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The Pageantry of the Advance…Army of Tennessee at Bentonville
Starting yesterday, the 152nd Anniversary of the Battle of Bentonville began. Fought over three days in late March, 1865, the battle was the last-ditch effort by Gen. Joseph Johnston to stop Union General William T. Sherman’s army group as it … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War Series, Leadership--Confederate, Memory
Tagged 1865, Army of Tennessee, Battle of Bentonville, Bennet Place, Betonville, Joseph Johnston, North Carolina, North Carolina Junior Reserves, William Sherman
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Robert E. Lee and John B. Hood: A Complicated Relationship
Robert E. Lee didn’t want John Bell Hood promoted to command a Confederate army, but once Hood had been, Lee didn’t want him to fail. Possible evidence hinges on a little-known command decision made by Lee and the War Department … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Western Theater
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Art Bergeron, Confederate high command, Jack Davis, James Seddon, Jefferson Davis, John Bell Hood, Joseph E. Johnston, Martin Luther Smith, Robert E. Lee, Robert H. Chilton, Stephen Presstman, The Confederate General
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“Not written in letters of blood.”
Edwin M. Stanton to Major General William S. Rosecrans, July 7, 1863: “We have just received official information that Vicksburg surrendered to General Grant on the 4th of July. Lee’s army overthrown; Grant victorious. You and your noble army now … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Federal, Western Theater
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Army of the Cumberland, Bragg, Campaigns, Rosecrans, Tullahoma
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Black Confederates: Laborers or Soldiers? (part four)
Part four of a series Some people suggested using slaves to fight from the very beginning of the war. However, the overwhelming fear was of slave insurrection. The John Brown raid was less than two years before the Civil War … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Common Soldier, Slavery, USCT
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Benjamin Quarles, Black Confederate soldiers, Black Confederates, Black-Confederates-Laborers-or-Soldiers, General Order 14, Jefferson Davis, John Brown, Louisiana Native Guards, Patrick Cleburne, Richard Ewell, slavery, The Negro in the Civil War, USCT
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“The Great Winter Battles” of the Army of Tennessee
Yesterday, Kris White wrote about some of the great winter battles of the Army of Northern Virginia. That called to mind an account from Sam Watkins of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, which wintered in Dalton, Georgia “during the cold, … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Western Theater
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Co. Aytch, Dalton, Georgia, Sam Watkins, snowball fights, winter encampments
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Review: The Battle of Wise’s Forks, March 1865 by Wade Sokolosky and Mark A. Smith
March 1865 saw the Confederacy in severe straits, Union General Ulysses S. Grant had a death-lock grip on Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate forces around Richmond, Virginia. Meanwhile, in North Carolina, Union General William T. Sherman had reached the … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Book Review, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Averasboro, Bentonville, Braxton Bragg, D.H. Hill, George Greene, Jacob Cox, John Schofield, Mark A. Smith, Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina, Robert Hoke, Thomas Meagher, Wade Sokolosky, William Sherman, Wise's Forks
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Appomattox and Bennett Place: A Remarkable Contrast
I had the honor and privilege of attending and participating in a portion of the weeklong commemoration sof the surrenders at Bennett Place on April 18, 2015, the 150th anniversary of the signing of the initial peace treaty by Maj. … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War Series, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Personalities, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Appomattox Court House, Army of Tennessee, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Appomattox Station, Bennett Place, Edmund Kirby Smith, James Bennett, Jefferson Davis, Joseph Johnston, Nancy Bennett, Richard Taylor, This Astounding Close, To the Bitter End, William T. Sherman, Wilmer McLean
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The Last to Fall
When Brigadier General Robert Charles Tyler fell near the palisade entrance to the fort bearing his name, he would go down in history as the last Confederate General to die in combat during the American Civil War. Tyler was also … Continue reading
“The uproar of the damned was about us”: The Battle of Spanish Fort
The situation was grim across what was left of the Confederacy on April 8, 1865. Lee’s vaunted Army of Northern Virginia was nearly cut off, and along the banks of Mobile Bay, a remnant of the Army of Tennessee faced … Continue reading
The Last Charge of the Army of Tennessee
As the line of gaunt and scared Confederate veterans emerged from the piney forest and advanced over the cool, sandy soil, the scene inspired nearby onlookers. The Army of Tennessee was moving forward that afternoon for an assault once more. … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Western Theater
Tagged 150th Anniversary of Bentonville, A. P. Stewart, Army of Tennessee, Battle of Bentonville, Bentonville, Braxton Bragg, Chickamauga, D.H. Hill, Henry Slocum, Joseph E. Johnston, Joseph Johnston, North Carolina, Patrick Cleburne, Sam Watkins, William Hardee, William J. Hardee, William T. Sherman, XIV Corps
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