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Author Archives: Dave Powell
Artillery: Chickamauga – “The terrible roar of artillery . . .”
When one thinks of effective artillery use in a Civil War Battle, Chickamauga doesn’t leap immediately into the forefront. Certainly Gettysburg or Malvern Hill take those honors. Or Antietam, remembered by the Confederates as “Artillery Hell.” But not Chickamauga – … Continue reading
Posted in Artillery, Battles
Tagged artillery, Artillery-18, cannons, Chickamauga, tactics
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Book Review—That Bloody Hill: Hilliard’s Legion at Chickamauga
Author: Lee Elder Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 239 pages, $35.00 paper Endnotes, Bibliography, maps and photographs This review also appears on Chickamaugablog. It wasn’t that long ago that single-volume overviews of the battle of Chickamauga – let alone individual unit … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
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Chickamauga Seminar in the Woods, 2018
Every March for about the past fifteen years, I have been organizing a two-day, in-depth battlefield tour of Chickamauga and surrounding battlefields. With that in mind…
Posted in Emerging Civil War
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Grant Ascending . . .
The events of July 4, 1863, cemented Ulysses S. Grant’s position as a household name firmly into the public mind. The capitulation of the Confederate bastion of Vicksburg to “Unconditional Surrender” Grant of Donelson fame – on Independence Day no … Continue reading
Posted in Engaging the Civil War Series, Leadership--Federal
Tagged Battle Above the Clouds, Braxton Bragg, Chattanooga, Department of the Gulf, Department of the Mississippi, Henry Halleck, Joe Hooker, Lincoln, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Nathaniel Banks, Stanton, Tunnel Hill, Turning Points of the American Civil War, Turning-Points-Series, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, William Rosecrans, William T. Sherman
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“I know it will gratify you when I tell you nearly every wound was inflicted with the saber.”
“I know it will gratify you when I tell you nearly every wound was inflicted with the saber.” So wrote Col. Edward M. McCook at 2:00 a.m. on October 3rd, 1863, in a dispatched dashed off to Acting Union Cavalry … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War
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A Confederate at Antietam
You never know what you will find in an archival collection. Back in June, I spent a day at Emory University, digging through their vast Civil War holdings, much of which were collected by the late (and great) Bell I. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Primary Sources
Tagged Antietam, Army of Northern Virginia, battle, soldier letters
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Major Tom Taylor at Ezra Church
On July 28, 1864, the Union Army of the Tennessee reached a point west of Atlanta from where they could threaten the Macon Railroad, which entered Atlanta from the southwest. In an effort to thwart that move, Confederate General John … Continue reading
East Tennessee and Confederate Copper
On November 25, 1863, Colonel Eli Long rode into Cleveland, Tennessee, at the head of 1,500 Union cavalrymen. They were there to wreak general havoc. When it comes to Civil War cavalry raids, Long’s Cleveland incursion does not garner much … Continue reading
Posted in Cavalry, Economics, Material Culture, Weapons, Western Theater
Tagged Chattanooga Campaign, Cleveland Tennessee, Raids, railroads, War Material
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The Other Rock of Chickamauga?
One of the joys of research is turning an unexpected corner to find out something new. That happens every so often, and when it does, I always get a little buzz of excitement. Most recently, that buzz came when I … Continue reading
We Happy Few…
Here’s a little curtain-raiser for Battle Above the Clouds. In September 1863, United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton initiated one of the more remarkable troop movements of the American Civil War. Stanton, alarmed by the recent Union defeat at … Continue reading
