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Category Archives: Battles
Preservation News: CVBT Preserves New Ground at Spotsylvania Battlefield
Our friends at the Central Virginia Battlefield Trust have been hard at work acquiring and preserving more ground on the Spotsylvania battlefield. Last March, we told you a little bit about their work preserving a tract along the Brock Road … Continue reading
A Poet’s Perspective: Melville On Pickett’s Charge
So few poets chose to write about the American Civil War that it is sometimes described as the “unwritten war.” Herman Melville, however, was among the few who chose to do so. His collection of poems on the war, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, Civil War poetry, herman melville, Pickett's Charge, poetry
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Trial by Fire for the U.S. Sharpshooters at Yorktown, Part 2
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Rob Wilson for Part 2 of his mini-series. To read Part I of this series, about the U.S. Sharpshooters’ 1st Regiment and their role on first day of the Siege of Yorktown, click … Continue reading
The Dead Angle
“The Dead Angle,” from Sam Watkins’ Co. Aytch, Chapter XII: The First and Twenty-seventh Tennessee Regiments will ever remember the battle of “Dead Angle,” which was fought June 27th, on the Kennesaw line, near Marietta, Georgia. It was one of … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier, Primary Sources, Western Theater
Tagged 1st Tennessee, 27th Tennessee, Co. Aytch, Dead Angle, Kennesaw Line, Sam Watkins
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Trial by Fire for the U.S. Sharpshooters at Yorktown, Part 1
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Rob Wilson. The men of the 1st Regiment, U.S. Sharpshooters (U.S.S.S.) were tired and hungry as they slogged along the muddy road from their base at Ft. Monroe. It was April 5, 1862, … Continue reading
Artillery: The Pulaski Light Artillery Battery’s Trial by Fire at Wilson’s Creek
ECW welcomes back Kristen Pawlak Before dawn on the morning of August 10, 1861, the men of Capt. William E. Woodruff’s Pulaski Light Artillery Battery prepared their breakfast of green corn foraged from the farm fields in the Wilson’s Creek … Continue reading
Posted in Artillery, Battles
Tagged artillery, Artillery-18, Battle of Wilson's Creek, Kristen Pawlak, Pulaski Light Artillery
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Wood-Choppers Along the Kennesaw Line
“The battles of the Kennesaw line were fought for weeks. Cannonading and musketry firing was one continual thing. It seemed that shooting was the order of the day, and pickets on both sides kept up a continual firing, that sounded … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Primary Sources, Western Theater
Tagged Co. Aytch, Kennesaw Line, Sam Watkins
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Artillery: Sticking to his guns – Lt. Charles Parsons at the Battle of Perryville
Napoleon Bonaparte himself once said, “It is with artillery that war is made.” So too could it then be said that it is with artillery that war is lost. Such was the case atop a ridge outside of Perryville, Kentucky … Continue reading
Artillery: “As Though an Earthquake”: The Guns of Malvern Hill
George McClellan’s army was escaping! Dangerously exposed to enemy attacks, over 100,000 men, 280 guns, thousands of wagons, large numbers of wounded, and even a massive herd of beef were attempting to move safely to a new base on the … Continue reading
Posted in Artillery, Battles
Tagged artillery, Artillery-18, Battle of Malvern Hill, Malvern Hill
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Herman Haupt: Reopening The Rail Lines To Gettysburg
“I am now at Hanover Station. A bridge is broken between this place and Littlestown. I will proceed at once to repair it, and commence to send off wounded; then return and take the Gettysburg Railroad and commence repairing it. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Personalities
Tagged Aftermath, Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Campaign, Herman Haupt, railroads
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