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Tag Archives: James Longstreet
The Golden Opportunity at Evelynton Heights
Exactly one year before the Battle of Gettysburg Confederate James Ewell Brown “JEB” Stuart made possibly an even costlier mistake. He lost Evelynton Heights. Evelynton is the name attributed to both the plantation home of the Ruffin family (the same family … Continue reading
Suicide by Union Bullet?: The Cases of A.P. Hill and Richard Garnett
Death is an occupational hazard for the soldier; it is a basic rule of warfare that there will be casualties. Soldiers face death when they enter battle, and accept that they must be willing to die for their country, their … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Personalities
Tagged "suicide by cop", Ambrose Powell Hill, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Kernstown, Boydton Plank Road, C.S. Venable, civil war casualties, Colonel Palmer, Corporal John W. Mauck, cowardice, Five Forks, Garnett Monument, Garnett's court martial, George Pickett, Gettysburg, gonorrhea, Harry Heath, Hollywood Cemetery, James Longstreet, Jenkins, linkedin, Petersburg, Pickett's Charge, Private Daniel Wolford, Richard Garnett, Richmond, Robert Anderson Bright, Robert E. Lee, Sergeant Tucker, Siege of Petersburg, Stonewall Jackson, suicide, Thomas J. Jackson, Turner Ashby, West Point
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Question of the Week #7
Who do you believe was the superior corps commander, Jackson or Longstreet ?
Telling History vs. Making Art: Killer Angels, real and fictional
Part five in a series. In my last post, I began to discuss Michael Shaara’s aesthetic choices for constructing The Killer Angels as he did, and how he adopted a Lost Cause-interpretation of Robert E. Lee as a central choice … Continue reading
Telling History vs. Making Art: Gods & Jacksons
Part four in a series. One of my favorite places to work at FSNMP is the Stonewall Jackson Shrine, the small plantation office building where the Confederate general died. It’s a story I love so much that I wrote a … Continue reading
Chinn Ridge-What Could Have Been?
Patchan, Scott C. Second Manassas, Longstreet’s Attack and the Struggle for Chinn Ridge. Potomac Books,Washington D.C; 2011. Pp. IX, 185. ISBN 978-1597976879. Hardcover. $26.95. Just because the 150th anniversary of the Second Battle of Manassas comes to an end does … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, National Park Service, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 2nd Manassas, Chinn Ridge, James Longstreet, John Hennessy, John Pope, National Park Service, Ohio, Robert E. Lee, Scott C. Patchan, Sesquicentennial, South Carolina, Texas
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The Reconstruction of Billy Mahone
The descriptions of him are priceless. “He looked the image of a bantam rooster or a gamecock,” recalled a veteran. Perhaps it was his odd dress: “He wore a large sombrero hat, without plume, cocked on one side, and decorated … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Personalities, Reconstruction
Tagged Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, Battle of the Crater, Billy Mahone, Chancellorsville, Confederate Republicans, Conservatives, Crater, Danville race riot, Democrats, Drewry's Bluff, Fredericksburg, Funders, Hero of the Crater, James Longstreet, Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, Peninsula Campaign, Petersburg, Rappahannock Academy, Readjuster Party, Readjusters, Reconstruction, Reconstruction Virginia, Republicans, Richmond, Salem Church, Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Senator William Mahone, Virginia, Virginia debt, Virginia Military Institute, VMI, West Virginia, wilderness, William Mahone
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Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, In History and Memory…Part 8
Part eight in a series. Southern postwar writings were also particularly influential in how they helped to shape the nation’s collective understanding of the war and its meaning. In the south Confederate Veteran Magazine was very popular among historians and … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory
Tagged Alexander Stephens, Battle of Champion's Hill, Charles Dana, Clement Evans, Confederate Veteran, Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, Edwin Stanton, George G. Meade, In History and Memory, James Longstreet, John Brown Gordon, Jubal Early, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, William Swinton, William T. Sherman
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War Chicken
Robert E. Lee’s image is everywhere. His silhouette is so easily recognizable that it is one of the most powerful symbols of the Confederacy. Tales are told, legends have been created concerning the love and affection his men had for … Continue reading
