 de l’année et avec un ancien vainqueur d’étape sur le Tour dans ses rangs, la ProTeam peut déjà espérer à une présence sur la course la plus médiatique du monde… en 2026.

    En effet, l’espace va être de plus en plus dégagé avec la fusion entre Lotto et Intermarché-Wanty qui effacera une ProTeam du peloton, alors qu’Arkéa-B&B Hôtels n’a toujours pas annoncé de repreneur, ce qui laisserait une autre place. Cela ferait donc deux invitations supplémentaires pour l’organisateur du Tour. Cofidis pourrait ainsi se sauver dans le WorldTour grâce à la disparition d’Arkéa-B&B Hôtels, alors que Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team convoiterait la licence d’Intermarché-Wanty (vu que Lotto a déjà sa licence quasiment acquise). Cela laisserait donc des wild-cards à dispatcher entre Uno-X Mobilty, TotalEnergies, Tudor et… Unibet Tietema Rockets. Si ces invitations restent au nombre de quatre, les fusées peuvent rêver de leur grand objectif dès la saison prochaine. Et dire que tout ça est parti d’une chaîne YouTube !

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    ✍ Transferts

    • Le Luxembourgeois Alex Kirsch (Lidl-Trek) portera pour trois saisons les couleurs de l’équipe Cofidis à partir de 2026. Le coureur de 33 ans poursuivra ainsi son rôle d’équipier-modèle sur les classiques et sur les sprints qu’il a assuré durant sept saisons au sein de la formation américaine. “Je sais que j’aurai un peu plus de liberté sur les classiques flandriennes qui sont des courses qui me tiennent à cœur”, a-t-il confié par communiqué.
    • La formation norvégienne a également confirmé le transfert dès 2026 du Norvégien Martin Tjøtta (Arkéa-B&B Hôtels), âgé de 24 ans. Celui qui a récemment terminé septièeme de l’Arctic Race of Norway a signé pour trois saisons sera principalement attendu sur les courses pour puncheurs et grimpeurs, et pourra être un soutien de taille pour les ambitions de l’équipe sur les Grands Tours, notamment auprès de Tobias Johannessen.
    • La future équipe de George Hincapie, Modern Adventure Pro Cycling, devrait bientôt officialiser un effectif d’au moins 11 coureurs, annonce le journaliste Daniel Benson. Il s’agit principalement d’espoirs, mais pas seulement. Parmi les néo-professionnels, on retrouve ainsi les Américains Harry Lasker (18 ans, EF Education-ONTO), Kieran Haug (22 ans, Project Echelon Racing), Cole Kessler (22 ans, Lidl-Trek Future Racing), Brody McDonald (22 ans, Miami Blazers), Owen Cole (21 ans, Team Winston Salem-Flow), Ian López (21 ans, EF Education-Aevolo) et le Britannique Lucas Towers (21 ans, Caja Rural-Alea). Les Américains Sam Boardman (29 ans, Project Echelon Racing), Hugo Scala Jr (27 ans, Project Echelon Racing) et Scott McGill (26 ans, Project Echelon Racing) seront aussi de la partie parmi les “vétérans du groupe”, tout comme le Sud-Africain Stefan de Bod (28 ans, Terengganu Cycling Team).

    🏥 Sur la touche

    • L’Italien Filippo Baroncini (UAE Team Emirates XRG) a été la principale victime de la chute collective survenue lors de la 3e étape du Tour de Pologne. Le rouleur de 24 ans a été victime de plusieurs blessures au visage, de fractures multiples à une clavicule et d’une fracture d’une vertèbre cervicale, sans conséquence neurologique. Le manager Mauro Gianetti a indiqué à Tuttobiciweb que l’ex-champion du monde espoir a dû être placé dans le coma, mais que son état de santé est stable. “La vie de Filippo n’est pas en danger”, a-t-il rassuré.
    • Également impliqué dans cette chute en Pologne, le champion de République tchèque Mathias Vacek (Lidl-Trek) n’a pu repartir le lendemain en raison d’une commotion cérébrale. Il a également eu besoin de points de suture à une lèvre.

    • Contraint à l’abandon sur le Tour de France en raison d’une contusion osseuse aux vertèbres lombaires consécutive à sa chute sur le championnat de Belgique sur route, fin juin, le Belge Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto) ne participera finalement pas au Tour d’Espagne, prévu dès le 23 août. L’équipe belge a décidé de laisser le jeune coureur de 24 ans se reposer. Son retour à la compétition sera finalement prévu le 12 septembre prochain à l’occasion du Grand Prix du Québec.
    • On ne reverra plus l’Espagnol Enric Mas (Movistar) en compétition cette saison : le grimpeur espagnol a découvert lors d’examens médicaux consécutifs à son abandon sur la 18e étape du Tour de France qu’il souffre de thrombophlébite à la jambe gauche, potentiellement en raison d’un traumatisme. Le traitement préconisé implique l’absence d’activité physique intense, d’où son retrait des pelotons pour le reste de l’année.
    • Victime d’une chute sur la deuxième étape de l’Arctic Race of Norway, sur les chemins en gravier du nord de la Norvège, le Belge Lander Loockx (Unibet Tietema Rockets) a été victime d’une fracture de la clavicule et sera absent pour plusieurs semaines des pelotons. Cela pourrait signifier la fin de sa saison sur route afin de se concentrer sur les cyclo-cross, sur lesquels il s’est souvent aligné ces derniers hivers.

    • Victime d’une lourde chute sur le Giro qui lui a causé de graves blessures à un bras et au bassin, l’Allemand Juri Hollmann (Alpecin-Deceuninck) a enfin quitté la semaine dernière une clinique de revalidation à Berlin, trois mois après son abandon au Tour d’Italie. Hollmann confirme sur Instagram que “seul le temps panse les blessures” et qu’il aura donc encore besoin d’une certaine période avant de retrouver prochainement un vélo. Le coureur est d’ailleurs toujours contraint de marcher avec des béquilles en raison de l’opération au bassin.

     

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    ❌ Sur le départ

    • La Finlandaise Lotta Henttala (EF Education-Oatly) prend sa retraite avec effet immédiat, a annoncé vendredi son équipe. La septuple championne de Finlande sur route et ex-vainqueur de Gand-Wevelgem, nommée Lotta Lepistö avant son mariage, a annoncé être enceinte d’un deuxième enfant, trois ans après avoir donné naissance à son fils Olavi. La coureuse de 36 ans suit ainsi les exemples de Chantal van den Broek-Blaak et Lizzie Deignan qui ont également pris cette année leur retraite en raison d’une grossesse. Henttala avait remporté en janvier le Trophée Marratxi-Felanitx, à Majorque, mais n’avait plus porté de dossard depuis février, principalement en raison de maladies.

    📅 Programme

    • Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) a repris mardi dernier l’entraînement en Belgique, trois semaines après son abandon sur le Tour de France. Le champion olympique devrait reprendre la compétition lors du Tour de Grande-Bretagne, du 2 au 7 septembre, ont annoncé plusieurs médias belges, sur base de sources internes au sein du Wolfpack. Il s’agirait ainsi de sa seule course de préparation en vue des championnats du monde au Rwanda (du 21 au 28 septembre) et des championnats d’Europe en France (du 1er au 5 octobre). Il est également attendu sur le Tour de Lombardie, le 11 octobre.
    • Pas de Mondiaux, ni d’Euro pour Wout van Aert (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), a annoncé le coureur belge. Après sa victoire sur la dernière étape du Tour de France, il reprendra la compétition du 20 au 24 août sur le Tour d’Allemagne, avant d’enchaîner les courses d’un jour : la Bretagne Classic à Plouay le 31 août, le GP de Québec le 12 septembre, le GP de Montréal le 14 septembre et la Super 8 Classic le 20 septembre.
    • La Vuelta ne sera pas au programme de Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG), mais le Slovène n’en a pas encore fini avec sa saison 2025. Il participera ainsi aux Grand Prix de Québec et de Montréal, les 12 et 14 septembre, et devrait ensuite participer aux championnats du monde à Kigali. Il a confirmé en Slovénie, lors d’un critérium, qu’il envisageait ensuite de prendre part aux championnats d’Europe en France  et le Tour de Lombardie (11 octobre).
    Photo : ASO/Aurélien Vialatte
    • Contraint à l’abandon sur la 3e étape du Tour de France en raison d’une fracture de la clavicule et de plusieurs côtes après une chute, le sprinter belge Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) fera son retour en course le 12 août prochain sur le Tour du Danemark. Le coureur de 27 ans n’a toutefois pas encore annoncé la suite de son programme. Une participation au Tour d’Espagne n’est pour l’heure pas exclue.
    • Le Danois Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) sera prochainement au Tour du Danemark (12-17 août) et au Tour d’Espagne (23 août-14 septembre), mais la suite de son programme risque d’étonner : le coureur a révélé qu’il participera également au Tour du Luxembourg (17-21 septembre) avant de viser le titre de champion d’Europe… du contre-la-montre en Drôme-Ardèche (1er octobre), s’il est en tout cas sélectionné. “Ce serait mon unique chance d’obtenir ce maillot. Nous verrons si ça fonctionne. Cela me semble en tout cas sympa d’essayer”, a-t-il confié dans la presse danoise.
    • L’organisateur du Giro RCS Sport ne l’a pas encore annoncé, mais le gouvernement bulgare n’a pu garder la surprise plus longtemps : la Bulgarie accueillera en 2026 le Grand départ du Tour d’Italie. Le ministre du Tourisme Miroslav Borshosh l’a indiqué lors d’une conférence de presse. Aucun détail n’a toutefois été évoqué sur le nombre d’étapes ou les villes-étapes prévues. Il s’agira en tout cas du premier accueil d’un Grand Tour pour le pays d’Europe de l’Est.
    • Le Tour de France pourrait faire son retour en Allemagne, treize ans après le Grand départ organisé à Düsseldorf. Une candidature allemande a été présentée auprès de l’organisateur ASO pour un départ de l’épreuve masculine en 2030, pour les 40 ans de la réunification allemande. Les régions de Saxe, de Saxe-Anhalt et de Thuringe sont candidats à l’accueil du peloton, avec une étape en ligne entre Dresde et Gera, un contre-la-montre individuel entre Halle et Leipzig et une dernière étape en ligne entre Erfurt et Magdebourg. Il reste à convaincre ASO désormais.

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    🤑 Économie

    • Cela sent-il déjà la fin pour la ProTeam belge Wagner Bazin WB, née de la fusion entre Wagner Bazin et Bingoal Wallonie-Bruxelles ? L’équipe a appris au printemps la fin de ses subsides de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, et selon Het Nieuwsblad, les partenaires français seraient déçus de la saison du groupe, avec un seul succès (un contre-la-montre sur le Tour de Sharjah, aux Émirats arabes unis) et trois podiums, grâce à Davide Persico. Le manager Christophe Brandt, par ailleurs organisateur du Tour de Wallonie et du GP de Wallonie, a confirmé être à la recherche de partenaires pour augmenter le budget de l’équipe, mais n’a pas exclu que cela pourrait être la “fin de l’histoire” alors que le contrat actuel court jusqu’à fin 2026. Philippe Wagner, patron de la charcuterie du même nom, se veut en tout cas critique dans L’Est Républicain et a demandé des changements pour la saison prochaine. “Quand on met près d’un million d’euros dans une équipe, on est en droit d’attendre des résultats, et pas seulement des accessits. Surtout quand on sort de trois années de succès”, a-t-il commenté.

    📺 Télévision

    • Le dernier Tour de France Femmes a été un large succès en télévision, en attestent les audiences en France. L’effet Pauline Ferrand-Prévot a été clair dans l’Hexagone avec près de 2,7 millions de téléspectateurs en moyenne par étape, soit près de 500.000 de plus que sur les trois premières éditions. La dernière étape remportée par PFP a même été regardé par 4,4 millions de téléspectateurs en moyenne, avec un pic jusqu’à 7,7 millions de personnes devant leur écran. Eurosport a pour sa part compté une moyenne de 117.500 téléspectateurs par étape, un record selon la chaîne payante.
    • En Belgique, c’est plus contrasté, certainement en raison d’une édition moins réussie sportivement pour les cyclistes belges, dont Lotte Kopecky. La RTBF a rassemblé en moyenne 62.518 personnes devant leur petit écran, soit moins que le record de 85.836 téléspectateurs connu en 2023, mais plus que les 55.914 personnes enregistrées l’an dernier (quand l’épreuve se déroulait à la mi-août). En Flandre, la VRT a été suivie chaque jour en moyenne par 314.000 spectateurs, soit une hausse de 60.000 personnes par rapport à 2024.
    Photo : ASO/Thomas Maheux

    💉 Dopage

    • L’agence polonaise antidopage Polada a révélé le contrôle positif lors d’un test hors-compétition de la Polonaise Aurela Nerlo (Winspace Orange Seal), deuxième du Circuit Het Nieuwsblad féminin en début de saison. L’analyse a révélé la présence de Ligandrol, un stéroïde anabolisant qui permet notamment le développement de la masse musculaire, normalement à des fins thérapeutiques. Nerlo a dès lors été suspendue provisoirement et a été écartée au dernier moment de la sélection de son équipe pour le Tour de France Femmes. “Je cherche la raison de cette présence, car je ne comprends vraiment pas”, a confié la cycliste de 27 ans au média polonais Onet.

    📌 Autres

    • Le pistard britannique Charlie Tanfield sera le 14 août prochain sur le vélodrome turc de Konya pour tenter de battre le record de l’heure détenu par l’Italien Filippo Ganna. Le cycliste de 28 ans, champion du monde de poursuite par équipes en 2018 et champion d’Europe de la discipline en 2024, espère ainsi battre la distance établie par son rival transalpin de 56,792 km, le 8 octobre 2022.
    • La commission d’éthique de l’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) a sanctionné le président et le vice-président de la fédération bulgare de cyclisme (BCF) en raison de “plusieurs infractions au code éthique de l’UCI”, après des plaintes pour des problèmes répétés de gouvernance. L’UCI évoque notamment des conflits d’intérêts pour conserver le contrôle de la fédération, mais aussi des agressions verbale et intimidations, ainsi que des modifications de listes de départ ou des anomalies chronométrage pour donner des avantages à certains athlètes. Le président Evgeniy Balev Gerganov a été condamné à une suspension de deux ans et une amende de 10.000 francs suisses et le vice-président Danail Petrov Angelov a eu droit à une suspension similaire et une amende de 5.000 francs suisses.
    • Le Britannique Leo Hayter, 23 ans, avait annoncé l’an dernier mettre sa carrière professionnelle sur pause en raison de problèmes d’ordre mental, notamment de la dépression. Il a annoncé sur les réseaux sociaux qu’il souhaitait faire son retour dans le peloton. L’ancien coureur d’INEOS Grenadiers a comme objectif de retrouver un contrat en 2026 et veut déjà prouver qu’il peut retrouver sa condition d’ici la fin de la saison en participant en octobre au Chrono des Nations. Pour ce faire, il doit trouver une équipe continentale, au mieux, pour y prendre part. Il a donc fait appel à toute formation qui souhaiterait l’engager pour cette seule course afin de refaire ses preuves et “marquer des points UCI”.

    À lire, voir, écouter…

    • L’équipe Picnic-PostNL a réalisé un Tour de France de rêve pour la deuxième saison consécutive. Après le succès d’entrée et le maillot jaune de Romain Bardet, la formation, majoritairement composée de coureurs venus de son équipe de développement, a cette fois tout misé sur sa pépite britannique Oscar Onley. Après sa cinquième place sur l’UAE Tour et sa troisième sur le Tour de Suisse, le coureur a tenu bon en montagne pour glaner la quatrième place sur le Tour de France, à seulement 22 ans. On ressent dans cette vidéo dans les coulisses toute la motivation d’un jeune noyau et les doutes d’un espoir qui apprend encore à gérer la pression d’un possible podium sur un Grand Tour. C’est à voir en anglais sur la chaîne de l’équipe Picnic-PostNL sur YouTube.

    • Est-ce qu’un train d’amateurs peut battre au sprint le train de Lorena Wiebes, la meilleure sprinteuse du monde ? C’est ce que l’équipe de Tour de Tietema (également en charge de l’équipe Unibet Tietema Rockets, comme évoqué plus haut) a cherché à savoir lors d’un de leurs défis sur le Tour de France Femmes. L’objectif n’est évidemment pas de faire mieux que les femmes, mais de se rendre compte de la difficulté d’atteindre un tel niveau. C’est à voir sur la chaîne Tour de Tietema sur YouTube.

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    • Découvrez le programme TV complet des courses cyclistes (route, piste, cyclo-cross, VTT…) diffusées ces prochaines semaines en Belgique et en France sur notre page spéciale, mise à jour quotidiennement : c’est à voir sur ce lien.

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    Les résultats des derniers jours

    • Tour de Pologne – Hommes 🇵🇱 (2.UWT)
      • 1re étape (04/08) : Olav Kooij 🇳🇱 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 2e étape (05/08) : Paul Lapeira 🇫🇷 (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
      • 3e étape (06/08) : Ben Turner 🇬🇧 (INEOS Grenadiers)
      • 4e étape (07/08) : Paul Magnier 🇫🇷 (Soudal Quick-Step)
      • 5e étape (08/08) : Matthew Brennan 🇬🇧 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • 6e étape (09/08) : Victor Langelotti 🇲🇨 (INEOS Grenadiers)
      • 7e et dernière étape (10/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Brandon McNulty 🇺🇸 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
      • Classement général : Brandon McNulty 🇺🇸 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)

    • Tour de Burgos 🇪🇸 (2.Pro)
      • 1re étape (05/08) : Roger Adrià 🇪🇸 (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)
      • 2e étape (06/08) : Matteo Moschetti 🇮🇹 (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
      • 3e étape (07/08) : Léo Bisiaux 🇫🇷 (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
      • 4e étape (08/08) : Damiano Caruso 🇮🇹 (Bahrain Victorious)
      • 5e et dernière étape (09/08) : Giulio Ciccone 🇮🇹 (Lidl-Trek)
      • Classement général : Isaac del Toro 🇲🇽 (UAE Team Emirates XRG)

    • Arctic Race of Norway 🇳🇴 (2.Pro)
      • 1re étape (07/08) : Corbin Strong 🇳🇿 (Israel-Premier Tech)
      • 2e étape (08/08) : Alexander Kristoff 🇳🇴 (Uno-X Mobility)
      • 3e étape (09/08) : Tom Pidcock 🇬🇧 (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
      • 4e et dernière étape (10/08) : Fredrik Dversnes 🇳🇴 (Uno-X Mobility)
      • Classement général : Corbin Strong 🇳🇿 (Israel-Premier Tech)

    • Tour de l’Ain 🇫🇷 (2.1)
      • 1re étape (06/08) : Tom Donnenwirth 🇫🇷 (Groupama-FDJ)
      • 2e étape (07/08) : Nicolas Prodhomme 🇫🇷 (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
      • 3e et dernière étape (08/08) : Cian Uijtdebroeks 🇧🇪 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
      • Classement général : Cian Uijtdebroeks 🇧🇪 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)

    • Tour du Portugal 🇵🇹 (2.1)
      • Prologue (06/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Rafael Reis 🇵🇹 (Anicolor-Tien21 Cycling Team)
      • 1re étape (07/08) : Nicolas Tivani 🇦🇷 (Aviludo-Louletano-Loulé)
      • 2e étape (08/08) : Pau Marti 🇪🇸 (Israel Premier Tech Academy)
      • 3e étape (09/08) : Hugo Nunes 🇵🇹 (Credibom-LA Aluminios-Marcos Car)
      • 4e étape (10/08) : Byron Munton 🇿🇦 (Feirense-Beeceler)
    • Tour de la Guadeloupe 🇫🇷 (2.2)
      • 3e étape (04/08) : Philipp Freyer 🇩🇪 (Embrace The World Cycling)
      • 4e étape (05/08) : Julien Chane Foc 🇫🇷 (Team Madras Cycling Belle-Eau)
      • 5e étape (06/08) : Jhonatan Chaves 🇨🇴 (Nu Colombia)
      • 6e étape (07/08) : Dawid Lewandowski 🇵🇱 (Mazowsze Serce Polski)
      • 7e étape (08/08) : Paul Daumont 🇧🇫 (Guidon Sprinter Canalien Cycling Team)
      • 8e étape (09/08) : Andrès Camilo Ardila 🇨🇴 (Nu Colombia)
      • 9e et dernière étape (10/08) : Paul Daumont 🇧🇫 (Guidon Sprinter Canalien Cycling Team)
      • Classement général : Andrès Camilo Ardila 🇨🇴 (Nu Colombia)
    • Tour de Colombie 🇨🇴 (2.2)
      • 4e étape (04/08) : Diego Camargo 🇨🇴 (Team Medellin-EPM)
      • 5e étape (05/08) : étape annulée
      • 6e étape (06/08) : Yeison Reyes 🇨🇴 (Orgullo Paisa)
      • 7e étape (07/08) : Wilmar Paredes 🇨🇴 (Team Medellin-EPM)
      • 8e étape (08/08) : Alejandro Osorio 🇨🇴 (Orgullo Paisa)
      • 9e étape (09/08) : Diego Andrès Camargo 🇨🇴 (Team Medellin-EPM)
      • 10e et dernière étape (10/08) : Edgard Andrés Pinzón 🇨🇴 (GW Erco Shimano)
      • Classement général : Rodrigo Contreras 🇨🇴 (Nu Colombia)
    • Tour du Szeklerland 🇷🇴 (2.2)
      • Prologue (07/08 – CLM individuel ⏱️) : Norbert Szabo 🇷🇴 (Roumanie)
      • 1re étape (08/08) : Dominik Neuman 🇨🇿 (ATT Investments)
      • 2e et dernière étape (09/08) : Dominik Neuman 🇨🇿 (ATT Investments)
      • Classement général : Dominik Neuman 🇨🇿 (ATT Investments)
    • Trans-Himalaya Cycling Race 🇨🇳 (2.2)
      • 1re étape (07/08) : Raman Tsishkou 🇷🇺 (Li Ning Star)
      • 2e étape (08/08) : Martin Laas 🇪🇪 (Quick Pro Team)
      • 3e étape (09/08) : Dusan Rajovic 🇷🇸 (Team Solution Tech-Vini Fantini)
      • 4e et dernière étape (10/08) : Dusan Rajovic 🇷🇸 (Team Solution Tech-Vini Fantini)
      • Classement général : Raman Tsishkou 🇷🇺 (Li Ning Star)
    • GP Poggiana 🇮🇹 (1.2U)
      • 10/08 : Matteo Scalco 🇮🇹 (VF Group-Bardiani-CSF Faizanè)

    L’agenda des prochains jours

    Mardi 12 août 2025

    • Tour du Danemark 🇩🇰 (2.Pro) – 1re étape
      • Nexø > Rønne (178,3 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h15 sur HBO Max, et dès 15h45 sur Eurosport 2
    • Tour de Pologne – Femmes 🇵🇱 (2.1) – 1re étape
      • Zamosc > Zamosc (105,6 km)
      • Liste des partantes
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h00 sur Eurosport 2 et HBO Max

    Mercredi 13 août 2025

    • Tour du Danemark 🇩🇰 (2.Pro) – 2e étape
      • Rødovre > Gladsaxe (110,5 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h45 sur Eurosport 2 et HBO Max
    • Tour de Pologne – Femmes 🇵🇱 (2.1) – 2e étape
    • Tour du Portugal 🇵🇹 (2.1) – 6e étape
      • Águeda > Guarda (173,1 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 16h00 sur RTP Internacional

    Jeudi 14 août 2025

    • Tour du Danemark 🇩🇰 (2.Pro) – 3e étape
      • Kerteminde > Kerteminde (14,3 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 15h45 sur HBO Max, et dès 16h00 sur Eurosport 2
    • Tour de Pologne – Femmes 🇵🇱 (2.1) – 3e et dernière étape
    • Tour du Portugal 🇵🇹 (2.1) – 7e étape
      • Sabugal > Covilhã (179,3 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 16h00 sur RTP Internacional
    • Tour de République tchèque 🇨🇿 (2.1) – 1re étape
      • Prague > Karlovy Vary (163,2 km)
      • Liste des partants
      • 📺 Direct dès 14h30 sur Eurosport 2, HBO Max, Pickx+ Sports 1 et sur La Chaîne L’Équipe
    • Tour féminin du Guatemala 🇬🇹 (2.2) – 1re étape

    Vendredi 15 août 2025

    • Tour de Romandie – Femmes 🇨🇭 (2.WWT) – 1re étape
      • Huémoz > Villars-sur-Ollon (4,4 km – CLM individuel ⏱️)
      • Liste des partantes
      • 📺 Direct dès 13h00 sur Eurosport 2 et HBO Max
    • Circuit Franco-Belge 🇧🇪 (1.Pro)
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  8. John Thomas DuCrest Lock @[email protected] ·

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  9. the roamer @[email protected] ·

    Thomas Mann's 1924 novel The #MagicMountain is a demanding and absorbing book that gives back generously if you give it your time.

    During the 2020 lockdown, actor #SvenWalser read the entire novel on a sparse set in Hamburg's #ErnstDeutschTheater, in 114 half-hour episodes.

    This reading is the real thing: fresh, unpretentious, nuanced, alive. In German.

    If you speak a little German, you will enjoy it.

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKh

    #ThomasMann #Zauberberg #books #audiobooks #booksofmastodon

    #thomasmann #zauberberg #magicmountain #books #audiobooks #booksofmastodon
  10. the roamer @[email protected] ·

    Thomas Mann's 1924 novel The #MagicMountain is a demanding and absorbing book that gives back generously if you give it your time.

    During the 2020 lockdown, actor #SvenWalser read the entire novel on a sparse set in Hamburg's #ErnstDeutschTheater, in 114 half-hour episodes.

    This reading is the real thing: fresh, unpretentious, nuanced, alive. In German.

    If you speak a little German, you will enjoy it.

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKh

    #ThomasMann #Zauberberg #books #audiobooks #booksofmastodon

    #thomasmann #zauberberg #magicmountain #books #audiobooks #booksofmastodon
  11. the roamer @[email protected] ·

    Thomas Mann's 1924 novel The #MagicMountain is a demanding and absorbing book that gives back generously if you give it your time.

    During the 2020 lockdown, actor #SvenWalser read the entire novel on a sparse set in Hamburg's #ErnstDeutschTheater, in 114 half-hour episodes.

    This reading is the real thing: fresh, unpretentious, nuanced, alive. In German.

    If you speak a little German, you will enjoy it.

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKh

    #ThomasMann #Zauberberg #books #audiobooks #booksofmastodon

    #thomasmann #zauberberg #magicmountain #books #audiobooks #booksofmastodon
  12. the roamer @[email protected] ·

    Thomas Mann's 1924 novel The #MagicMountain is a demanding and absorbing book that gives back generously if you give it your time.

    During the 2020 lockdown, actor #SvenWalser read the entire novel on a sparse set in Hamburg's #ErnstDeutschTheater, in 114 half-hour episodes.

    This reading is the real thing: fresh, unpretentious, nuanced, alive. In German.

    If you speak a little German, you will enjoy it.

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKh

    #ThomasMann #Zauberberg #books #audiobooks #booksofmastodon

    #svenwalser #ernstdeutschtheater #booksofmastodon #audiobooks #books #magicmountain
  13. the roamer @[email protected] ·

    Thomas Mann's 1924 novel The #MagicMountain is a demanding and absorbing book that gives back generously if you give it your time.

    During the 2020 lockdown, actor #SvenWalser read the entire novel on a sparse set in Hamburg's #ErnstDeutschTheater, in 114 half-hour episodes.

    This reading is the real thing: fresh, unpretentious, nuanced, alive. In German.

    If you speak a little German, you will enjoy it.

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKh

    #ThomasMann #Zauberberg #books #audiobooks #booksofmastodon

    #ernstdeutschtheater #svenwalser #thomasmann #zauberberg #magicmountain #books
  14. Andy Arthur - Threadinburgh @[email protected] ·

    The thread about #NowAndThen photo montages of old railway stations, tramways and bridges around Edinburgh and Leith

    This thread was originally written and published in December 2017 and a further part in May 2019.

    This thread features #NowAndThen photo-montages of long gone railway stations, tramways and bridges in Edinburgh and Lieth; period photos overlaid on the current streetscape to show just how much or little things have changed over time.

    Duke Street in 1954 on the last day of service for the No. 25 tram. This service ran from Corstorphine to Portobello King’s Road via Leith Walk and the Links. Not much else has changed on this side of the road, although the occupants of the buildings certainly have. On the left was the Palace Cinema, with a snooker hall above. It is now a J. D. Wetherspoon pub.

    No. 25 Tram at Duke Street. Original image © Kenneth G. Williamson

    Commercial Street in 1955. The No. 17 tram from Granton passes the “Highland Queen” bonded warehouse of MacDonald and Muir. It is running across the railway lines that crossed into the docks from the former North British railway at North Leith / Leith Citadel station. The bond is now flats, through the West Dock Gate where the railway ran is the now the Scottish Government building – Victoria Quay. The Old West and East docks are infilled, unimaginatively used as car parks. The Victoria Dock is cut off from the harbour basin and is a sterile and bleak water feature in front of Victoria Quay.

    No. 17 tram at Commercial Street. Original image © Kenneth G. Williamson

    King’s Road at Portobello in the 1950s. The No. 12 tram from Corstorphine via Leith, it has just passed the ghost of a car heading the other way to Portobello. The background is dominated by the great red brick lump of Ebenenzer J. Macrae’s Corporation electric power station.

    No. 12 Tram at the King’s Road. Original image © Kenneth G. Williamson

    Tollcross in 1956. There was a tramway depot here – where the central fire station now is – and the route was also a junction where 3 routes from the suburbs converged and then split immediately into two to head into the city by different routes. As such this was always a busy place on the network and this scene is busy with shoppers and tramcars. The tenement on the right and the castle are all that remain of the original buildings in this shot now.

    Trams at Tollcross. Original image © Kenneth G. Williamson

    Trinity Crescent in the 1950s. A no. 17 tram squeezes under the bridge carrying the railway from Trinity Station along Lower Granton Road to the docks. The low bridge and tight S-shaped turn of the road meant that the tramway here was single line in the middle of the road, with the overhead line lowered. A set of traffic signals allowed only 1 tram at a time into this short section and warned motor vehicles that a tram was about to pass as their route swung onto the right lane to make the turn.

    No. 17 at Trinity Crescent.

    And Trinity again in 1986. A ghost train crosses Trinity Road on track removal duties. Click on the link to the EdinPhoto website to see more images of this series.

    Trinity railway bridge in the 1980s. Original photo © Peter Stubbs.

    Moving on to animated transitions, here is Balgreen Halt station. A 1934 addition to the suburban railway network by the LNER (London & North Eastern Railway), it was closed in 1968. Estimate the old photo is early 1960s.

    Balgreen Halt. Original CC-BY-SA Ben Brooksbank

    And at the end of the line at Corstorphine. Always a hard one to get your head around as no hint of the stations presence is left under the 1980s housing, beyond the name “Station Road”

    Corstorphine Station, 1926. Original Image © Edinburgh City Libraries

    Side fact, Corstorphine had extraordinarily long platforms for a suburban station (250m, sufficient for a 12 coach train of 60 foot stock), I believe this was because the railway company hoped that a new barracks to replace the Georgian cavalry establishment at Piershill would be built nearby. The new barracks were ultimately built at Redford instead but Corstorphine was left with its overly large station. There were 2 full platforms and 2 full length carriage sidings. As a result it was used to stable and clean coaching stock overnight and on occasions such as rugby and football matchdays.

    Another overlooked Edinburgh suburban station; the awkwardly located Piershill at the foot of Smokey Brae, between Meadowbank and Restalrig. The road here running under the bridge is Clockmill Road, which connected to the Clockmill Lane. This was the ancient route from the Canongate to Restalrig, cut in two by the London Road when it was built in the early 1820s. The road was obliterated and the bridge cut off by the groundworks for the 1970s Commonwealth Games stadium, the velodrome being built on top of the road. The bridge is now blocked up as a garage, but may be re-opened as a through route in the future when the eastern end of the stadium site is redeveloped as housing.

    Piershill Station. Original Image © Canmore

    Leith Walk station – no, not the big one at the Foot, but the one called Leith Walk towards the top.The demolished tenements of Shrub Hill and Shrub Place are in the background, plus an intriguing belfry. I’m guessing it was the old school next to Pilrig Model Buildings, which later became the “Royal Caledonian Bazaar”.

    Leith Walk station, 1890s. Original from The Story of Leith by John Russell

    Now the site of the Inchkeith House multi-storey flats, the Royal Caledonian Bazaar was a “posting and livery establishment”; basically a horse transport depot. The proprietor was one John Croall. The Croalls were established in the horse business and were pioneers of motoring in Edinburgh. They gave their name, unsurprisingly, to Croall Place, the tenement at the top of Leith Walk where it meets Macdonald Road. Croall & Croall later built car and bus bodies and had a number of works around the West Port and Lothian Road. They later became part of the SMT (Scottish Motor Transport) empire.

    Granton Road, once an important suburban commuter station and tram route. It was much more conveniently located for the wealthy suburb of Trinity than the station of that name, and later for the big new housing scheme at Boswall.

    Granton Road station, 1955. Original image © Kenneth G. Williamson

    There’s an old cast iron column just outside where the station was, I always assumed it was a tramway pole for the overhead wires. This photo shows it supported no wires – there’s an actual tramway pole right behind it – and it had a crown-shaped vent cap. It’s not a pole or a lamp post at all, it’s actually a sewer vent – a stink pipe – which is why it has survived.

    We move on to Granton station itself. One of the first in Edinburgh and originally the site of a pioneering train ferry to Burntisland before the Forth was bridged. It closed in 1925 as an economy as there was little need by this time for a passenger station in the middle of the docks – most people taking the ferry across the Forth found the electric tramway much more convenient to get into the city than taking the train.

    Granton Station, pre-1925. Original image © Kenneth G. Williamson

    The slip for the train ferries is still used by the Royal Forth Yacht Club. Thomas Bouch’s Floating Railway was an ingenious and effective solution to bridging the Forth before the technology allowed a permanent structure. Basically an early, steam-raised linkspan that lowered a ramp on to a special ferry boat, allowing wagons and carriages to be run aboard. The whole apparatus, rails and all, was on a great wheeled carriage, allowing it to move with the tides. The rails were in short sections, bolted together in such a way that they could flex.

    Bouch’s “floating railway”, a rather ingenious solution to the problem of bridging the Forth by rail

    Thomas Bouch is an engineer remembered for his greatest and most infamous creation, the first Tay Bridge, but he had a long career in which he constructed many pioneering and innovative solutions to the problems of getting railways across obstacles.

    I’m quite chuffed with this image, which shows the evolution of the Upper Drawbridge at Sandport Place. Not only is the river much higher now since the docks were dammed, but the deck was widened and the central arch of the current bridge replaced the lifting section.

    The “Upper Drawbridge” over the Water of Leith. Original Image © Peter Stubbs

    The Water of Leith is no longer a tidal river, as in the 1960s a set of lock gates were installed at the mouth of the docks to keep the dock basin always filled with water to allow bigger and deeper ships to use the port, and not be so restricted by the tides when coming and going. The water level these days is frequently within a foot of the central arch but you can still see the “river bed” in the right conditions only a few feet below that, there must be a good 20 foot of mud and silt and sludge built up on the river bed, unable to be washed out by the tide.

    The next image is the same spot as before but looking the other way, to St. Ninian’s Wharf (named for the old North Leith Kirk behind, with its distinctive Dutch tower). The site of a dry dock and boatbuilding yard in the 1850s and 60s.

    St. Ninian’s Wharf, original image by Thomas Vernon Begbie, taken in the 1850s. © Edinburgh City Libraries

    The photo confused me for a good while, as I assumed that the ship must be in the dry dock, which was one of the first dry dock in Scotland so pre-dated the photo by about 100 years. I later realised that the ship being built in the picture is not in the dry dock at all, but on a building slip alongside, with a temporary coffer dam following the line of the river wall – marked in red on the Town Plan below.

    OS 1849 Town Plan. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

    That ship may even be on a “patent slip”, a Leith invention.

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  15. 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers @[email protected] ·

    “Labor Is Life” (U.S. Postal Service’s Labor Day Stamp, 1956, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).

    Bakers, blacksmiths, boatmen, butchers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, cigarmakers, coal miners, factory workers, farmers, gardeners, gold miners, iron workers, masons, quarry workers, teamsters, tombstone carvers. These were just a few of the diverse job titles held by the laborers who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.

    Many returned to their same occupations after the war ended while others found new pathways for their life journeys. Far too many were never able to return to the arms of their loved ones and still rest in marked or unmarked graves far from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    In honor of Labor Day, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story is proud to present this abridged list of blue-collar men and boys who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry between August 1861 and January 1866, as well as the names of two of the women associated with the regiment who made their own unforgettable marks on the world.

    * Auchmuty, Samuel S. (First Lieutenant, Company D): A native of Duncannon, Perry County and veteran of the Mexican-American War who was employed as a carpenter during the early 1860s, Samuel Auchmuty responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War by enrolling as a first lieutenant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on August 20, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his work as a house carpenter and launched a successful contracting business that was responsible for building new business structures, churches, single-family homes, and schools, as well as renovating existing structures; he died in 1891, following a brief illness;

    First Sergeant Christian S. Beard, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Beard, Christian Seiler (First Lieutenant, Company C): A twenty-seven-year-old, married carpenter residing in Williamsport, Lycoming County when President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1865, Chistian S. Beard promptly enrolled for Civil War military service before that month was out as a private with Company D of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; after rising up through the ranks to become a first lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on Christmas Day, 1865, and returned home to his wife in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he continued to work as a carpenter; after having several children with his wife, he was widowed by her; remarried in 1884, he relocated with his wife and children to Pittsburgh, where he continued to work as a carpenter; ailing with heart and kidney disease, he died there on November 16, 1911 and was interred at that city’s Highwood Cemetery;

    * Burke, Thomas (Sergeant, Company I): A first-generation American, Thomas Burke was a twenty-year-old cabinetmaker residing in Allentown at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on the day that the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded (August 5, 1861), he was officially mustered in as a private; from that point on, he continued to work his way up the ranks, receiving a promotion to corporal on September 19, 1864 and then to sergeant on July 11, 1865; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865, he returned home to Lehigh County, where he married and began a family; sometime in early to mid-1871, he and his family migrated west to Iowa, settling in Anamosa, Jones County, where he was employed as a carpenter and contractor; he died at his home there on October 22, 1910 and was buried at that town’s Riverside Cemetery;

    * Colvin, John Dorrance (Second Lieutenant, Company C): A native of Abington Township, Lackawanna County who was a farmer when he enlisted for Civil War military service on September 12, 1861, John D. Colvin transferred to the U.S. Army Signal Corps on October 13, 1863, and continued to serve with the Signal Corps for the duration of the war; employed as an engineer, post-war, he helped the Pacific Railroad to extend its service from Atchison, Kansas to Fort Kearney in Nebraska before returning home to Pennsylvania, where he married, began a family and resided with them in Olyphant and Carbondale before relocating with them to Parsons in Luzerne County, where he became a prominent civic leader and member of the school board; initially employed as a machinist, he went on to become superintendent of the Delaware & Hudson Coal company before taking a similar job with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company; the U.S. Postal Service’s postmaster of Parsons during the early 1890s, he died there on March 15, 1901 and was buried at the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre;

    * Crownover, James (Sergeant, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old teamster residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Crownover rose up through the ranks of the 47th Pennsylvania from private to reach the rank of sergeant; wounded in the right shoulder and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864, he was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, where he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on November 25, 1864; during captivity, he was commissioned, but not mustered as a second lieutenant; given medical treatment before he was returned to active duty, he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he found work at a tannery near Blain, married, began a family and then relocated with them to East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, where he worked as a teamster; relocating with them to Braddock in Allegheny County after the turn of the century, he worked at a local mill there; he died in Allegheny County on July 18, 1903 and was buried at the Monongahela Cemetery in Braddock Hills;

    Jacob Daub, circa 1862-1865 (carte de visite, Cooley & Beckett Photographers, Savannah, Georgia and Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina, public domain).

    * Daub, Jacob and William J. (Drummer Boy, Company A): A German immigrant as a child, Jacob Daub emigrated with his parents and younger brother, William, circa 1852; after settling in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where his father found work as a stone mason, Jacob grew up to become a cigarmaker, and also became the first of the two brothers to enlist in the American Civil War; after enrolling at the age of sixteen, he was classified as a field musician and assigned to Company A as its drummer boy; his nineteen-year-old brother, William, a carpenter by 1865, followed him into the war when he enlisted as a private with the same company in February of that year; after the war ended, both returned home to Northampton County, where they married, had children and went on to live long, full lives; William eventually died at the age of eighty in 1928, followed by Jacob, who passed away in 1936, roughly two months before his ninety-first birthday;

    * Detweiler, Charles C. (Private, Company A): Berks County native Charles Detweiler enrolled for Civil War military service on September 16, 1862; a carpenter who later became a farmer, he served with Company A until he was severely injured in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864, when he sustained a musket ball wound to the middle of his thigh; treated at a Union Army hospital in Virginia before being transported to the Union’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he learned that the musket ball had damaged his femur and femoral arteries; following his wound-related death at Mower on March 12, 1865, he was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Kutztown, Berks County;

    * Diaz, John (Private, Company I): An immigrant from Spain’s Canary Islands, John Diaz emigrated sometime between 1862 and 1865 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a cigarmaker; on January 25, 1865, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted with the Union Army at a recruiting depot in Norristown, Montgomery County and served as a private with Company I of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he resumed work as a cigarmaker in Philadelphia, eventually launching his own cigarmaking firm, which became a family business as his sons became old enough to work for him; sometime between 1906 and 1910, he relocated with his wife and several of his children to Camden County, New Jersey, where he died on September 5, 1915;

    James Downs (circa 1880s, public domain).

    * Downs, James (Corporal, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old tanner residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Downs was captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River; held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864, he received medical treatment and was subsequently returned to active duty; following his honorable discharge with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1865, he returned home, married, began a family and relocated with his family to Phillipsburg, New Jersey; suffering from heart and kidney disease, and possibly also from post-traumatic stress disorder, rather than “insane” as physicians at the Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania had diagnosed him, he fell from a window at that home and died at there on September 16, 1921; he was subsequently interred in the Veterans’ Circle of the Brookville Cemetery;

    * Eagle, Augustus (Second Lieutenant, Company F): A German immigrant as a teenager, Augustus Eagle arrived in America on June 23, 1855, two years after his brother, Frederick Eagle, had emigrated and made a life for himself in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; both men married and began families there, with Fred employed as a laborer and Gus employed by the Crane Iron Works; when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, both men enrolled for military service on August 21, 1861 as privates with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; in 1862, Fred fell ill and was honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, but Gus continued to serve, rising up through the regiment’s enlisted and officers’ ranks; commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on September 11, 1864, upon completion of his three-year term of service; post-war, Fred became a successful baker with real estate and personal property valued at $4,200 (roughly $155,750 in 2023 dollars) and died in Catasauqua in 1885, while Gus owned a successful restaurant in Whitehall Township before operating the Fairview Hotel, which became a popular spot for political gatherings; after suffering a series of strokes in 1902, Gus died at his home on August 17 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;

    * Eisenbraun, Alfred (Drummer Boy, Company B): A tobacco stripper and first-generation American from Allentown, Lehigh County, fifteen-year-old Alfred Eisenbraun became the second “man” from the 47th Pennsylvania to die when he succumbed to complications from typhoid fever at the Kalorama Eruptive Fever Hospital in Georgetown, District of Columbia on October 26, 1861; he still rests at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Cemetery in Washington, D.C.;

    * Fink, Aaron (Corporal, Company B): A shoemaker and native of Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Fink, grew up, began a family and established a successful small shoemaking business, first in Allentown and then in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in Carbon County; on August 20, 1861, he chose to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to help bring the American Civil War to a quick end when he enrolled for military service; shot in the right leg during the fighting at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died there from wound-related complications on November 5, 1862; initially buried near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed by Allentown undertaker Paul Balliet and returned to Pennsylvania for reinterment at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery;

    * Fornwald, Reily M. (Corporal, Company G): Born in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Reily Fornwald was raised there on his family’s farm near Stouchsberg; educated in his community’s common schools and then at Millersville State Normal School, he became a railroad worker before returning to farm life shortly before the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service at the age of twenty on September 11, 1862, he was wounded in the head and groin by an exploding artillery shell during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; stabilized on the battlefield before being transported to a field hospital for more advanced medical care, he spent four weeks recuperating before returning to active duty with his regiment; promoted to the rank of corporal on January 19, 1863, he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia on September 18, 1864, upon expiration of his term of enlistment; after returning home, he spent four years operating a blast furnace for White & Ferguson in Robesonia, Berks County; he also married and began a family; sometime around 1870, he left that job to become an engine operator for Wright, Cook & Co. in Sheridan and then moved to a job as an engine operator for William M. Kauffman—a position he held for roughly a decade before securing employment as a shifting engineer with the Reading Railway Company at its yards in Reading; following his retirement in 1905, he and his wife settled in Robesonia, where he became involved in buying and selling real estate; following a severe fall in May 1925, during which he fractured a thigh bone, he died at the Homeopathic Hospital in Reading on June 1 and was buried at Robesonia’s Heidelberg Cemetery;

    Captain Reuben Shatto Gardner, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Gardner, Reuben Shatto, John A. and Jacob S. R.: Natives of Perry County, Reuben Shatto Gardner and his brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner, began their work lives as laborers; among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Reuben was a twenty-five-year-old miller who resided in Newport, Perry County; after enlisting as a private with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20, he was honorably mustered out after completing his term of service; he then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a first sergeant with Company H of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; also enrolling with him that same day were his twenty-three-year-old and twenty-one-year-old brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner; John officially mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 18 (the day before Reuben arrived), while Jacob officially mustered in on September 19; both joined their brother’s company, entering at their respective ranks of corporal and private, but Jacob’s tenure was a short one; sickened by typhoid fever in late December 1861, he died at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital at Camp Griffin, near Langley, Virginia on January 8, 1862; his remains were later returned to Perry County for burial at the Old Newport Cemetery; soldiering on, Reuben and John were transported with their regiment by ship to Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida and subsequently sent to South Carolina with their regiment and other Union troops; shot in the head and thigh during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, Reuben was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina for an extended period of time, and then returned to active duty with his regiment; meanwhile, John was assigned with H Company and the men from Companies D, F and K to garrison Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas; both brothers then continued to work their way up the regiment’s ranks, with John promoted to corporal on September 18, 1864 and Reuben ultimately commissioned as a captain and given  command of Company H on February 16, 1865; both then returned home after honorably mustering out with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865; sometime around 1866 or 1867, Reuben and his wife migrated west, first to Elk River Station in Sherburne County, Minnesota and then to Stillwater, Washington County, before settling in the city of Minneapolis; through it all, he worked as a miller; Reuben and his family then relocated farther west, arriving in King County, Washington after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889; initially employed in the restaurant industry, Reuben later found work as a railroad conductor before prospecting for gold with son Edward in the western United States and British Columbia, Canada during the 1890s Gold Rush; employed as a U.S. Post Office clerk in charge of the money order and registry departments in Seattle from 1898 to 1902, Reuben died in Seattle at the age of sixty-eight on September 25, 1903 and was interred at that city’s Lakeview Cemetery; meanwhile, his brother John, who had resumed work as a fireman with the Pennsylvania Railroad after returning from the war, was widowed by his wife in 1872; after remarrying and welcoming the births of more children, he was severely injured on October 9, 1873 while working as a fireman on the Pacific Express for the Pennsylvania Railroad; unable to continue working as a fireman due to his amputated hand, he worked briefly as a railroad call messenger before launching his own transfer business in Harrisburg; after he was widowed by his ailing second wife, John was severely injured in a second accident in 1894 while loading his delivery wagon; still operating his business after the turn of the century, he remarried on January 3, 1900, but was widowed by his third wife when she died during a surgical procedure in 1911; he subsequently closed his business and relocated to the home of his daughter in the city of Reading, Berks County; four years later, he fell on an icy sidewalk and became bedfast; aged eighty and ailing from arteriosclerosis and lung congestion, he died at her home on February 20, 1918 and was buried at Reading’s Charles Evans Cemetery;

    * Gethers, Bristor (Under-Cook, Company F): Born into slavery in South Carolina circa 1829, Bristor Gethers was married “by slave custom at Georgetown, S.C.” on the Pringle plantation in Georgetown sometime around 1847 to “Rachael Richardson” (alternate spelling “Rachel”); a field hand at the dawn of the Civil War, he was freed from chattel enslavement in 1862 by Union Army troops; he then enlisted as an “Under-Cook” with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Beaufort, South Carolina on October 5, 1862, and traveled with the regiment until October 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged in Charleston, South Carolina upon completion of his three-year term of enlistment; at that point, he returned to Beaufort and resumed life with his wife and their son, Peter; a farmer, Bristor was ultimately disabled by ailments that were directly attributable to his Union Army tenure; awarded a U.S. Civil War Soldiers’ Pension, he lived out his days with his wife on Horse Island, South Carolina, and died on Horse Island, South Carolina on June 24 or 25, 1894; he was then laid to rest at a graveyard on Parris Island on June 26 of that same year;

    * Gilbert, Edwin (Captain, Company F): A native of Northampton County and a carpenter residing in Catasauqua, Lehigh County at the dawn of the American Civil War, Edwin Gilbert enrolled as a corporal on August 21, 1861; after rising up through his regiment’s officer ranks, he was ultimately commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on New Year’s Day, 1865, and then mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina of Christmas of that same year; resuming his life with his wife and children in Lehigh County after the war, he continued to work as a carpenter; after suffering a stroke in late December 1893, he died on January 2, 1894 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;

    Mrs. Caroline Bost and Martin L. Guth celebrated the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with fellow Grand Army of the Republic and ladies auxiliary members in February 1933 (public domain).

    * Guth, Martin Luther (Corporal, Company K): A native of Lehigh County and son of a farmer, Martin L. Guth was a seventeen-year-old laborer and resident of Guthsville in Whitehall Township at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on September 26, 1862, he was officially mustered in as a corporal; he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably mustered out on October 1, 1865, upon expiration of his term of service; at some point during that service, he broke his leg—an injury that did not heal properly and plagued him for the remainer of his life; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he found work again as a laborer; married in 1883, he became the father of four children, one of whom was born in New Mexico and another who was born in California; he had moved his family west in search of work in the mining industry; documented as a “prospector” or “miner” records created in Nevada during that period, he was also documented on voter registration rolls of Butte City in Glenn County, California in August 1892; by 1900, he was living separately from his wife, who was residing in Bandon, Coos County, Oregon with their two children while he was residing at the Veterans’ Home of California in Yount Township, Napa County, California; subsequently admitted to the Mountain Branch of the network of U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee on February 11, 1912, his disabilities included an old compound fracture of his right leg with chronic ulceration, defective vision (right eye), chronic bronchitis, and arteriosclerosis; discharged on December 12, 1920, he was admitted to the U.S. National Soldiers’ Home in Leavenworth, Kansas on July 30, 1912, but discharged on September 29, 1913; by 1920, he was living alone on Fruitvale Avenue in the city of Oakland, California, but was remaining active with his local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic as he rose through the leadership ranks of chapter, state and national G.A.R. organizations; after a long, adventure-filled life, he died on October 11, 1935, at the age of ninety-one, at the veterans’ home in San Francisco and was interred at the San Francisco National Cemetery (also known as the Presidio Cemetery);

    Lieutenant Charles A. Hackman, Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).

    * Hackman, Charles Abraham and Martin Henry (First Lieutenant and Sergeant, Company G): Natives of Rittersville, Lehigh County, Charles and Martin Hackman began their work lives as apprentices, with Charles employed by a carpenter and Martin employed by master coachmaker Jacob Graffin; members of the local militia unit known as the Allen Rifles, they were among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; both enlisted as privates with Company I of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20 and were honorably mustered out in July after completing their service; Charles then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a sergeant with Company G of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; he then spent most of his early service in Virginia; meanwhile, his younger brother, Martin H. Hackman, who was employed as a coach trimmer in Lehigh County, re-enlisted for his own second tour of duty, as a private with Charles’ company, on January 8, 1862; working their way up the ranks, Charles was commissioned as a first lieutenant on June 18, 1863, while Martin was promoted to sergeant on April 26, 1864; Charles was then breveted as a captain on November 30, 1864 after having mustered out on November 5; Martin was then honorably discharged on January 8, 1865; initially employed, post-war, with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad’s train car facility in Reading, Berks County, Charles was promoted to car inspector at the company’s Philadelphia facility in December 1866; he subsequently married, but had no children and was widowed in 1904; remarried, he remained in Philadelphia until the early 1900s, when he relocated to Allentown; Martin, who worked as a bricklayer in Allentown, did have children after marrying, but he, too, was widowed; also remarried, he became a manager at a rolling mill; ailing with pneumonia in early 1917, Charles was eighty-six years old when he died in Allentown on January 17; he was buried at Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery, while his brother Martin was buried at the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem, following his death in Bethlehem from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 14, 1921;

    * Junker, George (Captain, Company K): A German immigrant as a young adult, George Junker emigrated sometime around the early 1850s and settled in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found employment as a marble worker and tombstone carver, and where he also joined the Allen Infantry, one of his adopted hometown’s three militia units; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, George enlisted with his fellow Allen Infantrymen, honorably completed his Three Months’ Service, and promptly began his own recruitment of men for an “all-German company” for the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; commissioned as a captain with the 47th Pennsylvania, he was placed in charge of his men who became known as Company K; mortally wounded by a Confederate rifle shot during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he died from his wounds the next day at the Union Army’s division hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; his remains were returned to his family in Hazleton, Luzerne County for reburial at the Vine Street Cemetery;

    * Kern, Samuel (Private, Company D): A native of Perry County who was employed as a farmer in Bloomfield, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, Samuel Kern was wounded and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864; marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he died from harsh treatment on June 12, 1864; buried somewhere on the grounds of that prison camp, his grave remains unidentified;

    * Kosier, George (Captain, Company D): A native of Perry County and twenty-four-year-old carpenter residing in that county’s community of New Bloomfield at the dawn of the American Civil War, George Kosier became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for military service on April 20 as a corporal with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; joining him were his younger brothers, Jesse and William S. Kosier, aged nineteen and twenty-three, who were enrolled as privates with the same company; all three subsequently re-enlisted with their company at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida in 1863; sadly, Jesse fell ill with pleurisy and died at the Union Army’s Field Hospital in Sandy Hook, Maryland on August 1864; initially buried at a cemetery in Weverton, Maryland, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred at the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland; both George and William continued to serve with the regiment, with George continuing his rise up the ranks; commissioned as a captain, he was given command of Company D in early June 1865; both brothers were then honorably discharged with their regiment on Christmas Day, 1865; post-war, both men married and began families; William died in Pennsylvania sometime around 1879, but George went on to live a long full life; after settling in Ogle County, Illinois, where he was employed as a carpenter, he relocated with his family to Wright County, Iowa, where he built bridges; he died in Chicago on December 3, 1920 and was buried at that city’s Rosehill Cemetery;

    Anna (Weiser) Leisenring (1851-1942) , circa 1914 (public domain).

    * Leisenring, Annie (Weiser): The wife of Thomas B. Leisenring (Captain, Company G), Annie Leisenring was employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a factory inspector after the American Civil War; she became well known through newspaper accounts of her inspection visits and also became widely respected for her efforts to improve child labor laws statewide;

    * Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal, Company E): An Irish immigrant as a young adult, Thomas Lowrey emigrated sometime around the late 1840s or early 1850s and settled in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a miner, married and began a family; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, Thomas enlisted with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania on September 16, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a coal miner near Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, and where he resided with his wife and children; after witnessing the dawn of a new century, he died in Shenandoah on January 11, 1906;

    This image of Julia (Kuenher) Minnich, circa 1860s, is being presented here through the generosity of Chris Sapp and his family, and is being used with Mr. Sapp’s permission. This image may not be reproduced, repurposed, or shared with other websites without the permission of Chris Sapp.

    * Magill, Julia Ann (Kuehner Minnich): Widowed and the mother of a young son at the time that her husband, B Company’s Captain Edwin G. Minnich, was killed in battle during the American Civil War, Julia Ann (Kuehner) Minnich became a Union Army nurse at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. during the war in order to keep a roof over her son’s head; she then spent the remainder of her life battling the U.S. Pension Bureau to receive and keep both the U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension and U.S. Civil War Nurse’s Pension that she was entitled to under federal law; forced to go on working into her later years by poverty, she finally found work as a cook at a hotel in South Bethlehem; she died sometime after 1906;

    * Menner, Edward W. (Second Lieutenant, Company E): A first-generation American who was a native of Easton, Northampton County, Edward Menner was a sixteen-year-old carpenter when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 25, 1861; working his way up from private to second lieutenant before he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he was wounded in the left shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on October 19, 1864; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he secured employment as a hooker with the Bethlehem Iron Company (later known as Bethlehem Steel) on March 15, 1866; he married, begam a family and continued to work in the iron industry for much of his life; he died in Bethlehem on April 25, 1913 and was buried at that city’s Nisky Hill Cemetery;

    * Miller, John Garber (Sergeant, Company D): A native of Ironville, Blair County, John G. Miller was a twenty-one-year-old laborer living in Duncannon, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861; captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864; returned to active duty with his regiment after receiving medical treatment, he continued to serve until he was honorably discharged with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he married, began a family and relocated with his family to Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a teamster; returning to Blair County with his family, he resided with them in Logan Township before relocating with them again to Coalport, Clearfield County; suffering from heart disease, he died in Coalport on February 16, 1921 and was interred at the Coalport Cemetery;

    Captain Theodore Mink, Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (circa 1870s-1880s, courtesy of Julian Burley; used with permission).

    * Mink, Theodore (Captain, Company I): A native of Allentown, Lehigh County who was apprenticed as a coachmaker and then tried his hand as a whaler and blacksmith prior to the American Civil War, Thedore Mink became one of the “First Defenders” who responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital after the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; after honorably completing his Three Months’ Service in July, he re-enlisted on August 5 as a sergeant with Company I of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; after steadily working his way up through the ranks, he was commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on May 22, 1865; he continued to serve with his regiment until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he was hired as a laborer with a circus troupe operated by Mike Lipman before finding longtime employment in advertising and then as head of the circus wardrobe for the Forepaugh Circus before he was promoted to management with the circus; felled by pneumonia during late 1889, he died in Philadelphia on January 7, 1890 and was interred in Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery;

    * Newman, Edward (Private, Company H): A German immigrant who left his homeland sometime around 1920, Edward Newman chose to settle in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a baker; after enlisting for Civil War military service in August 1862, he mustered in as a private with Company I of the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers and fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg from December 11-15 of that year; honorably mustered out with his regiment in May 1863, he re-enlisted on October 23, 1863 for a second tour of duty—but as a private with a different regiment—Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with the 47th Pennsylvania until he was officially mustered out in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, where he worked briefly as a baker; suffering from rheumatism that developed while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed near Cedar Creek, Virginia during the fall of 1864, he was admitted to the network of U.S. Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the Central Branch in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on July 17, 1877; still unmarried and still living there in 1880, his health continued to decline; diagnosed with acute enteritis, he died there on January 22, 1886 and was buried at the Dayton National Cemetery;

    Captain Daniel Oyster, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).

    * Oyster, Daniel (Captain, Company C): A native of Sunbury, Northumberland County who was employed as a machinist, Daniel Oyster became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for Civil War military service on April 23 as a corporal with Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; his brother, John Oyster, subsequently followed him into the service, enrolling as a private with his company on November 20, 1863; after rising up through the ranks to become captain of his company, Daniel was shot in his left shoulder near Berryville, Virginia on September 5, 1864 and then shot in his right shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19; successfully treated by Union Army surgeons for both wounds, he was awarded a veteran’s furlough in order to continue his recuperation and returned home to Sunbury; he then returned to duty and was honorably discharged with his company on Christmas Day, 1865; post-discharge, he and his brother, John, returned home to Sunbury; Daniel continued to reside with their aging mother and was initially employed as a policeman, but was then forced by a war-related decline in his health to take less-taxing work as a railroad postal agent; his brother John, who was married, lived nearby and worked as a fireman, but died in Sunbury on April 20, 1899; employed as a bookkeeper after the turn of the century, Daniel never married and was ultimately admitted to the Southern Branch of the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, where he died on August 5, 1922—exactly sixty-one years to the day after the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded; he was given a funeral with full military honors before being laid to rest in the officers’ section at the Arlington National Cemetery on August 11;

    * Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant, Company B): The son of a lock tender in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Thomas Sauerwein was employed as a carpenter at the dawn of the American Civil War; following his enrollment for military service in Allentown, Lehigh County on August 20, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company B of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; from that point on, he steadily worked his way up the ranks of the regiment, ultimately being promoted to first sergeant on New Year’s Day, 1865; following his honorable discharge with his company on Christmas Day of that same year, he returned home to the Lehigh Valley, where he found work as a carpenter, married and began a family; by 1880, he had moved his family west to Williamsport in Lycoming County, where he had found work as a machinist; employed as a leather roller with a tanning factory, he was promoted to a position as a leather finisher after the turn of the century, while his two sons worked as leather rollers in the same industry; he died in Williamsport on July 29, 1912 and was buried at the East Wildwood Cemetery in Loyalsock;

    * Slayer, Joseph (Private, Company E; also known as “Dead Eye Dick” and “E. J. McMeeser”): A native of Philadelphia, Joseph Slayer was a nineteen-year-old miner residing in Willliams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service in Easton, Northampton County on September 9, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with his company, re-enlisting as a private with Company E, under the name of Joseph Slayer, at Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas on January 4, 1864; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he relocated to Zanesville, Ohio sometime after the war, where he joined the Grand Army of the Republic’s Hazlett Post No. 81; he may then have relocated briefly to St. Paul, Minnesota sometime around the 1870s or early 1880s, or may simply have had a child and grandchild living there, because newspaper reports of his death noted that he had been carrying a photograph of a toddler named Robert—a photo that had “To Grandpa” inscribed on it and indicated that the grandchild, Robert, was a resident of St. Paul in 1892; by the 1880s, Joseph had made it as far west as the Dakota Territory—but this was where his life’s journey took a strange twist; discarding the name he had used in the army (“Joseph Slayer”), he changed his name several times over the next several years, as if he were trying to shed his prior life and all of its associations; acquaintances he met in the southern part of the Dakota Territory during the early to mid-1880s knew him as “Dead Eye Dick” while others who met him after he had resettled in Bismarck, in the northern part of the Dakota Territory, knew him as “Eugene McMeeser” or “E. J. McMeeser” (alternate spelling: “McNeeser”); by the time that the federal government conducted its special census of Civil War veterans in June 1890, Joseph was so comfortable fusing parts of his old and new lives together that he was convincingly documented by an enumerator as “Eugene McMeeser,” a veteran who had served as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry from September 9, 1861 until January 11, 1866; in 1890, Joseph became a married man; documented as having rheumatism so severe that he was “at times confined at home,” he filed for a U.S. Civil War Pension from North Dakota on March 28, 1891—but he did so as “Joseph Slayer”—the name under which he had first enrolled for military service in Pennsylvania in 1861; ultimately awarded a pension—which would not have happened if federal officials had not been able to verify his identity and match it to his existing military service records, he was diagnosed with angina pectoris in 1904, but still managed to secure a U.S. patent for one of his inventions—a napkin holder; he died in Bismarck less than a month later, on January 12 or 13, 1905; found on the floor of his rented room, his death sparked a coroner’s inquest which revealed that he had been living under an assumed name; he was buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck; the name “Joseph Slayer” was carved onto his military headstone;

    * Snyder, Timothy (Corporal, Company C): A carpenter who was born in Rebuck, Northumberland County, Tim Snyder was employed as a carpenter and residing in the city of Sunbury in that county by the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service as a private in August 1861, he was wounded twice in combat, once during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1862) and a second time, in the knee, during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia (1864), shortly after he had been promoted to the rank of corporal; he survived and returned to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a carpenter; after relocating to Schuylkill County, he settled in the community of Ashland; in 1870, he married Catharine Boyer and started a family with her; he continued to work as a carpenter in Schuylkill County until his untimely death in May 1889 and was laid to rest with military honors at the Brock Cemetery in Ashland; John Hartranft Snyder, his first son to survive infancy, grew up to become a co-founder of the Lavelle Telegraph and Telephone Company, while his second son to survive infancy, Timothy Grant Snyder, became a corporal in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War; stationed on the USS Buffalo as it visited Port Said, Egypt, he also served aboard Admiral George Dewey’s flagship, the USS Olympia, in 1899;

    Drummer Boy William Williamson, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Williamson, William (Drummer, Company A): A farmer from Stockertown, Northampton County, William Williamson was documented by a mid-nineteenth-century federal census enumerator as an unmarried laborer who lived at the Easton home of Northampton County physician John Sandt, M.D.—an indication that William’s parents may have either died or were struggling so much financially during the 1850s and early 1860s that they had encouraged him to “leave the nest” and begin supporting himself, or had hired him out as an apprentice or indentured servant; like so many other young men from Northampton County, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for help to protect the nation’s capital from a likely invasion by Confederate States Army troops, he stepped forward, raised his hand, and stated the following:

    I, William Williamson appointed a private in the Army of the United States, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States.

    Later in life, William Williamson became a champion for an older woman who had been struggling to convince officials of the federal government that she was worthy enough to be awarded a U.S. Civil War Mother’s Pension, after her son had died in service to the nation as a Union Army soldier.

    Post-war, William Williamson found work at a slate quarry, married, began a family in Belfast, Northampton County, and lived to witness the dawn of a new century. Following his death at the age of sixty in Plainfield Township on June 17, 1901, he was laid to rest at the Belfast Union Cemetery.

     

    Sources:

    1. “A Badge from Admiral Dewey and Schuylkill County” (announcements of Timothy Grant Snyder’s service on Admiral Dewey’s flagship). Reading, Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle: October 3, 1899 and November 21, 1899.
    2. Baptismal, census, marriage, military, death, and burial records of the Snyder family. Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Ohio, etc.: Snyder Family Archives, 1650-present; and in Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records (baptismal, marriage, death and burial records of various churches across Pennsylvania). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1776-1918.
    3. Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
    4. James Crownover, James Downs and Samuel Kern, et. al., in Camp Ford Prison Records. Tyler, Texas: The Smith County Historical Society, 1864.
    5. Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
    6. Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
    7. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, U.S. Army; Admissions Ledgers, U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; federal burial ledgers, and national cemetery interment control forms, 1861-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General (Record Group 94), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
    8. Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
    9. U.S. Census Records, 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
    10. U.S. Civil War Pension Records, 1862-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

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  16. Andy Arthur - Threadinburgh @[email protected] ·

    You Can’t Fight City Hall! The thread about Lothian Road Public School

    Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (those built 1872-1918) hold a particular fascination for me, one most profound where they have been “deconsecrated” and are either no longer in use as schools or have disappeared entirely. This thread began as a couple of lines for my own notes about the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but soon snowballed into an alphabetical deep-dive into each.

    Before the Education (Scotland) Act 1872, which created the Edinburgh School Board and kick-started a building programme of new schools, the west end of the city was served by church-run schools on Cambridge Street by St John’s Episcopal Church and in halls behind the Lothian Road United Presbyterian Church (this latter building would much later become the Filmhouse cinema). They were joined in 1862 when the Free Church of Scotland established a school for 270 children on Riego Street as a mission of Free St Cuthbert’s and Free Greyfriars‘ churches.

    The Riego Street School, a photograph taken in 1914 by J. R. Hamilton of the Edinburgh Photographic Society by which time it was in use as a mission hall. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.

    After its initial flurry of construction to replace the worst of the schools it had inherited and fill gaps in provision, the School Board turned its attention to the Lothian Road area and acquired a tiny, undeveloped plot extending to only a quarter of an acre at the junction of Grindlay and Cambridge Streets. This land was feud from The Grindlay Trust for £2046 (for whom Grindlay Street is named) who maintained the rights to final approval of any designs. This new Lothian Road Public School was proposed in tandem with Canonmills Public School and at 800 pupils was of a capacity but with a density of 0.77 pupils per metre square it would be the most congested school that the Board would build.

    Comparison of the 1849 and 1893 OS Town Plans of Edinburgh for Lothian Road, move the slider to compare. These show in 1849 two small church schools (an Episcopal School in the top right and a United Presbyterian School middle bottom) and in 1893 the Lothian Road Public School in the centre of the image, to the right of the open street square. On the right of the 1893 map are the School Board Offices on Castle Terrace. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

    Plans by the Board’s architect Robert Wilson were approved in March 1879 and generally followed the Collegiate Gothic styling then in favour, looking very much like a truncated version of its peer at Canonmills but raised to a height of three storeys to maximise the limited space available. An unusual deviation however was a French-style tower with louvred windows on the principal (western) façade adjoining the neighbouring tenement on Grindlay Street. The boys’ entrance was at its base, girls and infants having a separate entrance on Cambridge Street. The ground floor accommodated the infant department in a large central classroom (42 feet by 27 feet) with three smaller rooms leading off of it. The first and second floors were for the older pupils, again each following the same arrangement as the ground floor. To the rear of the school were two rather small playgrounds, one each for boys and girls.

    Lothian Road Public School, looking towards the Castle. The striped globe-shaped objects in the middle distance below the Castle are on the roofline of the Synod Hall on Castle Terrace. City of Edinburgh Council Architectural Drawings and Photographs via Trove.Scot, DP 102382

    Construction began in late June 1879, the accepted estimate for construction being £5,891 19s 6d (c. £640k in 2026). A site accident on 15th August 1879 injured joiner Alexander Glass when a crane failed and dropped an iron beam on his foot, part of which had to be amputated at the Royal Infirmary as a result. After this, work proceeded steadily and the new school school opened on 6th September 1880, the school on Victoria Terrace (an older building inherited from the Heriot Trust) closing as a consequence. The total cost including purchasing the site came out at £7,333 17s (c. £795k in 2026). As built the capacity was 825 pupils (280 infants and 545 juveniles) with a staff comprising the headmaster, infant mistress, a first assistant teacher and eight assistant teachers. They were supported by a sewing mistress, a singing master and twelve pupil teachers (older children who were remaining in education beyond the mandatory leaving age and who helped in monitoring and conveying the lessons to younger children). The school soon proved to be one of the top performers (helped in a large part because of the socio-economic circumstances of its neighbourhood) and in 1882 the staff were given a 15 percent salary increase on account of reaching the first class tier of the Board’s ranking system.

    From the very beginning Continuation Classes (evening school for adults) were part of the school’s offering, with Advanced Classes “for young men” in Latin, grammar and English composition; basic elementary subjects and also more vocational ones such as bookkeeping, shorthand and commercial geography. Architectural and mechanical drawing joined the syllabus in 1885 and by 1889 advanced level mechanics and mathematics were also being taught. In 1898 there were 350 enrolled for continuation schooling with an average attendance of 302. Technical classes in confectionery were started by the Master Bakers of Edinburgh and Leith in 1903 “with a view to raising the standard of fancy baking in the district.”

    A street artist at work on the pavement island outside Lothian Road Public School in 1903, while a crowd looks on. The sign on the lamp post reads “Cars Stop“, indicating that this was a passenger platform for the city’s cable tramway.

    In 1887, 909 scholars from Lothian Road were presented for examination, suggesting the school was more than 10% over capacity, and before the Scotch Education Department reduced class sizes there were up to 1,000 learners crammed in. The school was a victim of its own success, having the highest attendance rate in the city meaning it was always full. A janitor’s house was added in 1889 at a cost of £223, an extra play shed for the boys in 1892 and new classrooms for drawing and cookery in 1893 at a cost of £1,000.

    A fire in March 1891, the result of a fireplace in a classroom causing surrounding woodwork to overheat, proved to be “of a trifling nature” and was extinguished by the staff and janitor before the fire brigade could arrive. Headmaster George Robertson, who had been in charge since opening, died in March 1893. His newspaper obituary recalled him as “a man of a kindly and courteous disposition, which secured for him cordial relations with his staff” and one who had cut his educational teeth in some of the city’s poorest quarters. He had started his career in the school of the Chalmers Territorial Free Church in the West Port of which he was also in the congregation and a deacon (church civic officer). The teachers and a deputation of the schoolchildren attended his funeral at the Grange Cemetery.

    Grave marker of George Robertson (1849-93), his infant son John (1875-76) and his wives Anne Mullay (1846-75) and Christina Barclay Robertson (1849-1918). Photo credit Charlie via Findagrave.com

    The school was only sixteen years old when ominous clouds began to form on its horizon: in 1896 its site was mooted as one of a number of potential locations for a new civic music hall. The City Hall, as it was then known, was the result of a gift to the city by Andrew Usher (1826-98) who’s family had made a vast fortune in brewing that he had made even larger through perfecting the process of blending Scotch Whisky: revolutionising the product, the industry and a nation’s drinking habits. His endowment was worth £100,000 (about £12 million in 2026) and trustees invested it until an appropriate site could be found.

    Barrels of Andrew Usher’s “OVG” (Old Vatted Glenlivet) blended whisky in one of his bonds at St Leonards. This was the first mass-market blended whisky.

    A longlist of twelve sites was initially proposed including Princes Street Gardens, Melville Street, Atholl Crescent, opposite St Giles Cathedral on the High Street, Castle Terrace, Chambers Street, Port Hopetoun Basin, the junction of George and Castle Streets and – most controversially – the Meadows. London architect Alfred Waterhouse was engaged to survey each and draw up a shortlist of five, with Atholl Crescent being the favoured option.

    Batholomew map, 1898, showing some of the proposed locations for the Usher Hall. A site on Atholl Crescent, to the west of these, was first favoured before attention moved to the area between Lothian Road and Castle Terrace (to the left of the middle of the three plots highlighted above.) Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.

    Plans changed in 1900 however when the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland merged with the Free Church of Scotland and the former’s Synod Hall on Castle Terrace was now surplus to requirements. In an ironic twist, this large venue was actually first built as an entertainments hall but quickly failed as a commercial venture. The Town Council leapt at the chance to acquire it with a view that it might somehow be a good site for the hall, or might even be re-purposed as it.

    The Synod Hall from West Princes Street Gardens. City of Edinburgh Council Architectural Drawings and Photographs via Trove.Scot SC2575722

    Matters proceeded slowly for the next few years while the Town Council tried to acquire further adjacent land; it spent £15,000 buying plots totalling 2,719 square yards, on top of the 2,327 of the hall. In 1903 the Town Clerk, Thomas Hunter, was asked report “on the whole muddle” and set out options for the potential use of the Synod Hall site. Things were getting complicated by the fact the successor United Free Church were apparently attempting to buy the building back and had verbally offered the Corporation £40,000 for it ( the latter having paid just £25,000 a few years earlier). Proponents of the Synod Hall site argued it would be a less expensive proposition than the alternatives and sited facing the Castle it made for an appropriately grand backdrop. Detractors were quick to point out that the new hall proposed for that site would have 2,400 seats, just 300 more than the building it was proposed to demolish and replace!

    While matters remained unresolved, the idea of siting what would become The Usher Hall in the vicinity of Castle Terrace had by now crystallised in the minds of the Town Council and their gaze soon shifted to the side of the block that faced on to Lothian Road. If the site of Lothian Road School was combined with the neighbouring tenements and added to the Council’s existing landholding, this gave a combined site of 4,221 square yards without demolishing the Synod hall and in 1904 firm plans were put in front of the Town Council recommending securing the school property.

    A complication remained however in that the local authority did not possess the school – it remained the property of the School Board which was independent from the Town Council. An informal approach to the Board had been rebuffed and there was an unwillingness to resort to powers of compulsory purchase. Unfortunately Lord Provost Sir Robert Cranston then went and put his foot in it by letting it be known that the school buildings had been condemned by the Scotch Education Department: the implication being they would thus be easy to acquire, He was rebuked in a most public manner by the Board in a statement published by the Evening News. The Lord Provost wrote to the Board’s chair, the redoubtable Flora Stevenson, to set the matter straight.

    Advert taken out by the School Board in response to the Lord Provost’s assertions that Lothian Road School had been condemned by the Scotch Education Department. Edinburgh Evening News, 13th February 1905.

    A meeting was convened behind close doors between senior representatives from both sides and soon ironed things out. The Board let it be known they would give up the school for a “fair price” and sufficient land for a replacement school. They hoped to get ground at Lady Lawson Street, the site of the city’s cattle market which was to be relocated, however this was acquired instead by the Education Department for the College of Art.

    Once again the scheme stalled, but for Lothian Road Public School it remained business as usual. On account of its central location it remained a favoured venue for a number of organisations. From 1906 to 1910 it was used by the Edinburgh Esperanto Society for meetings and lessons, the Board charging only a nominal rent so as to help encourage that language. A similar privilege was given to the Celtic Union who began Gaelic language evening classes, transferring them from the Outlook Tower on Castlehill whose facilities they had outgrown. It was the Union’s intention to prove there was a public appetite for the language in order that the Board might formally adopt them for its own programme. This plan quickly came to fruition and from 1908 these classes transferred to the School Board’s Continuation curriculum and were run from Gilmore Place Public School. (Coincidentally, this latter building remains in education use as an annexe of James Gillespie’s High School and has recently become a centre for its Gaelic Medium Education learning.)

    On June 15th 1909 a meeting was held at the school by “a few far-sighted ladies and sympathetic mothers” which formed the committee to establish the Girl Guiding movement in the city. In July that year a concert was held by the senior pupils of the school to celebrate the attendance records of Janet Gray, Nettie Bee, Janet Taylor and Jane Bogue who all had achieved a perfect attendance record in their seven years at the school; a combined total of twenty-eight years without a day missed. The Board presented medals to the girls and commended the headmaster and his staff. The takings from the concert were to be “devoted to the purchase of pictures with which to adorn the walls” of the school.

    An Edinburgh School Board perfect attendance medal first issued in 1908-09 to Robert McKinlay of London Street School. Picture via Lockdale’s Auctioneers and Valuers, sale lot from 2024.

    Time was running short for the school however. It was now fourteen years after Usher’s gift to the city (and twelve after his death) and pressure was mounting to finally get his hall built. Finally on March 21st 1910 a report was submitted to the Lord Provost’s Committee of the Town Council recommending that it should be built on the Lothian Road site that included the footprint of the school. This was approved and at a closed meeting the following day the School Board agreed to its sale for £8,500 plus a new site at the City Slaughterhouse (the Killin’ Hoose) at Fountainbridge, which was about to be relocated to Slateford. The Board were initially offered one and a quarter acres but stuck to their guns that they would not settle for less than two – in the end they accepted one and three-quarters plus two buildings to convert into a janitor’s house. This still left the Board an estimated deficit of £17,000 (about £1.7 million in 2026) for the replacement, however they felt “willing to do all in their power to further the important scheme“.

    Edinburgh Evening News, 7th January 1905 Shaded properties were those to be acquired for the final Usher Hall scheme. The area outlined by the dotted and thick solid line was already possessed by the Town Council.

    Lothian Road Public School closed for the last time at the end of the summer term of 1910. Its brief thirty year life was the shortest of any of the Board’s schools and in that time it was estimated that 9,780 children had passed through its doors. Its Continuation Classes were removed to James Gillespie’s School when the new term started, the infant department to temporary huts at Ponton Street and the remaining 590 children were largely sent to the old West Fountainbridge School while their new home was completed. This building had been closed a few years previously (it had actually been condemned) and its lower floors had by then been converted into a central cooking centre for free and “penny dinners” for schools in the city centre. One can only imagine what the smells of boiling cabbage were like for children trying to learn about the kitchens’ coppers which had a capacity to cook 650 gallons in one go – 130 stones (or 826kg) of potatoes could be cooked per hour!

    On Tuesday March 13th 1911, workmen of Messrs Neil Mcleod & Sons began working on building operations for the Usher Hall and that Friday the Edinburgh Evening News reported on “the passing of Lothian Road School“. Wooden hoardings been erected around the building and children were helping the teachers throughout the day to clear the school.

    Although now the exigencies of modern educational equipment call for something more up to date [it] has never failed to satisfy the powers that be in the work of educating pupils and securing high attendance percentages.”

    “The Passing of Lothian Road School”, Edinburgh Evening News, 17th March 1911

    On the 22nd of the month, the demolition gangs moved in and it was reported less than a month later that a workman by the name of Alexander Young had been seriously injured at work on demolition, having been standing on a second floor staircase when it collapsed beneath him and he suffered a fall of thirty five feet as a result.

    During and before images of the demolition of Lothian Road Public School, view looking towards Grindlay Street. Move the slider to compare. Photographs probably taken by Francis M. Chrystal of the Edinburgh Photographic Society. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries. During and before images of the demolition of Lothian Road Public School, view looking towards Cambridge Street. Move the slider to compare. Photographs probably taken by Francis M. Chrystal of the Edinburgh Photographic Society. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.

    In December 1910 it had been decided that the replacement school should be called Tollcross Public School and that it should accommodate 800 children (300 infants and 500 juveniles). Tenders were advertised in May 1911 and it would open in September 1912.

    Site of Tollcross School, before shown on 1906 Goad Fire Insurance map when it was the municipal slaughter houses and after shown on 1944 OS Town Plan. Move the slider to compare. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

    Demolition at Lothian Road proceeded swiftly and groundworks were advanced to allow the laying of the memorial foundation stones on July 19th 1911. King George V and Queen Mary performed the honours at a grand public ceremony, each dropping a stone into place by the turning of the handle of a crane and tapping it gently with a ceremonial mallet.

    The stage is set, quite literally, for the laying of the Usher Hall’s foundation stones, July 19th 1911. These are on the site of the former Lothian Road School, the steepled building on the right of the photo being St. Columba’s Gaelic Free Church. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.

    The Usher Hall finally opened on March 16th 1914, seventeen years and two hundred and eighty two days after the initial gift was made. By all accounts it has been a grand success, but its troubled gestation is just one of many examples of the city’s difficult (and ongoing) history of schemes to try and build public concert halls!

    Bust of Andrew Usher, unveiled at the opening of the Usher Hall. Photograph by Francis Caird Inglis, 1914. Delays to the scheme meant that Usher was long dead by the time his gift was completed. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.

    The previous chapter of this series looked at the James Clark School.

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  17. Farhad A. @[email protected] ·

    The Tony Blair Institute think tank made a proposal to the Labour party to abolish the so-called triple lock system: a mechanism in which state pensions rise every April by whichever is highest — inflation rate, average wage growth or 2.5%.

    Describing the concept as "unaffordable", it proposes a tricky ersatz — a "lifespan fund": individuals contribute to it and get only 20 years of support in return.

    "Pension spending must be contained and that means the triple lock cannot continue after the next election," the director of economic policy at the Tony Blair Institute Thomas Smith said as quoted by The Guardian.

    #DisasterCapitalism #TonyBlair #UKpol #Economy #UKpol #Labour

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  18. Editor @[email protected] ·

    Scarlets and Ospreys dominate Wales squad for South Africa finale amid regional rugby uncertainty

    The Principality Stadium fixture (kick‑off 3.10pm, live on TNT Sports, discovery+ and S4C) is Wales’ final Quilter Nations Series match of 2025. Tandy said the group was “excited” to build on recent performances despite being restricted to Wales‑based players because the game falls outside World Rugby’s international window.

    Reinforcements after player exodus

    Thirteen players have returned to their clubs in England and France this week, including Adam Beard, Rhys Carre, Tomos Williams and Louis Rees‑Zammit. Their departure left gaps across the squad, particularly in the back three, where Josh Adams is also suspended following his red card against Japan.

    In response, Tandy has called up Ospreys forwards James Ratti and uncapped prop Garyn Phillips, Scarlets wing Ellis Mee and Cardiff hooker Evan Lloyd. Mee, 22, made his Test debut in the Six Nations against Ireland and is regarded as strong in the air and dangerous in broken play. Ratti brings versatility in the lock and back row, while Phillips, who toured Japan last summer, is rewarded with his first senior call‑up. Lloyd replaces Cardiff teammate Liam Belcher, who is sidelined with a neck injury.

    Scarlets and Ospreys at the core

    Scarlets and Ospreys dominate the selection, with 18 of the 30 players drawn from west Wales. The Ospreys provide 12 names, including captain Dewi Lake, Gareth Thomas, Rhys Davies, Morgan Morse and Kieran Hardy. The Scarlets contribute six, among them Taine Plumtree, Joe Hawkins, Joe Roberts, Blair Murray, Tom Rogers and Ellis Mee.

    Their prominence underlines the strength of the two clubs in supplying talent to the national side, even as both face uncertainty under the WRU’s proposed regional rugby restructuring. Civic leaders and supporters have warned that the changes risk destabilising west Wales rugby, despite its players continuing to form the backbone of the national squad.

    Fresh faces and uncapped talent

    The revised squad also features several uncapped players. Ospreys trio Garyn Phillips, James Fender and Ben Warren are joined by Cardiff prop Danny Southworth in seeking their first senior appearances. Their inclusion reflects the WRU’s commitment to blooding new talent alongside established internationals, with the autumn finale offering a chance to test depth against the world champions.

    Springboks reshuffle too

    South Africa head coach Rassie Erasmus has also been forced into changes, with 15 players returning to clubs in Japan and South Africa ahead of a full round of United Rugby Championship fixtures. “We are going to lose quite a few players,” Erasmus admitted, adding that the Springboks would train with only 25 players this week. Despite the absences, he stressed the importance of the clash with Wales for world ranking points, describing it as “another massive Test match” to close the year.

    Full Wales squad

    Forwards: Gareth Thomas (Ospreys), Danny Southworth (Cardiff), Garyn Phillips (Ospreys), Dewi Lake (Ospreys, capt), Evan Lloyd (Cardiff), Brodie Coghlan (Dragons), Keiron Assiratti (Cardiff), Christian Coleman (Dragons), Ben Warren (Ospreys), Ben Carter (Dragons), Rhys Davies (Ospreys), James Fender (Ospreys), James Ratti (Ospreys), Taine Plumtree (Scarlets), Alex Mann (Cardiff), Aaron Wainwright (Dragons), Morgan Morse (Ospreys), Harri Deaves (Ospreys).

    Backs: Kieran Hardy (Ospreys), Reuben Morgan‑Williams (Ospreys), Dan Edwards (Ospreys), Callum Sheedy (Cardiff), Joe Hawkins (Scarlets), Ben Thomas (Cardiff), Joe Roberts (Scarlets), Jacob Beetham (Cardiff), Rio Dyer (Dragons), Blair Murray (Scarlets), Tom Rogers (Scarlets), Ellis Mee (Scarlets).

    Match details

    • Wales v South Africa
    • Quilter Nations Series 2025
    • Principality Stadium, Cardiff
    • Saturday 29 November, 3.10pm
    • Live coverage: TNT Sports, discovery+ and S4C; commentary on BBC Sounds, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru

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  19. 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers @[email protected] ·

    “Labor Is Life” (U.S. Postal Service’s Labor Day Stamp, 1956, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).

    Bakers, blacksmiths, boatmen, butchers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, cigarmakers, coal miners, factory workers, farmers, gardeners, gold miners, iron workers, masons, quarry workers, teamsters, tombstone carvers. These were just a few of the diverse job titles held by the laborers who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.

    Many returned to their same occupations after the war ended while others found new pathways for their life journeys. Far too many were never able to return to the arms of their loved ones and still rest in marked or unmarked graves far from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    In honor of Labor Day, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story is proud to present this abridged list of blue-collar men and boys who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry between August 1861 and January 1866, as well as the names of two of the women associated with the regiment who made their own unforgettable marks on the world.

    * Auchmuty, Samuel S. (First Lieutenant, Company D): A native of Duncannon, Perry County and veteran of the Mexican-American War who was employed as a carpenter during the early 1860s, Samuel Auchmuty responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War by enrolling as a first lieutenant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on August 20, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his work as a house carpenter and launched a successful contracting business that was responsible for building new business structures, churches, single-family homes, and schools, as well as renovating existing structures; he died in 1891, following a brief illness;

    First Sergeant Christian S. Beard, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Beard, Christian Seiler (First Lieutenant, Company C): A twenty-seven-year-old, married carpenter residing in Williamsport, Lycoming County when President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1865, Chistian S. Beard promptly enrolled for Civil War military service before that month was out as a private with Company D of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; after rising up through the ranks to become a first lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on Christmas Day, 1865, and returned home to his wife in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he continued to work as a carpenter; after having several children with his wife, he was widowed by her; remarried in 1884, he relocated with his wife and children to Pittsburgh, where he continued to work as a carpenter; ailing with heart and kidney disease, he died there on November 16, 1911 and was interred at that city’s Highwood Cemetery;

    * Burke, Thomas (Sergeant, Company I): A first-generation American, Thomas Burke was a twenty-year-old cabinetmaker residing in Allentown at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on the day that the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded (August 5, 1861), he was officially mustered in as a private; from that point on, he continued to work his way up the ranks, receiving a promotion to corporal on September 19, 1864 and then to sergeant on July 11, 1865; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865, he returned home to Lehigh County, where he married and began a family; sometime in early to mid-1871, he and his family migrated west to Iowa, settling in Anamosa, Jones County, where he was employed as a carpenter and contractor; he died at his home there on October 22, 1910 and was buried at that town’s Riverside Cemetery;

    * Colvin, John Dorrance (Second Lieutenant, Company C): A native of Abington Township, Lackawanna County who was a farmer when he enlisted for Civil War military service on September 12, 1861, John D. Colvin transferred to the U.S. Army Signal Corps on October 13, 1863, and continued to serve with the Signal Corps for the duration of the war; employed as an engineer, post-war, he helped the Pacific Railroad to extend its service from Atchison, Kansas to Fort Kearney in Nebraska before returning home to Pennsylvania, where he married, began a family and resided with them in Olyphant and Carbondale before relocating with them to Parsons in Luzerne County, where he became a prominent civic leader and member of the school board; initially employed as a machinist, he went on to become superintendent of the Delaware & Hudson Coal company before taking a similar job with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company; the U.S. Postal Service’s postmaster of Parsons during the early 1890s, he died there on March 15, 1901 and was buried at the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre;

    * Crownover, James (Sergeant, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old teamster residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Crownover rose up through the ranks of the 47th Pennsylvania from private to reach the rank of sergeant; wounded in the right shoulder and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864, he was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, where he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on November 25, 1864; during captivity, he was commissioned, but not mustered as a second lieutenant; given medical treatment before he was returned to active duty, he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he found work at a tannery near Blain, married, began a family and then relocated with them to East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, where he worked as a teamster; relocating with them to Braddock in Allegheny County after the turn of the century, he worked at a local mill there; he died in Allegheny County on July 18, 1903 and was buried at the Monongahela Cemetery in Braddock Hills;

    Jacob Daub, circa 1862-1865 (carte de visite, Cooley & Beckett Photographers, Savannah, Georgia and Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina, public domain).

    * Daub, Jacob and William J. (Drummer Boy, Company A): A German immigrant as a child, Jacob Daub emigrated with his parents and younger brother, William, circa 1852; after settling in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where his father found work as a stone mason, Jacob grew up to become a cigarmaker, and also became the first of the two brothers to enlist in the American Civil War; after enrolling at the age of sixteen, he was classified as a field musician and assigned to Company A as its drummer boy; his nineteen-year-old brother, William, a carpenter by 1865, followed him into the war when he enlisted as a private with the same company in February of that year; after the war ended, both returned home to Northampton County, where they married, had children and went on to live long, full lives; William eventually died at the age of eighty in 1928, followed by Jacob, who passed away in 1936, roughly two months before his ninety-first birthday;

    * Detweiler, Charles C. (Private, Company A): Berks County native Charles Detweiler enrolled for Civil War military service on September 16, 1862; a carpenter who later became a farmer, he served with Company A until he was severely injured in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864, when he sustained a musket ball wound to the middle of his thigh; treated at a Union Army hospital in Virginia before being transported to the Union’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he learned that the musket ball had damaged his femur and femoral arteries; following his wound-related death at Mower on March 12, 1865, he was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Kutztown, Berks County;

    * Diaz, John (Private, Company I): An immigrant from Spain’s Canary Islands, John Diaz emigrated sometime between 1862 and 1865 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a cigarmaker; on January 25, 1865, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted with the Union Army at a recruiting depot in Norristown, Montgomery County and served as a private with Company I of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he resumed work as a cigarmaker in Philadelphia, eventually launching his own cigarmaking firm, which became a family business as his sons became old enough to work for him; sometime between 1906 and 1910, he relocated with his wife and several of his children to Camden County, New Jersey, where he died on September 5, 1915;

    James Downs (circa 1880s, public domain).

    * Downs, James (Corporal, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old tanner residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Downs was captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River; held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864, he received medical treatment and was subsequently returned to active duty; following his honorable discharge with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1865, he returned home, married, began a family and relocated with his family to Phillipsburg, New Jersey; suffering from heart and kidney disease, and possibly also from post-traumatic stress disorder, rather than “insane” as physicians at the Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania had diagnosed him, he fell from a window at that home and died at there on September 16, 1921; he was subsequently interred in the Veterans’ Circle of the Brookville Cemetery;

    * Eagle, Augustus (Second Lieutenant, Company F): A German immigrant as a teenager, Augustus Eagle arrived in America on June 23, 1855, two years after his brother, Frederick Eagle, had emigrated and made a life for himself in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; both men married and began families there, with Fred employed as a laborer and Gus employed by the Crane Iron Works; when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, both men enrolled for military service on August 21, 1861 as privates with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; in 1862, Fred fell ill and was honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, but Gus continued to serve, rising up through the regiment’s enlisted and officers’ ranks; commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on September 11, 1864, upon completion of his three-year term of service; post-war, Fred became a successful baker with real estate and personal property valued at $4,200 (roughly $155,750 in 2023 dollars) and died in Catasauqua in 1885, while Gus owned a successful restaurant in Whitehall Township before operating the Fairview Hotel, which became a popular spot for political gatherings; after suffering a series of strokes in 1902, Gus died at his home on August 17 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;

    * Eisenbraun, Alfred (Drummer Boy, Company B): A tobacco stripper and first-generation American from Allentown, Lehigh County, fifteen-year-old Alfred Eisenbraun became the second “man” from the 47th Pennsylvania to die when he succumbed to complications from typhoid fever at the Kalorama Eruptive Fever Hospital in Georgetown, District of Columbia on October 26, 1861; he still rests at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Cemetery in Washington, D.C.;

    * Fink, Aaron (Corporal, Company B): A shoemaker and native of Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Fink, grew up, began a family and established a successful small shoemaking business, first in Allentown and then in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in Carbon County; on August 20, 1861, he chose to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to help bring the American Civil War to a quick end when he enrolled for military service; shot in the right leg during the fighting at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died there from wound-related complications on November 5, 1862; initially buried near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed by Allentown undertaker Paul Balliet and returned to Pennsylvania for reinterment at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery;

    * Fornwald, Reily M. (Corporal, Company G): Born in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Reily Fornwald was raised there on his family’s farm near Stouchsberg; educated in his community’s common schools and then at Millersville State Normal School, he became a railroad worker before returning to farm life shortly before the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service at the age of twenty on September 11, 1862, he was wounded in the head and groin by an exploding artillery shell during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; stabilized on the battlefield before being transported to a field hospital for more advanced medical care, he spent four weeks recuperating before returning to active duty with his regiment; promoted to the rank of corporal on January 19, 1863, he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia on September 18, 1864, upon expiration of his term of enlistment; after returning home, he spent four years operating a blast furnace for White & Ferguson in Robesonia, Berks County; he also married and began a family; sometime around 1870, he left that job to become an engine operator for Wright, Cook & Co. in Sheridan and then moved to a job as an engine operator for William M. Kauffman—a position he held for roughly a decade before securing employment as a shifting engineer with the Reading Railway Company at its yards in Reading; following his retirement in 1905, he and his wife settled in Robesonia, where he became involved in buying and selling real estate; following a severe fall in May 1925, during which he fractured a thigh bone, he died at the Homeopathic Hospital in Reading on June 1 and was buried at Robesonia’s Heidelberg Cemetery;

    Captain Reuben Shatto Gardner, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Gardner, Reuben Shatto, John A. and Jacob S. R.: Natives of Perry County, Reuben Shatto Gardner and his brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner, began their work lives as laborers; among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Reuben was a twenty-five-year-old miller who resided in Newport, Perry County; after enlisting as a private with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20, he was honorably mustered out after completing his term of service; he then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a first sergeant with Company H of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; also enrolling with him that same day were his twenty-three-year-old and twenty-one-year-old brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner; John officially mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 18 (the day before Reuben arrived), while Jacob officially mustered in on September 19; both joined their brother’s company, entering at their respective ranks of corporal and private, but Jacob’s tenure was a short one; sickened by typhoid fever in late December 1861, he died at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital at Camp Griffin, near Langley, Virginia on January 8, 1862; his remains were later returned to Perry County for burial at the Old Newport Cemetery; soldiering on, Reuben and John were transported with their regiment by ship to Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida and subsequently sent to South Carolina with their regiment and other Union troops; shot in the head and thigh during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, Reuben was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina for an extended period of time, and then returned to active duty with his regiment; meanwhile, John was assigned with H Company and the men from Companies D, F and K to garrison Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas; both brothers then continued to work their way up the regiment’s ranks, with John promoted to corporal on September 18, 1864 and Reuben ultimately commissioned as a captain and given  command of Company H on February 16, 1865; both then returned home after honorably mustering out with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865; sometime around 1866 or 1867, Reuben and his wife migrated west, first to Elk River Station in Sherburne County, Minnesota and then to Stillwater, Washington County, before settling in the city of Minneapolis; through it all, he worked as a miller; Reuben and his family then relocated farther west, arriving in King County, Washington after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889; initially employed in the restaurant industry, Reuben later found work as a railroad conductor before prospecting for gold with son Edward in the western United States and British Columbia, Canada during the 1890s Gold Rush; employed as a U.S. Post Office clerk in charge of the money order and registry departments in Seattle from 1898 to 1902, Reuben died in Seattle at the age of sixty-eight on September 25, 1903 and was interred at that city’s Lakeview Cemetery; meanwhile, his brother John, who had resumed work as a fireman with the Pennsylvania Railroad after returning from the war, was widowed by his wife in 1872; after remarrying and welcoming the births of more children, he was severely injured on October 9, 1873 while working as a fireman on the Pacific Express for the Pennsylvania Railroad; unable to continue working as a fireman due to his amputated hand, he worked briefly as a railroad call messenger before launching his own transfer business in Harrisburg; after he was widowed by his ailing second wife, John was severely injured in a second accident in 1894 while loading his delivery wagon; still operating his business after the turn of the century, he remarried on January 3, 1900, but was widowed by his third wife when she died during a surgical procedure in 1911; he subsequently closed his business and relocated to the home of his daughter in the city of Reading, Berks County; four years later, he fell on an icy sidewalk and became bedfast; aged eighty and ailing from arteriosclerosis and lung congestion, he died at her home on February 20, 1918 and was buried at Reading’s Charles Evans Cemetery;

    * Gethers, Bristor (Under-Cook, Company F): Born into slavery in South Carolina circa 1829, Bristor Gethers was married “by slave custom at Georgetown, S.C.” on the Pringle plantation in Georgetown sometime around 1847 to “Rachael Richardson” (alternate spelling “Rachel”); a field hand at the dawn of the Civil War, he was freed from chattel enslavement in 1862 by Union Army troops; he then enlisted as an “Under-Cook” with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Beaufort, South Carolina on October 5, 1862, and traveled with the regiment until October 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged in Charleston, South Carolina upon completion of his three-year term of enlistment; at that point, he returned to Beaufort and resumed life with his wife and their son, Peter; a farmer, Bristor was ultimately disabled by ailments that were directly attributable to his Union Army tenure; awarded a U.S. Civil War Soldiers’ Pension, he lived out his days with his wife on Horse Island, South Carolina, and died on Horse Island, South Carolina on June 24 or 25, 1894; he was then laid to rest at a graveyard on Parris Island on June 26 of that same year;

    * Gilbert, Edwin (Captain, Company F): A native of Northampton County and a carpenter residing in Catasauqua, Lehigh County at the dawn of the American Civil War, Edwin Gilbert enrolled as a corporal on August 21, 1861; after rising up through his regiment’s officer ranks, he was ultimately commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on New Year’s Day, 1865, and then mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina of Christmas of that same year; resuming his life with his wife and children in Lehigh County after the war, he continued to work as a carpenter; after suffering a stroke in late December 1893, he died on January 2, 1894 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;

    Mrs. Caroline Bost and Martin L. Guth celebrated the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with fellow Grand Army of the Republic and ladies auxiliary members in February 1933 (public domain).

    * Guth, Martin Luther (Corporal, Company K): A native of Lehigh County and son of a farmer, Martin L. Guth was a seventeen-year-old laborer and resident of Guthsville in Whitehall Township at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on September 26, 1862, he was officially mustered in as a corporal; he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably mustered out on October 1, 1865, upon expiration of his term of service; at some point during that service, he broke his leg—an injury that did not heal properly and plagued him for the remainer of his life; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he found work again as a laborer; married in 1883, he became the father of four children, one of whom was born in New Mexico and another who was born in California; he had moved his family west in search of work in the mining industry; documented as a “prospector” or “miner” records created in Nevada during that period, he was also documented on voter registration rolls of Butte City in Glenn County, California in August 1892; by 1900, he was living separately from his wife, who was residing in Bandon, Coos County, Oregon with their two children while he was residing at the Veterans’ Home of California in Yount Township, Napa County, California; subsequently admitted to the Mountain Branch of the network of U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee on February 11, 1912, his disabilities included an old compound fracture of his right leg with chronic ulceration, defective vision (right eye), chronic bronchitis, and arteriosclerosis; discharged on December 12, 1920, he was admitted to the U.S. National Soldiers’ Home in Leavenworth, Kansas on July 30, 1912, but discharged on September 29, 1913; by 1920, he was living alone on Fruitvale Avenue in the city of Oakland, California, but was remaining active with his local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic as he rose through the leadership ranks of chapter, state and national G.A.R. organizations; after a long, adventure-filled life, he died on October 11, 1935, at the age of ninety-one, at the veterans’ home in San Francisco and was interred at the San Francisco National Cemetery (also known as the Presidio Cemetery);

    Lieutenant Charles A. Hackman, Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).

    * Hackman, Charles Abraham and Martin Henry (First Lieutenant and Sergeant, Company G): Natives of Rittersville, Lehigh County, Charles and Martin Hackman began their work lives as apprentices, with Charles employed by a carpenter and Martin employed by master coachmaker Jacob Graffin; members of the local militia unit known as the Allen Rifles, they were among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; both enlisted as privates with Company I of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20 and were honorably mustered out in July after completing their service; Charles then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a sergeant with Company G of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; he then spent most of his early service in Virginia; meanwhile, his younger brother, Martin H. Hackman, who was employed as a coach trimmer in Lehigh County, re-enlisted for his own second tour of duty, as a private with Charles’ company, on January 8, 1862; working their way up the ranks, Charles was commissioned as a first lieutenant on June 18, 1863, while Martin was promoted to sergeant on April 26, 1864; Charles was then breveted as a captain on November 30, 1864 after having mustered out on November 5; Martin was then honorably discharged on January 8, 1865; initially employed, post-war, with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad’s train car facility in Reading, Berks County, Charles was promoted to car inspector at the company’s Philadelphia facility in December 1866; he subsequently married, but had no children and was widowed in 1904; remarried, he remained in Philadelphia until the early 1900s, when he relocated to Allentown; Martin, who worked as a bricklayer in Allentown, did have children after marrying, but he, too, was widowed; also remarried, he became a manager at a rolling mill; ailing with pneumonia in early 1917, Charles was eighty-six years old when he died in Allentown on January 17; he was buried at Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery, while his brother Martin was buried at the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem, following his death in Bethlehem from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 14, 1921;

    * Junker, George (Captain, Company K): A German immigrant as a young adult, George Junker emigrated sometime around the early 1850s and settled in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found employment as a marble worker and tombstone carver, and where he also joined the Allen Infantry, one of his adopted hometown’s three militia units; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, George enlisted with his fellow Allen Infantrymen, honorably completed his Three Months’ Service, and promptly began his own recruitment of men for an “all-German company” for the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; commissioned as a captain with the 47th Pennsylvania, he was placed in charge of his men who became known as Company K; mortally wounded by a Confederate rifle shot during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he died from his wounds the next day at the Union Army’s division hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; his remains were returned to his family in Hazleton, Luzerne County for reburial at the Vine Street Cemetery;

    * Kern, Samuel (Private, Company D): A native of Perry County who was employed as a farmer in Bloomfield, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, Samuel Kern was wounded and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864; marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he died from harsh treatment on June 12, 1864; buried somewhere on the grounds of that prison camp, his grave remains unidentified;

    * Kosier, George (Captain, Company D): A native of Perry County and twenty-four-year-old carpenter residing in that county’s community of New Bloomfield at the dawn of the American Civil War, George Kosier became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for military service on April 20 as a corporal with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; joining him were his younger brothers, Jesse and William S. Kosier, aged nineteen and twenty-three, who were enrolled as privates with the same company; all three subsequently re-enlisted with their company at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida in 1863; sadly, Jesse fell ill with pleurisy and died at the Union Army’s Field Hospital in Sandy Hook, Maryland on August 1864; initially buried at a cemetery in Weverton, Maryland, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred at the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland; both George and William continued to serve with the regiment, with George continuing his rise up the ranks; commissioned as a captain, he was given command of Company D in early June 1865; both brothers were then honorably discharged with their regiment on Christmas Day, 1865; post-war, both men married and began families; William died in Pennsylvania sometime around 1879, but George went on to live a long full life; after settling in Ogle County, Illinois, where he was employed as a carpenter, he relocated with his family to Wright County, Iowa, where he built bridges; he died in Chicago on December 3, 1920 and was buried at that city’s Rosehill Cemetery;

    Anna (Weiser) Leisenring (1851-1942) , circa 1914 (public domain).

    * Leisenring, Annie (Weiser): The wife of Thomas B. Leisenring (Captain, Company G), Annie Leisenring was employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a factory inspector after the American Civil War; she became well known through newspaper accounts of her inspection visits and also became widely respected for her efforts to improve child labor laws statewide;

    * Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal, Company E): An Irish immigrant as a young adult, Thomas Lowrey emigrated sometime around the late 1840s or early 1850s and settled in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a miner, married and began a family; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, Thomas enlisted with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania on September 16, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a coal miner near Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, and where he resided with his wife and children; after witnessing the dawn of a new century, he died in Shenandoah on January 11, 1906;

    This image of Julia (Kuenher) Minnich, circa 1860s, is being presented here through the generosity of Chris Sapp and his family, and is being used with Mr. Sapp’s permission. This image may not be reproduced, repurposed, or shared with other websites without the permission of Chris Sapp.

    * Magill, Julia Ann (Kuehner Minnich): Widowed and the mother of a young son at the time that her husband, B Company’s Captain Edwin G. Minnich, was killed in battle during the American Civil War, Julia Ann (Kuehner) Minnich became a Union Army nurse at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. during the war in order to keep a roof over her son’s head; she then spent the remainder of her life battling the U.S. Pension Bureau to receive and keep both the U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension and U.S. Civil War Nurse’s Pension that she was entitled to under federal law; forced to go on working into her later years by poverty, she finally found work as a cook at a hotel in South Bethlehem; she died sometime after 1906;

    * Menner, Edward W. (Second Lieutenant, Company E): A first-generation American who was a native of Easton, Northampton County, Edward Menner was a sixteen-year-old carpenter when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 25, 1861; working his way up from private to second lieutenant before he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he was wounded in the left shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on October 19, 1864; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he secured employment as a hooker with the Bethlehem Iron Company (later known as Bethlehem Steel) on March 15, 1866; he married, begam a family and continued to work in the iron industry for much of his life; he died in Bethlehem on April 25, 1913 and was buried at that city’s Nisky Hill Cemetery;

    * Miller, John Garber (Sergeant, Company D): A native of Ironville, Blair County, John G. Miller was a twenty-one-year-old laborer living in Duncannon, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861; captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864; returned to active duty with his regiment after receiving medical treatment, he continued to serve until he was honorably discharged with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he married, began a family and relocated with his family to Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a teamster; returning to Blair County with his family, he resided with them in Logan Township before relocating with them again to Coalport, Clearfield County; suffering from heart disease, he died in Coalport on February 16, 1921 and was interred at the Coalport Cemetery;

    Captain Theodore Mink, Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (circa 1870s-1880s, courtesy of Julian Burley; used with permission).

    * Mink, Theodore (Captain, Company I): A native of Allentown, Lehigh County who was apprenticed as a coachmaker and then tried his hand as a whaler and blacksmith prior to the American Civil War, Thedore Mink became one of the “First Defenders” who responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital after the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; after honorably completing his Three Months’ Service in July, he re-enlisted on August 5 as a sergeant with Company I of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; after steadily working his way up through the ranks, he was commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on May 22, 1865; he continued to serve with his regiment until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he was hired as a laborer with a circus troupe operated by Mike Lipman before finding longtime employment in advertising and then as head of the circus wardrobe for the Forepaugh Circus before he was promoted to management with the circus; felled by pneumonia during late 1889, he died in Philadelphia on January 7, 1890 and was interred in Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery;

    * Newman, Edward (Private, Company H): A German immigrant who left his homeland sometime around 1920, Edward Newman chose to settle in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a baker; after enlisting for Civil War military service in August 1862, he mustered in as a private with Company I of the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers and fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg from December 11-15 of that year; honorably mustered out with his regiment in May 1863, he re-enlisted on October 23, 1863 for a second tour of duty—but as a private with a different regiment—Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with the 47th Pennsylvania until he was officially mustered out in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, where he worked briefly as a baker; suffering from rheumatism that developed while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed near Cedar Creek, Virginia during the fall of 1864, he was admitted to the network of U.S. Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the Central Branch in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on July 17, 1877; still unmarried and still living there in 1880, his health continued to decline; diagnosed with acute enteritis, he died there on January 22, 1886 and was buried at the Dayton National Cemetery;

    Captain Daniel Oyster, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).

    * Oyster, Daniel (Captain, Company C): A native of Sunbury, Northumberland County who was employed as a machinist, Daniel Oyster became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for Civil War military service on April 23 as a corporal with Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; his brother, John Oyster, subsequently followed him into the service, enrolling as a private with his company on November 20, 1863; after rising up through the ranks to become captain of his company, Daniel was shot in his left shoulder near Berryville, Virginia on September 5, 1864 and then shot in his right shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19; successfully treated by Union Army surgeons for both wounds, he was awarded a veteran’s furlough in order to continue his recuperation and returned home to Sunbury; he then returned to duty and was honorably discharged with his company on Christmas Day, 1865; post-discharge, he and his brother, John, returned home to Sunbury; Daniel continued to reside with their aging mother and was initially employed as a policeman, but was then forced by a war-related decline in his health to take less-taxing work as a railroad postal agent; his brother John, who was married, lived nearby and worked as a fireman, but died in Sunbury on April 20, 1899; employed as a bookkeeper after the turn of the century, Daniel never married and was ultimately admitted to the Southern Branch of the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, where he died on August 5, 1922—exactly sixty-one years to the day after the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded; he was given a funeral with full military honors before being laid to rest in the officers’ section at the Arlington National Cemetery on August 11;

    * Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant, Company B): The son of a lock tender in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Thomas Sauerwein was employed as a carpenter at the dawn of the American Civil War; following his enrollment for military service in Allentown, Lehigh County on August 20, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company B of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; from that point on, he steadily worked his way up the ranks of the regiment, ultimately being promoted to first sergeant on New Year’s Day, 1865; following his honorable discharge with his company on Christmas Day of that same year, he returned home to the Lehigh Valley, where he found work as a carpenter, married and began a family; by 1880, he had moved his family west to Williamsport in Lycoming County, where he had found work as a machinist; employed as a leather roller with a tanning factory, he was promoted to a position as a leather finisher after the turn of the century, while his two sons worked as leather rollers in the same industry; he died in Williamsport on July 29, 1912 and was buried at the East Wildwood Cemetery in Loyalsock;

    * Slayer, Joseph (Private, Company E; also known as “Dead Eye Dick” and “E. J. McMeeser”): A native of Philadelphia, Joseph Slayer was a nineteen-year-old miner residing in Willliams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service in Easton, Northampton County on September 9, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with his company, re-enlisting as a private with Company E, under the name of Joseph Slayer, at Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas on January 4, 1864; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he relocated to Zanesville, Ohio sometime after the war, where he joined the Grand Army of the Republic’s Hazlett Post No. 81; he may then have relocated briefly to St. Paul, Minnesota sometime around the 1870s or early 1880s, or may simply have had a child and grandchild living there, because newspaper reports of his death noted that he had been carrying a photograph of a toddler named Robert—a photo that had “To Grandpa” inscribed on it and indicated that the grandchild, Robert, was a resident of St. Paul in 1892; by the 1880s, Joseph had made it as far west as the Dakota Territory—but this was where his life’s journey took a strange twist; discarding the name he had used in the army (“Joseph Slayer”), he changed his name several times over the next several years, as if he were trying to shed his prior life and all of its associations; acquaintances he met in the southern part of the Dakota Territory during the early to mid-1880s knew him as “Dead Eye Dick” while others who met him after he had resettled in Bismarck, in the northern part of the Dakota Territory, knew him as “Eugene McMeeser” or “E. J. McMeeser” (alternate spelling: “McNeeser”); by the time that the federal government conducted its special census of Civil War veterans in June 1890, Joseph was so comfortable fusing parts of his old and new lives together that he was convincingly documented by an enumerator as “Eugene McMeeser,” a veteran who had served as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry from September 9, 1861 until January 11, 1866; in 1890, Joseph became a married man; documented as having rheumatism so severe that he was “at times confined at home,” he filed for a U.S. Civil War Pension from North Dakota on March 28, 1891—but he did so as “Joseph Slayer”—the name under which he had first enrolled for military service in Pennsylvania in 1861; ultimately awarded a pension—which would not have happened if federal officials had not been able to verify his identity and match it to his existing military service records, he was diagnosed with angina pectoris in 1904, but still managed to secure a U.S. patent for one of his inventions—a napkin holder; he died in Bismarck less than a month later, on January 12 or 13, 1905; found on the floor of his rented room, his death sparked a coroner’s inquest which revealed that he had been living under an assumed name; he was buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck; the name “Joseph Slayer” was carved onto his military headstone;

    * Snyder, Timothy (Corporal, Company C): A carpenter who was born in Rebuck, Northumberland County, Tim Snyder was employed as a carpenter and residing in the city of Sunbury in that county by the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service as a private in August 1861, he was wounded twice in combat, once during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1862) and a second time, in the knee, during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia (1864), shortly after he had been promoted to the rank of corporal; he survived and returned to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a carpenter; after relocating to Schuylkill County, he settled in the community of Ashland; in 1870, he married Catharine Boyer and started a family with her; he continued to work as a carpenter in Schuylkill County until his untimely death in May 1889 and was laid to rest with military honors at the Brock Cemetery in Ashland; John Hartranft Snyder, his first son to survive infancy, grew up to become a co-founder of the Lavelle Telegraph and Telephone Company, while his second son to survive infancy, Timothy Grant Snyder, became a corporal in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War; stationed on the USS Buffalo as it visited Port Said, Egypt, he also served aboard Admiral George Dewey’s flagship, the USS Olympia, in 1899;

    Drummer Boy William Williamson, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Williamson, William (Drummer, Company A): A farmer from Stockertown, Northampton County, William Williamson was documented by a mid-nineteenth-century federal census enumerator as an unmarried laborer who lived at the Easton home of Northampton County physician John Sandt, M.D.—an indication that William’s parents may have either died or were struggling so much financially during the 1850s and early 1860s that they had encouraged him to “leave the nest” and begin supporting himself, or had hired him out as an apprentice or indentured servant; like so many other young men from Northampton County, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for help to protect the nation’s capital from a likely invasion by Confederate States Army troops, he stepped forward, raised his hand, and stated the following:

    I, William Williamson appointed a private in the Army of the United States, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States.

    Later in life, William Williamson became a champion for an older woman who had been struggling to convince officials of the federal government that she was worthy enough to be awarded a U.S. Civil War Mother’s Pension, after her son had died in service to the nation as a Union Army soldier.

    Post-war, William Williamson found work at a slate quarry, married, began a family in Belfast, Northampton County, and lived to witness the dawn of a new century. Following his death at the age of sixty in Plainfield Township on June 17, 1901, he was laid to rest at the Belfast Union Cemetery.

     

    Sources:

    1. “A Badge from Admiral Dewey and Schuylkill County” (announcements of Timothy Grant Snyder’s service on Admiral Dewey’s flagship). Reading, Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle: October 3, 1899 and November 21, 1899.
    2. Baptismal, census, marriage, military, death, and burial records of the Snyder family. Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Ohio, etc.: Snyder Family Archives, 1650-present; and in Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records (baptismal, marriage, death and burial records of various churches across Pennsylvania). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1776-1918.
    3. Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
    4. James Crownover, James Downs and Samuel Kern, et. al., in Camp Ford Prison Records. Tyler, Texas: The Smith County Historical Society, 1864.
    5. Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
    6. Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
    7. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, U.S. Army; Admissions Ledgers, U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; federal burial ledgers, and national cemetery interment control forms, 1861-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General (Record Group 94), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
    8. Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
    9. U.S. Census Records, 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
    10. U.S. Civil War Pension Records, 1862-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

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    “Labor Is Life” (U.S. Postal Service’s Labor Day Stamp, 1956, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).

    Bakers, blacksmiths, boatmen, butchers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, cigarmakers, coal miners, factory workers, farmers, gardeners, gold miners, iron workers, masons, quarry workers, teamsters, tombstone carvers. These were just a few of the diverse job titles held by the laborers who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.

    Many returned to their same occupations after the war ended while others found new pathways for their life journeys. Far too many were never able to return to the arms of their loved ones and still rest in marked or unmarked graves far from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    In honor of Labor Day, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story is proud to present this abridged list of blue-collar men and boys who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry between August 1861 and January 1866, as well as the names of two of the women associated with the regiment who made their own unforgettable marks on the world.

    * Auchmuty, Samuel S. (First Lieutenant, Company D): A native of Duncannon, Perry County and veteran of the Mexican-American War who was employed as a carpenter during the early 1860s, Samuel Auchmuty responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War by enrolling as a first lieutenant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on August 20, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his work as a house carpenter and launched a successful contracting business that was responsible for building new business structures, churches, single-family homes, and schools, as well as renovating existing structures; he died in 1891, following a brief illness;

    First Sergeant Christian S. Beard, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Beard, Christian Seiler (First Lieutenant, Company C): A twenty-seven-year-old, married carpenter residing in Williamsport, Lycoming County when President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1865, Chistian S. Beard promptly enrolled for Civil War military service before that month was out as a private with Company D of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; after rising up through the ranks to become a first lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on Christmas Day, 1865, and returned home to his wife in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he continued to work as a carpenter; after having several children with his wife, he was widowed by her; remarried in 1884, he relocated with his wife and children to Pittsburgh, where he continued to work as a carpenter; ailing with heart and kidney disease, he died there on November 16, 1911 and was interred at that city’s Highwood Cemetery;

    * Burke, Thomas (Sergeant, Company I): A first-generation American, Thomas Burke was a twenty-year-old cabinetmaker residing in Allentown at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on the day that the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded (August 5, 1861), he was officially mustered in as a private; from that point on, he continued to work his way up the ranks, receiving a promotion to corporal on September 19, 1864 and then to sergeant on July 11, 1865; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865, he returned home to Lehigh County, where he married and began a family; sometime in early to mid-1871, he and his family migrated west to Iowa, settling in Anamosa, Jones County, where he was employed as a carpenter and contractor; he died at his home there on October 22, 1910 and was buried at that town’s Riverside Cemetery;

    * Colvin, John Dorrance (Second Lieutenant, Company C): A native of Abington Township, Lackawanna County who was a farmer when he enlisted for Civil War military service on September 12, 1861, John D. Colvin transferred to the U.S. Army Signal Corps on October 13, 1863, and continued to serve with the Signal Corps for the duration of the war; employed as an engineer, post-war, he helped the Pacific Railroad to extend its service from Atchison, Kansas to Fort Kearney in Nebraska before returning home to Pennsylvania, where he married, began a family and resided with them in Olyphant and Carbondale before relocating with them to Parsons in Luzerne County, where he became a prominent civic leader and member of the school board; initially employed as a machinist, he went on to become superintendent of the Delaware & Hudson Coal company before taking a similar job with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company; the U.S. Postal Service’s postmaster of Parsons during the early 1890s, he died there on March 15, 1901 and was buried at the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre;

    * Crownover, James (Sergeant, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old teamster residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Crownover rose up through the ranks of the 47th Pennsylvania from private to reach the rank of sergeant; wounded in the right shoulder and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864, he was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, where he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on November 25, 1864; during captivity, he was commissioned, but not mustered as a second lieutenant; given medical treatment before he was returned to active duty, he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he found work at a tannery near Blain, married, began a family and then relocated with them to East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, where he worked as a teamster; relocating with them to Braddock in Allegheny County after the turn of the century, he worked at a local mill there; he died in Allegheny County on July 18, 1903 and was buried at the Monongahela Cemetery in Braddock Hills;

    Jacob Daub, circa 1862-1865 (carte de visite, Cooley & Beckett Photographers, Savannah, Georgia and Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina, public domain).

    * Daub, Jacob and William J. (Drummer Boy, Company A): A German immigrant as a child, Jacob Daub emigrated with his parents and younger brother, William, circa 1852; after settling in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where his father found work as a stone mason, Jacob grew up to become a cigarmaker, and also became the first of the two brothers to enlist in the American Civil War; after enrolling at the age of sixteen, he was classified as a field musician and assigned to Company A as its drummer boy; his nineteen-year-old brother, William, a carpenter by 1865, followed him into the war when he enlisted as a private with the same company in February of that year; after the war ended, both returned home to Northampton County, where they married, had children and went on to live long, full lives; William eventually died at the age of eighty in 1928, followed by Jacob, who passed away in 1936, roughly two months before his ninety-first birthday;

    * Detweiler, Charles C. (Private, Company A): Berks County native Charles Detweiler enrolled for Civil War military service on September 16, 1862; a carpenter who later became a farmer, he served with Company A until he was severely injured in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864, when he sustained a musket ball wound to the middle of his thigh; treated at a Union Army hospital in Virginia before being transported to the Union’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he learned that the musket ball had damaged his femur and femoral arteries; following his wound-related death at Mower on March 12, 1865, he was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Kutztown, Berks County;

    * Diaz, John (Private, Company I): An immigrant from Spain’s Canary Islands, John Diaz emigrated sometime between 1862 and 1865 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a cigarmaker; on January 25, 1865, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted with the Union Army at a recruiting depot in Norristown, Montgomery County and served as a private with Company I of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he resumed work as a cigarmaker in Philadelphia, eventually launching his own cigarmaking firm, which became a family business as his sons became old enough to work for him; sometime between 1906 and 1910, he relocated with his wife and several of his children to Camden County, New Jersey, where he died on September 5, 1915;

    James Downs (circa 1880s, public domain).

    * Downs, James (Corporal, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old tanner residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Downs was captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River; held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864, he received medical treatment and was subsequently returned to active duty; following his honorable discharge with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1865, he returned home, married, began a family and relocated with his family to Phillipsburg, New Jersey; suffering from heart and kidney disease, and possibly also from post-traumatic stress disorder, rather than “insane” as physicians at the Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania had diagnosed him, he fell from a window at that home and died at there on September 16, 1921; he was subsequently interred in the Veterans’ Circle of the Brookville Cemetery;

    * Eagle, Augustus (Second Lieutenant, Company F): A German immigrant as a teenager, Augustus Eagle arrived in America on June 23, 1855, two years after his brother, Frederick Eagle, had emigrated and made a life for himself in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; both men married and began families there, with Fred employed as a laborer and Gus employed by the Crane Iron Works; when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, both men enrolled for military service on August 21, 1861 as privates with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; in 1862, Fred fell ill and was honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, but Gus continued to serve, rising up through the regiment’s enlisted and officers’ ranks; commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on September 11, 1864, upon completion of his three-year term of service; post-war, Fred became a successful baker with real estate and personal property valued at $4,200 (roughly $155,750 in 2023 dollars) and died in Catasauqua in 1885, while Gus owned a successful restaurant in Whitehall Township before operating the Fairview Hotel, which became a popular spot for political gatherings; after suffering a series of strokes in 1902, Gus died at his home on August 17 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;

    * Eisenbraun, Alfred (Drummer Boy, Company B): A tobacco stripper and first-generation American from Allentown, Lehigh County, fifteen-year-old Alfred Eisenbraun became the second “man” from the 47th Pennsylvania to die when he succumbed to complications from typhoid fever at the Kalorama Eruptive Fever Hospital in Georgetown, District of Columbia on October 26, 1861; he still rests at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Cemetery in Washington, D.C.;

    * Fink, Aaron (Corporal, Company B): A shoemaker and native of Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Fink, grew up, began a family and established a successful small shoemaking business, first in Allentown and then in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in Carbon County; on August 20, 1861, he chose to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to help bring the American Civil War to a quick end when he enrolled for military service; shot in the right leg during the fighting at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died there from wound-related complications on November 5, 1862; initially buried near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed by Allentown undertaker Paul Balliet and returned to Pennsylvania for reinterment at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery;

    * Fornwald, Reily M. (Corporal, Company G): Born in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Reily Fornwald was raised there on his family’s farm near Stouchsberg; educated in his community’s common schools and then at Millersville State Normal School, he became a railroad worker before returning to farm life shortly before the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service at the age of twenty on September 11, 1862, he was wounded in the head and groin by an exploding artillery shell during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; stabilized on the battlefield before being transported to a field hospital for more advanced medical care, he spent four weeks recuperating before returning to active duty with his regiment; promoted to the rank of corporal on January 19, 1863, he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia on September 18, 1864, upon expiration of his term of enlistment; after returning home, he spent four years operating a blast furnace for White & Ferguson in Robesonia, Berks County; he also married and began a family; sometime around 1870, he left that job to become an engine operator for Wright, Cook & Co. in Sheridan and then moved to a job as an engine operator for William M. Kauffman—a position he held for roughly a decade before securing employment as a shifting engineer with the Reading Railway Company at its yards in Reading; following his retirement in 1905, he and his wife settled in Robesonia, where he became involved in buying and selling real estate; following a severe fall in May 1925, during which he fractured a thigh bone, he died at the Homeopathic Hospital in Reading on June 1 and was buried at Robesonia’s Heidelberg Cemetery;

    Captain Reuben Shatto Gardner, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Gardner, Reuben Shatto, John A. and Jacob S. R.: Natives of Perry County, Reuben Shatto Gardner and his brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner, began their work lives as laborers; among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Reuben was a twenty-five-year-old miller who resided in Newport, Perry County; after enlisting as a private with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20, he was honorably mustered out after completing his term of service; he then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a first sergeant with Company H of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; also enrolling with him that same day were his twenty-three-year-old and twenty-one-year-old brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner; John officially mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 18 (the day before Reuben arrived), while Jacob officially mustered in on September 19; both joined their brother’s company, entering at their respective ranks of corporal and private, but Jacob’s tenure was a short one; sickened by typhoid fever in late December 1861, he died at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital at Camp Griffin, near Langley, Virginia on January 8, 1862; his remains were later returned to Perry County for burial at the Old Newport Cemetery; soldiering on, Reuben and John were transported with their regiment by ship to Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida and subsequently sent to South Carolina with their regiment and other Union troops; shot in the head and thigh during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, Reuben was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina for an extended period of time, and then returned to active duty with his regiment; meanwhile, John was assigned with H Company and the men from Companies D, F and K to garrison Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas; both brothers then continued to work their way up the regiment’s ranks, with John promoted to corporal on September 18, 1864 and Reuben ultimately commissioned as a captain and given  command of Company H on February 16, 1865; both then returned home after honorably mustering out with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865; sometime around 1866 or 1867, Reuben and his wife migrated west, first to Elk River Station in Sherburne County, Minnesota and then to Stillwater, Washington County, before settling in the city of Minneapolis; through it all, he worked as a miller; Reuben and his family then relocated farther west, arriving in King County, Washington after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889; initially employed in the restaurant industry, Reuben later found work as a railroad conductor before prospecting for gold with son Edward in the western United States and British Columbia, Canada during the 1890s Gold Rush; employed as a U.S. Post Office clerk in charge of the money order and registry departments in Seattle from 1898 to 1902, Reuben died in Seattle at the age of sixty-eight on September 25, 1903 and was interred at that city’s Lakeview Cemetery; meanwhile, his brother John, who had resumed work as a fireman with the Pennsylvania Railroad after returning from the war, was widowed by his wife in 1872; after remarrying and welcoming the births of more children, he was severely injured on October 9, 1873 while working as a fireman on the Pacific Express for the Pennsylvania Railroad; unable to continue working as a fireman due to his amputated hand, he worked briefly as a railroad call messenger before launching his own transfer business in Harrisburg; after he was widowed by his ailing second wife, John was severely injured in a second accident in 1894 while loading his delivery wagon; still operating his business after the turn of the century, he remarried on January 3, 1900, but was widowed by his third wife when she died during a surgical procedure in 1911; he subsequently closed his business and relocated to the home of his daughter in the city of Reading, Berks County; four years later, he fell on an icy sidewalk and became bedfast; aged eighty and ailing from arteriosclerosis and lung congestion, he died at her home on February 20, 1918 and was buried at Reading’s Charles Evans Cemetery;

    * Gethers, Bristor (Under-Cook, Company F): Born into slavery in South Carolina circa 1829, Bristor Gethers was married “by slave custom at Georgetown, S.C.” on the Pringle plantation in Georgetown sometime around 1847 to “Rachael Richardson” (alternate spelling “Rachel”); a field hand at the dawn of the Civil War, he was freed from chattel enslavement in 1862 by Union Army troops; he then enlisted as an “Under-Cook” with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Beaufort, South Carolina on October 5, 1862, and traveled with the regiment until October 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged in Charleston, South Carolina upon completion of his three-year term of enlistment; at that point, he returned to Beaufort and resumed life with his wife and their son, Peter; a farmer, Bristor was ultimately disabled by ailments that were directly attributable to his Union Army tenure; awarded a U.S. Civil War Soldiers’ Pension, he lived out his days with his wife on Horse Island, South Carolina, and died on Horse Island, South Carolina on June 24 or 25, 1894; he was then laid to rest at a graveyard on Parris Island on June 26 of that same year;

    * Gilbert, Edwin (Captain, Company F): A native of Northampton County and a carpenter residing in Catasauqua, Lehigh County at the dawn of the American Civil War, Edwin Gilbert enrolled as a corporal on August 21, 1861; after rising up through his regiment’s officer ranks, he was ultimately commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on New Year’s Day, 1865, and then mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina of Christmas of that same year; resuming his life with his wife and children in Lehigh County after the war, he continued to work as a carpenter; after suffering a stroke in late December 1893, he died on January 2, 1894 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;

    Mrs. Caroline Bost and Martin L. Guth celebrated the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with fellow Grand Army of the Republic and ladies auxiliary members in February 1933 (public domain).

    * Guth, Martin Luther (Corporal, Company K): A native of Lehigh County and son of a farmer, Martin L. Guth was a seventeen-year-old laborer and resident of Guthsville in Whitehall Township at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on September 26, 1862, he was officially mustered in as a corporal; he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably mustered out on October 1, 1865, upon expiration of his term of service; at some point during that service, he broke his leg—an injury that did not heal properly and plagued him for the remainer of his life; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he found work again as a laborer; married in 1883, he became the father of four children, one of whom was born in New Mexico and another who was born in California; he had moved his family west in search of work in the mining industry; documented as a “prospector” or “miner” records created in Nevada during that period, he was also documented on voter registration rolls of Butte City in Glenn County, California in August 1892; by 1900, he was living separately from his wife, who was residing in Bandon, Coos County, Oregon with their two children while he was residing at the Veterans’ Home of California in Yount Township, Napa County, California; subsequently admitted to the Mountain Branch of the network of U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee on February 11, 1912, his disabilities included an old compound fracture of his right leg with chronic ulceration, defective vision (right eye), chronic bronchitis, and arteriosclerosis; discharged on December 12, 1920, he was admitted to the U.S. National Soldiers’ Home in Leavenworth, Kansas on July 30, 1912, but discharged on September 29, 1913; by 1920, he was living alone on Fruitvale Avenue in the city of Oakland, California, but was remaining active with his local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic as he rose through the leadership ranks of chapter, state and national G.A.R. organizations; after a long, adventure-filled life, he died on October 11, 1935, at the age of ninety-one, at the veterans’ home in San Francisco and was interred at the San Francisco National Cemetery (also known as the Presidio Cemetery);

    Lieutenant Charles A. Hackman, Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).

    * Hackman, Charles Abraham and Martin Henry (First Lieutenant and Sergeant, Company G): Natives of Rittersville, Lehigh County, Charles and Martin Hackman began their work lives as apprentices, with Charles employed by a carpenter and Martin employed by master coachmaker Jacob Graffin; members of the local militia unit known as the Allen Rifles, they were among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; both enlisted as privates with Company I of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20 and were honorably mustered out in July after completing their service; Charles then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a sergeant with Company G of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; he then spent most of his early service in Virginia; meanwhile, his younger brother, Martin H. Hackman, who was employed as a coach trimmer in Lehigh County, re-enlisted for his own second tour of duty, as a private with Charles’ company, on January 8, 1862; working their way up the ranks, Charles was commissioned as a first lieutenant on June 18, 1863, while Martin was promoted to sergeant on April 26, 1864; Charles was then breveted as a captain on November 30, 1864 after having mustered out on November 5; Martin was then honorably discharged on January 8, 1865; initially employed, post-war, with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad’s train car facility in Reading, Berks County, Charles was promoted to car inspector at the company’s Philadelphia facility in December 1866; he subsequently married, but had no children and was widowed in 1904; remarried, he remained in Philadelphia until the early 1900s, when he relocated to Allentown; Martin, who worked as a bricklayer in Allentown, did have children after marrying, but he, too, was widowed; also remarried, he became a manager at a rolling mill; ailing with pneumonia in early 1917, Charles was eighty-six years old when he died in Allentown on January 17; he was buried at Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery, while his brother Martin was buried at the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem, following his death in Bethlehem from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 14, 1921;

    * Junker, George (Captain, Company K): A German immigrant as a young adult, George Junker emigrated sometime around the early 1850s and settled in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found employment as a marble worker and tombstone carver, and where he also joined the Allen Infantry, one of his adopted hometown’s three militia units; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, George enlisted with his fellow Allen Infantrymen, honorably completed his Three Months’ Service, and promptly began his own recruitment of men for an “all-German company” for the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; commissioned as a captain with the 47th Pennsylvania, he was placed in charge of his men who became known as Company K; mortally wounded by a Confederate rifle shot during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he died from his wounds the next day at the Union Army’s division hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; his remains were returned to his family in Hazleton, Luzerne County for reburial at the Vine Street Cemetery;

    * Kern, Samuel (Private, Company D): A native of Perry County who was employed as a farmer in Bloomfield, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, Samuel Kern was wounded and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864; marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he died from harsh treatment on June 12, 1864; buried somewhere on the grounds of that prison camp, his grave remains unidentified;

    * Kosier, George (Captain, Company D): A native of Perry County and twenty-four-year-old carpenter residing in that county’s community of New Bloomfield at the dawn of the American Civil War, George Kosier became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for military service on April 20 as a corporal with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; joining him were his younger brothers, Jesse and William S. Kosier, aged nineteen and twenty-three, who were enrolled as privates with the same company; all three subsequently re-enlisted with their company at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida in 1863; sadly, Jesse fell ill with pleurisy and died at the Union Army’s Field Hospital in Sandy Hook, Maryland on August 1864; initially buried at a cemetery in Weverton, Maryland, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred at the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland; both George and William continued to serve with the regiment, with George continuing his rise up the ranks; commissioned as a captain, he was given command of Company D in early June 1865; both brothers were then honorably discharged with their regiment on Christmas Day, 1865; post-war, both men married and began families; William died in Pennsylvania sometime around 1879, but George went on to live a long full life; after settling in Ogle County, Illinois, where he was employed as a carpenter, he relocated with his family to Wright County, Iowa, where he built bridges; he died in Chicago on December 3, 1920 and was buried at that city’s Rosehill Cemetery;

    Anna (Weiser) Leisenring (1851-1942) , circa 1914 (public domain).

    * Leisenring, Annie (Weiser): The wife of Thomas B. Leisenring (Captain, Company G), Annie Leisenring was employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a factory inspector after the American Civil War; she became well known through newspaper accounts of her inspection visits and also became widely respected for her efforts to improve child labor laws statewide;

    * Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal, Company E): An Irish immigrant as a young adult, Thomas Lowrey emigrated sometime around the late 1840s or early 1850s and settled in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a miner, married and began a family; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, Thomas enlisted with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania on September 16, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a coal miner near Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, and where he resided with his wife and children; after witnessing the dawn of a new century, he died in Shenandoah on January 11, 1906;

    This image of Julia (Kuenher) Minnich, circa 1860s, is being presented here through the generosity of Chris Sapp and his family, and is being used with Mr. Sapp’s permission. This image may not be reproduced, repurposed, or shared with other websites without the permission of Chris Sapp.

    * Magill, Julia Ann (Kuehner Minnich): Widowed and the mother of a young son at the time that her husband, B Company’s Captain Edwin G. Minnich, was killed in battle during the American Civil War, Julia Ann (Kuehner) Minnich became a Union Army nurse at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. during the war in order to keep a roof over her son’s head; she then spent the remainder of her life battling the U.S. Pension Bureau to receive and keep both the U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension and U.S. Civil War Nurse’s Pension that she was entitled to under federal law; forced to go on working into her later years by poverty, she finally found work as a cook at a hotel in South Bethlehem; she died sometime after 1906;

    * Menner, Edward W. (Second Lieutenant, Company E): A first-generation American who was a native of Easton, Northampton County, Edward Menner was a sixteen-year-old carpenter when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 25, 1861; working his way up from private to second lieutenant before he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he was wounded in the left shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on October 19, 1864; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he secured employment as a hooker with the Bethlehem Iron Company (later known as Bethlehem Steel) on March 15, 1866; he married, begam a family and continued to work in the iron industry for much of his life; he died in Bethlehem on April 25, 1913 and was buried at that city’s Nisky Hill Cemetery;

    * Miller, John Garber (Sergeant, Company D): A native of Ironville, Blair County, John G. Miller was a twenty-one-year-old laborer living in Duncannon, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861; captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864; returned to active duty with his regiment after receiving medical treatment, he continued to serve until he was honorably discharged with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he married, began a family and relocated with his family to Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a teamster; returning to Blair County with his family, he resided with them in Logan Township before relocating with them again to Coalport, Clearfield County; suffering from heart disease, he died in Coalport on February 16, 1921 and was interred at the Coalport Cemetery;

    Captain Theodore Mink, Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (circa 1870s-1880s, courtesy of Julian Burley; used with permission).

    * Mink, Theodore (Captain, Company I): A native of Allentown, Lehigh County who was apprenticed as a coachmaker and then tried his hand as a whaler and blacksmith prior to the American Civil War, Thedore Mink became one of the “First Defenders” who responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital after the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; after honorably completing his Three Months’ Service in July, he re-enlisted on August 5 as a sergeant with Company I of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; after steadily working his way up through the ranks, he was commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on May 22, 1865; he continued to serve with his regiment until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he was hired as a laborer with a circus troupe operated by Mike Lipman before finding longtime employment in advertising and then as head of the circus wardrobe for the Forepaugh Circus before he was promoted to management with the circus; felled by pneumonia during late 1889, he died in Philadelphia on January 7, 1890 and was interred in Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery;

    * Newman, Edward (Private, Company H): A German immigrant who left his homeland sometime around 1920, Edward Newman chose to settle in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a baker; after enlisting for Civil War military service in August 1862, he mustered in as a private with Company I of the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers and fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg from December 11-15 of that year; honorably mustered out with his regiment in May 1863, he re-enlisted on October 23, 1863 for a second tour of duty—but as a private with a different regiment—Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with the 47th Pennsylvania until he was officially mustered out in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, where he worked briefly as a baker; suffering from rheumatism that developed while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed near Cedar Creek, Virginia during the fall of 1864, he was admitted to the network of U.S. Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the Central Branch in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on July 17, 1877; still unmarried and still living there in 1880, his health continued to decline; diagnosed with acute enteritis, he died there on January 22, 1886 and was buried at the Dayton National Cemetery;

    Captain Daniel Oyster, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).

    * Oyster, Daniel (Captain, Company C): A native of Sunbury, Northumberland County who was employed as a machinist, Daniel Oyster became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for Civil War military service on April 23 as a corporal with Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; his brother, John Oyster, subsequently followed him into the service, enrolling as a private with his company on November 20, 1863; after rising up through the ranks to become captain of his company, Daniel was shot in his left shoulder near Berryville, Virginia on September 5, 1864 and then shot in his right shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19; successfully treated by Union Army surgeons for both wounds, he was awarded a veteran’s furlough in order to continue his recuperation and returned home to Sunbury; he then returned to duty and was honorably discharged with his company on Christmas Day, 1865; post-discharge, he and his brother, John, returned home to Sunbury; Daniel continued to reside with their aging mother and was initially employed as a policeman, but was then forced by a war-related decline in his health to take less-taxing work as a railroad postal agent; his brother John, who was married, lived nearby and worked as a fireman, but died in Sunbury on April 20, 1899; employed as a bookkeeper after the turn of the century, Daniel never married and was ultimately admitted to the Southern Branch of the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, where he died on August 5, 1922—exactly sixty-one years to the day after the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded; he was given a funeral with full military honors before being laid to rest in the officers’ section at the Arlington National Cemetery on August 11;

    * Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant, Company B): The son of a lock tender in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Thomas Sauerwein was employed as a carpenter at the dawn of the American Civil War; following his enrollment for military service in Allentown, Lehigh County on August 20, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company B of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; from that point on, he steadily worked his way up the ranks of the regiment, ultimately being promoted to first sergeant on New Year’s Day, 1865; following his honorable discharge with his company on Christmas Day of that same year, he returned home to the Lehigh Valley, where he found work as a carpenter, married and began a family; by 1880, he had moved his family west to Williamsport in Lycoming County, where he had found work as a machinist; employed as a leather roller with a tanning factory, he was promoted to a position as a leather finisher after the turn of the century, while his two sons worked as leather rollers in the same industry; he died in Williamsport on July 29, 1912 and was buried at the East Wildwood Cemetery in Loyalsock;

    * Slayer, Joseph (Private, Company E; also known as “Dead Eye Dick” and “E. J. McMeeser”): A native of Philadelphia, Joseph Slayer was a nineteen-year-old miner residing in Willliams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service in Easton, Northampton County on September 9, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with his company, re-enlisting as a private with Company E, under the name of Joseph Slayer, at Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas on January 4, 1864; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he relocated to Zanesville, Ohio sometime after the war, where he joined the Grand Army of the Republic’s Hazlett Post No. 81; he may then have relocated briefly to St. Paul, Minnesota sometime around the 1870s or early 1880s, or may simply have had a child and grandchild living there, because newspaper reports of his death noted that he had been carrying a photograph of a toddler named Robert—a photo that had “To Grandpa” inscribed on it and indicated that the grandchild, Robert, was a resident of St. Paul in 1892; by the 1880s, Joseph had made it as far west as the Dakota Territory—but this was where his life’s journey took a strange twist; discarding the name he had used in the army (“Joseph Slayer”), he changed his name several times over the next several years, as if he were trying to shed his prior life and all of its associations; acquaintances he met in the southern part of the Dakota Territory during the early to mid-1880s knew him as “Dead Eye Dick” while others who met him after he had resettled in Bismarck, in the northern part of the Dakota Territory, knew him as “Eugene McMeeser” or “E. J. McMeeser” (alternate spelling: “McNeeser”); by the time that the federal government conducted its special census of Civil War veterans in June 1890, Joseph was so comfortable fusing parts of his old and new lives together that he was convincingly documented by an enumerator as “Eugene McMeeser,” a veteran who had served as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry from September 9, 1861 until January 11, 1866; in 1890, Joseph became a married man; documented as having rheumatism so severe that he was “at times confined at home,” he filed for a U.S. Civil War Pension from North Dakota on March 28, 1891—but he did so as “Joseph Slayer”—the name under which he had first enrolled for military service in Pennsylvania in 1861; ultimately awarded a pension—which would not have happened if federal officials had not been able to verify his identity and match it to his existing military service records, he was diagnosed with angina pectoris in 1904, but still managed to secure a U.S. patent for one of his inventions—a napkin holder; he died in Bismarck less than a month later, on January 12 or 13, 1905; found on the floor of his rented room, his death sparked a coroner’s inquest which revealed that he had been living under an assumed name; he was buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck; the name “Joseph Slayer” was carved onto his military headstone;

    * Snyder, Timothy (Corporal, Company C): A carpenter who was born in Rebuck, Northumberland County, Tim Snyder was employed as a carpenter and residing in the city of Sunbury in that county by the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service as a private in August 1861, he was wounded twice in combat, once during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1862) and a second time, in the knee, during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia (1864), shortly after he had been promoted to the rank of corporal; he survived and returned to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a carpenter; after relocating to Schuylkill County, he settled in the community of Ashland; in 1870, he married Catharine Boyer and started a family with her; he continued to work as a carpenter in Schuylkill County until his untimely death in May 1889 and was laid to rest with military honors at the Brock Cemetery in Ashland; John Hartranft Snyder, his first son to survive infancy, grew up to become a co-founder of the Lavelle Telegraph and Telephone Company, while his second son to survive infancy, Timothy Grant Snyder, became a corporal in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War; stationed on the USS Buffalo as it visited Port Said, Egypt, he also served aboard Admiral George Dewey’s flagship, the USS Olympia, in 1899;

    Drummer Boy William Williamson, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Williamson, William (Drummer, Company A): A farmer from Stockertown, Northampton County, William Williamson was documented by a mid-nineteenth-century federal census enumerator as an unmarried laborer who lived at the Easton home of Northampton County physician John Sandt, M.D.—an indication that William’s parents may have either died or were struggling so much financially during the 1850s and early 1860s that they had encouraged him to “leave the nest” and begin supporting himself, or had hired him out as an apprentice or indentured servant; like so many other young men from Northampton County, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for help to protect the nation’s capital from a likely invasion by Confederate States Army troops, he stepped forward, raised his hand, and stated the following:

    I, William Williamson appointed a private in the Army of the United States, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States.

    Later in life, William Williamson became a champion for an older woman who had been struggling to convince officials of the federal government that she was worthy enough to be awarded a U.S. Civil War Mother’s Pension, after her son had died in service to the nation as a Union Army soldier.

    Post-war, William Williamson found work at a slate quarry, married, began a family in Belfast, Northampton County, and lived to witness the dawn of a new century. Following his death at the age of sixty in Plainfield Township on June 17, 1901, he was laid to rest at the Belfast Union Cemetery.

     

    Sources:

    1. “A Badge from Admiral Dewey and Schuylkill County” (announcements of Timothy Grant Snyder’s service on Admiral Dewey’s flagship). Reading, Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle: October 3, 1899 and November 21, 1899.
    2. Baptismal, census, marriage, military, death, and burial records of the Snyder family. Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Ohio, etc.: Snyder Family Archives, 1650-present; and in Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records (baptismal, marriage, death and burial records of various churches across Pennsylvania). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1776-1918.
    3. Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
    4. James Crownover, James Downs and Samuel Kern, et. al., in Camp Ford Prison Records. Tyler, Texas: The Smith County Historical Society, 1864.
    5. Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
    6. Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
    7. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, U.S. Army; Admissions Ledgers, U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; federal burial ledgers, and national cemetery interment control forms, 1861-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General (Record Group 94), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
    8. Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
    9. U.S. Census Records, 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
    10. U.S. Civil War Pension Records, 1862-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

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  21. 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers @[email protected] ·

    Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida, view from the sea, 1946 (Vacation photograph collection of President Harry Truman, November 1946, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).

    Still stationed at Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas in July 1863, Lieutenant-Colonel George W. Alexander and the members of Companies F, H and K baked in the unrelenting heat while on duty and sought refuge in the cooler spaces of the fort and island when not. The inferior quality of water available to them continued to wreak havoc on their health. That month alone, twenty-three members of the regiment and twenty-six of the prisoners they were guarding were admitted to the fort’s post hospital with a range of ailments, including six cases of fever (five bilious remittent and one intermittent), seven with intestinal-related diseases (four with dysentery, two with chronic diarrhea, and one with hemorrhoids/piles that were likely caused by the prior two conditions), and three with inflammatory diseases or infections (boils or carbuncles, funiculitis, odontalgia (toothache), orchitis, otitis (earache), along with assorted injuries, including abrasions, sprains and hernia issues.

    Meanwhile, the members of Companies A, B, C, D, E, G, and I were still stationed at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida, under the command of the regiment’s founder, Colonel Tilghman H. Good. They too waged their own battles with the heat and disease.

    * Note: The members of Company D had just returned to Fort Taylor from Fort Jefferson in mid-May 1863.

    Taking time to record his thoughts in his diary throughout July, Private Henry J. Hornbeck of Company G noted that he was “busy in office” during the first two days of the month as he “procured Henry Kramer Company B as cook for our mess” on 1 July and as the “U.S. Gunboat Bermuda arrived from New Orleans,” that same afternoon, “having an old mail for this place, which had passed here, and had gone on there, some time ago…. Weiss & myself took a short walk towards the barracks, accompanying Pretz & Lawall. After which returned to office…. Ginkinger, Whiting & myself then went in bathing off the wharf. Retired at 11 p.m.”

    On July 3, he noted, “Could not sleep tonight on account of the heat, sitting up greater portion of the night.”

    First Lieutenant George W. Huntsberger, Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1863 (public domain).

    The year was also proving to be an unforgettable one for the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in an entirely different way—many of the carte de visite images taken of its members were taken in 1863, according to historian Lewis Schmidt, who has stated that the photographer of choice for the regiment’s officers was Moffat & Simpson on Duval Street in Key West.

    Members of the regiment who were still serving at Fort Taylor during this time commemorated the Fourth of July in grand style as “the celebrations began at Key West at 9 AM,” according to Schmidt. Following an inspection and review of the five companies stationed at the fort by Brigadier-General Woodbury, “the regiment marched in a ‘street parade through the principal streets of the city in heat of 110 degrees Fahrenheit and the dust almost suffocating’. After which ‘each detachment was taken to their quarters, dismissed, and then to enjoy themselves as best they could… Col. Good fired the National Salute of 35 guns from Fort Taylor at Meridian [noon]…. There was a great amount of firing from the vessels in the harbor in honor of the day.’”

    According to Private Hornbeck, his holiday was only partially duty free with “No work in office.” But he still had an early start to what became a very long, but memorable Fourth.

    Rose at 4 a.m. went with Ginkinger to Slaughter House, procured rations of fresh beef for our mess. Mennig & Myself went to fish market, purchased two fish. Took a cup of coffee at café opposite Provost Marshals Office. After breakfast Whiting & myself played a game of billiards, then witnessed the parade of 47th P. V. 5 Companies with Band & Col. & Staff. Review by the Genl. At Headquarters. Dispersed at 11 a.m. Weather extremely hot. Provost Guard quarters finely decorated. Flags hoisted at great many places. Firing squibs &c, salute by Fort Taylor & Gunboats in harbor, as usual on such occasions. Remained in office all day. After supper Ginkinger & myself visited Capt. Bell, then went with Serg’t. Mink to procure ice cream at a Colored Woman’s establishment, after which returned to office. Many of boys, as usual upon such occasions, being today pretty well curried. Today the San Jacinto relieved the Magnolia as Flag Ship for this port. After taking a sea bath retired at 11 p.m.

    From the perspective of C Company Musician Henry D. Wharton:

    The city was gaily dressed in flags, and the prettiest thing of the kind was that at the guard station, under Lt. Reese of Company C. Five flags were suspended from the quarters, with wreaths, while the whole front of the enclosure of the yard was covered with evergreens and the red, white, and blue. The Navy had their vessels dressed in their best ‘bib and tucker’, flags flying fore and aft, of our own and those of all nations. It was a pretty sight, and in a measure paid for the fatigue of the boys on their march. At 12 noon, both Army and Navy fired a national salute of thirty five guns.

    A day later, Private Hornbeck noted “News very bad. Lee’s army still in Pennsylvania making bad havoc,” and on July 7, “Weather sultry & mosquitoes again at work.” During this time, he was also hard at work updating the regiment’s commissary paperwork to enable the commissary staff to issue rations to members of the regiment later that week. On July 9, he recorded the following:

    Busy today, moving the office next door to Provost Marshal’s office, fine place. Tug Reaney returned from Havana having a mail…. News very bad from Pa. Rebels about to attack Harrisburg. The Militia confident of holding the place. Bridges &c burnt on the Susquehanna…. Steamer Creole passed by this evening Pilot Boat brought in a paper up to July 3 reports 9000 Rebels to be Captured between Carlisle & Chambersburg. Genl. Hooker relieved from Command of Army of Potomac and Genl. Meade his successor, general satisfaction by this change…. Weather cool this evening.

    Around this same time, Major William Gausler, who had been appointed by senior Union Army leaders to serve as the provost marshal of Key West, described the influence that the 47th Pennsylvania’s presence was having on local residents, noting “morals of the city in a good state,” and ascribing at least part of that success to C Company’s First Lieutenant William Reese:

    The days are quiet, but the nights are a busy time for Lt. Reese at the guard station…. Woe betide those who imbibe sufficient to make them weak in the knees, for a soft plank in the lockup will be their bed, and a fine in the morning…. Reese is playing the deuce [with local residents selling liquor illegally] in the way of confiscating the ardent-stuff, sure to kill at forty yards. A few days ago he captured ‘eleven five gallon demijohns under the floor of a house, and another in a barrel covered with flowers in the lower part of the yard, where the [local resident] had been selling it to the sailors and soldiers in bottles containing scarcely a pint, at the exorbitant price of three dollars a bottle. A nice profit, as the stuff costs fifty five cents per gallon, clear of duties, being smuggled in at night.’”

    That bootlegger was fined $400, according to Schmidt.

    Captain Henry Durant Woodruff, commanding officer of Company D, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (public domain).

    Also according to Schmidt, additional festivities ensued on July 16, 1863 when members of Company D “presented a magnificent sword, sash, and belt” to Captain Woodruff “at the US Barracks in Key West.”

    The company was formed in front of their quarters at 8 AM, across the barracks ground from Company C, and Pvt. George W. Baltozer, a 24 year old teacher from Perry County, made the following remarks on behalf of the company:

    ‘The motives that assemble us on the present occasion are based on our mature confidence, the martial skill, the intrepid heroism, and the undaunted intrepidity of our leader in arms. It is manifestive of our consciousness of your noble ability to wield in the defence [sic] of the rights of our country, this glittering weapon, that we place it in your protective hand. Receive it, sir, as a token of our estimation of your promotion of our ease and comfort in quietude, and for your chivalrous spirit on the sanguine field, when the heavens glared with fire, and the earth trembled ‘neath cannons’ roar. May it never rest in its scabbard ’till rebellion is crushed and traitorism is banished from the land, and peace spread her white wings from the St. John’s to the sunny banks of the Rio Grande. May it ever bespeak in the heart of him that wields it, bravery, loyalty, heroism, and philanthropy. That it may ever benefit you in the hour of peril, and that you may undauntingly use it as opportunity is afforded, is the very ardent wish of your most obedient servants.'”

    Captain Woodruff then responded to this touching tribute by presenting a surprisingly lengthy address to his men:

    My companions in arms, your beautiful present is accepted with sincere satisfaction and heartfelt thanks. It affords the satisfaction that you still respect and have confidence in your commander, and he is thankful not only for the value of this noble gift, but for the rich token of your kind regard. And while I wear these arms and accoutrements, emblematical of my rank and office, may they never be worn unworthily, or the noble donors have cause to blush for the ungallant act of the wearer.

    Two years have nearly elapsed since we have been associated as commander and commanded. Two years of privation and toil, yet your love for the cause and your ardor to serve your country has not abated.

    When you entered upon this gigantic struggle, you were not prompted by large bribes or bounties, or intimidated by being forced in service by conscription. But inspired by a noble patriotism, you cheerfully volunteered for the longest period known to law.

    Your conduct thus far has been in accordance with the honorable principles which caused you to volunteer. No discipline too strict, no privations too great, no toil too sore, but that your indomitable spirits have been able to accomplish, to undergo and overcome. And now allow me to say to you that I am proud of the noble men who compose this company; I am proud of your generous and gallant conduct; I am proud of your association; I am proud of the honor you have this day conferred upon your Captain.

    In looking forward, I have no fears for you in the future, whatever you may be called on to do—in garrison—in the tented field, or on the sanguined plain, it will be bravely—it will be well done. Then until rebels and traitors shall become extinct, or have grounded their arms, and acknowledged the supremacy of the government and the law, let this our motto be: Give us death or give us liberty.

    In his own account of that event, Sergeant Alan Wilson noted that Captain Woodruff’s speech was received with three cheers by the men of D Company and a reception at which they ate and drank heartily in his honor.

    Two days later, on Sunday, July 18, two privates from Company B—Charles Knauss and Allen Newhard—missed the regiment’s regularly scheduled inspection at Fort Taylor. Absent from morning through evening, they returned to their quarters. In response to their unexcused absence, their superior officers confined them to the guard house for three days and fined them each five dollars.

    On July 22, Captain Henry S. Harte conducted a formal inspection of his F Company soldiers, who were dressed in full uniform and carrying their rifles for the event. That same day, B Company Private William Geist was reported as being drunk in his company’s barracks. Citing previous episodes of drunkenness, he was ordered by his superior officers “to stand upon the head of a barrel in front of the guard quarters for six successive days from 7 to 10 AM, and be confined in the guard house in the interval,” according to Schmidt.

    In a letter penned around this same time, I Company Private Alfred Pretz wrote:

    The weather is pleasant here, nothing short of it. Here we are set down on a small key in the ocean with the cooling sea breezes continually blowing over us so that, although the rays of the sun parch the ground and wither the herbage, the air in the shade is temperate. From 10 to 3 we keep in doors, the early mornings are fine, the evenings are cool. We have the moonlight at night now too which makes it delightful. I have just returned from Fort Taylor. Col. Good was here with his carriage at 12 and asked me whether I would ride back to the fort with him. Of course, I went transacted a little business for headquarters down there and walked back, over a mile. It would be impossible, I believe, to walk so far at this time of day if the breeze were not so strong and cooling. Tomorrow evening the Colonel is to be presented with a magnificent sword by the citizens of Key West ‘as a token of [their] appreciation of his merits as a gentlemen and soldier,’ so the Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements said at their meeting the other evening. The sword was made to order in New York and cost $750. I have not seen it. I will describe it to you as soon as I have seen it. The Yellow Fever season commences about the 1st of August. I don’t think we will have any of it this year, as there are none of the usual signs. We haven’t had a death in the regiment in the last month. There are few sick.

    Colonel Tilghman H. Good, commanding officer, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (public domain image, circa 1863).

    Colonel Good received that sword from the citizens of Key West during a festive event on Saturday, July 25, according to Schmidt.

    At 4 PM, Companies C and D which were stationed at the barracks, were marched to Fort Taylor where Companies A, B, and I were stationed. The companies were formed in a line under command of Col. Good and marched through several street to the front of the Custom House, where they formed in a square column at 5 PM, with the Colonel on his horse ‘in his regular position’ in front of the troops. ‘A fine stand had been erected on the piazza of the building, seats were placed for the ladies, flags were stretched across the streets, and everything so arranged as to give it the appearance of a holiday. On the stand were Rear Admiral Bailey, Capt. Templeton of the Navy, Gen. Woodbury and staff, Captains Hook and McFarland of the Army; besides Thomas J. Boynton, U.S. District Attorney, for the Southern District of Florida.’

    Two citizens came down from the platform and Col. Good dismounted from his horse and took his cap in his hand, stepped between the two men and was escorted to the platform at the cheers of his men. He was presented with the sword, sash, and belt by Mr. Maloney, a Key West lawyer.

    Maloney then delivered the following address:

    The people of Key West have called upon me to represent them today, and in their name and on their behalf to present you with a sword as a token of their regard, and in appreciation of your merits as a gentleman and soldier. And permit me to say, sir, that heretofore in instances almost without number have I been called upon to serve this people, during a residence of 28 years among them. And that many of those calls have been attended with positions of honor, trust, and emolument; but upon no occasion have I felt the honor more great, or my sympathies more in accord with the good people of this island, than upon the present occasion.

    You first came to our island, sir, nearly two years ago. You came then as a subordinate, but at the head of a regiment, which had met the armed enemies of the government of the United States on the fields of Virginia, and had shown its discipline and bravery in battle, which attracted the favorable attention of the General soon after appointed to the command of this island; and which caused your regiment to be selected by him to serve under his command at this point.

    Transferred from Virginia to Key West. From scenes of carnage to the peaceful abode of an unarmed and loyal people, you met the inhabitants of this island, as they deserved to be met and as they met you, and all who came before you bearing the flag of the Union and the command at this post.

    After a very short sojourn on the island, but not before you had succeeded in making a favorable impression on the inhabitants, the government found it necessary to transfer your regiment to South Carolina where it was expected fighting was to be done. And it was with pride and pleasure that your friends here learned that you met the enemy at Pocotaligo and Jacksonville and demonstrated that the most modest could be the most brave.

    Unfortunately for us, sir, the transfer operated to bring into chief command on this island, one who had yet to learn to meet an armed foe. And I refrain from speaking of the administration, or more correctly speaking, the maladministration of that officer only because he is absent.

    Wiser councils, and a good providence returned you to us, as chief in command, at a moment of great peril to a large number of our inhabitants, and you signalized your assumption of command by inaugurating renewed confidence in the good faith of the government of the United States. By discountenancing a vile system of clandestine attacks upon the reputation of quiet law abiding citizens. And by bringing order out of general confusion.

    Your administration of affairs as chief of command was short, but such as to attract the respect sand esteem of the greater portion of the people of this island; and without disparagement to others, I can confidently say that no military officer of the United States more wisely and prudently governed on this island than yourself.

    The citizens of Key West, in appreciation of your merits as a gentleman and a soldier, through me, now present this sword, asking your acceptance of the same, confident that they confide it to the hands of an officer who knows both how and when to use it.

    In response, Colonel Good said:

    Gentlemen, I accept at your hands this magnificent gift, and beg of you to accept in return my most heartfelt thanks. Duly sensible that no acts of mine as an individual have merited it, I shall regard the presentation of this testimonial as evidence of your attachment to the cause I have the honor to represent, and of your devotion to our common country. It shall ever serve as an additional memento, if one were needed, to remind me of the pleasant days passed among you, and of the loyalty of your citizens, to whom I am already greatly indebted for many kindnesses. It shall be sacredly preserved and I hope no act of mine will ever disgrace it or cause you to regret of your generosity. I am a man of action, gentlemen, and I know you will in these times, particularly, excuse a lengthy speech from me, it not being a soldier’s vocation. Imagine all a grateful heart could prompt the most eloquent to utter, and you will have the correct idea of my feelings.

    A reception then followed, during which the 47th Pennsylvania’s Regimental Band performed Bully for You and other numbers and the assembled crowd of Key West residents and men from the 47th Pennsylvania gave rousing cheers for Colonel Good, the Army and Navy of the United States and its senior military officers, President Abraham Lincoln, and America’s Union. As the event wound down, the regiment’s various companies marched back to their respective quarters.

    August 1863

    Officers’ quarters and parade grounds, interior of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida, 1898 (U.S. National Park Service and National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).

    During the month of August, forty-nine of the inhabitants of Fort Jefferson were admitted to the fort’s post hospital, twenty-nine of whom were members of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Among those admitted from the regiment were twenty-five soldiers who had contracted infectious or inflammatory diseases or developed other types of infections. Conditions identified during this period included: anthrax/fungus infections (two cases), bilious remittent or intermittent fevers (nine cases); conjunctivitis; constipation, dysentery/diarrhea, enuresis/bed wetting or other intestinal complaints (eleven cases); funiculitis and orchitis, as well as cases of cramp, debilitas, hemorrhage, and rheumatism.

    That same month, the men stationed at Fort Jefferson continued their routine of morning infantry drills, followed by artillery practice in the afternoon, with Second Lieutenant Christian K. Breneman appointed as the fort’s post adjutant, Company K’s First Lieutenant David Fetherolf appointed as “A.A.G.M. & A.A.C.S. of Post in accordance with Spec. Order #98 HQ Fort Jefferson,” and Privates Alexander Blumer (Company B), Charles Detweiler (Company A), John Schweitzer (Company A), Charles Shaffer (Company E), and John Weiss (Company F) assigned to responsibilities, respectively, as a company clerk, nurse, baker, quartermaster department member, and ordnance department member. In addition, other members of the regiment were assigned to guard duty.

    Lighthouse, Key West, Florida, early to mid-1800s (Florida for Tourists, Invalids, and Settlers, George M. Barbour, 1881, public domain).

    Their routine changed dramatically for one day, however; on Thursday, August 6, 1863—the date President Abraham Lincoln had proclaimed as a nationwide day of Thanksgiving and reflection—and a date on which 47th Pennsylvanians at both of garrison sites most certainly took time to reflect on all that they had endured since enlisting.

    While the majority of enlisted men and lower ranking officers stationed in the Dry Tortugas observed the national holiday there at Fort Jefferson, many of their superior officers headed to Fort Taylor, where every store in town was closed to ensure wider participation in the commemorative events that had been scheduled there, which C Company’s Henry Wharton described in his August 23, 1863 letter to the Sunbury American:

    Thanksgiving, or the day set apart by the President for prayer and to return thanks to Him who has the control of battles, was properly observed by the Army and Navy at this place. The proclamation of the President was read from the pulpits of the different churches on the Sunday evening previous, and invitation extended to all who wished to participate in the services on that occasion. General Woodbury issued a circular requesting all of his command to observe the day in a becoming manner and to attend Divine service at their usual places of worship.– He ordered that all drills and policeing [sic] should be dispensed with, so that the men were at liberty to spend the day as their feelings best dictated. The invitation of the Clergy was accepted, and the Military, by companies attended church. Company C, headed by Captain Gobin and Lieutenant Oyster, marched to the Episcopal church, where an eloquent discourse was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Herrick, but owing to the great crowd many were compelled to retire, thus losing an intellectual treat that would have benefitted them more than the mere listening to a common sermon. The Reverend gentleman of this church has been very kind to our regiment in reserving seats for their accommodation. One act of his speaks for itself, viz: on our arrival here he addressed a note to the Colonel of the 47th, inviting the officers and men to attend the services at St. Marks church, and mentioned particularly that the seats were free.

    On the Saturday following Thanksgiving a Yacht race came off on the waters between Sand Key Light House and Key West.– Some thirty boats were entered. Boats of all kinds, from a Captains gig to a thirty or forty ton schooner. The wind was fine and a splendid day they had for the purpose.– Each boat had a flag that it might be known, and as they moved off, the fleet made a grand display. From the ramparts of Fort Taylor the sight was magnificent, for from that point one had a full view, and an opportunity afforded of following the different parties, with the eye, until they gained the turning point and their return to the starting ground. A steam tug followed the party, having on board ladies, the committee and guests, who had a jolly time of it, and an opportunity of tripping the ‘light, fantastic toe,’ to the fine music of the 47th Band, lead by that excellent musician, Prof. Bush. Quartermaster Lock’s schooner ‘Nonpareil’ won the race, out distancing all of its competitors. Of that fact I was certain, for how else could it be, when its name belongs to the ‘art, preservative of all arts’ – printing.

    Last Wednesday brought two-thirds of the ‘three years’ of the ‘Sunbury Guards’ to a close, when Lieut. Reese surprised the boys, agreeably, by giving them an entertainment. In this the Lieut., took the start of the other officers of the company, but as all joined in devouring the good things furnished, every one was in a good humor and satisfied, no matter who was the caterer for the occasion. Company C is blessed with good officers – men who do, as they wish to be done by. This little celebration had a good effect, for if there was any misunderstanding, previously, it is now settled, and no better conducted or well regulated family, where good feeling are exhibited, can be found among the soldiers of Uncle Sam. Our company is slightly envied on account of their good grub, but for this the boys should not be blamed for Gobin, who has charge of the company savings, is continually hunting the market for the best it affords, and Sergeant Piers and Johnny Voonsch serve it up in their best style, proving to others that soldiers can, if they good [sic] cooks, live a well as any ‘other man.’

    The nomination of Governor Curtin for re-election was well received, and if they had the right to vote there would be no fear of the next Chief Magistrate of Pennsylvania being a copperhead. The decision of Judge Woodward, depriving the soldier of a vote, is looked upon as a bribe for not re-enlisting; and indeed it is, for does it not give the bounty of the right of suffrage to every elector who stays at home? The voting men of the 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, are as a unit for the re-election of Andrew G. Curtin.

    Blockade running is nearly played out, and is confined to Mobile and Wilmington, N.C. Very few vessels of this sort are brought into this port at present, owing to the strict watch that is kept on the above named places; however, a day or two ago, the U.S. Steamer De Soto brought in two very large river steamers laden with cotton. The cotton is being transferred to other vessels and will soon be sent North, where it will be put in market for sale.

    One of the houses belonging to the Engineer Department was entirely destroyed by fire on last Thursday. It was occupied by the laborers as a sleeping apartment. How the fire originated is unknown, but it is supposed to have caught from a tobacco pipe of one of the men, or from a spark of the locomotive that is used in hauling material for the outside works at Fort Taylor. The boys are all very well and in fine spirits, only a little more active life, and occasional brush with the enemy, they think, would give them a better appetite and enable them to enjoy the rations fournished [sic] by Government….

    Fort Jefferson and its wharf (Harper’s Weekly, August 26, 1865, public domain; click to enlarge).

    As the month of August wore on, one of the 47th Pennsylvanians assigned to guard duty at Fort Jefferson was H Company’s Corporal George W. Albert, who was stationed at the wharf in the Dry Tortugas on August 24. Standing guard at the regimental post designated as No. 6, he was assigned to night duty, and was relieved the next morning at 8 a.m.

    That same day, General Woodbury arrived at the Tortugas for an inspection. He was impressed by the regiment’s level of discipline according to H Company Captain James Kacy, who later wrote: “Men were fully armed and ready for march, splendid appearance…. Gen. Woodbury would not part with the 47th if he does not have to, and all the people at Key West and the Tortugas are pleased with the 47th more than any other regiment.”

    With respect to the civilian population at Fort Jefferson and across Florida’s Dry Tortugas, life was also often surprisingly busy. According to Emily Holder, who was making a life with her physician-husband at a house on the fort’s grounds during this time:

    The latter part of August 1863, Mr. Hall, who with his wife, had been long with us, was ordered away. He was a very efficient officer and we heard long afterwards that his bravery under fire was remarkable. Their departure was most tantalizing to them and to us somewhat amusing. It showed more clearly than anything else would our isolated condition, for our only legitimate means of getting away was by sail; whenever we had steam conveyance it was by special favor.

    We had given some farewell entertainments to Mr. And Mrs. Hall, and Saturday afternoon saw them on board the boat that was to carry them directly to Pensacola. When ready to sail the wind suddenly failed, and the vessel could not get away from the wharf.

    The doctor went down and brought them back with him to tea after which they returned to the boat, hoping that during the night a breeze would spring up, but in the morning there the boat lay, and they breakfasted with the colonel. Later all went down again to see them off, as a breeze gently flapped the flag, but it was dead ahead, making it impossible to get out of the narrow channel, which in some places was not wide enough for two vessels to pass each other, and beating out was impossible, so they came up to tea again and spent the evening.

    The next morning the doctor looked out of the window and exclaimed: “There they go!” when suddenly as we were watching, the masts became perfectly motionless. We knew only too well what that meant. They had run on to the edge of the reef, within hailing distance of the Fort, and the doctor with others, went out and spent the morning with them, as they refused to come on shore again. Mr. Hall said he was going to “stand by the ship.”

    In the course of the day, by kedging as the sailors call it, putting out the anchor and pulling the boat up to it, then throwing it out again further on, they managed to crawl to the first buoy, and there lay in the broiling sun….

    Someone replied that it was fortunate that the Wishawken had captured the Atlanta and that the Florida after running the blockade from Mobile under the British colors, rarely came near our coast, for they certainly would have been captured had there been a privateer in those waters.

    The next morning when we went on top of the Fort, the sails of the schooner were just a white speck on the northern horizon, and we could hear music from the steamer, which was bringing Colonel Goode [sic] for his monthly inspection of the troops.

    Our rains continued occasionally later than usual, one in the middle of September almost ending in a hurricane; so rough was it that the Clyde, a long, graceful, English-built steamer, that came in for coal with the Sunflower, had to remain several days. The Clyde had quite a serious time in reaching the harbor. We watched it through a porthole with great anxiety. It was too strong a wind for us to venture on the ramparts, but we could walk all about inside seeing everything that came in from our safe lookout.

    Colonel Goode [sic] on his last trip had left the regiment band for us awhile, so that guard mount and dress parade were important features, while the naval officers went about visiting the various houses, keeping us bright and gay while they were weather bound.

    The high winds ended in a severe norther—an almost unheard of thing so early in the season. Later we saw by a paper that they had snow in New York the latter part of August; it might have been the same cold wave that swept down over the Gulf, for it housed us shivering.

    While the band was with us the ramparts were the favorite places for viewing dress parade, and the colonel gave the ladies all the pleasure he could, having the band play on parade during the evening.

    A remittent fever broke out and we were ill for three weeks. It was very much like the break-bone fever; extreme suffering in the limbs and back seemed to be the prevailing feature of the attacks. At the same time they were digging a ditch around close to the wall of the Fort, which made it pass between the house and kitchen as the latter was in the casemates.

    The rains, of course, swelled the size of the brook so that the bridge over it, when the wind blew, as it seemed to most of the time, was rather an insecure passage, as it was five feet wide and from three to four deep, and to cross that every time one went into the kitchen was no small annoyance, and the contrivances to get the meals into the dining-room got required no little ingenuity.

    Meanwhile, as summer progressed, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers continued to weaken Florida’s abilities to supply and transport food and troops throughout the area held by the Confederate States of America by capturing livestock and farm produce, as well as disrupting the manufacture of salt.

    They also continued to train, keeping their battle skills sharp in readiness for the moment they would be ordered back into the fray in order to finally extinguish the faction of “fire-eaters” bent on dissolving the United States and all that the nation had stood for since its founding.

     

    Sources:

    1. Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
    2. “Florida’s Role in the Civil War: ‘Supplier of the Confederacy.’” Tampa, Florida: Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida, retrieved online January 15, 2020.
    3. Holder, Emily. “At the Dry Tortugas During the War.” San Francisco, California: Californian Illustrated Magazine, 1892 (part four, retrieved online, March 28, 2024, courtesy of Lit2Go, the website of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse at the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida).
    4. “History: Crops (Historic Florida Barge Canal Trail).” Historical Marker Database, retrieved online December 30, 2023.
    5. Owsley, Frank Lawrence, and Harriet Fason Chappell. King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1959.
    6. “Preventing Diplomatic Recognition of the Confederacy, 1861–1865,” and “The Alabama Claims, 1862–1872,” in “Milestones: 1861–1865.” Washington, D.C.: Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State, retrieved online December 30, 2023.
    7. Schmidt, Lewis G. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
    8. Wharton, Henry. Letters from the Sunbury Guards. Sunbury, Pennsylvania: Sunbury American, 1861-1868.

     

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    “Labor Is Life” (U.S. Postal Service’s Labor Day Stamp, 1956, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).

    Bakers, blacksmiths, boatmen, butchers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, cigarmakers, coal miners, factory workers, farmers, gardeners, gold miners, iron workers, masons, quarry workers, teamsters, tombstone carvers. These were just a few of the diverse job titles held by the laborers who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.

    Many returned to their same occupations after the war ended while others found new pathways for their life journeys. Far too many were never able to return to the arms of their loved ones and still rest in marked or unmarked graves far from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    In honor of Labor Day, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story is proud to present this abridged list of blue-collar men and boys who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry between August 1861 and January 1866, as well as the names of two of the women associated with the regiment who made their own unforgettable marks on the world.

    * Auchmuty, Samuel S. (First Lieutenant, Company D): A native of Duncannon, Perry County and veteran of the Mexican-American War who was employed as a carpenter during the early 1860s, Samuel Auchmuty responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War by enrolling as a first lieutenant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on August 20, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his work as a house carpenter and launched a successful contracting business that was responsible for building new business structures, churches, single-family homes, and schools, as well as renovating existing structures; he died in 1891, following a brief illness;

    First Sergeant Christian S. Beard, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Beard, Christian Seiler (First Lieutenant, Company C): A twenty-seven-year-old, married carpenter residing in Williamsport, Lycoming County when President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1865, Chistian S. Beard promptly enrolled for Civil War military service before that month was out as a private with Company D of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; after rising up through the ranks to become a first lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on Christmas Day, 1865, and returned home to his wife in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he continued to work as a carpenter; after having several children with his wife, he was widowed by her; remarried in 1884, he relocated with his wife and children to Pittsburgh, where he continued to work as a carpenter; ailing with heart and kidney disease, he died there on November 16, 1911 and was interred at that city’s Highwood Cemetery;

    * Burke, Thomas (Sergeant, Company I): A first-generation American, Thomas Burke was a twenty-year-old cabinetmaker residing in Allentown at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on the day that the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded (August 5, 1861), he was officially mustered in as a private; from that point on, he continued to work his way up the ranks, receiving a promotion to corporal on September 19, 1864 and then to sergeant on July 11, 1865; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865, he returned home to Lehigh County, where he married and began a family; sometime in early to mid-1871, he and his family migrated west to Iowa, settling in Anamosa, Jones County, where he was employed as a carpenter and contractor; he died at his home there on October 22, 1910 and was buried at that town’s Riverside Cemetery;

    * Colvin, John Dorrance (Second Lieutenant, Company C): A native of Abington Township, Lackawanna County who was a farmer when he enlisted for Civil War military service on September 12, 1861, John D. Colvin transferred to the U.S. Army Signal Corps on October 13, 1863, and continued to serve with the Signal Corps for the duration of the war; employed as an engineer, post-war, he helped the Pacific Railroad to extend its service from Atchison, Kansas to Fort Kearney in Nebraska before returning home to Pennsylvania, where he married, began a family and residing with them in Olyphant and Carbondale before relocating with them to Parsons on Luzerne County, where he became a prominent civic leader and member of the school board; initially employed as a machinist, he went on to become superintendent of the Delaware & Hudson Coal company before taking a similar job with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company; Postmaster of Parsons during the early 1890s, he died there on March 15, 1901 and was buried at the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre;

    * Crownover, James (Sergeant, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old teamster residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Crownover rose up through the ranks of the 47th Pennsylvania from private to reach the rank of sergeant; wounded in the right shoulder and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864, he was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, where he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on November 25, 1864; during captivity, he was commissioned, but not mustered as a second lieutenant; given medical treatment before he was returned to active duty, he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he found work at a tannery near Blain, married, began a family and then relocated with them to East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, where he worked as a teamster; relocating with them to Braddock in Allegheny County after the turn of the century, he worked at a local mill there; he died in Allegheny County on July 18, 1903 and was buried at the Monongahela Cemetery in Braddock Hills;

    Jacob Daub, circa 1862-1865 (carte de visite, Cooley & Beckett Photographers, Savannah, Georgia and Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina, public domain).

    * Daub, Jacob and William J. (Drummer Boy, Company A): A German immigrant as a child, Jacob Daub and his younger brother emigrated with their parents circa 1852 and settled in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where their father found work as a stone mason; a sixteen-year-old cigarmaker in 1861, Jacob became the first of the two brothers to enlist in the American Civil War, enrolling as a field musician with Company A; his nineteen-year-old brother, William, a carpenter by 1865, followed him into the war when he enlisted as a private with the same company in February of that year; after the war ended, both returned home to Northampton County, where they married, had children and went on to live long, full lives; William eventually died at the age of eighty in 1928, followed by Jacob, who passed away in 1936, roughly two months before his ninety-first birthday;

    * Detweiler, Charles C. (Private, Company A): Berks County native Charles Detweiler enrolled for Civil War military service on 16 September 1862; a carpenter who later became a farmer, he served with Company A until he was severely injured in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864, when he sustained a musket ball wound to the middle of his thigh; treated at a Union Army hospital in Virginia before being transported to the Union’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, army surgeons determined that the musket ball had damaged his femur and femoral arteries; he subsequently died from his injuries at Mower on 12 March 1865 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Kutztown, Berks County;

    * Diaz, John (Private, Company I): An immigrant from Spain’s Canary Islands, John Diaz emigrated sometime between 1862 and 1865 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a cigarmaker; on January 25, 1865, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted with the Union Army at a recruiting depot in Norristown, Montgomery County and served as a private with Company I of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he resumed work as a cigarmaker in Philadelphia, eventually launching his own cigarmaking firm, which became a family business as his sons became old enough to work for him; sometime between 1906 and 1910, he relocated his wife and children to Camden County, New Jersey; he died there on September 5, 1915;

    James Downs (circa 1880s, public domain).

    * Downs, James (Corporal, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old tanner residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Downs was captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River; held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864, he received medical treatment and was subsequently returned to active duty; following his honorable discharge with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1865, he returned home, married, began a family and relocated with his family to Phillipsburg, New Jersey; suffering from heart and kidney disease, and possibly also from post-traumatic stress disorder because he was diagnosed as insane by physicians at the Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, he fell from a window and died at that home on September 16, 1921; he was interred in the Veterans’ Circle of the Brookville Cemetery;

    * Eagle, Augustus and (Second Lieutenant, Company F): A German immigrant as a teenager, Augustus Eagle arrived in America on June 23, 1855, two years after his brother, Frederick had emigrated and made a life for himself in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; both men married and began families there with Fred employed as a laborer and Gus employed by the Crane Iron Works; when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, both men enrolled for military service on August 21, 1861 as privates with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; in 1862, Fred fell ill and was honorable discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, but Gus continued to serve, rising up through the regiment’s enlisted and officers’ ranks; commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on September 11, 1864, upon completion of his three-year term of service; post-war, Fred became a successful baker with real estate and personal property valued at $4,200 (roughly $155,750 in 2023 dollars) and died in Catasauqua in 1885, while Gus owned a successful restaurant in Whitehall Township before operating the Fairview Hotel, which became a popular spot for political gatherings; after suffering a series of strokes in 1902, he died at his home on August 17 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;

    * Eisenbraun, Alfred (Drummer Boy, Company B): A tobacco stripper and first-generation American from Allentown, Lehigh County, fifteen-year-old Alfred Eisenbraun became the second “man” from the 47th Pennsylvania to die when he succumbed to complications from typhoid fever at the Kalorama Eruptive Fever Hospital in Georgetown, District of Columbia on October 26, 1861; he still rests at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Cemetery in Washington, D.C.;

    * Fink, Aaron (Corporal, Company B): A shoemaker and native of Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Fink, grew up, began a family and established a successful small shoemaking business, first in Allentown and then in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in Carbon County; on 20 August 1861, he chose to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers to help bring the American Civil War to a quick end when he enrolled for military service; shot in the right leg during the fighting at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died there from wound-related complications on November 5, 1862; initially buried near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed by Allentown undertaker Paul Balliet and returned to Pennsylvania for reinterment at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery;

    * Fornwald, Reily M. (Corporal, Company G): Born in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Reily Fornwald was raised there on his family’s farm near Stouchsberg; educated in his community’s common schools and then at Millersville State Normal School, he became a railroad worker before returning to farm life shortly before the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service at the age of twenty on September 11, 1862, he was wounded in the head and groin by an exploding artillery shell during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; stabilized on the battlefield before being transported to a field hospital for more advanced medical care, he spent four weeks recuperating before returning to active duty with his regiment; promoted to the rank of corporal on January 19, 1863, he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia on September 18, 1864, upon expiration of his term of enlistment; after returning home, he spent four years operating a blast furnace for White & Ferguson in Robesonia, Berks County; he also married and began a family; sometime around 1870, he left that job to become an engine operator for Wright, Cook & Co. in Sheridan and then moved to a job as an engine operator for William M. Kauffman—a position he held for roughly a decade before securing employment as a shifting engineer with the Reading Railway Company at its yards in Reading; following his retirement in 1905, he and his wife settled in Robesonia, where he became involved in buying and selling real estate; following a severe fall in May 1925, during which he fractured a thigh bone, he died at the Homeopathic Hospital in Reading on June 1 and was buried at Robesonia’s Heidelberg Cemetery;

    Captain Reuben Shatto Gardner, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Gardner, Reuben Shatto (John A. and Jacob S. R.): Natives of Perry County, Reuben Shatto Gardner and his brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner, began their work lives as laborers; among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Reuben was a twenty-five-year-old miller who resided in Newport, Perry County; after enlisting as a private with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20, he was honorably mustered out after completing his term of service; he then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a first sergeant with Company H of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; also enrolling with him that same day were his twenty-three-year-old and twenty-one-year-old brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner; John officially mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 18 (the day before Reuben arrived), while Jacob officially mustered in on September 19; both joined their brother’s company, entering at their respective ranks of corporal and private, but Jacob’s tenure was a short one; sickened by typhoid fever in late December 1861, he died at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital at Camp Griffin, near Langley, Virginia on January 8, 1862; his remains were later returned to Perry County for burial at the Old Newport Cemetery; soldiering on, Reuben and John were transported with their regiment by ship to Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida and subsequently sent to South Carolina with their regiment and other Union troops; Reuben was then severely wounded, shot in the head and thigh during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; hospitalized at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina for an extended period of time, he ultimately returned to active duty with his regiment; meanwhile, John was assigned with H Company and the men from Companies D, F and K to garrison Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas; both brothers then continued to work their way up the regiment’s ranks, with John promoted to corporal on September 18, 1864 and Reuben ultimately commissioned as a captain and given  command of Company H on February 16, 1865; both then returned home after honorably mustering out with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865; sometime around 1866 or 1867, Reuben and his wife migrated west, first to Elk River Station in Sherburne County, Minnesota and then to Stillwater, Washington County, before settling in the city of Minneapolis; through it all, he worked as a miller; they then relocated farther west, arriving in King County, Washington after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889; initially employed in the restaurant industry, Reuben later found work as a railroad conductor before prospecting for gold with son Edward in the western United States and British Columbia, Canada during the 1890s Gold Rush; employed as a U.S. Post Office clerk in charge of the money order and registry departments in Seattle from 1898 to 1902, Reuben died in Seattle at the age of sixty-eight on September 25, 1903 and was interred at that city’s Lakeview Cemetery; his brother John, who had resumed work as a fireman with the Pennsylvania Railroad after returning from the war, was widowed by his wife in 1872; after remarrying and welcoming the births of more children, he was severely injured on October 9, 1873 while working as a fireman on the Pacific Express for the Pennsylvania Railroad; unable to continue working as a fireman due to his amputated hand, he worked briefly as a railroad call messenger before launching his own transfer business in Harrisburg; after he was widowed by his ailing second wife, John was severely injured in a second accident in 1894 while loading his delivery wagon; still operating his business after the turn of the century, he remarried on January 3, 1900, but was widowed by his third wife when she died during a surgical procedure in 1911; he subsequently closed his business and relocated to the home of his daughter in the city of Reading, Berks County; four years later, he fell on an icy sidewalk and became bedfast; aged eighty and ailing from arteriosclerosis and lung congestion, he died at her home on February 20, 1918 and was buried at Reading’s Charles Evans Cemetery;

    * Gethers, Bristor (Under-Cook, Company F): Born into slavery in South Carolina circa 1829, Bristor Gethers was married “by slave custom at Georgetown, S.C.” on the Pringle plantation in Georgetown sometime around 1847 to “Rachael Richardson” (alternate spelling “Rachel”); a field hand at the dawn of the Civil War, he was freed from chattel enslavement in 1862 by Union Army troops; he then enlisted as an “Under-Cook” with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Beaufort, South Carolina on October 5, 1862, and traveled with the regiment until October 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged in Charleston, South Carolina upon completion of his three-year term of enlistment; at that point, he returned to Beaufort and resumed life with his wife and their son, Peter; a farmer, Bristor was ultimately disabled by ailments that were directly attributable to his Union Army tenure; he died on Horse Island, South Carolina on June 24 or 25, 1894 and was interred at a graveyard on Parris Island on June 26 of that same year;

    * Gilbert, Edwin (Captain, Company F): A native of Northampton County and a carpenter residing in Catasauqua, Lehigh County at the dawn of the American Civil War, Edwin Gilbert enrolled as a corporal on August 21, 1861; after rising up through his regiment’s officer ranks, he was ultimately commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on New Year’s Day, 1865, and then mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina of Christmas of that same year; resuming his life with his wife and children in Lehigh County after the war, he continued to work as a carpenter; after suffering a stroke in late December 1893, he died on January 2, 1894 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;

    Mrs. Caroline Bost and Martin L. Guth celebrated Lincoln’s birthday with fellow Grand Army of the Republic and ladies auxiliary members in February 1933.

    * Guth, Martin Luther (Corporal, Company K): A native of Lehigh County and son of a farmer, Martin L. Guth was a seventeen-year-old laborer and resident of Guthsville in Whitehall Township at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on September 26, 1862, he was officially mustered in as a corporal; he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably mustered out on October 1, 1865, upon expiration of his term of service; at some point during that service, he broke his leg—an injury that did not heal properly and plagued him for the remainer of his life; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he found work again as a laborer; married in 1883, he became the father of four children, one of whom was born in New Mexico and another who was born in California; he had moved his family west in search of work in the mining industry; documented as a “prospector” or “miner” records created in Nevada during that period, he was also documented on voter registration rolls of Butte City in Glenn County, California in August 1892; by 1900, he was living separately from his wife, who was residing in Bandon, Coos County, Oregon with their two children while he was residing at the Veterans’ Home of California in Yount Township, Napa County, California; subsequently admitted to the Mountain Branch of the network of U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee on February 11, 1912, his disabilities included an old compound fracture of his right leg with chronic ulceration, defective vision (right eye), chronic bronchitis, and arteriosclerosis; discharged on December 12, 1920, he was admitted to the U.S. National Soldiers’ Home in Leavenworth, Kansas on July 30, 1912, but discharged on September 29, 1913; by 1920, he was living alone on Fruitvale Avenue in the city of Oakland, California, but was remaining active with his local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic, rising through the ranks of chapter, state and national G.A.R. leadership positions; after a long, adventure-filled life, he died at the age of ninety-one at the veterans’ home in San Francisco on October 11, 1935 and was interred at the San Francisco National Cemetery (also known as the Presidio Cemetery);

    Lieutenant Charles A. Hackman, Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).

    * Hackman, Charles Abraham and Martin Henry (First Lieutenant and Sergeant, Company G): Natives of Rittersville, Lehigh County, Charles and Martin Hackman began their work lives as apprentices, with Charles employed by a carpenter and Martin employed by master coachmaker Jacob Graffin; members of the local militia unit known as the Allen Rifles, they were among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; both enlisted as privates with Company I of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20 and were honorably mustered out in July after completing their service; Charles then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a sergeant with Company G of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and spent most of is early service in Virginia; meanwhile, his younger brother, Martin H. Hackman, who was employed as a coach trimmer in Lehigh County, re-enlisted for his own second tour of duty, opting to enlist as a private with Charles’ company on January 8, 1862; working their way up the ranks, Charles was commissioned as a first lieutenant on June 18, 1863, while Martin was promoted to sergeant on April 26, 1864; Charles was then breveted as a captain on November 30, 1864 after having mustered out on November 5; Martin was then honorably discharged on January 8, 1865; initially employed, post-war, with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad’s train car facility in Reading, Berks County, Charles was promoted to car inspector at the company’s Philadelphia facility in December 1866; he subsequently married, but had no children and was widowed in 1904; remarried, he remained in Philadelphia until the early 1900s, when he relocated to Allentown; Martin, who worked as a bricklayer in Allentown, did have children after marrying, but he, too, was widowed; also remarried, he became a manager at a rolling mill; ailing with pneumonia in early 1917, Charles was eighty-six years old when he died in Allentown on January 17; he was buried at Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery, while his brother Martin was buried at the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem, following his death in Bethlehem from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 14, 1921;

    * Junker, George (Captain, Company K): A German immigrant as a young adult, George Junker emigrated sometime around the early 1850s and settled in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found employment as a marble worker and tombstone carver, and where he also joined the Allen Infantry, one of his adopted hometown’s three militia units; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, George enlisted with his fellow Allen Infantrymen, honorably completed his Three Months’ Service, and promptly began his own recruitment of men for an “all-German company” for the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; commissioned as a captain with the 47th Pennsylvania, he was placed in charge of his men who became known as Company K; mortally wounded by a Confederate rifle shot during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he died from his wounds the next day at the Union Army’s division hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; his remains were returned to his family in Hazleton, Luzerne County for reburial at the Vine Street Cemetery;

    * Kern, Samuel (Private, Company D): A native of Perry County who was employed as a farmer in Bloomfield, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, Samuel Kern was wounded and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864; marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he died from harsh treatment on June 12, 1864; buried somewhere on the grounds of that prison camp, his grave remains unidentified;

    * Kosier, George (Captain, Company D): A native of Perry County and twenty-four-year-old carpenter residing in that county’s community of New Bloomfield at the dawn of the American Civil War, George Kosier became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for military service on April 20 as a corporal with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; joining him were his younger brothers, Jesse and William S. Kosier, aged nineteen and twenty-three, who were enrolled as privates with the same company; all three subsequently re-enlisted with their company at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida in 1863; sadly, Jesse fell ill with pleurisy and died at the Union Army’s Field Hospital in Sandy Hook, Maryland on August 1864; initially buried at a cemetery in Weverton, Maryland, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred at the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland; both George and William continued to serve with the regiment, with George continuing his rise up the ranks; commissioned as a captain, he was given command of Company D in early June 1865; both brothers were then honorably discharged with their regiment on Christmas Day, 1865; post-war, both men married and began families; William died in Pennsylvania sometime around 1879, but George went on to live a long full life; after settling in Ogle County, Illinois, where he was employed as a carpenter, he relocated with his family to Wright County, Iowa, where he built bridges; he died in Chicago on December 3, 1920 and was buried at that city’s Rosehill Cemetery;

    Anna (Weiser) Leisenring (1851-1942) , circa 1914 (public domain).

    * Leisenring, Annie (Weiser): The wife of Thomas B. Leisenring (Captain, Company G), Annie Leisenring was employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a factory inspector after the American Civil War; she became well known through newspaper accounts of her inspection visits and also became widely respected for her efforts to improve child labor laws statewide;

    * Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal, Company E): An Irish immigrant as a young adult, Thomas Lowrey emigrated sometime around the late 1840s or early 1850s and settled in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a miner, married and began a family; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, Thomas enlisted with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania on September 16, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a coal miner near Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, where he resided with his wife and children; after witnessing the dawn of a new century, he died in Shenandoah on January 11, 1906;

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    * Magill, Julia Ann (Kuehner Minnich): Widowed and the mother of a young son at the time that her husband, Captain Edwin G. Minnich, was killed in battle during the American Civil War, Julia Ann (Kuehner) Minnich became a Union Army nurse at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. during the war in order to keep a roof over her son’s head; she then spent the remainder of her life battling the U.S. Pension Bureau to receive and keep both the U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension and a U.S. Civil War Nurse’s Pension that she was entitled to under federal law; forced to go on working into her later years by poverty, she finally found work as a cook at a hotel in South Bethlehem; she died sometime after 1906;

    * Menner, Edward W. (Second Lieutenant, Company E): A first-generation American who was a native of Easton, Northampton County, Edward Menner was a sixteen-year-old carpenter when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 25, 1861; working his way up from private to second lieutenant before he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he was wounded in the left shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on October 19, 1864; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he secured employment as a hooker with the Bethlehem Iron Company (later known as Bethlehem Steel) on March 15, 1866; he married, begam a family and continued to work in the iron industry for much of his life; he died in Bethlehem on April 25, 1913 and was buried at that city’s Nisky Hill Cemetery;

    * Miller, John Garber (Sergeant, Company D): A native of Ironville, Blair County, John G. Miller was a twenty-one-year-old laborer living in Duncannon, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861; captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864; returned to active duty with his regiment after receiving medical treatment, he continued to serve until he was honorably discharged with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he married, began a family and relocated with his family to Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a teamster; returning to Blair County with his family, he resided with them in Logan Township before relocating with them again to Coalport, Clearfield County; suffering from heart disease, he died in Coalport on February 16, 1921 and was interred at the Coalport Cemetery;

    Captain Theodore Mink, Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (circa 1870s-1880s, courtesy of Julian Burley; used with permission).

    * Mink, Theodore (Captain, Company I): A native of Allentown, Lehigh County who was apprenticed as a coachmaker and then tried his hand as a whaler and blacksmith prior to the American Civil War, Thedore Mink became one of the “First Defenders” who responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital after the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; after honorably completing his Three Months’ Service in July, he re-enlisted on August 5 as a sergeant with Company I of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; after steadily working his way up through the ranks, he was commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on May 22, 1865; he continued to serve with his regiment until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he was hired as a laborer with a circus troupe operated by Mike Lipman before finding longtime employment in advertising and then as head of the circus wardrobe for the Forepaugh Circus before he was promoted to management with the circus; felled by pneumonia during late 1889, he died in Philadelphia on January 7, 1890 and was interred in Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery;

    * Newman, Edward (Private, Company H): A German immigrant who left his homeland sometime around 1920, Edward Newman chose to settle in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a baker; after enlisting for Civil War military service in August 1862, he mustered in as a private with Company I of the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers and fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg from December 11-15 of that year; honorably mustered out with his regiment in May 1863, he re-enlisted on October 23, 1863 for a second tour of duty—but as a private with a different regiment—Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with the 47th Pennsylvania until he was officially mustered out in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, where he worked briefly as a baker; suffering from rheumatism that developed while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed near Cedar Creek, Virginia during the fall of 1864, he was admitted to the network of U.S. Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the Central Branch in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on July 17, 1877; still unmarried and still living there in 1880, his health continued to decline; diagnosed with acute enteritis, he died there on January 22, 1886 and was buried at the Dayton National Cemetery;

    Captain Daniel Oyster, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).

    * Oyster, Daniel (Captain, Company C): A native of Sunbury, Northumberland County who was employed as a machinist, Daniel Oyster became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for Civil War military service on April 23 as a corporal with Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; his brother, John Oyster, subsequently followed him into the service, enrolling as a private with his company on November 20, 1863; after rising up through the ranks to become captain of his company, Daniel was shot in his left shoulder near Berryville, Virginia on September 5, 1864 and then shot in his right shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19; successfully treated by Union Army surgeons for both wounds, he was awarded a veteran’s furlough in order to continue his recuperation and returned home to Sunbury; he then returned to duty and was honorably discharged with his company on Christmas Day, 1865; post-discharge, he and his brother, John, returned home to Sunbury; Daniel continued to reside with their aging mother and was initially employed as a policeman, but was then forced by a war-related decline in his health to take less-taxing work as a railroad postal agent; his brother John, who was married, lived nearby and worked as a fireman, but died in Sunbury on April 20, 1899; employed as a bookkeeper after the turn of the century, Daniel never married and was ultimately admitted to the Southern Branch of the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, where he died on August 5, 1922—exactly sixty-one years to the day after the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded; he was given a funeral with full military honors before being laid to rest in the officers’ section at the Arlington National Cemetery on August 11;

    * Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant, Company B): The son of a lock tender in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Thomas Sauerwein was employed as a carpenter at the dawn of the American Civil War; following his enrollment for military service in Allentown, Lehigh County on August 20, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company B of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; from that point on, he steadily worked his way up the ranks of the regiment, ultimately being promoted to first sergeant on New Year’s Day, 1865; following his honorable discharge with his company on Christmas Day of that same year, he returned home to the Lehigh Valley, where he found work as a carpenter, married and began a family; by 1880, he had moved his family west to Williamsport in Lycoming County, where he had found work as a machinist; employed as a leather roller with a tanning factory, he was promoted to a position as a leather finisher after the turn of the century, while his two sons worked as leather rollers in the same industry; he died in Williamsport on July 29, 1912 and was buried at the East Wildwood Cemetery in Loyalsock;

    * Slayer, Joseph (Private, Company E; also known as “Dead Eye Dick” and “E. J. McMeeser”): A native of Philadelphia, Joseph Slayer was a nineteen-year-old miner residing in Willliams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service in Easton, Northampton County on September 9, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with his company, re-enlisting as a private with Company E, under the name of Joseph Slayer, at Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas on January 4, 1864; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he relocated to Zanesville, Ohio sometime after the war, where he joined the Grand Army of the Republic’s Hazlett Post No. 81; he may then have relocated briefly to St. Paul, Minnesota sometime around the 1870s or early 1880s, or may simply have had a child and grandchild living there, because newspaper reports of his death noted that he had been carrying a photograph of a toddler named Robert—a photo that had “To Grandpa” inscribed on it and indicated that the grandchild, Robert, was a resident of St. Paul in 1892; by the 1880s, Joseph had made it as far west as the Dakota Territory—but this was where his life’s journey took a strange twist; discarding the name he had used in the army (“Joseph Slayer”), he changed his name several times over the next several years, as if he were trying to shed his prior life and all of its associations; acquaintances he met in the southern part of the Dakota Territory during the early to mid-1880s knew him as “Dead Eye Dick” while others who met him after he had resettled in Bismarck, in the northern part of the Dakota Territory, knew him as “Eugene McMeeser” or “E. J. McMeeser” (alternate spelling: “McNeeser”); by the time that the federal government conducted its special census of Civil War veterans in June 1890, Joseph was so comfortable fusing parts of his old and new lives together that he was convincingly documented by an enumerator as “Eugene McMeeser,” a veteran who had served as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry from September 9, 1861 until January 11, 1866; in 1890, Joseph became a married man; documented as having rheumatism so severe that he was “at times confined at home,” he filed for a U.S. Civil War Pension from North Dakota on March 28, 1891—but he did so as “Joseph Slayer”—the name under which he had first enrolled for military service in Pennsylvania in 1861; ultimately awarded a pension—which would not have happened if federal officials had not been able to verify his identity and match it to his existing military service records, he was diagnosed with angina pectoris in 1904, but still managed to secure a U.S. patent for one of his inventions—a napkin holder; he died in Bismarck less than a month later, on January 12 or 13, 1905; found on the floor of his rented room, his death sparked a coroner’s inquest which revealed that he had been living under an assumed name; he was buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck; the name “Joseph Slayer” was carved onto his military headstone;

    * Snyder, Timothy (Corporal, Company C): A carpenter from Rebuck, Northumberland County, Tim Snyder was residing in the city of Sunbury in that county by the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting as a private in August 1861, he was wounded twice in combat, once during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1862) and a second time, during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia (1864), after he had recently been promotoed to the rank of corporal; he survived and returned to Pennsylvania, where he married, started a family and worked as a carpenter in Ashland, Schuylkill County until his untimely death in May 1889; John Hartranft Snyder, his first son to survive infancy, grew up to become a co-founder of the Lavelle Telegraph and Telephone Company;

    Drummer Boy William Williamson, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Williamson, William (Drummer, Company A): A farmer from Stockertown, Northampton County, William Williamson was documented by a mid-nineteenth-century federal census enumerator as an unmarried laborer who lived at the Easton home of Northampton County physician John Sandt, M.D.—an indication that William’s parents may have either died or were struggling so much financially during the 1850s and early 1860s that they had encouraged him to “leave the nest” and begin supporting himself, or had hired him out as an apprentice or indentured servant; like so many other young men from Northampton County, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for help to protect the nation’s capital from a likely invasion by Confederate States Army troops, he stepped forward, raised his hand, and stated the following:

    I, William Williamson appointed a private in the Army of the United States, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States.

    Later in life, he became a champion for an older woman who had been struggling to convince officials of the federal government that she was worthy of U.S. Civil War Mother’s Pension, after her son had died while serving with the Union Army.

    Having returned home after the war, William Williamson had found work at a slate quarry, married and begun a family with his wife in Belfast, Northampton County. He lived to witness the dawn of a new century. Following his death at the age of sixty in Plainfield Township on June 17, 1901, he was laid to rest at the Belfast Union Cemetery.

     

    Sources:

    1. Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
    2. James Crownover, James Downs and Samuel Kern, et. al., in Camp Ford Prison Records. Tyler, Texas: The Smith County Historical Society, 1864.
    3. Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
    4. Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
    5. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, U.S. Army; Admissions Ledgers, U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; federal burial ledgers, and national cemetery interment control forms, 1861-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General (Record Group 94), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
    6. Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
    7. U.S. Census Records, 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
    8. U.S. Civil War Pension Records, 1862-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

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  23. 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers @[email protected] ·

    “Labor Is Life” (U.S. Postal Service’s Labor Day Stamp, 1956, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).

    Bakers, blacksmiths, boatmen, butchers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, cigarmakers, coal miners, factory workers, farmers, gardeners, gold miners, iron workers, masons, quarry workers, teamsters, tombstone carvers. These were just a few of the diverse job titles held by the laborers who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.

    Many returned to their same occupations after the war ended while others found new pathways for their life journeys. Far too many were never able to return to the arms of their loved ones and still rest in marked or unmarked graves far from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    In honor of Labor Day, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story is proud to present this abridged list of blue-collar men and boys who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry between August 1861 and January 1866, as well as the names of two of the women associated with the regiment who made their own unforgettable marks on the world.

    * Auchmuty, Samuel S. (First Lieutenant, Company D): A native of Duncannon, Perry County and veteran of the Mexican-American War who was employed as a carpenter during the early 1860s, Samuel Auchmuty responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War by enrolling as a first lieutenant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on August 20, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his work as a house carpenter and launched a successful contracting business that was responsible for building new business structures, churches, single-family homes, and schools, as well as renovating existing structures; he died in 1891, following a brief illness;

    First Sergeant Christian S. Beard, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Beard, Christian Seiler (First Lieutenant, Company C): A twenty-seven-year-old, married carpenter residing in Williamsport, Lycoming County when President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1865, Chistian S. Beard promptly enrolled for Civil War military service before that month was out as a private with Company D of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; after rising up through the ranks to become a first lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on Christmas Day, 1865, and returned home to his wife in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he continued to work as a carpenter; after having several children with his wife, he was widowed by her; remarried in 1884, he relocated with his wife and children to Pittsburgh, where he continued to work as a carpenter; ailing with heart and kidney disease, he died there on November 16, 1911 and was interred at that city’s Highwood Cemetery;

    * Burke, Thomas (Sergeant, Company I): A first-generation American, Thomas Burke was a twenty-year-old cabinetmaker residing in Allentown at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on the day that the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded (August 5, 1861), he was officially mustered in as a private; from that point on, he continued to work his way up the ranks, receiving a promotion to corporal on September 19, 1864 and then to sergeant on July 11, 1865; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865, he returned home to Lehigh County, where he married and began a family; sometime in early to mid-1871, he and his family migrated west to Iowa, settling in Anamosa, Jones County, where he was employed as a carpenter and contractor; he died at his home there on October 22, 1910 and was buried at that town’s Riverside Cemetery;

    * Colvin, John Dorrance (Second Lieutenant, Company C): A native of Abington Township, Lackawanna County who was a farmer when he enlisted for Civil War military service on September 12, 1861, John D. Colvin transferred to the U.S. Army Signal Corps on October 13, 1863, and continued to serve with the Signal Corps for the duration of the war; employed as an engineer, post-war, he helped the Pacific Railroad to extend its service from Atchison, Kansas to Fort Kearney in Nebraska before returning home to Pennsylvania, where he married, began a family and resided with them in Olyphant and Carbondale before relocating with them to Parsons in Luzerne County, where he became a prominent civic leader and member of the school board; initially employed as a machinist, he went on to become superintendent of the Delaware & Hudson Coal company before taking a similar job with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company; the U.S. Postal Service’s postmaster of Parsons during the early 1890s, he died there on March 15, 1901 and was buried at the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre;

    * Crownover, James (Sergeant, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old teamster residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Crownover rose up through the ranks of the 47th Pennsylvania from private to reach the rank of sergeant; wounded in the right shoulder and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864, he was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, where he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on November 25, 1864; during captivity, he was commissioned, but not mustered as a second lieutenant; given medical treatment before he was returned to active duty, he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he found work at a tannery near Blain, married, began a family and then relocated with them to East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, where he worked as a teamster; relocating with them to Braddock in Allegheny County after the turn of the century, he worked at a local mill there; he died in Allegheny County on July 18, 1903 and was buried at the Monongahela Cemetery in Braddock Hills;

    Jacob Daub, circa 1862-1865 (carte de visite, Cooley & Beckett Photographers, Savannah, Georgia and Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina, public domain).

    * Daub, Jacob and William J. (Drummer Boy, Company A): A German immigrant as a child, Jacob Daub emigrated with his parents and younger brother, William, circa 1852; after settling in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where his father found work as a stone mason, Jacob grew up to become a cigarmaker, and also became the first of the two brothers to enlist in the American Civil War; after enrolling at the age of sixteen, he was classified as a field musician and assigned to Company A as its drummer boy; his nineteen-year-old brother, William, a carpenter by 1865, followed him into the war when he enlisted as a private with the same company in February of that year; after the war ended, both returned home to Northampton County, where they married, had children and went on to live long, full lives; William eventually died at the age of eighty in 1928, followed by Jacob, who passed away in 1936, roughly two months before his ninety-first birthday;

    * Detweiler, Charles C. (Private, Company A): Berks County native Charles Detweiler enrolled for Civil War military service on September 16, 1862; a carpenter who later became a farmer, he served with Company A until he was severely injured in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864, when he sustained a musket ball wound to the middle of his thigh; treated at a Union Army hospital in Virginia before being transported to the Union’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he learned that the musket ball had damaged his femur and femoral arteries; following his wound-related death at Mower on March 12, 1865, he was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Kutztown, Berks County;

    * Diaz, John (Private, Company I): An immigrant from Spain’s Canary Islands, John Diaz emigrated sometime between 1862 and 1865 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a cigarmaker; on January 25, 1865, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted with the Union Army at a recruiting depot in Norristown, Montgomery County and served as a private with Company I of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he resumed work as a cigarmaker in Philadelphia, eventually launching his own cigarmaking firm, which became a family business as his sons became old enough to work for him; sometime between 1906 and 1910, he relocated with his wife and several of his children to Camden County, New Jersey, where he died on September 5, 1915;

    James Downs (circa 1880s, public domain).

    * Downs, James (Corporal, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old tanner residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Downs was captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River; held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864, he received medical treatment and was subsequently returned to active duty; following his honorable discharge with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1865, he returned home, married, began a family and relocated with his family to Phillipsburg, New Jersey; suffering from heart and kidney disease, and possibly also from post-traumatic stress disorder, rather than “insane” as physicians at the Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania had diagnosed him, he fell from a window at that home and died at there on September 16, 1921; he was subsequently interred in the Veterans’ Circle of the Brookville Cemetery;

    * Eagle, Augustus (Second Lieutenant, Company F): A German immigrant as a teenager, Augustus Eagle arrived in America on June 23, 1855, two years after his brother, Frederick Eagle, had emigrated and made a life for himself in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; both men married and began families there, with Fred employed as a laborer and Gus employed by the Crane Iron Works; when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, both men enrolled for military service on August 21, 1861 as privates with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; in 1862, Fred fell ill and was honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, but Gus continued to serve, rising up through the regiment’s enlisted and officers’ ranks; commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on September 11, 1864, upon completion of his three-year term of service; post-war, Fred became a successful baker with real estate and personal property valued at $4,200 (roughly $155,750 in 2023 dollars) and died in Catasauqua in 1885, while Gus owned a successful restaurant in Whitehall Township before operating the Fairview Hotel, which became a popular spot for political gatherings; after suffering a series of strokes in 1902, Gus died at his home on August 17 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;

    * Eisenbraun, Alfred (Drummer Boy, Company B): A tobacco stripper and first-generation American from Allentown, Lehigh County, fifteen-year-old Alfred Eisenbraun became the second “man” from the 47th Pennsylvania to die when he succumbed to complications from typhoid fever at the Kalorama Eruptive Fever Hospital in Georgetown, District of Columbia on October 26, 1861; he still rests at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Cemetery in Washington, D.C.;

    * Fink, Aaron (Corporal, Company B): A shoemaker and native of Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Fink, grew up, began a family and established a successful small shoemaking business, first in Allentown and then in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in Carbon County; on August 20, 1861, he chose to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to help bring the American Civil War to a quick end when he enrolled for military service; shot in the right leg during the fighting at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died there from wound-related complications on November 5, 1862; initially buried near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed by Allentown undertaker Paul Balliet and returned to Pennsylvania for reinterment at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery;

    * Fornwald, Reily M. (Corporal, Company G): Born in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Reily Fornwald was raised there on his family’s farm near Stouchsberg; educated in his community’s common schools and then at Millersville State Normal School, he became a railroad worker before returning to farm life shortly before the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service at the age of twenty on September 11, 1862, he was wounded in the head and groin by an exploding artillery shell during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; stabilized on the battlefield before being transported to a field hospital for more advanced medical care, he spent four weeks recuperating before returning to active duty with his regiment; promoted to the rank of corporal on January 19, 1863, he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia on September 18, 1864, upon expiration of his term of enlistment; after returning home, he spent four years operating a blast furnace for White & Ferguson in Robesonia, Berks County; he also married and began a family; sometime around 1870, he left that job to become an engine operator for Wright, Cook & Co. in Sheridan and then moved to a job as an engine operator for William M. Kauffman—a position he held for roughly a decade before securing employment as a shifting engineer with the Reading Railway Company at its yards in Reading; following his retirement in 1905, he and his wife settled in Robesonia, where he became involved in buying and selling real estate; following a severe fall in May 1925, during which he fractured a thigh bone, he died at the Homeopathic Hospital in Reading on June 1 and was buried at Robesonia’s Heidelberg Cemetery;

    Captain Reuben Shatto Gardner, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Gardner, Reuben Shatto, John A. and Jacob S. R.: Natives of Perry County, Reuben Shatto Gardner and his brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner, began their work lives as laborers; among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Reuben was a twenty-five-year-old miller who resided in Newport, Perry County; after enlisting as a private with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20, he was honorably mustered out after completing his term of service; he then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a first sergeant with Company H of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; also enrolling with him that same day were his twenty-three-year-old and twenty-one-year-old brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner; John officially mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 18 (the day before Reuben arrived), while Jacob officially mustered in on September 19; both joined their brother’s company, entering at their respective ranks of corporal and private, but Jacob’s tenure was a short one; sickened by typhoid fever in late December 1861, he died at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital at Camp Griffin, near Langley, Virginia on January 8, 1862; his remains were later returned to Perry County for burial at the Old Newport Cemetery; soldiering on, Reuben and John were transported with their regiment by ship to Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida and subsequently sent to South Carolina with their regiment and other Union troops; shot in the head and thigh during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, Reuben was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina for an extended period of time, and then returned to active duty with his regiment; meanwhile, John was assigned with H Company and the men from Companies D, F and K to garrison Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas; both brothers then continued to work their way up the regiment’s ranks, with John promoted to corporal on September 18, 1864 and Reuben ultimately commissioned as a captain and given  command of Company H on February 16, 1865; both then returned home after honorably mustering out with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865; sometime around 1866 or 1867, Reuben and his wife migrated west, first to Elk River Station in Sherburne County, Minnesota and then to Stillwater, Washington County, before settling in the city of Minneapolis; through it all, he worked as a miller; Reuben and his family then relocated farther west, arriving in King County, Washington after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889; initially employed in the restaurant industry, Reuben later found work as a railroad conductor before prospecting for gold with son Edward in the western United States and British Columbia, Canada during the 1890s Gold Rush; employed as a U.S. Post Office clerk in charge of the money order and registry departments in Seattle from 1898 to 1902, Reuben died in Seattle at the age of sixty-eight on September 25, 1903 and was interred at that city’s Lakeview Cemetery; meanwhile, his brother John, who had resumed work as a fireman with the Pennsylvania Railroad after returning from the war, was widowed by his wife in 1872; after remarrying and welcoming the births of more children, he was severely injured on October 9, 1873 while working as a fireman on the Pacific Express for the Pennsylvania Railroad; unable to continue working as a fireman due to his amputated hand, he worked briefly as a railroad call messenger before launching his own transfer business in Harrisburg; after he was widowed by his ailing second wife, John was severely injured in a second accident in 1894 while loading his delivery wagon; still operating his business after the turn of the century, he remarried on January 3, 1900, but was widowed by his third wife when she died during a surgical procedure in 1911; he subsequently closed his business and relocated to the home of his daughter in the city of Reading, Berks County; four years later, he fell on an icy sidewalk and became bedfast; aged eighty and ailing from arteriosclerosis and lung congestion, he died at her home on February 20, 1918 and was buried at Reading’s Charles Evans Cemetery;

    * Gethers, Bristor (Under-Cook, Company F): Born into slavery in South Carolina circa 1829, Bristor Gethers was married “by slave custom at Georgetown, S.C.” on the Pringle plantation in Georgetown sometime around 1847 to “Rachael Richardson” (alternate spelling “Rachel”); a field hand at the dawn of the Civil War, he was freed from chattel enslavement in 1862 by Union Army troops; he then enlisted as an “Under-Cook” with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Beaufort, South Carolina on October 5, 1862, and traveled with the regiment until October 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged in Charleston, South Carolina upon completion of his three-year term of enlistment; at that point, he returned to Beaufort and resumed life with his wife and their son, Peter; a farmer, Bristor was ultimately disabled by ailments that were directly attributable to his Union Army tenure; awarded a U.S. Civil War Soldiers’ Pension, he lived out his days with his wife on Horse Island, South Carolina, and died on Horse Island, South Carolina on June 24 or 25, 1894; he was then laid to rest at a graveyard on Parris Island on June 26 of that same year;

    * Gilbert, Edwin (Captain, Company F): A native of Northampton County and a carpenter residing in Catasauqua, Lehigh County at the dawn of the American Civil War, Edwin Gilbert enrolled as a corporal on August 21, 1861; after rising up through his regiment’s officer ranks, he was ultimately commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on New Year’s Day, 1865, and then mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina of Christmas of that same year; resuming his life with his wife and children in Lehigh County after the war, he continued to work as a carpenter; after suffering a stroke in late December 1893, he died on January 2, 1894 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;

    Mrs. Caroline Bost and Martin L. Guth celebrated the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with fellow Grand Army of the Republic and ladies auxiliary members in February 1933 (public domain).

    * Guth, Martin Luther (Corporal, Company K): A native of Lehigh County and son of a farmer, Martin L. Guth was a seventeen-year-old laborer and resident of Guthsville in Whitehall Township at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on September 26, 1862, he was officially mustered in as a corporal; he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably mustered out on October 1, 1865, upon expiration of his term of service; at some point during that service, he broke his leg—an injury that did not heal properly and plagued him for the remainer of his life; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he found work again as a laborer; married in 1883, he became the father of four children, one of whom was born in New Mexico and another who was born in California; he had moved his family west in search of work in the mining industry; documented as a “prospector” or “miner” records created in Nevada during that period, he was also documented on voter registration rolls of Butte City in Glenn County, California in August 1892; by 1900, he was living separately from his wife, who was residing in Bandon, Coos County, Oregon with their two children while he was residing at the Veterans’ Home of California in Yount Township, Napa County, California; subsequently admitted to the Mountain Branch of the network of U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee on February 11, 1912, his disabilities included an old compound fracture of his right leg with chronic ulceration, defective vision (right eye), chronic bronchitis, and arteriosclerosis; discharged on December 12, 1920, he was admitted to the U.S. National Soldiers’ Home in Leavenworth, Kansas on July 30, 1912, but discharged on September 29, 1913; by 1920, he was living alone on Fruitvale Avenue in the city of Oakland, California, but was remaining active with his local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic as he rose through the leadership ranks of chapter, state and national G.A.R. organizations; after a long, adventure-filled life, he died on October 11, 1935, at the age of ninety-one, at the veterans’ home in San Francisco and was interred at the San Francisco National Cemetery (also known as the Presidio Cemetery);

    Lieutenant Charles A. Hackman, Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).

    * Hackman, Charles Abraham and Martin Henry (First Lieutenant and Sergeant, Company G): Natives of Rittersville, Lehigh County, Charles and Martin Hackman began their work lives as apprentices, with Charles employed by a carpenter and Martin employed by master coachmaker Jacob Graffin; members of the local militia unit known as the Allen Rifles, they were among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; both enlisted as privates with Company I of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20 and were honorably mustered out in July after completing their service; Charles then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a sergeant with Company G of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; he then spent most of his early service in Virginia; meanwhile, his younger brother, Martin H. Hackman, who was employed as a coach trimmer in Lehigh County, re-enlisted for his own second tour of duty, as a private with Charles’ company, on January 8, 1862; working their way up the ranks, Charles was commissioned as a first lieutenant on June 18, 1863, while Martin was promoted to sergeant on April 26, 1864; Charles was then breveted as a captain on November 30, 1864 after having mustered out on November 5; Martin was then honorably discharged on January 8, 1865; initially employed, post-war, with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad’s train car facility in Reading, Berks County, Charles was promoted to car inspector at the company’s Philadelphia facility in December 1866; he subsequently married, but had no children and was widowed in 1904; remarried, he remained in Philadelphia until the early 1900s, when he relocated to Allentown; Martin, who worked as a bricklayer in Allentown, did have children after marrying, but he, too, was widowed; also remarried, he became a manager at a rolling mill; ailing with pneumonia in early 1917, Charles was eighty-six years old when he died in Allentown on January 17; he was buried at Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery, while his brother Martin was buried at the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem, following his death in Bethlehem from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 14, 1921;

    * Junker, George (Captain, Company K): A German immigrant as a young adult, George Junker emigrated sometime around the early 1850s and settled in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found employment as a marble worker and tombstone carver, and where he also joined the Allen Infantry, one of his adopted hometown’s three militia units; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, George enlisted with his fellow Allen Infantrymen, honorably completed his Three Months’ Service, and promptly began his own recruitment of men for an “all-German company” for the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; commissioned as a captain with the 47th Pennsylvania, he was placed in charge of his men who became known as Company K; mortally wounded by a Confederate rifle shot during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he died from his wounds the next day at the Union Army’s division hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; his remains were returned to his family in Hazleton, Luzerne County for reburial at the Vine Street Cemetery;

    * Kern, Samuel (Private, Company D): A native of Perry County who was employed as a farmer in Bloomfield, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, Samuel Kern was wounded and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864; marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he died from harsh treatment on June 12, 1864; buried somewhere on the grounds of that prison camp, his grave remains unidentified;

    * Kosier, George (Captain, Company D): A native of Perry County and twenty-four-year-old carpenter residing in that county’s community of New Bloomfield at the dawn of the American Civil War, George Kosier became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for military service on April 20 as a corporal with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; joining him were his younger brothers, Jesse and William S. Kosier, aged nineteen and twenty-three, who were enrolled as privates with the same company; all three subsequently re-enlisted with their company at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida in 1863; sadly, Jesse fell ill with pleurisy and died at the Union Army’s Field Hospital in Sandy Hook, Maryland on August 1864; initially buried at a cemetery in Weverton, Maryland, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred at the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland; both George and William continued to serve with the regiment, with George continuing his rise up the ranks; commissioned as a captain, he was given command of Company D in early June 1865; both brothers were then honorably discharged with their regiment on Christmas Day, 1865; post-war, both men married and began families; William died in Pennsylvania sometime around 1879, but George went on to live a long full life; after settling in Ogle County, Illinois, where he was employed as a carpenter, he relocated with his family to Wright County, Iowa, where he built bridges; he died in Chicago on December 3, 1920 and was buried at that city’s Rosehill Cemetery;

    Anna (Weiser) Leisenring (1851-1942) , circa 1914 (public domain).

    * Leisenring, Annie (Weiser): The wife of Thomas B. Leisenring (Captain, Company G), Annie Leisenring was employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a factory inspector after the American Civil War; she became well known through newspaper accounts of her inspection visits and also became widely respected for her efforts to improve child labor laws statewide;

    * Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal, Company E): An Irish immigrant as a young adult, Thomas Lowrey emigrated sometime around the late 1840s or early 1850s and settled in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a miner, married and began a family; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, Thomas enlisted with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania on September 16, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a coal miner near Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, and where he resided with his wife and children; after witnessing the dawn of a new century, he died in Shenandoah on January 11, 1906;

    This image of Julia (Kuenher) Minnich, circa 1860s, is being presented here through the generosity of Chris Sapp and his family, and is being used with Mr. Sapp’s permission. This image may not be reproduced, repurposed, or shared with other websites without the permission of Chris Sapp.

    * Magill, Julia Ann (Kuehner Minnich): Widowed and the mother of a young son at the time that her husband, B Company’s Captain Edwin G. Minnich, was killed in battle during the American Civil War, Julia Ann (Kuehner) Minnich became a Union Army nurse at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. during the war in order to keep a roof over her son’s head; she then spent the remainder of her life battling the U.S. Pension Bureau to receive and keep both the U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension and U.S. Civil War Nurse’s Pension that she was entitled to under federal law; forced to go on working into her later years by poverty, she finally found work as a cook at a hotel in South Bethlehem; she died sometime after 1906;

    * Menner, Edward W. (Second Lieutenant, Company E): A first-generation American who was a native of Easton, Northampton County, Edward Menner was a sixteen-year-old carpenter when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 25, 1861; working his way up from private to second lieutenant before he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he was wounded in the left shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on October 19, 1864; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he secured employment as a hooker with the Bethlehem Iron Company (later known as Bethlehem Steel) on March 15, 1866; he married, begam a family and continued to work in the iron industry for much of his life; he died in Bethlehem on April 25, 1913 and was buried at that city’s Nisky Hill Cemetery;

    * Miller, John Garber (Sergeant, Company D): A native of Ironville, Blair County, John G. Miller was a twenty-one-year-old laborer living in Duncannon, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861; captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864; returned to active duty with his regiment after receiving medical treatment, he continued to serve until he was honorably discharged with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he married, began a family and relocated with his family to Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a teamster; returning to Blair County with his family, he resided with them in Logan Township before relocating with them again to Coalport, Clearfield County; suffering from heart disease, he died in Coalport on February 16, 1921 and was interred at the Coalport Cemetery;

    Captain Theodore Mink, Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (circa 1870s-1880s, courtesy of Julian Burley; used with permission).

    * Mink, Theodore (Captain, Company I): A native of Allentown, Lehigh County who was apprenticed as a coachmaker and then tried his hand as a whaler and blacksmith prior to the American Civil War, Thedore Mink became one of the “First Defenders” who responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital after the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; after honorably completing his Three Months’ Service in July, he re-enlisted on August 5 as a sergeant with Company I of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; after steadily working his way up through the ranks, he was commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on May 22, 1865; he continued to serve with his regiment until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he was hired as a laborer with a circus troupe operated by Mike Lipman before finding longtime employment in advertising and then as head of the circus wardrobe for the Forepaugh Circus before he was promoted to management with the circus; felled by pneumonia during late 1889, he died in Philadelphia on January 7, 1890 and was interred in Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery;

    * Newman, Edward (Private, Company H): A German immigrant who left his homeland sometime around 1920, Edward Newman chose to settle in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a baker; after enlisting for Civil War military service in August 1862, he mustered in as a private with Company I of the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers and fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg from December 11-15 of that year; honorably mustered out with his regiment in May 1863, he re-enlisted on October 23, 1863 for a second tour of duty—but as a private with a different regiment—Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with the 47th Pennsylvania until he was officially mustered out in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, where he worked briefly as a baker; suffering from rheumatism that developed while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed near Cedar Creek, Virginia during the fall of 1864, he was admitted to the network of U.S. Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the Central Branch in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on July 17, 1877; still unmarried and still living there in 1880, his health continued to decline; diagnosed with acute enteritis, he died there on January 22, 1886 and was buried at the Dayton National Cemetery;

    Captain Daniel Oyster, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).

    * Oyster, Daniel (Captain, Company C): A native of Sunbury, Northumberland County who was employed as a machinist, Daniel Oyster became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for Civil War military service on April 23 as a corporal with Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; his brother, John Oyster, subsequently followed him into the service, enrolling as a private with his company on November 20, 1863; after rising up through the ranks to become captain of his company, Daniel was shot in his left shoulder near Berryville, Virginia on September 5, 1864 and then shot in his right shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19; successfully treated by Union Army surgeons for both wounds, he was awarded a veteran’s furlough in order to continue his recuperation and returned home to Sunbury; he then returned to duty and was honorably discharged with his company on Christmas Day, 1865; post-discharge, he and his brother, John, returned home to Sunbury; Daniel continued to reside with their aging mother and was initially employed as a policeman, but was then forced by a war-related decline in his health to take less-taxing work as a railroad postal agent; his brother John, who was married, lived nearby and worked as a fireman, but died in Sunbury on April 20, 1899; employed as a bookkeeper after the turn of the century, Daniel never married and was ultimately admitted to the Southern Branch of the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, where he died on August 5, 1922—exactly sixty-one years to the day after the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded; he was given a funeral with full military honors before being laid to rest in the officers’ section at the Arlington National Cemetery on August 11;

    * Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant, Company B): The son of a lock tender in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Thomas Sauerwein was employed as a carpenter at the dawn of the American Civil War; following his enrollment for military service in Allentown, Lehigh County on August 20, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company B of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; from that point on, he steadily worked his way up the ranks of the regiment, ultimately being promoted to first sergeant on New Year’s Day, 1865; following his honorable discharge with his company on Christmas Day of that same year, he returned home to the Lehigh Valley, where he found work as a carpenter, married and began a family; by 1880, he had moved his family west to Williamsport in Lycoming County, where he had found work as a machinist; employed as a leather roller with a tanning factory, he was promoted to a position as a leather finisher after the turn of the century, while his two sons worked as leather rollers in the same industry; he died in Williamsport on July 29, 1912 and was buried at the East Wildwood Cemetery in Loyalsock;

    * Slayer, Joseph (Private, Company E; also known as “Dead Eye Dick” and “E. J. McMeeser”): A native of Philadelphia, Joseph Slayer was a nineteen-year-old miner residing in Willliams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service in Easton, Northampton County on September 9, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with his company, re-enlisting as a private with Company E, under the name of Joseph Slayer, at Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas on January 4, 1864; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he relocated to Zanesville, Ohio sometime after the war, where he joined the Grand Army of the Republic’s Hazlett Post No. 81; he may then have relocated briefly to St. Paul, Minnesota sometime around the 1870s or early 1880s, or may simply have had a child and grandchild living there, because newspaper reports of his death noted that he had been carrying a photograph of a toddler named Robert—a photo that had “To Grandpa” inscribed on it and indicated that the grandchild, Robert, was a resident of St. Paul in 1892; by the 1880s, Joseph had made it as far west as the Dakota Territory—but this was where his life’s journey took a strange twist; discarding the name he had used in the army (“Joseph Slayer”), he changed his name several times over the next several years, as if he were trying to shed his prior life and all of its associations; acquaintances he met in the southern part of the Dakota Territory during the early to mid-1880s knew him as “Dead Eye Dick” while others who met him after he had resettled in Bismarck, in the northern part of the Dakota Territory, knew him as “Eugene McMeeser” or “E. J. McMeeser” (alternate spelling: “McNeeser”); by the time that the federal government conducted its special census of Civil War veterans in June 1890, Joseph was so comfortable fusing parts of his old and new lives together that he was convincingly documented by an enumerator as “Eugene McMeeser,” a veteran who had served as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry from September 9, 1861 until January 11, 1866; in 1890, Joseph became a married man; documented as having rheumatism so severe that he was “at times confined at home,” he filed for a U.S. Civil War Pension from North Dakota on March 28, 1891—but he did so as “Joseph Slayer”—the name under which he had first enrolled for military service in Pennsylvania in 1861; ultimately awarded a pension—which would not have happened if federal officials had not been able to verify his identity and match it to his existing military service records, he was diagnosed with angina pectoris in 1904, but still managed to secure a U.S. patent for one of his inventions—a napkin holder; he died in Bismarck less than a month later, on January 12 or 13, 1905; found on the floor of his rented room, his death sparked a coroner’s inquest which revealed that he had been living under an assumed name; he was buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck; the name “Joseph Slayer” was carved onto his military headstone;

    * Snyder, Timothy (Corporal, Company C): A carpenter who was born in Rebuck, Northumberland County, Tim Snyder was employed as a carpenter and residing in the city of Sunbury in that county by the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service as a private in August 1861, he was wounded twice in combat, once during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1862) and a second time, in the knee, during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia (1864), shortly after he had been promoted to the rank of corporal; he survived and returned to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a carpenter; after relocating to Schuylkill County, he settled in the community of Ashland; in 1870, he married Catharine Boyer and started a family with her; he continued to work as a carpenter in Schuylkill County until his untimely death in May 1889 and was laid to rest with military honors at the Brock Cemetery in Ashland; John Hartranft Snyder, his first son to survive infancy, grew up to become a co-founder of the Lavelle Telegraph and Telephone Company, while his second son to survive infancy, Timothy Grant Snyder, became a corporal in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War; stationed on the USS Buffalo as it visited Port Said, Egypt, he also served aboard Admiral George Dewey’s flagship, the USS Olympia, in 1899;

    Drummer Boy William Williamson, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A, circa 1863 (public domain).

    * Williamson, William (Drummer, Company A): A farmer from Stockertown, Northampton County, William Williamson was documented by a mid-nineteenth-century federal census enumerator as an unmarried laborer who lived at the Easton home of Northampton County physician John Sandt, M.D.—an indication that William’s parents may have either died or were struggling so much financially during the 1850s and early 1860s that they had encouraged him to “leave the nest” and begin supporting himself, or had hired him out as an apprentice or indentured servant; like so many other young men from Northampton County, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for help to protect the nation’s capital from a likely invasion by Confederate States Army troops, he stepped forward, raised his hand, and stated the following:

    I, William Williamson appointed a private in the Army of the United States, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States.

    Later in life, William Williamson became a champion for an older woman who had been struggling to convince officials of the federal government that she was worthy enough to be awarded a U.S. Civil War Mother’s Pension, after her son had died in service to the nation as a Union Army soldier.

    Post-war, William Williamson found work at a slate quarry, married, began a family in Belfast, Northampton County, and lived to witness the dawn of a new century. Following his death at the age of sixty in Plainfield Township on June 17, 1901, he was laid to rest at the Belfast Union Cemetery.

     

    Sources:

    1. “A Badge from Admiral Dewey and Schuylkill County” (announcements of Timothy Grant Snyder’s service on Admiral Dewey’s flagship). Reading, Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle: October 3, 1899 and November 21, 1899.
    2. Baptismal, census, marriage, military, death, and burial records of the Snyder family. Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Ohio, etc.: Snyder Family Archives, 1650-present; and in Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records (baptismal, marriage, death and burial records of various churches across Pennsylvania). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1776-1918.
    3. Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
    4. James Crownover, James Downs and Samuel Kern, et. al., in Camp Ford Prison Records. Tyler, Texas: The Smith County Historical Society, 1864.
    5. Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
    6. Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
    7. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, U.S. Army; Admissions Ledgers, U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; federal burial ledgers, and national cemetery interment control forms, 1861-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General (Record Group 94), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
    8. Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
    9. U.S. Census Records, 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
    10. U.S. Civil War Pension Records, 1862-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

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  24. (Roughly) Daily @[email protected] ·

    “Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come.”…

    Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting ran on PBS (and the CBC) from 1983 to 1994. Reruns continue around the world, including the non-commercial digital subchannel network Create and the streaming service Hulu. As part of its launch of Twitch Creative, Twitch streamed every episode over a nine-day period starting on October 29, 2015 – what would have been Ross’s 73rd birthday– and scored 5.6 million viewers. So they created a weekly rebroadcast of all 31 seasons of The Joy of Painting to air, with episodes in order, on Twitch each Monday from November 2015 onward, and a marathon of episodes each October 29. In the United Kingdom, the BBC re-ran episodes during the COVID-19 pandemic while most viewers were in lockdown at home.

    Ross is estimated to have pained 30,000 canvases during his lifetime. But as those paintings are scarce on the art market, sale prices of the paintings average in the thousands of dollars and frequently topping $10,000. Lately, they’ve done even better– and for an important cause.

    Starting last November, auction house Bonhams has been offering what will be a total of 30 Ross oils to benefit the public broadcasting system that made him famous…

    Bonhams has revealed the next works by the beloved US television painter Bob Ross it will offer for sale, with auction proceeds going toward public television following devastating funding cuts by president Donald Trump’s administration. More than $1bn in federal funding previously allocated to support public broadcasters was slashed by the Republican-controlled congress last year.

    Last year, Bonhams announced it would sell 30 Ross paintings donated by Bob Ross Inc to benefit public television. The first three paintings from the group went up for sale in November and fetched a combined total of $662,000 with fees. Ross’s painting Winter’s Peace (1993) sold for $318,000 with fees, setting an auction record for the artist. Just weeks later, that record was shattered again when his painting Cabin at Sunset (1987) sold for more than $1m in an online charity auction for the Public Media Bridge Fund initiative [see here], organised by the television host John Oliver. [One more reason to love John Oliver.]

    Three more Ross paintings will be part of the “Americana: Crafting a Nation: Art, History & Legacy” auction on 27 January at Bonhams in Massachusetts, and could fetch as much as $155,000 collectively, according to the auction house’s estimates.

    Valley View (1990) is estimated to sell for between $30,000 and $50,000, and was the first work completed for the 21st volume of Ross’s Joy of Painting instructional book. Change of Seasons (1990) comes with an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000, and was completed live on air in 1990, on the 11th episode of the 20th season of his The Joy of Painting television series. In that episode, Ross describes the scene as “just a beautiful little painting”.

    Babbling Brook (1993), a unique oval-shaped painting, is estimated to fetch between $25,000 and $45,000. It was completed during filming for the first episode of the 30th season of The Joy of Painting. Ross often let the subject in his landscapes develop as he went along, encouraging viewers to add spontaneous details as they saw fit. While painting Babbling Brook, Ross said, “I see something!” and painted in a waterfall, adding: “Let your imagination take you to any world that you want to go to.”

    An additional 24 Ross works will be sold throughout this year across Bonhams salesrooms in New York, Boston and Los Angeles, the auction house says…

    Bob Ross’s Babbling Brook (1993)

    Giving back: “More Bob Ross paintings head to auction to benefit US public television” from @theartnewspaper.bsky.social.

    * Bob Ross

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    As we “don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents,” we might note that Ross’ rough contemporary and fellow “popular” painter, Thomas Kinkade was born on this date in 1958. While Ross was concerned with communicating the joy of creating and was opposed to his paintings becoming “financial instruments,” Kinkade was focused on capitalizing on his creations.

    Kinkade, who described himself as a “master of light” (putting himself in the company of Rembrandt and Caravaggio), achieved success during his lifetime via the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products through the Thomas Kinkade Company (according to which, at one point one in every 20 American homes owned a copy of one of his paintings).

    Ross died in 1995 of complications from lymphoma (which he’d had for several years). KInkade died in 2012 of acute intoxication from alcohol and diazepam.

    Thomas Kinkade “Bambi’s First Year” (source)

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    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that”

    Happy Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day

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  25. Andy Arthur - Threadinburgh @[email protected] ·

    White Friars and Lepers: the thread about Greenside’s chapel and hospital

    Apropos recent world events (at the time of writing in December 2021) I thought it was worthwhile taking a few minutes to spare a thought for Lepers in 16th century Edinburgh, who lived life according to incredibly strict terms that we we might now call “lockdown“.

    A 16th century leper. The clapper, broad hat, cowl and cloak are a recurrent image of leprosy sufferers of this period. CC-BY-SA 4.0 Wellcome Collection

    There had been a leper hospital in Edinburgh since medieval times, but there is no positive record as to where it may have been. There is a story you sometimes hear that the placename Liberton derives from “leper town“, but that is easily debunked by the fact the place name predates the arrival of the word leper into Scots language by centuries. By the 16th century, after the reformation, the leper hospital was located at Greenside, outside the city boundary at the time and actually in the neighbouring Barony of Restalrig. The approximate location was between the junction of London Road and Leith Walk and Greenside Church. We know this not only because it was helpfully marked up on those old Ordnance Survey maps but also there are surviving records, a contemporary illustration and archaeological evidence uncovered during the interminable tram works.

    OS 1849 town Plan overlaid on modern aerial imagery showing the general location of the Leper hospital / Carmelite Friary of Greenside. Drag the slider to compare. Highlighted are the site of the “Rood Well of Greenside” and the “Monastery of Carmelite Friars (1536) subsequently Greenside Hospital for Lepers (1591)”. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

    The use of this site goes back centuries before the hospital however and its earliest recorded use was as the site of the Rude Chapel. The Rude refers either to a Rood Screen – a feature of medieval churches – to an existing cross (or Rude) near the site, or to the nearby Augustinian Abbey of Holyrood (which refers to the Holy Rood or cross upon which Jesus was crucified). This chapel may have been founded around 1456 when King James II gave the valley of Greenside to the town as a “sporting” field, one for the medieval sorts of sports like jousting and open air theatre. In 1554 the Queen Regent Mary of Guise attended an open air production of David Lindsay’s epic play “Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaits, in Commendation of Vertew and Vituperation of Vyce“; all 9 hours of it.

    A 2013 production of “A Satire of the Three Estates” in renaissance costume at Linlithgow Palace, by Staging the Scottish Court

    Little is known of the Rude Chapel, not even which saint it was dedicated to, and it had fallen fell out of use by 1518 when James Hamilton – Earl of Arran and Lord Provost of the city at that time – conveyed it to the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel: the Carmelite order, also known as the White Friars on account of the colour of their cloaks.

    “Conferimento della Regola del Carmelo” – Confirmation of the Carmelite Rule – a 1430 Fresco in Florence by Filippo Lippi

    The other friars in Edinburgh at this time were the Dominicans or Black Friars in the Canongate (see also Blackfriars Street) and the Franciscans or Grey Friars where the Kirk of that name now is. In addition, in Leith there were the Augustians at St. Anthony’s Preceptory, near the Foot of the Walk whose chapel still exists as a ruin on the slopes of Arthur’s Seat. The Carmelites were well established in the Lothians with friaries at Linlithgow and South Queensferry, which Greenside fell under the patronage of. George Hutton’s sketches of the late 18th century give us an idea of what the Queensferry Friary looked like before later repairs.

    Carmelite Church at South Queensferry, from Hutton Drawings. CC-BY-SA National Library of Scotland

    In 1557 the Prior of Greenside, David Balbirnie, is recorded as being in office at Queensferry. This was perhaps as a result of Greenside having being left in ruins by the English Army in 1544 during the Burning of Edinburgh.

    “A Coloured Plan, or Bird’s Eye View, of the Town of Edinburgh“, the English Army marches from Leith towards Edinburgh via the Calton Hill. A 1544 watercolour, probably by the military engineer Richard Lee.

    The cluster of buildings shown on the above illustration on the right hand side of the image, below the castle and on the reverse slope of Calton Hill, are probably the Greenside priory and its doo’cot. The friars probably ran some sort of hospital here in the medieval meaning of the word – spiritual care on a Biblical basis, to prepare the soul for the next life – rather than the sort of medical institution that we would now think of.

    This collection of buildings on the northwest slopes below Calton Hill, in a walled enclosure with a dovecot is probably the Greenside priory. Credit: With permission, from the British Library archive, Cotton Augustus I. ii. 56

    In 1534 two Protestant heretics, David Straiton and Norman Gourlay, were condemned to be burnt at the stake, a gruesome sentence that was carried out within the walls at Greenside. The priory was out of use by the time of the Reformation when the only other contemporary image shows it a roofless complex of buildings on the 1560 map of the Siege of Leith – probably also by the same Rirchard Lee – which records its name as the Roode Chappelle. There is also a partial wall shown, but no dovecot.

    “Roode Chappell” from the 1560 “Petworth House Map” of the Siege of Leith. PHA 4640, Reproduced by the kind permission of Lord Egremont and with acknowledgements to the County Archivist, West Sussex Record Office

    By the 1580s the friary and chapel were both long abandoned and when the city was casting around for a site to locate a leper hospital their ruins were a potential candidate. St. Paul’s Work, a charitable house in the Waverley Valley next to the Trinity College Kirk, was also mooted but was found to be unsuitable and so in 1589 the Magistrates of the city approved that a Leper House was to be provided at Greenside. This was financed by John Roberstson, a wealthy merchant of the city, in response to his prayers for an act of mercy being answered.

    The hospital provided for seven inmates, and inmates was the right word. Although they were admitted to the “care” of the hospital voluntarily, this was a hard bargain and the price of admittance was forfeiting nearly all rights as an individual. These first seven patients were Robert Mardow, James Garvie, Johnn MacRere, James Wricht, and Johnn Wilderspune. Also incarcerated (voluntarily) with them were two of ht men’s wives; Isobel Barcar (Mrs Mardow) and Janet Galt (Mrs Garvie).

    No manner of Lipper persone, man nor woman, fra this tyme forth, cum amangis uther cleine personis, nor be nocht fund in the kirk, nor fleshe merket, nor no other merket within this burghe, under the payne of burnyng of their cheik and bannasing off the toune

    1530 Act of the Scottish Parliament against lepers.

    The inmates had to abide by the strict rules of the hospital on penalty of death. To underline the seriousness of this threat there was a gallows erected on the gable end of the hospital and the keeper had power of carrying out that sentence, on the spot, for any infraction. The local name for the confines of the hospital wall was reportedly The Hangman’s Acre. The inmates were forbidden to leave the confines of its walls, all except the two wives (who were not Lepers) and who could do so only on market days to shop for themselves and the patients. The wives were strictly forbidden to do anything else outside the walls of the hospital. The doors of the hospital were to be kept locked from sunset until sunrise. The patients had the privilege during the hours of daylight to sit at the door, one at a time in turns, and shake “ane clapper” to attract the attention of passers buy to donate alms.

    Late 15th century image of a leper begging at the walls of a town. Again shown with long cloak and cowl, wide had and leather clapper. “Leper with a clapper”, from Bartholomeus Anglicus

    Lepers didn’t ring bells (metal and casting was very expensive), instead they had wood and leather clappers that they shook to make a loud noise. Such devices are commonly seen in medieval illustrations. The inmates at Greenside were forbidden from begging under any other circumstances and in any other manner than that which was prescribed.

    Leper clappers.

    There were no holidays for the hospital and no visitors were allowed within its walls, apart from those “placit with thame thairin at command of the said Councall and Session“. The alms collected from the door were to be shared equally and declared to the council on a weekly basis when the appointed keeper made his visit. In addition to this a pension of 4 shillings Scots (4 English pence) was provided. The only comfort afforded for them beyond this (and it would have been an important one at the time), was the appointment of “ane ordinair reider to reid the prayeris everie Sabboth to the said lepperis“; every Sunday somebody would come to read them prayers.

    It should therefore be clear that the Lepers and their wives were fundamentally locked inside the hospital on their own, to care and provide for themselves as best as they could and saw only the weekly visit of their prayer reader and council clerk. There is also every chance that not all of the Lepers even had that disease, any severe illness of the skin may have been described as such at that time and gotten you sentenced to Greenside.

    After its establishment the hospital seems to disappear from the record and it may have been that it only existed for what remained of the lives of its initial residents. The colony was likely abandoned by the early 17th century. Its last resident may have been Thomas Weir – the infamous Major Weir – in 1670, who was confined as a prisoner here untile his execution by garrotting and burning at the stake for witchcraft, bestiality, incest and adultery nearby at the Gallowlee (Shrubhill).

    The Devil’s fiery coach, which apparently conveyed Weir to Dalkeith to hear of news of the defeat of the Scots Army at the battle of Worcester

    The 2013 excavations at what was the London Road roundabout in advance of the city’s notorious tram project uncovered remains of a graveyard in this area. The archaeological write up does not mention precise dating or any signs of leprosy on the skeletons, but pottery dated the interments to between the 15th and 17th century.

    Report of the 2013 archaeological excavations at Greenside as part of the Trams project

    The Greenside Well is believed to date back to the time of the chapel / priory / hospital and may indeed have been the reason that these institutions had been established at this exact location. It existed as a public water source until the middle of the 19th century and is shown on maps of this time.

    Ainslie’s 1804 Town Plan, showing the well and an adjacent washing house. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

    In a very odd hark back to the distant past of Scotland before the Reformation, until the 20th century the Catholic Church in Rome still had an official on its payroll who was “il Padre Priori di Greenside“; the Priory Father of Greenside.

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  26. Andy Arthur - Threadinburgh @[email protected] ·

    The rise and fall of high rise Edinburgh: the thread about multi-storey, public housing in the city

    Between 1950 and 1973, Edinburgh built a total of seventy-eight municipal, multi-storey1 housing blocks which contained 6,128 flats (give or take a few) across 977 storeys.

    Developers model of the Sighthill Neighbourhhod Centre by Crudens, from 1963. © Edinburgh City Libraries

    I’m interested in writing a few stories about some of these buildings, their histories, how and why they got built and attitudes to them at the time but wasn’t sure were to start. As a starting point I’ve made an inventory of them all; so let’s have a look at all of them in chronological order.

    1. For this exercise I have only counted freestanding blocks of 7 storeys or more. Edinburgh traditionally had tenement buildings of this height and higher (up to 11 or even 13 stories in parts of the Old Town), however these were both built into a steep gradient and were not free-standing blocks, but supported by adjacent buildings. ↩︎

    1950-51 saw the first such building that meets the above criteria in Edinburgh, the 8 storey Westfield Court with 88 flats (and a childrens’ nursery on the roof!) It was constructed by local builders Hepburn Bros., better known for construction of interwar bungalows, with a steel and concrete frame clad in pre-fabricated concrete panels and an inner skin of traditional brick. Its design and facilities were heavily inspired by London’s Kensal House by Maxwell Fry. Although it was a starting point for the block that followed, it remains something of a one-off and is a rather unique, evolutionary dead-end in the city. I have written up its fuller story on this thread.

    Westfield Court flats

    Hepburns built their second and last multistorey block for the city from 1953-56. It is the 7 storey, 42 flat block of Maidencraig Court at Blackhall. It was constructed at a time of acute national materials shortages, and compared to Westfield it had to have its ceilings lowered and room dimensions reduced, and as much steel as possible removed. This led to the first use of cross-wall construction in the city’s public housing. This method uses load-bearing internal wall panels of reinforced concrete and offers economies of time and materials compared to traditional load-bearing external walls or the sort of internal steel and concrete framework employed at Westfield.

    Maidencraig Court flats

    After Westfield and Maidencraig there followed a series of experimental mid-height multi-storey blocks, which were variations on a basic theme, as a rather conservative local administration (headed by the Progressive Party) tentatively tried to work out what it wanted to do regards high-rise housing post-war. While there was a post-war housing emergency in the city, the authorities had purchased large volumes of temporary and permanent prefabricated housing (they were the most enthusiastic adopter of the former in Scotland) to meet immediate demands and the chairman of the Housing Committee, Councillor Matt A. Murray, was keen not to expand the city further on the outskirts but to focus on central redevelopments.

    The 10 storey, 60 flat Inchkeith Court followed in 1956-57, located on Spey Terrace, just off of Leith Walk. Billed by the local press as “Edinburgh’s First Skyscraper“, it was built adjacent to a slum clearance zone on Spey Street, atop 139 piles on an old sandpit; an experiment in building on a confined site. The contractor was the Scottish Construction Company – ScotCon. The city specified a pitched roof be added to the design and also settled on each flat having its own hot water and heating supply under the control of (and paid for by) the tenant. The experiments in communal supplies at Westfield and Maidencraig had stung the Corporation with unexpectedly dramatic fuel bills as residents made the full use of the provision.

    Inchkeith Court in 2023. Photo © Self

    A month later the identical pair of Inchcolm Court and Inchgarvie Court completed in West Pilton. These were by English contractors George Wimpey and were also of 10 storeys and 60 flats each and also had almost apologetic pitched roofs. They differed in having an offset H-plan with a central access and service core and were of a different construction method. As at Westfield and Maidencraig, each flat had its own private balcony, although these were removed in later refurbishments.

    Inchgarvie (r) and Inchcolm (l) Courts in 1982. Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    The following year, 1958, a further pair of 10 storey, 60 flat blocks were completed; Moat House and Hutchison House at Moat Drive in the Slateford area of the city. These were by local contractors James Miller and Partners (a firm headed by the City’s former Lord Provost) and adopted another variation of a Y-plan. They are of reinforced concrete construction with this frame in-filled with brickwork and rendered over and have external balconies for most (but not all) flats. The pitched roof however was abandoned; it was an anachronistic design throwback that added unnecessary additional demands for materials and labour on buildings that were meant to be ultra-modern and simpler to construct.

    Moat House, with Hutchison House distant right

    The last of the 1950s experiments were the pair of Holyrood Court and Lochview Court at Dumbiedykes, which were also built by Millers. Construction was rather protracted and did not finally complete until August 1963. These are 11 storeys tall, with 95 flats arranged on an H-plan; regular flats in the side wings of the “H” but maisonettes and top-floor artists studios (with enlarged windows and heightened ceilings to improve natural daylight) in the central arm. Each block had communal laundries, reducing the size demands of flat kitchens and requirements for hot water provision, with the the ground floor containing lock-up garages. Construction is of reinforced concrete, faced in brick and rendered-over but with an unusual original feature (now lost behind re-cladding) of traditional sandstone masonry the whole height of the building in the staircase areas. The roofs are of an ultra-modern, inverted pitch and clad in green copper; to conceal the rooftop services and clothes drying spaces from the view of those gazing down from Salisbury Crags or up from Holyroodhouse Palace.

    Holyrood Court (r) and Lochview Court (l) in 1982. Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    The 1960s saw a step-change in the volume of building, and also in scale. After the experiments of the 1950s, a lot of “bells and whistles” were trimmed off the specifications, use of traditional techniques abandoned and there was a move to taller blocks with industrialised construction in the name of building more and faster. After 1962, the city’s energetic housing commissioner, Labour’s Pat Rogan, adopted a policy of replacing the post-war, low-density, low-rise prefabricated housing estates around the city’s periphery with new high-rise, high-density schemes, again to built more and build faster.

    Between 1960-61, two different pairs of blocks were built at Muirhouse by Wimpey, in a scheme called Muirhouse Phase II. The first were the 9 storey slab blocks of Gunnet Court and May Court, with 48 flats apiece of reinforced concrete cross-wall construction with brick and pebble-dashed, pre-cast concrete panel infill. These blocks squeezed the build price down to c. £2,000 / flat from £2,800 of Westfield and all the flats were maisonettes; accessed from open “streets in the sky” decks to the rear. Such a layout, where the flats are all two storeys with their own internal staircases, did create initial engineering headaches, but meant that there only needed to be half the number of public passageways, lifts only had two stop at half the number of floors and sleeping and living areas of adjacent houses can be better spaced apart to reduce noise complaints.

    Gunnet Court in 2018, before subsequent modernisation and re-cladding. The identical May Court can be seen in the background to the left of the tower block of Fidra Court

    The other pair by Wimpey, at 15 storeys, were the city’s first real point blocks (i.e. buildings proportionally taller than they are wide or deep). These are Fidra Court and Birnies Court and have 56 flats each – however these proved to be 10% more expensive than the 9 storey slabs on account of the construction and engineering complexity of the extra height.

    Fidra Court (right) and Birnies Court (left, distant) in 2022

    The last multi-storey part of Muirhouse Phase II was a pair of 11 storey slab blocks by ScotCon; Inchmickery Court and Oxcars Court, with 76 flats apiece. The central part of the slab has deck-access maisonettes, with wings on each side of regular flats A flaw in the design of these blocks has the concrete load-bearing frames exposed, which forms cold bridges into the core of the building and resulted in endemic damp problems which are only now, 60 years later, due to be finally resolved in a renovation project.

    Inchmickery Court, with Oxcars Court poking out on the right. Notice the prominent vertical bands of the reinforced concrete crosswalls, which have caused cold and damp problems in the buildings

    Lastly in the 1960-61 construction programme were the point block trio of Allermuir Court, Caerketton Court and Capelaw Court at Oxgangs, a site known as the Comiston Scheme at the time. Their names reflected some of the nearby Pentland Hills, the preceding blocks in Leith and Muirhouse having used the names of islands in the Firth of Forth. These 15 storey blocks had 80 flats apiece, 20 of which were maisonettes (on floors 2, 5, 8, 11 and 14), and were constructed by London-based John Laing & Co. I have seen them referred to as the Comiston Luxury Flats but I suspect this may be because in the newspaper columns where their Dean of Guild Court approval was reported, the announcement was alongside approval for “luxury flats” at Ravelston, under the headline of “Permit for £3m Housing; Edinburgh to Clear More Prefabs; Luxury Flats“. The laundry rooms were on the ground floor, and there were novel outside drying greens arranged in a spoked wheel pattern from a single, large, central pole. The flats were initially very popular, but suffered from long-term lack of maintenance and run-down of facilities and were demolished between 2005-06 as an alternative to refurbishment after a community campaign.

    Allermuir and Caerketton Courts coming down in 2006. CC-by-SA 3.0 by 95469

    Another trio of point blocks were started in 1960 but did not complete until 1962 – Fala Court, Garvald Court and Soutra Court in the Gracemount Housing Scheme, a post-war, greenfield site development. These were named after hills and parishes in the Moorfoots; Garvald was originally to be Windlestraw, but the name was changed at the suggestion of housing chairman Pat Rogan who felt it was ambiguous in its pronunciation. These were constructed by the local firm Crudens and each had 14 storeys and 82 flats. They were not built with sufficient ties between the inner and outer wall skins and this had to be remedied at a cost of £100,000 in 1986. All three were demolished in 2009 as part of the wider redevelopment in area.

    Garvald Court with Fala Court beyond, emptied of life and stripped out in preparation for demolition. CC-by-ND 2.0 KaysGeog via Flickr

    Last of the 1960 starts did not complete until 1963 and marked a step change in scale and construction methods – the infamous pair of Cairngorm House and Grampian Houses in the Leith Fort Comprehensive Development Area (CDA). These 21 storey, 76 flat towers were built by Millers and designed by Shaw Stewart, Baikie & Perry (John Baikie was principal architect, and was assisted by Michael Shaw Stewart and Frank Perry, all were working for the firm of Rowand Anderson, Kininmonth & Paul). The whole building was made up of interlocking, three storey repeating units, with single-storey flats in the middle surrounded by maisonettes above and below. One assumes that the names were a double reference both to their heights (they were the tallest residential structures in Scotland when completed) and how far you could see from the top. The core of each building was poured, reinforced concrete cross-walls and floors, clad in a system of prefabricated concrete panel units. These storey-high panels, of three standard widths, had external ribs to improve their strength but this contributed to their spartan, blocky appearance with almost no redeeming features beyond the labour savings their construction offered; it was estimated by Millers that the fifty men and external scaffolding that they had needed for each storey at Dumbiedykes had been replaced by four men and a crane to lift the prefabricated concrete panels into place. They came down in 1997, having been largely empty of residents since 1991 after a long period of neglect and decline, with the local press referring to them as Terror Towers and Withering Heights.

    Grampian House (l) and Cairngorm House (r) in 1982. The rooftop “cages” contained drying “greens” and on the left is the brick and concrete block of Fort House (see below). Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    The next phase of the Leith Fort CDA scheme was Fort House – a 7-storey deck access block of 157 mainly maisonette flats on a rambling, wonky X-plan built by J. Smart & Co to a design also by Shaw Stewart, Baikie & Perry. This block sat on 162 large diameter piles, 3 feet wide and 30 feet deep and its odd plan was to make the maximum use of the available space as it was confined within the historic but oppressively high walls of the old Leith Fort. It was a reinforced concrete frame infilled with brown bricks degenerated into some of the city’s most infamous housing in the 1980s. Despite a renovation which saw pitched roofs, awkward looking rooftop pediments and additional insulation added, it was demolished in 2012-13 and replaced by low rise Colonies-style housing, with those prison walls greatly reduced in height.

    Fort House, 1982. Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    1962-64 saw another tall pair of point blocks erected by Millers in Leith as part of a redevelopment scheme variously known as Citadel Area Phase 1 or Couper Street Area. These are the 20 storey, 76 flat John Russell Court and Thomas Fraser Court were designed by Robert Forbes Hutchison. Now known as Persevere Court and Citadel Court, respectively, John Russell was an antiquarian and author who wrote some of the first, comprehensive histories of Leith, and Thomas Fraser was his schoolmaster. Each block is comprised entirely of maisonette flats (except for four, top floor penthouses), with two separate wings joined by a service and access core, although neatly packaged to appear as a single, point block. Originally finished in concrete panels dashed with Norwegian quartz chips, 1980s makeovers had them insulated and clad in colourful blue and yellow corrugation at the same times as the names were changed and tenancies were restricted to those over the age of 35 and without children under the age of 16.

    Persevere (left) and Citadel (right) Courts in 2011. Notice that the arrangement of yellow and dark blue panels on each building is inverted. Cc-by-NC-SA 2.0 by me!

    The multi-storey flat peaked, literally, in Edinburgh in 1965 when Martello Court in Pennywell, Muirhouse completed. This 23 storey, 88 flat point block remains the tallest residential structure in Edinburgh and has unusual with wrap-around external balconies all the way up to the top. These served a dual purpose; as the building had only a single staircase, they were to assist escape in the event of a fire, however were unpopular with residents who wanted them gated off. Built by local contractor W. Arnott Mcleod to designs by Rowand Anderson, Kininmonth & Paul, it was intended to showcase local skills in the field of housing but was ultimately over-budget and delayed; the final project cost approximated £3,571/ flat, almost 60% more than neighbouring multis that had completed just 4 years before. Corporation Housing Architect Harry Corner branded the building “a disaster“. This was the first high-rise block to dispense with communal laundries since they had been introduced, with each flat having laundry facilities in the kitchen, and each floor having an external drying area. In a superstitious move, there is no thirteenth floor, the floors being number 1 to 12 and then 12A to 23.

    Martello Court, towering over the neighbouring high rise flats at Muirhouse. It now has a dark red external cladding. Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    There was no such qualms about the number thirteen with another block in the Muirhouse area, Thirteen Muirhouse Way was never formally named (and confusingly was actually 11 to 21 Muirhouse Way!) This nine-storey, 44-flat slab block was part of the Muirhouse Temporary Housing Area Phase II scheme to replace the post-war prefabs to the south of Pennywell. It was very similar to the earlier Gunnet and May Courts nearby. This block was part of a scheme completed 1963-1965. In 1982 the residents set up a Tenant’s Steering Committee to lobby for improvements to deal with the windows, dampness, heating and insecure entry. The council did eventually draw up plans for a refurbishment but in 1987 branded it “one of the worst in the city” and instead used new borrowing powers to have the block demolished and replaced by a low-rise scheme of accessible housing. Demolition came in 1988, just shy of its twenty-third birthday.

    The insipidly and threateningly named “13 Muirhouse Way” in the background. Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    Also completing in 1965 was a large scheme on a greenfield plot at Sighthill, known as the Sighthill Neighbourhood Centre. This scheme was initially mooted in 1957 and in 1962 a scheme for two 23 storey point blocks and an 8 storey slab was approved, but was challenged successfully by the Civil Aviation Administration over the proximity to the flightpath of Edinburgh Airport. This resulted in a change to three lower 17 storey, 95 flat blocks – Glenalmond Court, Hermiston Court and Weir Court – and an increase in height of the slab block to 11 storeys; the 98 flat Broomview House. Construction was by Crudens. The entire scheme was demolished between 2008 and 2011, and replaced by a new estate of low and mid rise housing, which includes streets named after Glenalmond, Weir and Broomview (but not Hermiston; probably to avoid confusion with other nearby areas of that name.) These names were taken from the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Weir of Hermiston.

    Hermiston (l), Glenalmond (c) and Weir (r) Courts in 2011 just prior to demolition. Cc-by-NC 2.0, by me!

    Yet another completion in 1965 was the well known “Banana Flats” of Cables Wynd House in Leith; officially Central Leith Phase 1 or Cables Wynd Redevelopment Scheme. The architect in charge was Robert Forbes Hutchison and the contractor was J. Smart & Co. This vast, 10 storey slab block of 212 largely maisonette flats has a distinctive curving plan to accommodate pre-existing roads and tenements and was designed to house up to 800 residents. The building has a concrete frame – a ground floor of columns and crosswalls above that – with a cladding of pre-cast concrete exterior panels covered in quartz chips. To reduce the number of lifts and stairwells, entry to the houses is deck access along three internal “streets in the sky“, which give access to the flats on floors above and below also. Bedrooms are arranged so that none are adjacent to the deck, to reduce noise disturbance. It was Category A listed in 2017.

    Cables Wynd House, cc-by-sa 2.0 Tom Parnell

    Cables Wynd was joined nearby in December 1966 by Linksview House, an 11-storey, 96-flat block by the same architect and contractor as the former. It sits at the northern end of the Kirkgate and was officially the Central Leith Phase 2 or Tolbooth Wynd Redevelopment Scheme. Although it is a regular, straight slab and is significantly smaller than its bendy neighbour, its construction and internal layout is fundamentally similar. It has reinforced concrete columns on the ground floor and crosswalls above that, similar precast cladding panels and again three access decks to maisonette flats.

    Linksview House, at the end of Leith’s historic Kirkgate, CC-by-ND 2.0 KaysGeog via Flickr

    Between 1965-66, at the Greendykes Temporary Housing Area, a pair of 15-storey, 86-flat point blocks was constructed by Crudens – Greendykes House and Wauchope House. These were part of Pat Rogan’s policy of quickly increasing completion of new housing by replacing the life-expired, low-density, low-rise estates of post-war prefab bungalows with mixed mid- and high-rise schemes. Population density in these areas was more than doubled, from 60 to 140 people per acre, meaning the sitting prefab tenants could re-homed and there were more new houses too. This facilitated the clearance of slum housing in the inner city – still a huge problem at the time.

    Wauchope House (l) and Greendykes House (r), 1985. Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    February 1966 saw the completion of high-rise buildings in the north of the city, with Northview Court at West Pilton – again a prefab replacement build, officially Muirhouse Area 3. It was something of an afterthought, replacing a smaller block on the plans at a late stage. Its 16 storeys contain 61 flats and the contractor was Wimpey.

    Northview court in 1982. Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    The Moredun Temporary Housing Area was next, where a row of four 16 storey blocks was constructed on the only thin strip of solid bedrock in an area othewise riddled by mining and subsidence. The contractor was Wimpey and the 91 flat blocks are called Castleview House, Marytree House, Little France House and Moredun House.

    Left-to-Right, Castleview, Marytree, Little France and Moredun Houses.

    The next phase here was two identical blocks to the previous four, which also completed in 1967. These are Moncrieffe House and Foreteviot House and are further up the hill and in a more exposed position than the first four. As a result of this exposure, and the way the wind swirls around and between the blocks, they have long suffered with windows blowing in (and out).

    Foreteviot (l) and Moncrieffe (r) houses. The first phase of towers at Moredun is in the right distance

    In 1967, to the west of Greendykes, a 15-storey pair of towers was completed at the site of the Craigmillar prefabs; the 57 flat Craigmillar Court and Peffermill Court. They were built by Concrete (Scotland) Ltd. on the prefabricated Bison large wall panel system – as a result they were 10% cheaper than Wimpey at Moredun

    Peffermill Court (r) and Craigmillar Court (l) in 1967. © Edinburgh City Libraries

    Between 1964-67, a pair of 13 storey blocks was completed at Restalrig Gardens; Lochend House and Restalrig House. Constructed by Millers, these 76 flat, T-plan point blocks are reinforced concrete construction with brick infill and external harling. They replaced the old Georgian villa of Restalrig House, which had been requisitioned during WW2 to act as a headquarters for the National Fire Service. It was acquired by the city in 1945 to act as a hostel for homeless families but was damaged by a fire in 1956 and evacuated, being used as a store for surplus council equipment thereafter.

    Restalrig (r) and Lochend (l) Houses.

    1965-67 proved to be a busy period, with 21 high-rise blocks completed in total, the fruits of Pat Rogan’s efforts as housing chairman. His successor – G. Adolf Theurer – was a Progressive (Liberal / Unionist / Conservative political grouping), but something of an ally and continued his basic policies.

    In 1968, the Kirkgate Redevelopment Scheme was completed by the 64 flat Kirkgate House, built by the Token Construction Co. This had been intended to be a 25 storey crowning monument, but ended up being behind schedule, overbudget and only 18 storeys tall.

    Kirkgate House as seen from South Leith Kirkyard in 2023. Photo © Self

    A 1968 outlier, in geographical terms, is the 11 storey, 41 flat Coillesdene House at Joppa by Wimpey. It sits within the red brick walls of the villa of the same name. Like Restalrig House, this had been requisitioned during WW2 by the National Fire Service and acquired and ultimately demolished afterwards by the Corporation for housing, with some of its undeveloped garden land having been used for temporary prefabs.

    Coillesdene House – the red brick walls of the villa are prominent in the foreground

    Just along the road from Joppa, on Portobello High Street, Portobello Court completed in 1968. This 8 storey, 60 flat, T-plan block is the centrepiece of a mixed-rise housing scheme which replace the old tramway depot. It was built by J. Best.

    South elevation of Portobello Court.

    A further phase of temporary housing replacement completed at Sighthill in 1968, a scheme known as The Calders. This was another mixed height development by Crudens. The high rise element was three 13 storey, 136 flat slab blocks built on the Skarne large panel system. These are named after locations in West Linton parish; Cobbinshaw House, Medwin House and Dunsyre House (like the Sighthill Neighbourhood Centre, there may be a Robert Louis Stevenson connection here). The Ronan Point Disaster of May 1968 occurred while they were completing. This fatal partial collapse of a brand new large panel system tower block prompted an immediate national review of such structures, and an immediate halt was called on moving new tenants in to Cobbinshaw House and final construction paused on the other pair. Structural surveys and improvements were made, and the domestic gas supply was removed from Cobbinshaw and replaced with electric, with the other pair completing as all electric before they could be occupied. The buildings were renovated and re-clad in the early 1990s.

    Left-to-Right, Medwin House, Dunsyre House and Cobbinshaw House

    In 1968-69, two 15 storey, 85 flat blocks were completed at Hawkhill on the site of an old tallow melting works – Hawkhill Court and Nisbet Court. These used the no-fines poured concrete method – where there is no fine sand component in the aggregate, and therefore the end product is porous and has air pockets – to try and deal with the condensation and damp problems that plagued earlier concrete builds. The contractor was local firm J. Smart & Co. Nisbet is the name of an old local landowning family (Nisbet of Craigentinny), although not one that was ever specifically associated with Hawkhill.

    Nisbet Court (l) and Hawkhill Court (r). At this time, the Hawkhill Playing Fields in the foreground were still in use. © Edinburgh City Libraries

    The last pair of the blocks in the prefab replacement scheme, and the last residential point blocks built in Edinburgh were built between 1969-71 at Niddrie Marischal; the pleasant sounding Teviotbank House and Tweedsmuir House, names from the Scottish Borders. These were built by Hart Bros. and were 15 storey, 57 flat blocks using the Bison large panel system. As well as the last, they were some of the worst such houses Edinburgh ever built and they were devoid of residents by 1989 after only 18 years and were unceremoniously demolished in 1991. The blocks had the last laugh though and refused to collapse under controlled explosion, having to be carefully tipped over later by a giant hydraulic ram known as Big Willie.

    Tweedsmuir House (l) and Teviotbank House (r) in 1983. Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    While Niddrie Marischal was still on the drawing board, Edinburgh’s public housing focus shifted away from the old Comprehensive Development Areas and Temporary Housing Sites to a grand new edge-of-the-city scheme at Wester Hailes. This was meant to be a “New Town within the town” for up to 20,000 people. However, despite the best of intentions, the Corporation was caught between price inflation and forced cost cutting by central government. As a result, it was forced to increase the housing density – putting multi-storey blocks back in favour again – and cut costs to balance the books. The cost cutting meant that construction quality was lacking, landscaping was bleak and that many of the facilities and public amenities that a growing community required were absent.

    The overall Wester Hailes scheme is comprised of multiple, distinct neighbourhoods, within which there were multiple development contracts. These included three big groups of multis, all of which suffered from bad design, bad engineering and bad workmanship. Group one, by Hart Bros, was at Hailesland, and was comprised of six 10 storey slab blocks using the Bison large panel system. These blocks contained between 67 and 107 flats and were finished in stark, pebbledashed concrete panels. They were also shoddily built, to the point of compromising their very structural integrity. In 1990, after a life of only 18 years and a long period of uncertainty and partial vacancy, three of the blocks were demolished. The remaining three were repaired and renovated as there were not funds to write off and demolish structures on which the construction debt had yet to be paid off; these were renamed Kilncroft, Midcairn and Drovers Bank and were given colourful, corrugated cladding and pitched roofs.

    Hailesland Bison flats. Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    The two remaining high rise groups at Wester Hailes were all built by Crudens on a proprietary system using a concrete frame and floors, in-filled with brick cladding and covered in harling. They were so badly built the render was falling off in huge chunks from the get go, and much of it had to be pre-emptively chipped off. Its application had been so lacking in control that the thickness varied between half and two and a half inches, as a result these nearly new flats were left looking decrepit and piebald. The Westburn Gardens group got no names, just the ominous sounding Blocks 1-7. They were built between 1970-72 and comprised seven slab blocks of 9 storeys with 55 flats each, except the last which got 112. They came down in 1993, aged just 22 years old.

    Westburn Gardens, 1982. Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    The other Crudens Group was on the same system at Wester Hailes Drive and Wester Hailes Park. They at least got street numbers instead of block numbers, but were just as badly built as Westburn. Constructed from 1971-73, they came down in 1994 at the tender age of 21.

    Wester Hailes Park (l) and Drive (r) flats in 1982. Picture by Prof. Miles Glendinning, released under CC-by-4.0 licence through Tower Block archive

    The year 1972 was both therefore both the peak and the swansong of multi-storey housing in Edinburgh; 12 blocks were finished at Wester Hailes, pipping the 11 of 1967, and the final 5 completed the following year. Such was the fallout from the multitude of scandals at Wester Hailes (and wider elsewhere, both in the city and nationwide) and also the rapid and terminal reputational damage they suffered in the 1980s that Edinburgh has never again built residential multis.

    Of the seventy seven blocks in this inventory, some forty four are still standing and thirty three have been demolished. Twenty of the latter were 22 years old or younger and the average age at demolition has been 30.3 years. The oldest block to be demolished was Fort House, aged 50, and the youngest were the Hailesland Bison Blocks, at only 18.

    Graph of total number of residential multi-storey public housing blocks in Edinburgh

    If you’d like to look at all these housing blocks on the map instead, just follow this link or click on the thumbnail below. This map is colour-coded by the number of storeys.

    Google My Map – “High Rise Edinburgh”.

    I have made much use of the reference of the Tower Block Archive of Prof. Miles Glendinning and team, including facts and photos, and I recommend this resource to you if you have an interest in the subject. I can also recommend his publications “Rebuilding Scotland, The Postwar Vision 1945-1975” and “The Home Builders. Mactaggart & Mickel and the Scottish Housebuilding Industry” by Miles Glendinning and Diane M. Watters, amongst others, for further reading.I am also much obliged to Miles for letting me read his interview notes with key movers and shakers in local authority housing in Edinburgh in the 1950s and 60s, which are full of invaluable details and insights.

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  27. Rob Pegoraro @[email protected] ·

    The data that I didn’t know I didn’t have to back up to Microsoft’s cloud

    I spent more time than I’d planned Friday afternoon poking around the security settings of my Windows laptop, then undoing one setting that I am somewhat embarrassed to admit I had scarcely thought about over the previous two and a half years of using this HP.

    The FBI gets some credit for that for making me rethink my own device security after some of its agents raided Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home two weeks ago and seized several of her devices–an obvious move to intimidate journalists– leaving the storage encryption on that hardware as the last line of defense for her data.

    Forbes security writer Thomas Brewster gets the rest of the credit for a strong post Friday morning unpacking how Microsoft’s approach to device encryption via its BitLocker software can leave Windows computers open to law enforcement investigators who bring a valid legal order to the company requesting a particular user’s encryption recovery key.

    “It’s possible for users to store those keys on a device they own, but Microsoft also recommends BitLocker users store their keys on its servers for convenience,” Brewster wrote. “While that means someone can access their data if they forget their password, or if repeated failed attempts to login lock the device, it also makes them vulnerable to law enforcement subpoenas and warrants.”

    He reported that Microsoft gets about 20 requests a year for BitLocker keys but cannot respond to many of them because the customers involved didn’t back up those keys to its cloud.

    Windows 11 Home’s Device Encryption isn’t branded as BitLocker in the Settings app, but it runs on the same framework. And as in the Pro, Enterprise and Education editions of Windows 11, it allows a choice of key-backup locations–which I did not realize until eyeballing Microsoft’s documentation after I’d read Brewster’s post.

    I had gone unthinkingly with the default of having the recovery key backed up to my Microsoft 365 cloud storage; I don’t remember even being presented with a choice when I set up the computer in August of 2023. But since the key is only a string of 48 numbers periodically separated by dashes, there was no point in keeping it there.

    Instead, I saved it in my end-to-end-encrypted password manager 1Password, where the security design does not expose backdoors that can be opened with a court order. Then I deleted the backed-up recovery key from my M365 storage after clicking a checkbox to confirm that I’d saved the key elsewhere–along with seven older ones I found saved there, going back to a Surface laptop I reviewed a decade or so ago.

    (I don’t know how long it will take for this data to be gone from my online storage, although there is the option of decrypting and re-encrypting the laptop to ensure the old key is useless.)

    I never should have taken Microsoft up on this offer. But Microsoft should not be leaving users in this position–as Johns Hopkins University cryptography professor Matthew Green told Brewster in that article. Apple’s FileVault device encryption now automatically encrypts recovery keys backed up to the company’s iCloud service (see this explainer from my friend Glenn Fleishman at Six Colors), leaving nothing for a third party to inspect with a warrant.

    There are many areas where Microsoft can’t readily catch up with Apple, starting with having a mobile platform to complement its desktop operating system. But this should not be one of them.

    #BitLocker #diskEncryption #encryption #FBI #HannahNatanson #keyEscrow #M365 #Microsoft365 #MicrosoftBackup #Windows11Home #WindowsDeviceEncryption

    #bitlocker #diskencryption #encryption #fbi #hannahnatanson #keyescrow
  28. Alice Dennis @[email protected] ·

    Super excited to see this paper out in the Bulletin of the SSB Species Delimitation Special Issue.

    This lock-down project from Thomas Inäbnit gives formal names to the cryptic #species from my dissertation work, and uses #morphometry to show that on the outside they are really quite cryptic! ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb

    #species #morphometry
  29. Rob Pegoraro @[email protected] ·

    Virginia is not for Trump lovers

    Smashing a 249-year-old glass ceiling was the least remarkable thing that Virginia voters did Tuesday. Once the Democratic and Republican parties had other candidates drop out and leave former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger and current lieutenant governor Winsome Earle-Sears as unchallenged candidates, it was assured that the Old Dominion would get its first female governor.

    Which is still noteworthy, considering that the line of Virginia governors starts with Patrick Henry and then Thomas Jefferson, and yet also a tad regrettable considering that we took this long and that this happened 32 years after the commonwealth’s only other election with a woman running for governor.

    But Spanberger didn’t just win but ran away with the election by more than 14 points, including support from a non-trivial fraction of 2024 Trump voters who found something to vote for her in her message of reducing the cost of living and standing up for the state against Trump’s chaos. Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general Ghazala Hashmi and Jay Jones won by smaller margins that still outpaced many forecasts.

    Yes, even AG nominee Jones, who had to grovel for forgiveness after the revelation of grotesque text messages from 2022 in which he imagined the execution of Todd Gilbert, then Republican majority leader of the House of Delegates, and the deaths by shooting of his kids.

    (At least Jones apologized profusely, which is not something President Trump has ever done for any of his own deranged statements, much less the unforgiveable offense against democracy of trying to overturn the 2020 election.)

    The ninth election that I’ve served as an Arlington County election officer, also the first I’d worked with the state’s top three offices on the ballot, saw equally sweeping victories for Virginia Dems in the House of Delegates.

    With all 100 seats up for election, voters chose Democratic candidates in 13 previously Republican districts, turning a thin 51-seat majority into a 64-seat lock in the oldest continuous legislative assembly in the Americas–which has a great deal of unfinished business from previous sessions.

    Being in the party of Trump, whose chaotic and cruel firings of government workers have left more of a dent in Virginia than in other states, seems to be political poison in far more of the commonwealth than many people expected. Especially if you try to pass off those layoffs as no big deal, as both Earle-Sears and current Republican governor Glenn Youngkin did.

    These results–along with the Democratic demolition of Republican hopes in my birth state of New Jersey–should now have a lot of GOP officeholders elsewhere in the commonwealth and the country feeling nervous about their own job security. And that seems more than fair when so many voters already feel the same anxiety.

    #2025Election #AbigailSpanberger #GlennYoungkin #HouseOfDelegates #OldDominion #Virginia #VirginiaGeneralAssembly #VirginiaGovernor #VirginiaPolitics #WinsomeEarleSears

    #2025election #abigailspanberger #glennyoungkin #houseofdelegates #olddominion #virginia
  30. Blütensthaub @[email protected] ·

    “Abschied(e)” von Julian Barnes – Von Knut Cordsen und Thomas David

    Über den Tod hat Julian Barnes, der am 19. Januar seinen 80. Geburtstag feiert, schon oft geschrieben. Das nahende Ende beschäftigt den britischen Schriftsteller auch in seinem neuen Buch “Abschied(e)”.

    Julian Barnesʼ Hausheiliger ist bekanntlich Gustave Flaubert. Er zitiert den Franzosen gern mit dem Satz, man müsse im Leben alles erlernen, vom Sprechen bis zum Sterben. Nur könnten wir Letzteres – das Sterben – eben nicht so recht üben. 2020, kurz vor dem ersten Lockdown, wurde bei Julian Barnes eine seltene Form von Blutkrebs diagnostiziert: nicht direkt letal, aber auf längere Sicht eine Krankheit zum Tode. Davon erzählt der Brite in seinem neuen und definitiv letzten Buch, mit dem er Abschied nimmt von der literarischen Bühne. Er nennt es seinen “offiziellen Abgesang”.

    https://www.ndr.de/kultur/buch/tipps/abschiede-von-julian-barnes-letztes-wort-eines-grossen-erzaehlers,barnes-100.html

    Thomas David hat Barnes mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte lang als Leser begleitet und eine Reihe von Gesprächen mit ihm geführt. Er erinnert sich  an ihre Begegnungen und nimmt seinerseits Abschied vom großen Erzähler. – WDR3, Kulturfeature

    https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/programm/sendungen/wdr3-kulturfeature/poesie-des-abschieds-100.html

    #AbschiedE #Autor #Bücher #Feature #Hören #JulianBarnes #KnutCordsen #Literatur #NDRKultur #ThomasDavid #WDR3

    #abschiede #autor #bucher #feature #horen #julianbarnes
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