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Tag Archives: Darius Couch
McIlvaine’s Hotel: A Landmark on the Road to Gettysburg
For those who over the years have traveled to Gettysburg with some regularity, I’m sure that each of us have some landmarks that once passed let us know we really are on the way to Gettysburg. For myself, there’s still … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Ties to the War
Tagged 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 18th Virginia Cavalry, 1st New York Cavalry, Abram Jones, Bedford PA, Bloody Run PA, Darius Couch, Fulton County PA, George Steuart, Gettysburg Campaign, John D. Imboden, Lewis B. Pierce, McConnellsburg PA, McIlvaine's Hotel, Ray's Hill, Robert Milroy, Route 30
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Lost Opportunities in the Army of the Potomac—A Pair of Examples
Army management is a complicated skill in which the personality and temperament of commanders influence the inner workings and culture of the organization. The Union had no army which was as political, and influenced by outside politics, as its primary … Continue reading
Malvern Hill: A Victory With The Look And Feel Of Defeat
ECW welcomes back guest author Rob Wilson “I have supped full with horrors. Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts Cannot once start me.” — William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5, Line 13-15 The Army of the Potomac emerged the clear … Continue reading
The Fall of the Chancellorsville Crossroads
The following is a chapter excerpt from “That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy, May 1-4, 1863,” authored by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White. The Chancellor House site will be one of the stops on the upcoming … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War Series, Symposium, Upcoming Events
Tagged 116th Pennsylvania, 140th Pennsylvania Infantry, 53rd Pennsylvania, 5th Maine Battery E, Bullock Farm, Chancellor Mansion, Chancellorsville, Chris Mackowski; Kristopher D. White, Darius Couch, Edward Porter Alexander, Fairview, George Leppien, Hazel Grove, James Lebroke, JEB Stuart, John Chase, Joseph Hooker, Medal of Honor, Robert E. Lee, Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium, That Furious Struggle
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Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path: The 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia Monuments
Part of a series. The 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia came into existence during the opening stages of the Gettysburg Campaign. As Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army moved north, the War Department created two new military departments to deal with the … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns
Tagged 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Bell's Adams County Cavalry Company, Chambersburg Pike, Darius Couch, Department of the Monongahela, Department of the Susquehanna, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path, Granville Haller, John B. Gordon, Joseph Carr, Jubal Early, Marsh Creek, Richard S. Ewell, Robert Bell, White's Comanches, William T. H. Brooks, William W. Jennings
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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 B. McClellan, George H. Gordon, 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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