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Author Archives: Kevin Pawlak
When Their Countries Called
West Point’s Class of 1846 is its most famous of the pre-Civil War era. Perhaps a close second could be the Class of 1854, which included 46 graduates. Of those 46, 37 fought in the Civil War: 23 for the … Continue reading
A “Dexteritous” Climb to the Top of the Capitol’s Unfinished Dome
It towered over Abraham Lincoln during his inauguration on March 4, 1861 as a fitting symbol for the task ahead of the new president and the state of the country. Unfinished but a work in progress, the construction of the … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Lincoln, Primary Sources
Tagged 91st Pennsylvania Infantry, Abraham Lincoln, Capitol, Capitol Dome, Thomas Walter, Washington DC
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The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: To Hazard All
I have always enjoyed tour guides. They’re a useful tool for Civil War historians. I can read it from the comfort of my home and use it later when visiting the sites of a Civil War battle and/or campaign. It … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War Series
Tagged ECWS-Series, Kevin Pawlak, Maryland Campaign, Rob Orrison, To Hazard All
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The Commencement of the Army of the Potomac’s Third Campaign
Engineers laid two pontoon bridges across the Potomac River at Berlin, Maryland in late October 1862 (modern-day Brunswick, Maryland). After six weeks of reorganization, refitting, and resupplying, the Army of the Potomac was again on the move. Federal soldiers and … Continue reading
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
Posted in Battles
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
