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Yankees Go Home
150 years ago today, 127 veterans of the 14th Brooklyn (84th New York or 14th New York State Militia) left Fredericksburg on the first leg of a journey home at the end of thier enlistments. The day before, the regiment had split on the road to North Anna – those who signed up in 1861 […]
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...Hood on Hood—Part IV
The conclusion of a four-part series. Today we welcome back guest author Stephen “Sam” Hood. Sam is the author of John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General. * * * Another example of Sword misrepresenting Hood’s words is illustrated in Sword’s portrayal of a December 11, 1864, dispatch Hood sent from […]
Read more...Hood on Hood—Part III
The third part of a four-part series. Today we welcome back guest author Stephen “Sam” Hood. Sam is the author of John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General. * * * Regarding the Spring Hill affair, Sword once again attacked Hood, ignoring the fact that Hood sent numerous orders to […]
Read more...Hood on Hood—Part II
The second part of a four part series. Today we welcome back guest author Stephen “Sam” Hood. Sam is the author of John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General. * * * Although unfounded theories of Hood using the painkilling opiate laudanum after his return to duty in early 1864 […]
Read more...Hood on Hood—Part I
The first in a four-part series. ECW Editors Note: Stephen “Sam” Hood is a descendant of Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood, one of the most controversial commanders in the Confederacy. His early service in the war as a brigade and division commander in the Army of Northern Virginia was exemplary; his later service, as commander […]
Read more...Top 15 Posts of 2013—Number 2: Review of John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General by Stephen M. Hood
Newton’s second law of motion, roughly paraphrased, informs us that “an object at rest stays at rest, while an object in motion stays in motion, unless acted upon by an outside force.” This law of physics encapsulates Stephen M. Hood’s work of history John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General, […]
Read more...New York Saves The Union
That is perhaps a hyperbolic title. But one brigade of all New York soldiers saved two Federal armies in the summer and fall of 1863, at Gettysburg and Chattanooga – thereby arguably doing more to assist the Union cause in 1863 than any other single brigade in the Union Army. These men have never really […]
Read more...Review of John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General by Stephen M. Hood
Newton’s second law of motion, roughly paraphrased, informs us that “an object at rest stays at rest, while an object in motion stays in motion, unless acted upon by an outside force.” This law of physics encapsulates Stephen M. Hood’s work of history John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General, […]
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