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“The fairest of targets…” June 3, 1864
“Chip, chip, chip” rang out in the predawn darkness along the stretch of lines held by Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. An incessant chipping sound as metal object, mostly axes, cut into Virginia timber.
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, National Park Service, Personalities, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 150th Battle of Cold Harbor, 150th Overland Campaign, 2nd Maryland CSA, Ambrose Burnside, Battle of Cold Harbor, Florida Brigade, Gouverneur K. Warren, Jubal Early, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Winfield Scott Hancock
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“If You Realized What Is Going To Happen in the Morning…”
As June 1, 1864 turned into the history books, both sides reevaluated the current dispositions of their respective forces; and both leaders, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, sidled troops to this now very critical Virginia crossroads of Cold … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, National Park Service, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 150th Battle of Cold Harbor, 150th Overland Campaign, Ambrose Burnside, Battle of Cold Harbor, Cadmus Wilcox, Cold Harbor, George Meade, John C. Breckinridge, Jubal Early, Richard Anderson, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia, William Mahone
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Totopotomoy Creek
Excerpted from Hurricane from the Heavens by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt: Grant later wrote, “The streams were numerous…with impenetrable growth of trees and underbrush” as his army crossed the Pamunkey onto the Tidewater Peninsula of Virginia. The … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War Series, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, National Park Service, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 150th Overland Campaign, Gouverneur K. Warren, Patrick Henry, Robert E. Lee, Rural Plains, Shelton House, Totopotomoy Creek, Ulysses S. Grant, Winfield Scott Hancock
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Death of Jenkins
Another installment in the “Tales From the Tombstone” series in conjunction with the 150th Anniversary of the actual event. A product of Edisto Island, South Carolina and a graduate of The Citadel, Micah Jenkins was a product of the wealthy … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Monuments, National Park Service
Tagged 150th, 150th Overland Campaign, 150th Wilderness, Battle of the Wilderness, Charleston, James Longstreet, Magnolia Cemetery, Micah Jenkins, Stonewall Jackson, The Citadel
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