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Springtime At Manassas Battlefield
Earlier this week, I visited some of the battlefield locations for the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas. Early spring is blossoming here in Virginia, and this girl from California is delighted to see a real change in the seasons while driving through the Old Dominion on a research trip.
Read more...Dan Welch: Interpreting Stonewall at Second Manassas
The concentration of this year’s ECW Symposium will examine great defensive stands of the American Civil War. The multi-day event will look at numerous commanders, command decisions, and battlefields along the way, including both theaters of the conflict. For me, my task will be to interpret just one of those defensive stands, “Stonewall” Jackson at […]
Read more...155 Years Since The First Battle of Bull Run
Call it what you will – First Bull Run or First Manassas – it was the battle that awakened America to the horrors of Civil War. Until that hot July day, war had been parades, flashy uniforms, bad food, the novelty of camp life, and attempts at military drill. July 21, 1861, would change the […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: The Confederate Military Railroad—Manassas and Centreville, VA
During the winter of 1861, Confederate forces in the Manassas and Centreville area built the first-ever railroad dedicated for military purposes. Using stolen rails from the B&O Railroad and building a small bridge over Bull Run, Confederate engineers were able to quickly build a supply route for Gen. Joseph Johnston’s army at Centreville. Though only […]
Read more...First Cousin, Once Removed: Edwin Gray Lee
This is the third installment of the “Tales from the Tombstone” series His grandfather was Edmund Jennings Lee, Sr. a brother of “Light Horse Harry” Lee. Hisfather stayed out of politics altogether. With a last name of Lee and a Confederate general, he would probably be the least known of the “Lee’s” in that regard. […]
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Read more...Middle Child and Second Fiddle: The Sad Fate of Second Manassas
Try as I might, I can’t persuade my daughter to explore anything to do with Second Manassas. It’s July 29, 2000. Steph is six but already the veteran of several battlefielding campaigns, and she’s particularly a fan of First Manassas because that’s where her hero, Stonewall Jackson, got his nickname. She’s been eagerly urging us […]
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, […]
Read more...Statues of Stonewall: Manassas
First in a series The dawn of a legend: “There stands Jackson like a stone wall…”
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