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Searching for George Brinton McClellan
In preparation for Rob Orrison’s and my upcoming ECWS book, To Hazard All: A Guide to the Maryland Campaign, 1862, we closed the books and hit the trails and cement roads zigzagging through northern Virginia and central and western Maryland. At … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War Series, Leadership--Federal, Lincoln, Memory
Tagged George B. McClellan, George Gordon Meade, Jane Beall, Lincoln, Maryland Campaign, McClellan Gun Club, Montgomery County Historical Society, Rob Orrison, Robert E. Lee, Searching for George McClellan, To Hazard All, Tom Huntington
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The Mine Run Campaign Comes to Locust Grove
Perhaps it’s because Mine Run was, in the words of one Federal, “the great battle never fought” that so few images exist from the campaign. There was a lot of marching and moving and a fair amount of skirmishing—and participants … Continue reading
In the Wake of Vicksburg, U. S. Grant as Commander of the Army of the Potomac?
By early August, 1863, Ulysses S. Grant had settled into administrative routine following the fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi—but Grant wasn’t one to sit idle long. He had set his eye on Mobile, Alabama, which he was “very anxious to take” … Continue reading
Paying My Respects to George Gordon Meade
The paths and driveways through Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery remind me of an ant farm I had when I was a kid. The ways twist and scurry across the landscape unpredictably in three dimensions. The map makes it all seem … Continue reading
Civil War in Paradise
In mid-January I spent a long weekend in Key West. I enjoyed the food, music, and atmosphere of a truly great town, and also saw some of the place’s interesting historic sites. What really surprised me was the Civil War … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Battlefields & Historic Places, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Monuments, Navies, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged Army of the Cumberland, Asa Tift, British Empire, Confederate Navy, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, Ernest Hemingway, Florida, George G. Meade, George Gordon Meade, ironclads, John Brannan, key west, Key West Lighthouse, Stephen Mallory, Trent Affair, Union Blockade, Union Navy, USS San Jacinto
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Meade’s Account of Mine Run
One of my favorite pieces of correspondence from the war is a Dec. 2, 2863, letter that George Gordon Meade wrote to his wife in the wake of the Mine Run campaign. The commander of the Army of the Potomac, … Continue reading
A Little Wedding, A Little History
We’re getting ready for a wedding this afternoon here at Stevenson Ridge. Teal, peach, and off-white pom-poms festoon the fireplace in the chapel, and spider-thin curly-que candelabras, also teal, sit at the center of each table. A sign in the … Continue reading
On Meade’s Mind, 152 Years Ago
George Gordon Meade had much on his mind as he waited for the train from Washington to arrive. Onboard, the general-in-chief of all Union armies, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, was coming from Washington to take his place with the … Continue reading
At the Center of Nothing, Meade’s Greatest Moment
If all had gone according to plan, the men of the Federal II Corps would have marched across this field on the morning of November 30, 1863. They would have advanced from the far treeline toward the spot where the … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Leadership--Federal
Tagged George Gordon Meade, II Corps, Mine Run, November 1863
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