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“A Reservoir of Misinformation”: Early Signs of the Lost Cause at Fort Gregg
I always enjoy reading stories about battlefield visits in the decades after the war, before there were driving tours, interpretive waysides, and detailed troop movement maps overlaid onto modern roads. In the course of compiling research on the fighting at … Continue reading
A Second Medal of Honor: Thomas Ward Custer at Sailor’s Creek
The scene about to play out was one that had become all too familiar in recent days. Union cavalry squadrons were preparing to assault an enemy position. An artillerist recalled that it was “the grandest sight he had ever witnessed.” … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 1873 Yellowstone Expedition, 1874 Black Hills Expediation, 1876 Sioux War, 21st Ohio Infantry, 2nd North Carolina Cavalry, 6th Michigan Cavalry, 7th U.S. Cavalry, Battle of Little Big Horn, Battle of Stones River, Battle of the Washita, Battle of Waynesboro, City Point, Five Forks, Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, George Armstrong Custer, George Thomas, Henry Capehart, James Negley, Namozine Church, Philip Sheridan, Richard Anderson, Richard Ewell, Sailor's Creek, Stones River, Third Cavalry Division, Thomas Ward Custer, U.S. Grant
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The Downfall of a Federal Corps Commander: Warren-Sheridan and the Five Forks Controversy: Part Three
Part Three in a Series. On March 25, 1865 Robert E. Lee launched his last true offensive of the war, and in reality the only true offensive he undertook during the Siege of Petersburg. The Battle of Fort Stedman placed … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Cavalry, Leadership--Federal
Tagged Bushrod Johnson, Charles Griffin, Dinwiddie Court House, Five Forks, George Custer, George G. Meade, George Pickett, Gouverneur K. Warren, Gravelly Run, James Longstreet, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Phil Sheridan, Robert E. Lee, Romeyn Ayres, Samuel Crawford, Siege of Petersburg, Spotsylvania, The Downfall of a Federal Corps Commander: Warren-Sheridan and the Five Forks Controversy, Thomas Munford, Ulysses S. Grant, White Oak Road
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Breakthrough at Petersburg: “April Fool, Johnnies!”
After the thrilling Union victory at Five Forks on April 1, Lt. Col. Horace Porter raced back with a report to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s headquarters near Dabney’s Mill. He swiftly picked his way through the mess behind the … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier, Holidays, Sesquicentennial, Sieges
Tagged Five Forks, Fort Fisher, Horatio G. Wright, The Breakthrough
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The Downfall of a Federal Corps Commander: Warren-Sheridan and the Five Forks Controversy: Part One
Part One in a Series. It is a well know fact that many historians live with the characters that they write about for many years. Delving into a major project often exposes us to an abundance of characters that are … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Federal
Tagged Army of the Potomac, Battle of Spotsylvania, Battle of the Wilderness, Bristoe Station, Five Forks, Gouverneur K. Warren, John Caldwell, John Reynolds, Mine Run, Philip Sheridan, Siege of Petersburg, The Downfall of a Federal Corps Commander: Warren-Sheridan and the Five Forks Controversy, Winfield Scott Hancock
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From the Stone Wall to a Shad Bake
This is another post in the series “Tales From the Tombstone.” George Edward Pickett was ecstatic on the morning of July 3, 1863. His division, which had missed the fighting at Chancellorsville in May and had been way in the rear … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Personalities
Tagged Appomattox Court House, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, Five Forks, Gaines Mill, George Pickett, John S. Mosby, LaSalle "Sallie" Corbell, Pickett's Charge, Robert E. Lee, West Point, West Point Class of 1846
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No NPS? No Problem!—Civil War Trust Sites in Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Day Three in a series coinciding with the federal government shutdown Dinwiddie County is a Civil War preservationist’s dream. Forty-three named engagements took place within its 507 square miles, a direct testament to the tenacious campaign that gripped the neighboring city of … Continue reading
