Showing results for "Chancellorsville"
“Hail, snow ballers…”
Night had fallen across the hellish landscape of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863. The darkness cloaked the mortal wounding of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson along the Mountain Road a few miles west of the Chancellorsville crossroads. However, Jackson and his entourage were not the only Southern troops tramping through the dark, dense, third-growth forest […]
Read more...Book Review: Here’s a Letter from Thy Dear Son: Letters of a Georgia Family during the Civil War Era
Here’s a Letter from Thy Dear Son: Letters of a Georgia Family during the Civil War Era. Edited by Edward H. Pulliam. Macon: GA: Mercer University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 640 pp. $50.00. Reviewed by Tim Talbott During the American Civil War, family ties not only helped soldiers maintain distant connections with once very familiar people […]
Read more...CVBT History Wire – “Cordial Combatants: Fraternization on the Rappahannock”
CVBT History Wire – “Cordial Combatants: Fraternization on the Rappahannock” The April 2024 “CVBT History Wire” examines several accounts where Federal and Confederate let down their guard and interacted with one another on personal levels between the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Read here: Cordial Combatants: Fraternization on the Rappahannock
Read more...Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path: The Acheson Rock
Just north of Little Round Top, amidst a grove of trees, lies a boulder with a simple inscription on it: “D.A. 140 P.V.” That stands for David Acheson, 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers. The boulder served as Acheson’s temporary grave until his family arrived to retrieve his body on July 15, 1863. However, it also served as […]
Read more...Book Review: From the Wilderness to Appomattox: The Fifteenth New York Heavy Artillery in the Civil War
From the Wilderness to Appomattox: The Fifteenth New York Heavy Artillery in the Civil War. By Edward A. Altemos. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2023. Softcover, 424 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Tim Talbott Capt. Alfred Lee of the 82nd Ohio Infantry wrote to the Delaware, Ohio Gazette soon after the battle of Chancellorsville, blaming […]
Read more...CVBT History Wire: “Field Fortifications on Central Virginia’s Battlefields – Part II”
The most recent “CVBT History Wire” post is the second part in a two-part series that takes a cursory look at field fortifications on central Virginia’s battlefields. This one covers the Mine Run, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania battlefields. Read here: Field Fortifications on Central Virginia’s Battlefields – Part II If you missed Part I, which covers […]
Read more...Book Review: Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration. By Harold Holzer. Dutton, 2024. Hardcover, 456 pp. $29.47. Reviewed by Max Longley As United States immigration issues remain in the news on an almost daily basis, and with debate on the topic sure to take a prominent place again in this year’s presidential election, […]
Read more...Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path: Arcadia and Prospect Hall
Major General George Gordon Meade settled into bed on the night of July 27, 1863 after a long day in the saddle. He and his V Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac had completed a hard march from northern Virginia to Frederick, Maryland. After ordering the men to bivouac along the banks of […]
Read more...The Victor of Olustee
“After our line had advanced about one-quarter mile the engagement became general and the ground stubbornly contested…” wrote Brigadier General Alfred Colquitt on February 26, 1864, from Baldwin, Florida. The 40-year-old native Georgian was the ranking Confederate officer on the field of the largest engagement fought in the state of Florida during the American Civil […]
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