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Tag Archives: George H. Thomas
Rain, Flintlocks Doom Rebel Attack at Mill Springs
ECW welcomes guest author Stuart W. Sanders When the Battle of Mill Springs was fought near Somerset, Kentucky, on January 19, 1862, the Union troops routed the attacking Confederate army. Although the rebels outnumbered the federals, the southern assault was … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Battles
Tagged 20th Tennessee, 2nd Minnesota, flintlocks, George Crittenden, George H. Thomas, Mill Springs, rain, Stuart W. Sanders, weather
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George Disney Atop Rocky Face Ridge
“I don’t think I can do this.” My voice, tense with anxiety, barely reached my husband who had already set out on the trail, leaving me in the church parking lot at the bottom of the mountain. I looked back … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Common Soldier
Tagged 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Atlanta Campaign, Brigadier General Joseph Lewis, Civil War Hiking, Dalton Georgia, George Disney Trail, George H. Thomas, georgia travel, Joseph Johnston, Major General Jackson, Mill Creek Gap, Orphan Brigade, Rocky Face Ridge, William T. Sherman
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The Anti-Lee: George Henry Thomas, Southerner in Blue
ECW welcomes guest author Kenly Stewart On August 21, 1831, a reckoning fell upon Southampton County, Virginia. Nat Turner, an enslaved preacher turned prophet and zealot, led one of the largest and deadliest slave rebellions in American history. Years of … Continue reading
Behind Enemy Lines in Kentucky
ECW welcomes back guest author Stuart W. Sanders…. Garry Adelman and Kristopher White from the American Battlefield Trust recently filmed content at multiple Civil War sites in Kentucky for the Trust’s Facebook page. As the former executive director of the … Continue reading
The Second Seminole War as a Civil War Training Ground
In the popular narrative of the coming of the Civil War, the U.S.-Mexico War is often identified as the military crucible through which many of the war’s most famous battlefield leaders first passed—gaining lessons in leadership and combat operations under … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Ties to the War
Tagged Braxton Bragg, C. S. Monaco, Cecily Nelson Zander, Cecily Zander, Col. Duncan L. Clinch, Everglades, Florida, George G. Meade, George H. Thomas, John K. Mahon, John Sherman, Joseph E. Johnston, Joseph Hooker, Jubal Early, Mexican-American War, Robert Anderson, Rock of Chickamauga, Second Seminole War, Seminole Nation, U.S.-Mexico War, Vera Cruz, William T. Sherman, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor
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Forgetting Nashville
Among the twenty-five bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, Nashville—fought December 15-16, 1864—stands as among the most “forgotten.” Only two major works, by Stanley F. Horn and James Lee McDonough, have chronicled the engagement. The reasons for this are … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Memory
Tagged Battle of Nashville, George H. Thomas, John Bell Hood, USCT
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Saving General Thomas’ Rations
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author Andrew Miller A general needs his rations like any soldier in the army. Even more important is maintaining a well fed staff as they perform innumerable duties to guarantee that the general’s orders are … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier
Tagged Andrew Miller, Battle of Chickamauga, Charles Wilkes Bennett, Colonel John Gibson Parkhurst, Fifth Kentucky Cavalry, food, General Louis D. Watkins, George H. Thomas, Joseph Wheeler, Logistics, Lookout Mountain, Ninth Michigan, provost guard, rations, suicide, supply train, wagon train
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Nashville: The Second Day
Despite the results of the 15th, Hood determined to fight. That night he pulled his army back two miles to a more compact line, anchored on both flanks by hills along the Franklin Pike (US 31 today) and Granny White … Continue reading
Nashville: The First Day
The Death Ride of the Army of Tennessee climaxed 150 years ago today and tomorrow, as the Union and Confederacy fought one more large-scale battle between the Appalachians and the Mississippi: the Battle of Nashville.
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, USCT, Western Theater
Tagged A. P. Stewart, A.J. Smith, Army of Tennessee, Franklin-Nashville Campaign, George H. Thomas, James Harrison Wilson, John Bell Hood, John M. Schofield, Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Thomas Wood, United States Colored Troops
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The Evolution of Cavalry Tactics: How Technology Drove Change (Part Three)
(part three in a series) In the Napoleonic system, the army’s mounted arm took multiple forms. There were: carabiniers, cuirassiers, dragoons, hussars, chasseurs, and lancers. Each had its own specific mission. Carabiniers were armed with dragoon carbines and sabers, and … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Cavalry, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Ties to the War
Tagged 1st U.S. Cavalry, 1st U.S. Dragoons, 2nd U.S. Cavalry, 2nd U.S. Dragoons, 3rd U.S. Cavalry, 4th U.S. Cavalry, 5th U.S. Cavalry, 6th U.S. Cavalry, Albert Sidney Johnston, Bleeding Kansas, David Twiggs, Earl Van Dorn, Edmund Kirby Smith, Edwin Sumner, Fitzhugh Lee, French Carabiniers, French Cuirassiers, French Dragoons, French Hussars, George B. McClellan, George H. Thomas, George Stoneman, Henry Sibley, J.E.B. Stuart, John Bell Hood, John Buford, Joseph Johnston, Kenner Garrard, Napoleon, Nathan Evans, Philip St. George Cooke, Regiment of Mounted Rifleman, Robert E. Lee, Stephen Watts Kearny, The-Evolution-of-Cavalry-Tactics, Wesley Merritt, William J. Hardee, William Royall, William S. Harney
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