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Tag Archives: Army of Tennessee
Rock Star Egos and the Army of Tennessee’s Most Important Inferiority Complex
I’ve been listening this week to the audiobook version of Greg Mertz’s Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh (one of my jobs, as series editor, is to listen to and approve all the books before they’re … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged Albert Sidney Johnston, Army of Tennessee, Attack at Daylight and Whip Them, Braxton Bragg, Chris Kolakowski, Earl Hess, Greg Mertz, John C. Brekenridge, Leonidas Polk, P.G.T. Beauregard, Timothy B. Smith, William Hardee
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Three Points About Stones River
Many of our readers get the preservation mailings from the American Battlefield Trust, asking to save land at various sites. The most recent one covers the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro) and seeks to save some land on the Federal … Continue reading
A Presidential Review That Didn’t Go Very Well
ECWer Stephen Davis of Cumming, Georgia, is finishing up his book on the generalship of John B. Hood, which will be published later this year by Savas Beatie. From it Steve draws the following story: During the war President Jefferson … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Leadership--Confederate, Western Theater
Tagged 1st Georgia, 24th Texas, 36th Alabama, 42nd Georgia, 49th Tennessee, 4th Louisiana, 54th Georgia, Army of Tennessee, Capt. Benjamin Posey, Capt. Samuel Foster, Capt. William Dixon, Francis Shoup, Isham Harris, Jefferson Davis, John Bell Hood, Lovick P. Thomas, Lt. Marcus Ely, Palmetto Georgia, Rev. James H. McNeilly
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The Question of Hood and the Army of Tennessee: “Far Better” or “Far Better?”
“Punctuation acts as signposts to help your reader understand how to read your writing,” I tell my students. Many of the first-year writers I teach are still coming to grips with just how important good punctuation is—and how subtle and … Continue reading
The Battle of Shelbyville
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Sean Michael Chick One of the most dramatic and decisive cavalry clashes of the American Civil War occurred at Shelbyville on Sunday, June 27, 1863. John A. Wyeth of 4th Alabama … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal
Tagged 18th Ohio Artillery, 2nd Michigan Cavalry, 3rd Alabama Cavalry, 3rd Indiana Cavalry, 4th Michigan Cavalry, 4th U.S. Cavalry, 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Army of Tennessee, Army of the Cumberland, Battle of Shelbyville, Braxton Bragg, David Stanley, Gilley's Gap, Gordon Granger, Hoover's Gap, Joseph Wheeler, Liberty Gap, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Robert Minty, Robert Mitchell, Tullahoma Campaign, William Martin, William Rosecrans
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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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