Tag Archives: Appomattox

Fighting Rebels and Fighting Fires: The Life of George F. Griffin (Part 1/2)

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Ryan Quint

Sometime around midnight of April 19, 1880, a defective range stove started a fire on the first floor of No. 18, Travers Street, in Boston, Massachusetts. A passing patrolman in the police department saw the flames and raced to a … Continue reading →

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Of Dawn & Dusk, Beginnings & Endings

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

Wait for it. Dawn creeps along the horizon. The coming day is foretold with growing light, long before the sun’s disk crests the horizon. Like a saga of history – an event long looming on time’s horizon, then bursting suddenly … Continue reading →

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Preservation News: Celebrating Saved Land At Appomattox

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Emerging Civil War

News from American Battlefield Trust… Dramatic scenes of the final fighting between Robert E. Lee’s and Ulysses S. Grant’s men are being preserved for posterity by the American Battlefield Trust. Working over several years, the nation’s top historic land-preservation nonprofit … Continue reading →

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Bittersweet Appomattox

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Edward S. Alexander

First Lieutenant Robert Pratt belonged to the 5th Vermont Infantry, a regiment that rightfully claimed credit as the first unit to irreparably break the Confederate lines southwest of Petersburg on April 2, 1865. Pratt played a pivotal role in the … Continue reading →

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Question of the Week: 4/9-4/15/18

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Emerging Civil War

In your opinion, what was the most remarkable thing about the campaign or surrender at Appomattox?

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Lee and Guerrilla Warfare

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Chris Mackowski

Two days before Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, a council of officers in what was left of the bedraggled Army of Northern Virginia hashed out three possible options for Robert E. Lee to consider. General John Brown Gordon, who was not … Continue reading →

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“If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox” by James Thurber

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Meg Groeling

James Thurber (1894-1961) was an American author, cartoonist, playwright and celebrated wit. He published mostly in the magazine The New Yorker and loved to poke fun at things other people took perhaps a little too seriously. Here is one of my … Continue reading →

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Help Protect More Ground at Appomattox

Posted on September 16, 2017 by Emerging Civil War

Our friends at the Civil War Trust pass along this news of an active preservation campaign to help preserve seventy-four acres of ground at Appomattox Court House. This latest announcement comes to us from Trust President Jim Lighthizer. Continue reading … Continue reading →

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Civil War Echoes: The Fall of Bataan

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Chris Kolakowski

Today 75 years ago, Major General Edward P. King surrendered 76,000 American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. This is far and away the largest capitulation in American military history. Bataan’s fall is also rife with … Continue reading →

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Campaign Through the Carolinas: An Ohio Cavalryman’s Recollections in the National Tribune

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Eric J. Wittenberg

This is the third part of the 1892 account of the last days of the Civil War in North Carolina by an unidentified captain of the 10th Ohio Cavalry.

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