Tag Archives: Beverly Robertson

“I Intend to Make the Yankees Pay”: The Raid at Catlett’s Station

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Daniel Davis

Part three in a series. You may read part one here and part two here. Two days after the embarrassment at Verdiersville, Stuart pushed his cavalry across the Rapidan. He accompanied the newly arrived brigade of Brig. Gen. Beverly Robertson through Stevensburg. The … Continue reading →

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“I Intend to the Make the Yankees Pay”: J.E.B. Stuart’s Operations in August 1862

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Daniel Davis

Part one in a series James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart was one of the Confederacy’s emerging stars in the summer of 1862. A Major General at 29, Stuart headed the cavalry division in Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern … Continue reading →

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“Honor and Glory are Before Me”: The Brief Career of George Bayard

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Daniel Davis

Over the course of the last month I’ve written posts on Benjamin “Grimes” Davis and Elon J. Farnsworth. These men share a common trait: their promising careers were cut short in battle during the Gettysburg Campaign. Davis was in the … Continue reading →

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