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Fallen Leaders: Major Andrew Grover, 76th New York
Historians once focused mostly on “great men,” painstakingly analyzing the Army/Corps/Division/Brigade commanders whose decisions shaped historic events. More recently, pushback against that historiography has led to increased work on the “common soldier” and average enlisted men. Though both approaches certainly have value, there is a third group who is caught between these two groups – […]
Read more...The 11th New York Fire Zouaves: Seeing the Elephant, Part 2
The following excerpt is taken from Groeling’s forthcoming book First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero. It will be released by Savas Beatie and can be preordered here: https://www.savasbeatie.com/contact-us/ Colonel Elmer Ellsworth’s regiment was active during the last half of the battle and have been the subject of […]
Read more...The 11th New York Fire Zouaves: Seeing the Elephant, Part 1
The following excerpt is taken from Groeling’s forthcoming book First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero. It will be released by Savas Beatie and can be preordered here: https://www.savasbeatie.com/contact-us/ Colonel Elmer Ellsworth’s regiment was active during the last half of the battle, and have been the subject of […]
Read more...You are a White Livered Soul
July 1861 was hot and humid in Northern Virginia, and Sunday the 21st was sultry enough to be oppressively uncomfortable as the war’s first major battle unfolded along the swales surrounding Bull Run. Several hundred civilians living in and around Washington DC rented carriages or buggies to witness what many thought would be a resounding […]
Read more...Question of the Week: 7/19-7/25/21
In your opinion, what part of the First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas is most important?
Read more...Soldiers of Gettysburg, L. Purnell, 11th Mississippi
He has been identified as L. Purnell, according to the photograph image catalog. He served in Company I of the 11th Mississippi Infantry and was wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg. According to notes within the photograph’s case, Purnell had this photograph taken at Fredericksburg, Virginia on June 1, 1863, and he was wounded at […]
Read more...No One Ever Received a More Important Command
Read more...Antietam’s Lower Field Revisited Part IV: A.P. Hill’s Not-So-Devastating Counterattack
One of the most celebrated episodes of the entire war is the nick of time arrival of General A.P. Hill’s division to save the day for the Confederates at Antietam. In a made for Hollywood type of moment, the Confederate reinforcements arrive in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. Closer examination reveals […]
Read more...Recruiting The Regiment: Stuart Horse Artillery
On December 19, 1861, the following announcement appeared in the Jacksonville Republican in Jacksonville, Alabama. (Spelling and grammar is original.) Capt. John Pelham, of Calhoun county, who is now in the Confederate army at Manassas, temporarily in command of the Jeff Davis Artillery, is authorized to raise two hundred volunteers for mounted Artillerists, to serve […]
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