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The AoP Settles into Winter Camp, 1863

Posted on December 10, 2016 by Chris Mackowski

As the Army of the Potomac settled into its winter quarters around Brandy Station and Culpeper in December 1863, Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman—George Gordon Meade’s aide-de-camp—toured the camps with the Army of the Potomac’s chief of staff, Andrew A. Humphreys. … Continue reading →

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The Sutler, the Mainers, and the Pickpockets of the 13th Mass.

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Chris Mackowski

On November 23, 1863—the day before Thanksgiving—the members of the 13th Massachusetts Volunteers, encamped near Brandy Station, Virginia, received a much-welcome pre-holiday visitor. “This was a great day,” wrote regimental historian Charles E. Davis, Jr.:

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“The Daily and Nightly Exhibitions of Our Theatre of War”

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Emerging Civil War

From a January 8, 1863 letter by William Landon of the 14th Indiana, posted near Falmouth, Virginia: “Sunrise—guard mountings, drills, reviews, inspections, parades, the ‘gas bag’ at headquarters swinging in mid air with basket suspended beneath, a human head or … Continue reading →

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