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Civil War Echoes: Manila 1941
75 years ago today, Douglas MacArthur ordered the evacuation of Manila. Over the next week, a massive movement of personnel and supplies occurred from the Philippine capital to Bataan and Corregidor. Japanese forces entered Manila on January 2, 1942. There … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Preservation, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged 24th Wisconsin, Arthur MacArthur, Bataan, Civil War Echoes, Corregidor, Douglas MacArthur, Edward King, Lafayette McLaws, Last Stand on Bataan, Manila, Philippines, Richmond, Richmond Virginia, World War II
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Franklin 150th: “I never saw the dead lay near so thick.”
It was a near-run thing—John M. Schofield’s Federals steadily marching down the Columbia Pike towards Franklin through the night of Nov. 29 while sitting close to their camp fires were the Confederates of John B. Hood. The two former West … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Emerging Civil War
Tagged 125th Ohio, 24th Wisconsin, 36th Illinois, 44th Illinois, 74th/88th Illinois, Army of the Cumberland, Army of the Ohio, Arthur MacArthur, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Chattanooga, Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Franklin, Battle of Shiloh, David Stanley, Emerson Opdycke, George D. Wagner, John Bell Hood, John M. Schofield, John Q. Lane, Joseph Conrad, Patrick Cleburne
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The Long, Bloody Road toward Atlanta: Adairsville
The gently rolling hills and fields that made up the Oothcalooga Valley south of Calhoun offered a scene of pastoral beauty—and frustration to Joe Johnston. The wide valley offered some strong points, but it was too wide to take up … Continue reading
Top 15 Posts of 2013—Number 15: On Wisconsin!
The Army of the Cumberland charged Missionary Ridge on the afternoon of November 25, 1863. Among the leading regiments was the Milwaukee-based 24th Wisconsin, part of Major General Philip Sheridan’s division. Its color-bearer fell at the base of the ridge. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Western Theater
Tagged 24th Wisconsin, Arthur MacArthur, Douglas MacArthur, Phil Sheridan, Top 15 Posts of 2013
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