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Darkest Days of the War?
The Battles of Iuka and Corinth–that’s the answer, at least according to historian Peter Cozzens. Do you agree? Disagree? When I started the book, I was sketpical that Cozzens could convince me that this was truly the “Darkest Days of … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged Battle of Corinth, Battle of Iuka, Braxton Bragg, Corinth, Don Carlos Buell, Earl Van Dorn, Mississippi, Sterling Price, Tennessee, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, Western theater, William Rosecrans, William T. Sherman
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The Battle of Stones River: “The nation could scarcely have lived….”
With the Emancipation Proclamation set to go into effect on January 1, 1863, and the Army of the Potomac still in ruins after its humiliating defeat on the heights beyond Fredericksburg, Virginia, President Abraham Lincoln desperately needed a victory. Major General … Continue reading
Examining Braxton Bragg
Confederate General Braxton Bragg would never make the list of top military commanders to fight for the Southern Confederacy. He argued with everyone, including–if you believe a pre-war account–even his own persona. He distrusted his subordinate commanders and on multiple … Continue reading
Question of the Week #4
“Who was a larger failure as a battlefield commander, George McClellan or Braxton Bragg?”
Placing Perryville
On September 17, 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia fought Union General George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac outside the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The subsequent Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) is still the bloodiest … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Western Theater
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Army of the Cumberland, Battle of Perryville, Braxton Bragg, Don Carlos Buell, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Western theater
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Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, In History and Memory…Part 2
Part two in a series. As we have already seen, McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign was a failure, and following it Lincoln transferred Major General John Pope from the west to command in eastern forces, in an attempt to instill confidence in … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Western Theater
Tagged Jefferson Davis, Braxton Bragg, Vicksburg, Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, William T. Sherman, Second Manassas, Battle of Island Number 10, Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, William Loring, March to the Sea, John Pope, Joseoh Johnston, John Pemberton
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Mr. President, We Need Your Decision!
A different kind of post…
Posted in Armies, Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Personalities
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Atlanta, Braxton Bragg, Edmund Kirby Smith, Jefferson Davis, John Bell Hood, Joseph Johnston, P.G.T. Beauregard, Patrick Cleburne, Richard Taylor, Steven Woodworth, William Hardee
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