Logan’s Attack at Resaca
The battle of Resaca was, numbers wise, the largest battle fought in the state of Georgia, with 158,787 men engaged on both sides. Fought on this date in 1864, Resaca was also the first major battle of the Atlanta Campaign. After a failed attempt to gain Joe Johnston’s Army of Tennessee’s rear there, both sides […]
Read more...Captured Telegrams: Sigel’s Last Chance?
On May 13, 1864, Union General Franz Sigel and his army reach Woodstock, Virginia, during the New Market Campaign. Their march up the Shenandoah Valley had been going slower than his superiors had anticipated. From war games to extra days for drilling, waiting out the rainy weather, or reconfiguring the lines of march to repulse […]
Read more...The Civil War and General Jim Mattis: Command relationship “trust up and down the chain” (Part 3)
This series was inspired by Jim Mattis’s Call Sign Chaos. In Part II, we looked at the relationships between Lincoln, Grant and Sherman to see how trust, respect, and communication aided senior Union leadership in their use of a multi-directional command style from 1864–1865. Now, for the final installment in this series, what about the […]
Read more...Dawn at Spotsylvania
May 12, 2020 – 156 years since the attack on the Mule Shoe Salient/Bloody Angle during the Battle of Spotsylvania The sun’s brightness felt blinding as I climbed out and headed east, then took the trail northwest to get to the Federal side of the lines. A herd of deer nibbling within yards of Bloody […]
Read more...Supporting the Cause: Union and Confederate Patriotic Envelopes
ECW welcomes guest author Leon Reed About three years ago, my cousin, Jim Reed asked if I’d like to see a scrapbook that had been kept by a civil war ancestor of his. What I got was an incredible collection of original correspondence, photographs, souvenirs, and, most of all, patriotic envelopes from the secession crisis […]
Read more...Question of the Week: 5/11-5/17/20
We keep hearing that many folks are reading more this spring and building their library collections. What Civil War book[s] are you reading these days?
Read more...A very private war: Rocky Face Ridge, May 8 to 11, 1864
On the morning of May 8. 1864, Colonel Emerson Opdycke’s 125th Ohio infantry drew an unenviable assignment. One of the regiments comprising the Third Brigade, Second Division, of O. O. Howard’s Fourth Corps in the Army of the Cumberland, the 125th was a veteran command, and ably led. Colonel Charles G. Harker was their brigade […]
Read more...Week In Review: May 3-10, 2020
You’ll find plenty of reading this week, including some special anniversary posts for Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania… Stay safe and well!
Read more...