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Category Archives: Personalities
The Lincoln Turkey Pardon–a 2011 reprint, updated!
Wednesday, November 27 marked another year in which a turkey received a Presidential pardon, this time from President Obama. The 2013 turkeys (there are always two nowadays–one is an alternate in case something happens to the first) are from Michigan, … Continue reading
New York Saves The Union
That is perhaps a hyperbolic title. But one brigade of all New York soldiers saved two Federal armies in the summer and fall of 1863, at Gettysburg and Chattanooga – thereby arguably doing more to assist the Union cause in … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged Chattanooga, Chattanooga Campaign, Confederate, George S. Greene, New York, Union, Union Army, XII Corps
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The Gettysburg Address: 150 years later
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing … Continue reading
From the Stone Wall to a Shad Bake
This is another post in the series “Tales From the Tombstone.” George Edward Pickett was ecstatic on the morning of July 3, 1863. His division, which had missed the fighting at Chancellorsville in May and had been way in the rear … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Personalities
Tagged Appomattox Court House, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, Five Forks, Gaines Mill, George Pickett, John S. Mosby, LaSalle "Sallie" Corbell, Pickett's Charge, Robert E. Lee, West Point, West Point Class of 1846
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Repatriating Court Documents Stolen from Stafford Courthouse, Virginia, by Union Troops in 1862
Guest post by George H. Bresnick, director of the H. Stanley Bresnick Foundation The countryside around Stafford, Virginia, was devastated by the occupation forces of the Union Army in November, 1862. So severe was the physical damage and the loss of population … Continue reading
Pick #8 in the Top Ten Books Every Civil War Fanatic Should Own
I began this series almost a year ago–what a difference a year makes! My Master’s program at American Public University is marching forward, slowly but surely, and the rest of my life is–as Chris M. says–groovy. Still, I like to … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Book Review, Books & Authors, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Monuments, Personalities, Ties to the War
Tagged Confederate generals, James Longstreet, Jefferson Davis, Richard Ewell, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Union generals
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Westmoreland’s Other Confederate General
Part two in the series “Tales From the Tombstone” In Westmoreland County on the historic Northern Neck of Virginia boasts of being the birthplace of a few famous persons in American history. George Washington, James Monroe, Richard Henry Lee, and the … Continue reading
Partners In Command: The Relationships Between Leaders in the Civil War by Joseph T. Glatthaar
Nothing happens in a vacuum, and this axiom is never truer than actions conducted during the American Civil War. The relationships between Abraham Lincoln and his generals, and Jefferson Davis and his generals had consequences that reached every … Continue reading
Post-Chickamauga: Bragg vs. Forrest?
If the stories are to be believed, Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the most quotable characters of the Civil War. One of the best lines attributed to him came following the battle of Chickamauga. Although Braxton Bragg had (finally) … Continue reading
