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The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: A Long and Bloody Task and All the Fighting They Want
The Romans had a phrase: Brevitas aurea est, “shortness is golden.” (Well, they really didn’t, but amo Latinam, so I make these things up as I go along.) As an Atlanta Campaign guy, I join countless others in esteeming Albert … Continue reading
On Location: Atop Kennesaw Mountain
On June 19, 1864, Joseph Johnston’s Army of Tennessee slipped into its strongest defensive position of the Atlanta Campaign: Kennesaw Mountain. I went On Location, at the mountain’s crest, to take a look for myself; I also had the opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in On Location
Tagged A Long and Bloody Task, Joe Johnston, Kennesaw Line, Kennesaw Mountain, Steve Davis
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Hand-Drawing the “Art” in Cartography
“Military works are almost universally lacking in adequate maps,” Brig. Gen. Vincent Esposito wrote in his Introduction to The West Point Atlas of American Wars (1959). Boy, was he right. How many times have we thought, while reading an otherwise fine campaign … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War Series
Tagged A Long and Bloody Task, All the Fighting They Want, Allen Tate, Atlanta Will Fall, cartography, Chattahoochee, Douglas Southall Freeman, Gary Joiner, Hal Jespersen, maps, Sharpsburg, Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier, Vincent Esposito, West Point Atlas of American Wars, Wilbur Kurtz
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An Afternoon in New Hope/Dallas
It’s a whole lot of fun speaking to audiences of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (yes, we have them down here). Monday night, in New Hope, Georgia, I addressed the Gen. William J. Hardee Camp on the subject of opus meum … Continue reading
Remembering Pickett’s Mill
This past weekend (June 3-5) I was privileged to participate in activities connected with the 152nd Anniversary of the battle of Pickett’s Mill. I cover the engagement in our new volume in the Emerging Civil War Series, A Long and Bloody … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Emerging Civil War Series, Western Theater
Tagged A Long and Bloody Task, Alatoona Pass, Ambrose Bierce, Dallas, Emerging Civil War Series, Georgia State Historic Sites, Joseph Johnston, New Hope Church, Patrick Cleburne, Picket's Mill, Western & Atlantic Railroad, William T. Sherman
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Some Thoughts on Resaca, on the Occasion of the Opening of the New Battlefield Park
During this past weekend (May 13-15), the Resaca Battlefield Historic Site has formally opened with much pageantry—and great weather! [NOTE: See Michael K. Shaffer’s Sunday post for details.] See my feature article on Resaca in Blue & Gray’s Summer 2015 … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Emerging Civil War Series, Preservation
Tagged A Long and Bloody Task, Albert Castel, Atlanta Campaign, Blue and Gray, Cherokee Battery, Friends of Resaca Battlefield, Georgia Campaign, Joseph E. Johnston, Larry Peterson, Max Van Den Corput, Oostanaula River, Resaca, Samuel French, Shelby Foote, Tom Sweeny, William R. Scaife, William T. Sherman
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Coming Soon: A Long and Bloody Task & All The Fighting They Want
>The Emerging Civil War Series is delighted to welcome the foremost authority on all things related to the battles for Atlanta, acclaimed Georgia historian Stephen Davis. Steve will cover the action in Georgia in two volumes: A Long and Bloody Task: … Continue reading
