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Author Archives: Lee White
The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Let Us Die Like Men
Writing the story of the battle of Franklin in Let Us Die Like Men was one I really wanted to do. Franklin captured my imagination and interest very early on after a visit there with my aunt and uncle sometime … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War Series
Tagged Battle of Franklin, Bruce Catton, ECWS-Series, Emerging Civil War Series, Eric Jacobson, Franklin, George Wagner, Golden Book of the Civil War, Hood's northwest Georgia campaign, John Bell Hood, Lee White, Let Us Die Like Men, Stephen Hood, William Lee White
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The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale
When I began to write the story of the battle of Chickamauga in what became Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale, it presented a unique challenge as it was one that I had told a thousand times, either on battlefield tours … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns
Tagged Atlanta Campaign, Joe Hooker, John Logan, Joseph E. Johnston, Oostanaula River, Resaca, William T. Sherman
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How I Got Hooked on Franklin: The Story Behind Let Us Die Like Men
My story for Franklin began when I was around ten years old. The stories my grandparents told inspired my love of history, and my dad’s fateful purchase of Bruce Catton’s American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War sparked my … Continue reading
Chattanooga: More Than Just Another Victory for Grant
In the late summer and early days of fall of 1863, it seemed that all eyes were on the small railroad town of Chattanooga, TN. The disastrous defeat at Chickamauga and the huge casualties it reaped turned what had nearly … Continue reading
Shiloh 2016
I had the chance to spend a few days at Shiloh this past week for the 154th anniversary of the battle. The Park Service held some living history programs, which I was helping out with. Here are a few scenes … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Civil War Events, Emerging Civil War, Photography
Tagged Battle of Shiloh, Shiloh
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Lookout
A January view from the top of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Photography
Tagged Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain
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The Last to Fall
When Brigadier General Robert Charles Tyler fell near the palisade entrance to the fort bearing his name, he would go down in history as the last Confederate General to die in combat during the American Civil War. Tyler was also … Continue reading
The Last Confederate Fort and the Last Confederate General
Easter morning, April 16th, 1865, dawned unseasonably cool on the little town of West Point, Georgia, located on the east side of the Chattahoochee River and right on the Alabama state line. News of the assassination of President Lincoln and … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Cavalry, Sesquicentennial, Western Theater
Tagged cavalry, Chattahoochee River, Fort Tyler, James Wilson, Oscar LaGrange, Robert C. Tyler
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The Last Major Engagement of the War: The Fall of Fort Blakely
With the Fall of Spanish Fort on April 8, the lone defense of Mobile now fell upon Gen. St. John Liddell and his garrison of around 4,000 men at Fort Blakely, a series of fortifications around the small town of … Continue reading
Posted in Battles
Tagged Bryan THomas, Claudius Sears, Edward Canby, Francis Cockrell, Frederick Steele, John Liddell, Mobile, Spanish Fort, USCT, William Pile
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