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Things I learned on the way to Atlanta – The Mysterious Case of Alivn P. Hovey
In the spring of 1864, Brig. Gen. Alvin P. Hovey joined the Army of the Ohio (the XXIII Corps) for the spring campaign against Atlanta. He brought with him six brand new regiments of Indiana troops, plus two batteries, and assumed command of the newly-created First Division. 5,000 strong, Hovey’s raw Hoosiers amounted to nearly […]
Read more...Things I have learned on the way to Atlanta
Soldiers are tourists. Even in the midst of war, they explore things. One of the more interesting passages concerning this phenomenon has to do with a popular pre-war resort in northern Georgia: Catoosa Springs. Once the war began, the Confederates took over the resort for a hospital, and on May 1, the Federals occupied it […]
Read more...Things I learned on the way to Atlanta
One of the things you quickly learn about the Federals during the Atlanta Campaign is that they all had opinions about Sherman. Mostly positive, sometimes doubtful, but usually strongly expressed. Memoirs are full of Sherman stories, and many of the men involved had “personal encounter” anecdotes. Here is one such: While observing the skirmishing, Sgt. […]
Read more...Things I have learned on the way to Atlanta — A missed opportunity?
On the night of May 15, Joseph Johnston ordered the Army of Tennessee to abandon Resaca, retreating across the Oostanaula River to the town of Calhoun, six miles to the south. Despite having blunted every Federal attack at Resaca, the Confederates were forced to withdraw, leveraged out of position by the Union XVI Army corps […]
Read more...Things I have learned on the way to Atlanta – A Blunder at Resaca.
From my forthcoming Volume One of the Atlanta Campaign, to be published by Savas Beatie. On May 14, the Federals made repeated assaults against entrenched Confederates at Resaca. Among the troops caught up in these attacks were some old friends-regiments I have written of before, especially at Chickamauga. Here I thought I would share the […]
Read more...Things I have learned on the way to Atlanta – Johnston as Executioner
Last week’s post, about Yankee pickets firing snow bombs at each other, made me laugh. Soldier life, however, was rarely so amusing. From my forthcoming volume on the first part of the Atlanta Campaign, to be published by Savas Beatie, LLC: The postwar view of Joseph Johnston, especially in the former Confederacy, was largely positive. […]
Read more...Book Preview: The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer Covers the Civil War
Look what our colleague Steve Davis has on the horizon: a book co-authored with Bill Hendrick about one of the South’s most important war-time newspapers.
Read more...A Comprehensive View of the Overland Campaign: Part I
Emerging Civil War welcomes back Nathan Provost… Antoine-Henri Jomini was a general in the Napoleonic Wars who served under various generals, including Napoleon himself. After Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile, Jomini began writing a series of works that dealt with the principles of war. He claimed that great captains possessed the coup d’oeil, or comprehensive view. They […]
Read more...Conduct Unbecoming an Officer: John B. Hood’s Efforts to Cover Up the Bad News From his Tennessee Campaign
EDITOR’S NOTE: ECWer Stephen Davis has had published the second volume of his study of Confederate General John B. Hood’s generalship in 1864. This piece is from his second volume, released this past autumn by Mercer University Press. After the fall of Atlanta, President Davis created a “super-department” in the western theater (as he had […]
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