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A March Made in Georgia: Sherman’s Famous March to the Sea
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Derek Maxfield. One hundred-fifty years ago this fall, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman led an army of sixty-thousand men on a militarily-unorthodox campaign through the heart of Georgia. Sherman’s “March to the Sea”, as it has come to be known, began with the utter destruction of Atlanta […]
Read more...“Littlepage’s Big Contributions to the Confederacy”
This is another installment of “Tales From the Tombstone.” Littlepage was the middle name of Carter L. Stevenson, a Confederate major general that saw extensive service in the west during the American Civil War. Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia to a wealthy and prominent family, Stevenson finished his education with a degree from West Point Military […]
Read more...Coming Soon from the Emerging Civil War Series: Calamity in Carolina!
The Emerging Civil War Series is getting ready to roll out its next wave of releases. We have a slew of titles nearing the final stages of development, and we’ll be offering previews over the next few days. First up: The dynamic duo of Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt return with their latest, […]
Read more...Calamity in Carolina
“Concentrate all available forces and stop Sherman.” — Robert E. Lee to Joseph E. Johnston, February 22, 1865 Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt Savas Beatie, 2015 168 pp.; 148 images, 8 maps ISBN: 978-1-61121-245-7 Click here to order * * * […]
Read more...The Army of Tennessee and Dalton Redux, 150 years later
150 years ago on October 13, John Bell Hood’s campaign through North Georgia reached the edge of Dalton, a town the army knew very well from their stay there the previous winter. The Dalton they found little resembled what they had left as the Atlanta Campaign began: the town was largely abandoned and with warehouses […]
Read more...The Death of Francis Marion Walker
It seemed that the slow bleeding of the Confederate officer corps reached its zenith on July 22. Throughout the campaign, in the nearly continuous fighting from Dalton to the Gate City, the Army of Tennessee was slowly losing its best and brightest. Now as Hood launched the battle for the city, the losses continued to […]
Read more...Death of an Army Commander
150 years ago today at 11 AM, the U.S. Army lost its first-ever Army Commander to die at the head of his troops, Major General James B. McPherson of the Army of the Tennessee. General McPherson grew up in Ohio and graduated first in the Class of 1853 at West Point. Classmates included John M. […]
Read more...“Did great honor to themselves and the cause for which they fought”—Manning Force and the fight for Bald Hill
Part one of a two-part series Resaca, Pickett’s Mill, Kolb’s Farm, Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain—a road of bloody encounters that all led to here. Numerous battles that paved the way to the Gateway to the South: Atlanta. With its convergence of railroads in the center of the city, Atlanta was vital to both Federal and Confederate […]
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