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“Atlanta Is Ours”
Defeat at Jonesboro ended John Bell Hood’s hopes of holding Atlanta. He abandoned the city the evening of September 1, destroying all useful military stores that could not be moved (a scene later immortalized in the book and film Gone With The Wind). The next morning (150 years ago today), Atlanta’s mayor surrendered the city […]
Read more...Little Phil Takes Command
At a simple rail stop outside Frederick, Maryland the two commanders shook hands as the train prepared to depart. After a brief meeting, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, the General-in-Chief of the United States Armies, handed written orders to his subordinate, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. At Monocacy Station, just outside Frederick, Maryland, both commanders were […]
Read more...Killed in Action
Today marks the 150th Anniversary of the death of Union Major General John Sedgwick, the victim of a Confederate sharpshooter. At the time “Uncle John” commanded the VI Corps. By date of rank he was the senior U.S. casualty of the Civil War, although an army commander (Major General James B. McPherson) would die July […]
Read more...Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost: Part Five
Part five in a series. This series was put together from one of my extended graduate school research papers. The sources used were the current research between 2007-2008, obviously the historiography of the Civil War expands on a monthly basis, thus some of the “current research” in the paper is no longer exactly current. ************** […]
Read more...Review—The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution
Richard Slotkin. The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2012. 478 pages, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, chronology. ISBN 978-0-87140-411-4. $32.95 Richard Slotkin’s new history on the Antietam Campaign, The Long Road to Antietam, describes the Civil war as “a genuinely revolutionary crisis in American history” (xv). Slotkin, historian […]
Read more...“He Gave Ol’ Abe a Fearsome Fright”: The First Battle of Kernstown
The lyric above, taken from a 2nd South Carolina String Band song fittingly describes the Battle of Kernstown on March 23, 1862. Acting on an erroneous report, Confederate General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson attacked what he thought was an outnumbered Union rearguard approximately five miles below Winchester, Virginia. This rearguard, commanded by Colonel Nathan Kimball, […]
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