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Shot Pouch’s Eighth Shot
To say that Major General William Henry Talbot “Shot Pouch” Walker was a difficult man is an understatement. Known for his quarrelsome personality, he was a West Point classmate of Braxton Bragg and Joe Hooker and had demonstrated personal bravery on many fields and in many wars. His nickname of “Shot Pouch” came from being […]
Read more...“Did great honor to themselves and the cause for which they fought”—Manning Force and the fight for Bald Hill
Part one of a two-part series Resaca, Pickett’s Mill, Kolb’s Farm, Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain—a road of bloody encounters that all led to here. Numerous battles that paved the way to the Gateway to the South: Atlanta. With its convergence of railroads in the center of the city, Atlanta was vital to both Federal and Confederate […]
Read more...The Kennesaw Line: A Casualty at Kolb Farm
Among those who fell under the iron hail at Kolb Farm was 40-year-old Colonel Calvin Harvey Walker of the 3rd Tennessee Infantry of Cook’s Tennessee Brigade. Walker, known to his men as “Old Ballie,” was described by a soldier in his regiment as, “an excellent physician, a cheerful, genial companion, [and] an exceedingly kindhearted man.”
Read more...U.S. Grant and the Shadow of Cold Harbor
At 4:30 a.m. on the morning of June 3, 1864, the II, VI and XVIII Corps commenced their assault on the Confederate line at Cold Harbor. One New Yorker recalled, “as soon as the skirmishers were engaged, our artillery opened upon the rebel works, and the conflict now commenced in earnest. Amid the deafening volleys […]
Read more...Lee’s Overland Engineer: Maj. Gen. Martin Luther Smith
History buffs can only name a handful of personalities from the Civil War that seem present at many important events. One man that finds himself involved in widespread actions is Confederate engineer Martin Luther Smith. Smith played a crucial role in both the western and eastern theaters. A native New Yorker, Smith graduated West Point […]
Read more...Snake Creek Gap, 150 Years Later
150 years ago, a little boy was enjoying a spring morning when soon his brother came riding to the family home, exclaiming that the Yankees were just over the hill and headed toward the family farm, which lay along the road running from the little community of Villanow, Georgia, to Snake Creek Gap. This was […]
Read more...A Cat Man: Mr. Lincoln
There are times when research seems repetitive. Battles, generals, troop movements, the effects of one thing upon another, and on and on. It is an endless stream, and once one dips one’s toes in it, either you want to do it again or again, or you just get up and go home. I love research, […]
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