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A Confederate at Antietam
You never know what you will find in an archival collection. Back in June, I spent a day at Emory University, digging through their vast Civil War holdings, much of which were collected by the late (and great) Bell I. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Primary Sources
Tagged Antietam, Army of Northern Virginia, battle, soldier letters
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“I Intend to the Make the Yankees Pay”: J.E.B. Stuart’s Operations in August 1862
Part one in a series James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart was one of the Confederacy’s emerging stars in the summer of 1862. A Major General at 29, Stuart headed the cavalry division in Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Leadership--Confederate
Tagged "Ride Around McClellan", 1st U.S. Cavalry, 1st Virginia Cavalry, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Army of Virginia, Beverly Robertson, First Manassas, Fitzhugh Lee, John Pope, Robert E. Lee, Second Manassas Campaign, Wade Hampton
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Pontoon Bridges: The Great Crossings
Yesterday Sarah Kay Bierle looked at the ancient uses of pontoon bridges and its perspectives on the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg. While she addressed the difficulties of bridging rivers, I would like to look at the other side of the coin: … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Campaigns, Ties to the War, Weapons
Tagged Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Burma, Chindwin River, Churchill, engineers, India, Irrawaddy River, James River, Montgomery, Pontoon Bridges, Rhine River, Robert E. Lee, U.S. Grant, William Slim, World War II
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Delaying the Army of the Tennessee: Evander Law and the Battle of Bentonville
We are now in the middle of the 152nd Anniversary of the Battle of Bentonville, fought from March 19 to March 21, 1865. During the three day battle, Confederate forces under Gen. Joseph Johnston engaged Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged Army of Northern Virginia, Battle of Averasboro, Battle of Bentonville, Evander Law, Joseph Johnston, Wade Hampton, William T. Sherman
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Book Review: “The Civil War Diary of Father James Sheeran: Confederate Chaplain and Redemptorist”
James Sheeran, a chaplain for the 14th Louisiana Infantry, wrote in his collection of diary and letters, “If perchance this manuscript should fall into the hand of any person unacquainted with me, I ask as a favor, that it may … Continue reading
Question of the Week: 7/11-7/17/16
Did Abraham Lincoln’s view of not using the Tidewater Peninsula as an invasion route unnecessarily prolong the war? Did McClellan’s mismanagement keep Union forces from using it, and thus allow Lee to operate in Northern Virginia where the Confederate commander … Continue reading
“Some of the Hardest Fighting of the War”: Alfred Pleasonton and J.E.B. Stuart at Brandy Station
Part one in a series 153 years ago this week, Union and Confederate cavalry clashed across the fields and rolling hills of Culpeper County. Deriving its name from a nearby hamlet and train stop along the Orange and Alexandria railroad, … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal
Tagged 1st U.S. Cavalry, 1st Virginia Cavalry, 2nd U.S. Dragoons, Alfred Pleasonton, Antietam, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Battle of Brandy Station, Chancellorsville, First Manassas, Fredericksburg, George Stoneman, Gettysburg Campaign, J.E.B. Stuart, Joseph Hooker, Maj. Henry McClellan, Second Manassas, Seven Days Battles, Stonewall Jackson
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“The General Result Was In Our Favor”: The Army of Potomac’s Victory at Antietam
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Kevin Pawlak Fortunately, for the sake of debate, the outcome of Civil War battles is not as clear-cut as that of a football game, where one can look at the scoreboard at … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities
Tagged Ambrose Burnside, Antietam, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Battle of South Mountain, George McClellan, Robert E. Lee
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Civil War Echoes: The Desert War II
A charismatic general fights for an extended period in one theater against the same force under a succession of generals. Despite being outnumbered and often under-supplied, he manages to win a series of spectacular victories that capture the world’s attention … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Ties to the War
Tagged Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Army of the Potomac Cavalry Corps, Battle of the Wilderness, British Army, Eastern Theater, Eighth Army, El Alamein, Erwin Rommel, Gazala, Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Montgomery, North Africa, Robert E. Lee, U.S. Grant, World War II
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