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William “Little Billy” Mahone—Part One
Today we welcome back guest author William F. Floyd, Jr. William worked for forty years for the City of Norfolk. In his retirement, he’s now pursuing the study of history at Tidewater Community College. The first in a two-part series. ************************************************************** It was late June 1864, when William Mahone’s men were holding the line in […]
Read more...The Battle of Old Men and Young Boys: June 9, 1864
By the second week of June 1864, the armies of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee had deadlocked one another in their Cold Harbor fortifications on the outskirts of Richmond. Close as he was to the Confederate capital–closer indeed than any Union army since George B. McClellan two years previous–the endless stream to the […]
Read more...Grant Takes Command
This weekend marks the 150th Anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant’s promotion to Lieutenant General and designation as Commanding General of the U.S. Army. Often discussed in passing as regards the 1864 campaigns, to contemporary eyes this was a major event in the war. Grant’s promotion reveals much about the political and military undercurrents in March 1864.
Read more...Lewis A. Armistead and the American Civil War
Today we welcome back guest author William F. Floyd, Jr. William worked for forty years for the City of Norfolk. In his retirement, he’s now pursuing the study of history at Tidewater Community College. * * * Lewis A. Armistead was a Confederate general in the Civil War. He is best remembered for the role he […]
Read more...Repercussions of Drewry’s Bluff 1862
Earlier this month, Caroline Davis wrote about the Confederate defenders of Drewry’s Bluff. For students of the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, the Federal Navy’s defeat on the James ranks as a key moment in the operation. The main Federal effort for the spring of 1862 involved an attempt to capture Richmond by Major General George B. […]
Read more...The Golden Opportunity at Evelynton Heights
Exactly one year before the Battle of Gettysburg Confederate James Ewell Brown “JEB” Stuart made possibly an even costlier mistake. He lost Evelynton Heights. Evelynton is the name attributed to both the plantation home of the Ruffin family (the same family that Edmund Ruffin, who fired the first shot in the Civil War, belonged to) and […]
Read more...Placing Perryville
On September 17, 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia fought Union General George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac outside the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The subsequent Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) is still the bloodiest day in American military history. The outcome of the battle ended Lee’s first invasion of […]
Read more...Question of the Week #1
This week starts a new feature at Emerging Civil War. A Question of the Week will be posted every Monday. Questions will vary week to week, topic to topic. Please feel free to post your thoughts, comments and responses. Through the Question of the Week, we hope to bring to life a lively and respectful […]
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