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Tag Archives: Battle of Second Manassas
“After remaining silent so long I am almost ashamed to write now:” A Letter from September 9, 1862
ECW welcomes back guest author T.J. Bradley Housed in the Local History/Special Collections section of the Alexandria, Virginia Library is a largely unknown and surprisingly candid letter that provides a unique insight into the mindset of a Union soldier having … Continue reading
The Most Devastating Confederate Attack?
Chancellorsville is often seen as one of the Army of Northern Virginia’s greatest attacks, achieving a victory against overwhelming odds, yet I would argue that rivaling that is the one launched on the third day of fighting at Second Manassas. … Continue reading
A Chronology of the Confederacy’s 1862 Counterstrokes
Several months ago, I crossed an item off my Civil War bucket list: visiting the Perryville battlefield. While at the visitor center, I watched a video which put the Confederate invasion of Kentucky into the larger context of the war. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Baton Rouge, Battle of Chantilly, Battle of Charleston, Battle of Corinth, Battle of Harpers Ferry, Battle of Iuka, Battle of Munfordville, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Prairie Grove, Battle of Richmond, Battle of Second Bull Run, Battle of Second Manassas, Battle of South Mountain, Braxton Bragg, Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap, Don Carlos Buell, Earl Van Dorn, Edmund Kirby Smith, foreign intervention, France, Francis Herron, George B. McClellan, Great Britain, Great Britain and the Civil War, Henry Halleck, James Blunt, Jefferson Davis, John Breckinridge, John Pope, Kanawha Valley Campaign, Kentucky, Lord Palmerston, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Robert E. Lee, Russia, Sterling Price, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Hindman, William Loring, William S. Rosecrans, Winchester
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Question of the Week: 8/30-9/5/21
Which battle do you prefer to study, First or Second Bull Run/Manassas?
Death at Antietam: Friends to the End
ECW welcomes back guest author Cal Schoonover… The Civil War impacted Wisconsin’s people from the beginning of the war until the end on April 9, 1865. Wisconsin had no shortage of volunteers during the early part of the war; however, … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier
Tagged 21st Virginia Infantry, 6th Wisconsin, Antietam National Cemetery, Army of the Potomac, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Second Manassas, Franklin Gerlaugh, Iron Brigade, John Gibbon, Sharpsburg, William P. Black, Wisconsin, Wisconsin in the Civil War
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The Deep Cut Burns
A couple of weeks ago, Manassas National Battlefield held a controlled burn in the area of the Deep Cut. Here, on August 30, 1862, thousands of Union soldiers led by Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter attacked Confederate troops positioned along … Continue reading
To Spurn the Southern Scum? Union Soldier Motivation to Liberate Maryland in September 1862
Accounts abound of Union officers exhorting their men during the Battle of Gettysburg to fight ferociously as if the safety of their loved ones and their homes depended on it. On July 1, 1863, retreating Union cavalrymen passed through the … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Common Soldier
Tagged 11th Pennsylvania Infantry, 56th Pennsylvania Infantry, 66th Ohio Infantry, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves, 8th Ohio Infantry, Abner Doubleday, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Second Bull Run, Battle of Second Manassas, Frederick Maryland, George B. McClellan, Maryland, Maryland Campaign 1862, Rockville Maryland, Thomas Rowley
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Assessing the Enemy: James Longstreet and John Pope at Second Bull Run
Union general John Pope’s decision-making during the campaign of Second Bull Run has been justly scrutinized by historians and armchair generals alike. In large part this scrutiny has stemmed from Pope’s bombast upon his arrival in Virginia and his failure … Continue reading
The Civil War and General Jim Mattis: Command relationship “trust up and down the chain” (Part 3)
This series was inspired by Jim Mattis’s Call Sign Chaos. In Part II, we looked at the relationships between Lincoln, Grant and Sherman to see how trust, respect, and communication aided senior Union leadership in their use of a multi-directional … Continue reading
