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The Road to Atlanta: Crossing the Chattahoochee
150 years ago today, the final strong barrier between the forces of William T. Sherman and Atlanta—the Chattahoochee River—was crossed as elements of Wilder’s Lightning Brigade (now commanded by Col. Abram Miller) crossed the river near the now-deserted mill town of Roswell. The engagement that followed was comical, as Miller’s men, stripped of their clothing […]
Read more...The Road to Atlanta: The “Long Arm” Gets a Little Shorter Yet Again
As the Army of Tennessee settled into its new line along the imposing heights of Kennesaw Mountain and Sherman’s armies approached, the continued threat of death from Sharpshooters and cannon Fire continued. Falling today 150 years ago on this line was Capt. John Wood Mebane. Mebane commanded a Tennessee Battery and was another one of […]
Read more...The Road to Atlanta: Sharp Shooting
In just a little over a month’s time, the face of the war changed in both Virginia and Georgia. The war assumed much more brutal nature—unrelenting and cruel. Trench warfare seemed to now be the norm; Union rifled artillery dominated the field; and the ever-present threat of death seemed to hang over everyone’s heads, from […]
Read more...Thrust to Atlanta
Over the past week or so, Emerging Civil War has spent a lot of time discussing the duel between U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in the Overland Campaign. This attention is proper, as the Virginia battles of May and June 1864 are some of the most sanguinary in American military history. Yet we must […]
Read more...Review: The Last Battle of Winchester, Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7 – September 19, 1864 by Scott Patchan
The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7 – September 19, 1864 by Scott Patchin Savas Beatie LLC, 2013 ISBN 978-1-932714-98-2 553 pp., $34.95 The Shenandoah Valley had always been a theater of operations that the Confederates had held sway. In turn, Confederate victory in the Shenandoah […]
Read more...The Atlanta Cyclorama
Originally standing at 50 feet tall with a circumference of 358 feet, the Atlanta Cyclorama is one of the largest and oldest cycloramas in existence. The oil painting was originally going to be the campaign poster for John A. Logan. Logan was a Union commander at the Battle of Atlanta who, like many others after the […]
Read more...Shrouded Veterans: Honoring Civil War General Entombed in a Vault
On May 13, 1907, Henry Finkelstein, a pawnbroker, offered Gov. Edward C. Stokes of New Jersey a presentation sword he discovered in the garret of his Trenton, New Jersey, pawnshop when he purchased the building it was located in. The sword boasted a fine Damascus-steel blade, while the hilt, guard, and scabbard were crafted from […]
Read more...From Pittsburgh to Pittsburg Landing: Pennsylvanians at Shiloh
Drive by the monuments on the park tour road at Shiloh or glance through the Union Order of Battle and it stands out: among the dozens of units from Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois, is a lone Pennsylvania Regiment. The 77th was the only eastern unit on the field at Shiloh (there were other […]
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