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A Conversation with Dave Roth (part five)
(The final part of a five-part series) “I have a couple more favorite issues I can share if you’d like,” Dave Roth said when I wrapped up yesterday’s segment of my interview with the editor and publisher of Blue & … Continue reading
Symposium Spotlight: William Lee White and the Battle of Franklin
As we close in on our annual symposium, we like to highlight the speakers that we have invited to present at the event. We are excited to welcome William Lee White to this years symposium lineup. Lee is traveling in … Continue reading
Announcing Our Symposium Schedule of Events
We are proud to announce the schedule of events for our Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge. We have an outstanding line up of speakers, and don’t miss Sunday’s walking tour of the Second Fredericksburg battlefield with … Continue reading
Posted in Speakers Bureau, Symposium, Upcoming Events
Tagged "Never was there a more beautiful sunrise..." The Battles for Fairview and Hazel Grove, Antietam, Battle of Franklin, Battle of the Cedars, Chickamauga, Chris Kolakowski, Chris Mackowski, Dave Powell, Fall of New Orleans, James Longstreet, James Ogden, Jim Ogden, John Bell Hood, Ryan Quint, Second Fredericksburg, Steve Davis, Stevenson Ridge, Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge
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Day Five: Franklin
Part thirteen in a series The losses at Franklin are the stuff of legend: six thousand-plus Confederate casualties, plus six dead Confederate generals. John Bell Hood threw the 30-thousand men of the Army of Tennessee against Federal fortifications, winning the battle … Continue reading
What Did They Know?
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Dwight Hughes When considering historical events, it is too easy to wonder, given what happened, why in the world our ancestors did what they did. But we must remember that they … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Navies, Personalities, Politics, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Albert Edward, Alexander Stephens, Army of the James, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Franklin, Battle of Nashville, Charleston South Carolina, CSS Florida, CSS Shenandoah, George McClellan, George Thomas, James Longstreet, James Waddell, John Bell Hood, Jubal Early, March to the Sea, Mobile, Osprey, P.G.T. Beauregard, Petersburg, Philip Sheridan, Robert E. Lee, Selma, Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Tallahassee, Ulysse S. Grant, William T. Sherman
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The Strategic Impact of the Battle of Nashville
When Maj. Gen. George Thomas’ Union forces drove the Army of Tennessee from their position south of Nashville on December 16, 1864, it signaled an end to John Bell Hood’s invasion of Tennessee. Hood’s army in shambles, any hopes of … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Sesquicentennial, Western Theater
Tagged Battle of Franklin, Battle of Nashville, General William T. Sherman, George Thomas, John Bell Hood, John Schofield, March to the Sea, Petersburg, Ulysses S. Grant
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James Wilson and the Battle of Nashville, Part I
The weather was gradually changing, perhaps for the better. For several days, the Union troopers had been pelted with snow and sleet. It had been so harsh that only the woodcutters had been out in the precipitation. With a thaw … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Sesquicentennial, Western Theater
Tagged Battle of Franklin, Edgefield, Edward Hatch, George Thomas, James Harrison Wilson, John Bell Hood, John Croxton, John Schofield, Judson Kilpatrick, March to the Sea, Spring Hill, Tennessee, the Wilderness, Third Winchester, Vicksburg Campaign, William T. Sherman, Wilson-Kautz Raid, Yellow Tavern
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Franklin 150th: Artillery Hell
One of the things often remembered about Gen. John Bell Hood’s attack is that it was made without artillery support. Like many of the aspects of Franklin, this isn’t entirely true. In fact, there were a few batteries present, one … Continue reading
Franklin 150th: “I never saw the dead lay near so thick.”
It was a near-run thing—John M. Schofield’s Federals steadily marching down the Columbia Pike towards Franklin through the night of Nov. 29 while sitting close to their camp fires were the Confederates of John B. Hood. The two former West … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Emerging Civil War
Tagged 125th Ohio, 24th Wisconsin, 36th Illinois, 44th Illinois, 74th/88th Illinois, Army of the Cumberland, Army of the Ohio, Arthur MacArthur, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Chattanooga, Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Franklin, Battle of Shiloh, David Stanley, Emerson Opdycke, George D. Wagner, John Bell Hood, John M. Schofield, John Q. Lane, Joseph Conrad, Patrick Cleburne
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Franklin 150th: To Die Like Men
It had all led to this: Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, known as the “Stonewall of the West,” galloped up to his brigade commanders assembled on top of Breezy Hill, just south of the little town of Franklin, Tennessee. “He … Continue reading
