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A General Redeemed: Lew Wallace and the Battle of Monocacy
A guest post by Ryan Quint, part two of a series. Saturday, July 9th, 1864, came following a night of thunderous rain and lightning showers. The first rays of sunlight poked over the nearby mountains and revealed two armies poised for combat. Major General Lew Wallace, 34, had come to the Monocacy Junction four days […]
Read more...A General Fallen from Grace: Lew Wallace before Monocacy
A guest post by Ryan Quint. Part one in a series. Musketry crackled in the distance, heavy cannonading made the ground rumble, hundreds of men died up ahead, and Major General Lew Wallace was on the wrong road. Wallace and his Third Division had been ordered by Ulysses S. Grant to reinforce his battered army […]
Read more...Sunset at Monocacy
Read more...Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path: The Acheson Rock
Just north of Little Round Top, amidst a grove of trees, lies a boulder with a simple inscription on it: “D.A. 140 P.V.” That stands for David Acheson, 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers. The boulder served as Acheson’s temporary grave until his family arrived to retrieve his body on July 15, 1863. However, it also served as […]
Read more...Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path: Arcadia and Prospect Hall
Major General George Gordon Meade settled into bed on the night of July 27, 1863 after a long day in the saddle. He and his V Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac had completed a hard march from northern Virginia to Frederick, Maryland. After ordering the men to bivouac along the banks of […]
Read more...“Your love will carry me safely through”: War, Hope, and Reasons to Live
On February 14, 1864, Captain Robert Thompson Cornwall of the 67th Pennsylvania Infantry wrote a brief, six-line letter to his wife from Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. He dated the letter February 15, but a diary entry suggests he wrote it on St. Valentine’s Day. MY DEAR LILLIE: —Am still quite well. Received a letter […]
Read more...At War’s End: Danville, Martinsville, and the Final Days of the Civil War
ECW welcomes guest author Jarred Marlowe By April 2, 1865, hope for the Confederate State of America was dwindling fast. After the colossal failure at the Battle of Five Forks the day before, General Ulysses S. Grant decided to attack General Robert E. Lee’s army heavily fortified in the earthworks at Petersburg. Unable to sustain […]
Read more...“I’ll Take That Chance and Live, Too”: Pvt. Judson Spofford, 10th Vermont Infantry
During the summer of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln pleaded for 300,000 more volunteers to help put down the rebellion. Hundreds of thousands of men answered the call. Thousands of boys joined, too. One such youth, Judson Spofford, enlisted on July 22, 1862, in his hometown of Salem, Vermont. Although his regimental enlistment records claimed he […]
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