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Author Archives: Kevin Pawlak
Antietam: A Tactical Union Victory
The Battle of Antietam was a key turning point in the American Civil War and American history. In short, it turned back Robert E. Lee’s first campaign north of the Potomac River and led to the issuance of the Preliminary—and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, antietam creek, Battle of Antietam, Battle of North Anna, Burnside Bridge, Dunker Church Plateau, Emancipation Proclamation, George B. McClellan, James Longstreet, Joseph Hooker, Middle Bridge, Pry's Ford, Robert E. Lee, Seven Days Battles, Snavely's Ford, Stephen D. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Upper Bridge
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Antietam: On the Eve of Battle
The evening of September 16 always draws my mind to the Antietam battlefield. 159 years ago tonight, Union and Confederate soldiers settled down for a tense night around Sharpsburg, Maryland. In some cases, they lay within earshot of one another. … Continue reading
“Straggling is a crime which cannot be to strongly reprehended nor too severely punished”: The Sixth Corps’ Orders Against Straggling in the Maryland Campaign
Recently, I was sorting through what I found on a past trip to the National Archives, where I spent the day looking through the records of William B. Franklin’s Sixth Corps in the Maryland Campaign. In one of the bound … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Campaigns
Tagged Army of the Potomac, Maryland Campaign, Sixth Corps, straggling
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A Chronology of the Confederacy’s 1862 Counterstrokes
Several months ago, I crossed an item off my Civil War bucket list: visiting the Perryville battlefield. While at the visitor center, I watched a video which put the Confederate invasion of Kentucky into the larger context of the war. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Baton Rouge, Battle of Chantilly, Battle of Charleston, Battle of Corinth, Battle of Harpers Ferry, Battle of Iuka, Battle of Munfordville, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Prairie Grove, Battle of Richmond, Battle of Second Bull Run, Battle of Second Manassas, Battle of South Mountain, Braxton Bragg, Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap, Don Carlos Buell, Earl Van Dorn, Edmund Kirby Smith, foreign intervention, France, Francis Herron, George B. McClellan, Great Britain, Great Britain and the Civil War, Henry Halleck, James Blunt, Jefferson Davis, John Breckinridge, John Pope, Kanawha Valley Campaign, Kentucky, Lord Palmerston, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Robert E. Lee, Russia, Sterling Price, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Hindman, William Loring, William S. Rosecrans, Winchester
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Fallen Leaders: Lewis Addison Armistead and the Armistead Family Cemetery
This post rides off the research and coattails of Tom McMillan’s newest book, Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War. Tom’s book, which I picked up in Gettysburg during … Continue reading
An Eagle Cake on the Fourth of July
John S. Mosby It has been a few years since I posted the story below but it still resonates every year with me because of the incredible feat the women of Point of Rocks, Maryland, accomplished: creating a 25 foot … Continue reading
Book Review: A Fire in the Wilderness
A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee By John Reeves Pegasus Books, 2021, $28.95 hardcover Reviewed by Kevin Pawlak Of all the awful places created by the American Civil War, the … Continue reading
Book Review: Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat
Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat By Jonathan M. Steplyk University Press of Kansas, 2018, $22.95, paperback. Reviewed by Kevin Pawlak The American Civil War is America’s deadliest war. While two-thirds of the war’s approximately … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, Fighting Means Killing, Jonathan M. Steplyk
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Saving History Saturday: 22 Acres to Save at Bristoe Station
Bristoe Station battlefield is bordered by development. In fact, a compromise between developers and preservationists are the only reason the park exists. Chances to preserve this battlefield are few and far between and become more difficult frequently. The 22 acres … Continue reading
