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Sun Over Fairview
I caught the sun over Fairview today as I was doing a little battlefielding at Chancellorsville. . . .
Read more...Review: “Stonewall Goes West” by R. E. Thomas
R. E. Thomas’s novel Stonewall Goes West has enough red flags flying high above it that I should have steered clear a mile away: it is self published, it is alternative history, it is based on a highly improbable “what if,” and the cover sketch looks like it was drawn by a well-meaning relative or […]
Read more...My Call to Arms: A Look Back at My Overland Campaign
What no one ever tells you about being an author is that it mostly involves schlepping a lot of books from place to place. Sure, there’s some writing involved (and, oh, if only I had time to do more!), but in the end, writing is not just an art and not just a passion—it’s a […]
Read more...Emerging Civil War Symposium Lecture and Tour Schedule
First Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge August 15-17, 2014 “The Civil War in 1864” Presenters and Tour Guides Click here to register for the event. August 16—Morning Session 9 AM: Daniel T. Davis More Desperate Fighting Has Not Been Witness on This Continent: Ulysses S. Grant and the Overland Campaign The Overland […]
Read more...The Battle of Old Men and Young Boys: June 9, 1864
By the second week of June 1864, the armies of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee had deadlocked one another in their Cold Harbor fortifications on the outskirts of Richmond. Close as he was to the Confederate capital–closer indeed than any Union army since George B. McClellan two years previous–the endless stream to the […]
Read more...Question of the Week for June 2, 2014: “J.E.B” Stuart, Second Corps Commander?
“We have very bad news. General Stuart is mortally wounded”—that’s how Robert E. Lee, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia’s commander, reported to staff and fellow officers the news of the death of his cavalry chief, James Ewell Brown “J.E.B.” Stuart. With emotion dripping from his voice, Lee’s voice cracked as he stated simply: “He never […]
Read more...Gordon Rhea’s “To the North Anna River”—History Writing at Its Best
I can’t let the sesquicentennial anniversary of North Anna slip away without tossing in a plug for Gordon Rhea’s book To the North Anna River. Rhea’s monumental four-volume study makes him the unquestionable master of Overland Campaign studies, but his third book in the series really stands out for me as the best of the […]
Read more...The 23rd USCT at Spotsylvania
At the beginning of the Overland Campaign, the 23rd Regiment United States Colored Troops was an infantry regiment in the 4th Division of the independent IX Army Corps. This regiment became the first black regiment to fight in directed combat against the Army of Northern Virginia. This happened 150 years ago today, on May 15, […]
Read more...“He Was Decidedly the Best General Officer From Our State”
Another installment of the “Tales From the Tombstone” series in conjunction with the 150th Anniversary of the Overland Campaign Hailing from Halifax, North Carolina, miles from the Virginia-North Carolina border, Junius Daniel led a privileged life. Hailing from a distinguished family–maternal side from an old Virginia family and father from a wealthy and politically active […]
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