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Book Review: From the Wilderness to Appomattox: The Fifteenth New York Heavy Artillery in the Civil War
From the Wilderness to Appomattox: The Fifteenth New York Heavy Artillery in the Civil War. By Edward A. Altemos. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2023. Softcover, 424 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Tim Talbott Capt. Alfred Lee of the 82nd Ohio Infantry wrote to the Delaware, Ohio Gazette soon after the battle of Chancellorsville, blaming […]
Read more...BookChat: From the Wilderness to Appomattox by Edward Altemos
The 15th New York Heavy Artillery regiment saw its initial service in the Wilderness as part of Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign. Author Edward “Andy” Altemos has written a new history of the regiment, From the Wilderness to Appomattox: The Fifteenth New Your Heavy Artillery in the Civil War (Kent State, 2023). I recently had […]
Read more...Book Review: From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton’s Regulars: A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment
From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton’s Regulars: A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment. By Dewitt Clinton Beckwith and edited by Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023. Softcover, 249 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Tyler McGraw The 121st New York Infantry is one of those regiments that found themselves in some […]
Read more...Appomattox Revisited in the Washington Territory
ECW welcomes back guest author Richard Heisler The day after General Ulysses S. Grant accepted the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia; a second meeting was held to finalize the details of the surrender. Known as the Commissioner’s meeting, it consisted of a group that included three generals from each army. Union leadership was […]
Read more...Book Review: Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox
Caroline Janney is a rising star in the literature of Confederate war-memory. At UVA she wrote her dissertation, “The Ladies Memorial Associations of Virginia” under Gary Gallagher. She drew from it for an essay in Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, eds., Virginia’s Civil War (2005). Her work led to Burying the Dead But Not the […]
Read more...The Appomattox (or Shenandoah) Parole Passes and Confederate Cavalry After Appomattox
Following the combat at Appomattox Court House on the morning of April 9, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia prepared to surrender. Lee and Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant met in the parlor of Wilmer McLean’s house in the small town. There they discussed terms that Grant had previously set in […]
Read more...On The Eve Of War: Appomattox, Virginia
For an ending to happen, there has to be a beginning. But sometimes the opening moments get over shadowed by the concluding act. That’s certainly what happens with the history surrounding Appomattox Court House, Virginia. It’s famous as the setting for the most well-known surrender of the Civil War on April 9, 1865, but what […]
Read more...A.C.L. Gatewood, the Lost Cause, and Two Different Accounts of the Appomattox Campaign
Andrew Cameron Lewis Gatewood came from an influential family in Bath County, Virginia. Before the war, the wealth and status of his family helped secure him a position as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute. He spent most of the war in the Bath Squadron, initially Co. F of the 17th Virginia Cavalry Battalion […]
Read more...Appomattox – Photos with the Lens of Change
Yesterday an autumn drive on Virginia backroads led to Appomattox Court House. The rainy day with splashes of vibrant colors on the trees offered a different view and perspective on the historic site. I hope you’ll enjoy these photos from the place where the Civil War war began its formal ending. Usually, I prefer to […]
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