Tag Archives: Boydton Plank Road

Return to Burgess Mill

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Edward S. Alexander

“I am now outside the main rebel line, moving southwesterly over the old Boydton Plank Road, which has ceased to have any vestige of a plank crossing it as long ago when the war was on. There is now nothing … Continue reading →

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Separate Roads to Petersburg: The Fractured Federal High Command, April 1865

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Edward S. Alexander

Ever have a dispute with someone turn so ugly that you don’t want to even share the same road? From all appearances, that may have been the case on April 2, 1865 with the damaged relationship between Lt. Gen. Ulysses … Continue reading →

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