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Willie Preston: “Who Thinks of Victory Now?”
He was nineteen. Full of life. Full of ideas of soldiering. He left Lexington, Virginia, joining up with the Fourth Virginia Infantry and soldiering with other friends from his home town. Before long though, he was anxious to secure a place on “Stonewall” Jackson’s staff and eagerly accepted the general’s offer to stay at headquarters […]
Read more...Yellowhammers and Environmentalism: Following the Path of Law’s Alabama Brigade to Gettysburg (part two)
This post continues my story of following Law’s Brigade and delves into the unit’s background. Joe Loehle and I were at our starting off point, Raccoon Ford, where the area had layers of historical depth. We were where Evander McIver Law’s newly-formed Alabama Brigade was posted in early June 1863. I wanted to explore the […]
Read more...A Conversation with Philip Gerard on The Last Battleground (part four)
Part four of six Philip Gerard says “North Carolina has this sort of schizophrenic personality as a state.” In yesterday’s segment about his book The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina (UNC Press, 2019), he talked about some of the challenges he faced in getting his arms around that. One thing that […]
Read more...“Independence Forever”–except in Vicksburg
To commemorate 1826’s July Fourth celebrations in Quincy, Massachusetts—which marked the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—the organizing committee approached the town’s elder statesman, John Adams. Adams, the single most important voice of the independence movement in the Second Continental Congress, was by that time one of only three surviving signers of the Declaration […]
Read more...Podcast Additional Resources: “High Tide of the Confederacy, Part 2”
And we’re back with resources for Chancellorsville… Last month Part 1 went to Jackson’s wounding in the history discussion and now we’ve complied resources from May 3 through the end of the battle and then Jackson’s death on May 10. Yep, Chris and Kris continued their conversation about the battle of Chancellorsville and how this […]
Read more...General Hartsuff’s Nine Lives
With a bullet wound to his left arm and a ball lodged in his chest, 25-year-old Lieutenant George L. Hartsuff submerged himself in a pond of brackish water hoping to evade detection. He did everything in his power to keep his large frame concealed for three agonizing hours as dozens of Seminole Indians searched for […]
Read more...Question of the Week: 5/13-5/19/19
Jackson or Stuart? These two Confederate generals both died in May – “Stonewall” Jackson in 1863 and J.E.B. Stuart in 1864. In your opinion, which general’s death had the most significant impact on the Army of Northern Virginia and the campaigns in Virginia? Why?
Read more...Week In Review: May 5-12, 2019
Sunday, May 5: In the evening, we shared a re-cap of the videos and experiences at the re-opening of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond. Monday, May 6: Question of the Week focused on big battles in the months of May during the Civil War. Edward Alexander wrote about Private William Perry’s experiences during […]
Read more...Lieutenant Justin E. Dimick: “Accomplished Artillery Officer, Truest Soldier”
“At 5 o’clock in the morning, the enemy attacked us in force, and, after a very severe fight by our men, the Federal line began to fall back. From the first moment I learned the position of the enemy, I played upon him with artillery, the section in the road using very short fuse and […]
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