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Tag Archives: Confederate Joseph E. Johnston
Mapping his way through the Carolinas: A profile of Major Robert M. McDowell (Part 2)
Maj. Robert M. McDowell was an engineering officer on the staff of Gen. Slocum during Sherman’s Carolinas campaign. His diary recounts the adventure. (Part two of two) Part of the army’s rear echelon, the staff major was not ordinarily in … Continue reading
Mapping his way through the Carolinas: A profile of Major Robert M. McDowell (Part 1)
(Part one of two) Recently while doing research at the Chemung Historical Society in Elmira, NY, I was delighted to discover the Civil War diary of Robert Morris McDowell in the collection, which revealed a new view of Gen. Sherman’s … Continue reading
“Littlepage’s Big Contributions to the Confederacy”
This is another installment of “Tales From the Tombstone.” Littlepage was the middle name of Carter L. Stevenson, a Confederate major general that saw extensive service in the west during the American Civil War. Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia to a … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Monuments, Personalities
Tagged Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Bentonville, Battle of Chattanooga, Battle of Perryville, Bennett Place, Big Black River Bridge, Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Carter Stevenson, Champion's Hill, Confederate Joseph E. Johnston, Edmund Kirby Smith, Florida, Franklin-Nashville Campaign, Fredericksburg, Irvin McDowell, Mexican-American War, Mormon War, P.G.T. Beauregard, Seminole War, Siege of Vicksburg, Virginia, Virginia Infantry, West Point, William Hardee, William Sherman
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To Georgia With Lee
When John Bell Hood assumed command of the Army of Tennessee on July 18, 1864 he quickly changed the tactics employed by the main Confederate army in the west. Under the leadership of Joseph E. Johnston, the Army of Tennessee … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged 1864, Army of Tennessee, Battle of Atlanta, Battle of Ezra Church, Confederate Joseph E. Johnston, General William T. Sherman, John Bell Hood, Stephen Dill Lee, Western theater, William Hardee
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Today is the Day
July 17, 1864. Davis had had it. He had given Confederate Joseph E. Johnston every chance possible. He had sent General Braxton Bragg down to Atlanta to personally check out the situation of the Army of Tennessee, he had thought … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Personalities, Politics
Tagged Atlanta Campaign, Confederate Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, General Johnston, Jefferson Davis, John Bell Hood, Johnston, Joseph E. Johnston, President Jefferson Davis, William T. Sherman
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