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Tag Archives: Cadmus Wilcox
The Affable Archie Botts
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome guest author Frank Jastrzembski Nestled in the Shockoe Hill Cemetery of Richmond, Virginia, is a discolored marker with a heartfelt epitaph that reads: Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Archibald B. Botts of … Continue reading
Class of 1842
When reading a biography of a Civil War general officer, the usual biographical sketch is: West Point Military Academy educated, Mexican War experience, volunteer organization command in early stages of the war, and then the rise through the general officer ranks. … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged A. P. Stewart, A.P. Hill, Abner Doubleday, Army of the Potomac, Army of Virginia, Cadmus Wilcox, Chancellorsville, Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, Corinth, D.H. Hill, Dabney Maury, Darius Couch, David R. Jones, Earl Van Dorn, Gabriel Rains, George H. Gordon, George McClellan, George Pickett, George Stoneman, George Sykes, George W. Rains, Gettysburg, Gustavus W. Smith, James Oakes, Jesse Reno, John Adams, John Foster, John Gibbon, John Newton, John Pope, Lafayette McLaws, Mansfield Lovell, Martin L. Smith, Napoleon Dana], Robert E. Lee, Samuel Maxey, Samuel Sturgis, Seth Williams, Stonewall Jackson, West Point Class of 1842, West Point Class of 1846, William Gardiner, William S. Rosecrans
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The 3rd Maine at Gettysburg
Today, we’re pleased to welcome guest author Anthony Trusso. Although the 20th Maine Infantry gets a lot of attention for its actions at Gettysburg, due mostly to its prominence in the 1993 film Gettysburg, other regiments from the Pine Tree … Continue reading
Posted in Battles
Tagged 10th Alabama, 11th Alabama, 3rd Maine, Berdan's Sharpshooters, Cadmus Wilcox, Gettysburg, July 2, Moses Lakeman, Pitzer's Woods
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“If You Realized What Is Going To Happen in the Morning…”
As June 1, 1864 turned into the history books, both sides reevaluated the current dispositions of their respective forces; and both leaders, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, sidled troops to this now very critical Virginia crossroads of Cold … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, National Park Service, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 150th Battle of Cold Harbor, 150th Overland Campaign, Ambrose Burnside, Battle of Cold Harbor, Cadmus Wilcox, Cold Harbor, George Meade, John C. Breckinridge, Jubal Early, Richard Anderson, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia, William Mahone
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June 2 at Cold Harbor
The initial reports coming back to the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac on the night of June 1 were encouraging: the Federals had carried the first line of Confederate works. At the same time, reinforcements were needed on the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities
Tagged Ambrose Burnside, Bethesda Church, Cadmus Wilcox, Cold Harbor, George G. Meade, Governeur Warren, Henry Heth, Horace Porter, Horatio Wright, John C. Breckinridge, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, William "Baldy" Smith, Winfield Scott Hancock
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Palmetto Sentinels
The spring rainfall has covered the central Virginia forests with a lush vegetation that unfortunately obscures many of the physical features that define a battlefield. In attempt to restore some of these viewsheds, I undertook a recent project to clear some … Continue reading
“I shall come out of this fight a live major general or a dead brigadier.”
Another installment in the series “Tales from the Tombstone” Unfortunately, the Confederate officer who made the statement in the title died shortly after making it, pierced by seven bullets when leading a counterattack at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House on … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Personalities
Tagged 14th South Carolina, A.P. Hill, Abner Perrin, Army of Northern Virginia, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of the Wilderness, Cadmus Wilcox, Light Division, Maxcy Gregg, Mexican-American War, Richard Anderson, Samuel McGowan, South Carolina
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