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Tag Archives: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Incendiaries on the B&O: The Burning of the Fish Creek Spans During the Jones-Imboden Raid (Part II)
See Part I here… On the night of April 27, 1863, Hannah Church spied five men building a fire under the two spans of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crossing of a fork of Fish Creek bearing her family’s name. … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Cavalry
Tagged 19th Virginia Cavalry, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Benjamin Stone Roberts, Burton, Cappo Fork, cavalry, Church's Fork, Fairmont, Francis H. Pierpont, John D. Imboden, John W. Garrett, Jones-Imboden Raid, Joseph A.J. Lightburn, Mannington, Raids, Robert Schenck, West Virginia, Wetzel County, William E. Jones
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Incendiaries on the B&O: The Burning of the Fish Creek Spans During the Jones-Imboden Raid (Part I)
Civil War cavalry raids often rank among the most romantic of Civil War tales. This often has to do with the characters most often associated, with names like Stuart, Morgan, Mosby, Rosser, Gilmor and others. These raids would be recalled … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Cavalry
Tagged Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Burton, Cappo Fork, cavalry, Church's Fork, Fairmont, John D. Imboden, Jones-Imboden Raid, Mannington, Raids, West Virginia, William E. Jones
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Lew Wallace Secures the B&O– For the First Time (Pt. 1)
Lew Wallace, the Hoosier lawyer-turned soldier, readied his command for its move. His objective was a vital connection of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad whose trains were badly needed to transport material and manpower. Wallace wrote later, “The need of … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Artillery, Battles, Campaigns
Tagged 11th Indiana Zouaves, 33rd Virginia Infantry, A.P. Hill, Andrew Curtin, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Cumberland, Harpers Ferry, Joseph Johnston, Lew Wallace, Maryland, Moses Grooms, New Creek, Pennsylvania Bucktails, pennsylvania reserves, Robert Patterson, Robert S. Foster, Romney, Winchester, Winfield Scott
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Railroads – “The Seventh Have Come!”: The 7th New York, 8th Massachusetts, and the Rescue of Washington
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Nathan Marzoli Washington was in trouble in the spring of 1861. Secessionist fever had broken into conflict with the attack on Fort Sumter, prompting President Lincoln to issue a call three days later for 75,000 … Continue reading
Railroads – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad: Confederate Target, Crucial Union Lifeline
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (“B&O”) was chartered in 1828 as one of the first commercial railroads in the world. Construction began that year, connecting Annapolis, Maryland to Wheeling in the far northwestern corner of antebellum Virginia. The B&O eventually … Continue reading
“The Dreadful Responsibility”: Why George B. McClellan Was the Go-To Guy (part one)
ECW welcomes back Jon-Erik Gilot (part one of two) I’ve long been fascinated with the early days, weeks, and months of the Civil War. The optimism and unbounded confidence displayed on both sides of the conflict during the spring and … Continue reading
A General Redeemed: Lew Wallace and the Battle of Monocacy
A guest post by Ryan Quint, part two of a series. Saturday, July 9th, 1864, came following a night of thunderous rain and lightning showers. The first rays of sunlight poked over the nearby mountains and revealed two armies poised … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Federal, National Park Service, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Army of the Valley, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Baltimore Pike, Battle of Monocacy, Defense of Washington DC, Frederick Alexander's Baltimore Battery, James Ricketts, John B. Gordon, Jubal Early, Lew Wallace, Lew Wallace Series, Monocacy, Monocacy Bridges, Monocacy Junction, Monocacy National Battlefield, Monocacy River, Thomas House, VIII Corps, Worthington House
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A General Fallen from Grace: Lew Wallace before Monocacy
A guest post by Ryan Quint. Part one in a series. Musketry crackled in the distance, heavy cannonading made the ground rumble, hundreds of men died up ahead, and Major General Lew Wallace was on the wrong road. Wallace and … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Federal, Personalities
Tagged baltimore, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Battle of Monocacy, Defense of Washington DC, Early's invasion of Maryland, Fort Donelson, Henry Halleck, James Ricketts, John Garret, Jubal Early, Lew Wallace, Lew Wallace Series, Middle Department, Monocacy, Monocacy Junction, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh, Ulysses S. Grant, VIII Corps, Wallace's Third Division
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