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Tag Archives: George B. McClellan
Question of the Week: 9/26-10/2/22
George McClellan got (and still gets) criticism for his relative inactivity after the battle of Antietam. If you were McClellan, what would you have done at the end of September/beginning of October 1862? (Same historical scenario. No what-ifs except you’re … Continue reading
Gustav Waagner: The Hungarian Revolutionary Faced One of his Toughest Tests against Stonewall Jackson at Manassas Junction
After the march of Stonewall Jackson’s 24,000 men culminated at Bristoe Station on August 26, 1862, where they managed to cut John Pope’s communication and supply line, Jackson turned his attention to Manassas Junction five miles up the Orange & … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Battles, Leadership--Federal
Tagged 2nd New York Heavy Artillery, Albert von Puttkammer, Cairo Illinois, George B. McClellan, Gustav Waagner, Hungary, John C. Fremont, John Howard Russell, Lajos Kossuth, Manassas Junction, Stonewall Jackson, turkey, Ulysses S. Grant
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Maine at War June 2022 blog posts
In June 2022 my Maine at War blog examined topics ranging from cold-hearted elected officials to a “what if” 20th-century TV game show involving six Civil War celebrities, plus a look at two special monuments in Middleburg. June 1, 2022: … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Websites & Blogs
Tagged 12th Maine Infantry Regiment, 15th New York Battery, 18th Maine Infantry Regiment, 19th Maine Infantry Regiment, 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, 1st Maine Veteran Infantry Regiment, 20th Maine Infantry Regiment, 24th Maine Infantry Regiment, 43rd U.S. Colored Troops, 4th Maine Infantry Regiment, 6th Maine Battery, 6th Maine Infantry Regiment, Abraham Bryan, Alden D. Chase, Aldie, Belfast, Belfast City Greys, Belle Boyd, Blue Ridge, Brian Swartz, Bridget Newenham, Bridled Veterans, Bud Collyer, Bull Run Mountains, Catoctin Mountain, Cemetery Ridge, Cherryfield, Chris Wilson, Codori Farm, David Tucker, Elvira Newenham, Emmitsburg Road, Emulos Small, Fort Riley, Frederic A. Hodsdon, Frederick Douglass, Fredericksburg, Freeman McGilvery, Gallops Island, George A. Custer, George B. McClellan, Hannibal Hamlin, Henry House Hill, Henry J. Hunt, Henry W. Cunningham, Horatio H. Carter, Horses and Mules Memorial, Isaac C. Abbott, Israel Washburn Jr., James H. Newenham, James Wakefield, JEB Stuart, John Day Smith, John Hodsdon, John Mosby Highway, John Smith, John W. Haley, Julia Ward Howe, Lewiston, Litchfield, Livia Angier, Lizzie Baker, Maine at War, Maine State Archives, Manassas National Battlefield Park, Marye's Heights, Middleburg, Mt. Defiance Park, Narraguagus, National Sporting Library and Museum, New Brunswick, Nicholas Newenham, Patrick Hart, Peirces’ Hall, Petersburg, r Silas M. Fuller, Republican Journal, Richard S. Ayer, Rockland, Shenandoah Valley, Silas Adams, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, St. David’s, Steamboat Landing, Steve Bunker, Stockton Springs, Studio 54, Tessa Pullan, The Plains Road, Thomas H. Marshall, To Tell the Truth, Upperville, Virginia Museum of History and Culture, William H. Fogler, William H. Simpson, William Hart, William Newenham, William O. Poor, Winfield Scott Hancock
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Southerners Have Fun with McClellan’s “Change of Base”
At the end of the day, June 27, 1862, George McClellan knew he had been whipped. Fitz John Porter’s V Corps had been fiercely attacked. Its center had broken and Porter’s troops retreated, leaving behind twenty-two guns.1 Porter was north … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Federal, Lincoln
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Allan Nevins, Brian Burton, change of base, Chickahominy, Edmund Ruffin, Edward Pollard, Ethan Rafuse, Fitz John Porter, Gaines Mill, George B. McClellan, Harrison's Landing, James River, Little Mac, Louis Goldsborough, Seven Days Battles, V Corps, White House Landing, Young Napoleon
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McClellan Addresses the 5th Wisconsin
On May 7, 1862, General George B. McClellan reviewed and spoke to the men of the 5th Wisconsin, who two days before had helped win the Battle of Williamsburg. Since the 2d Wisconsin fought at First Manassas, this was the … Continue reading
America’s First Air Force: Union Aeronauts and McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign, Part Four – Davis, Lee, and Longstreet Were Standing in a Field
ECW welcomes back guest author Jeff Ballard Read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. Serving as an airborne sentry was the first, and perhaps the most obvious role of the balloon on the battlefield and Lowe’s balloons gave McClellan … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Personalities
Tagged Allan Pinkerton, America's-First-Air-Force, balloon, Chancellorsville, Dom Pedro II, Excelsior, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Fitz John Porter, George B. McClellan, Hindenburg, hot air balloon, Intrepid, Jeff Ballard, Peninsula Campaign, Thaddeus Lowe, Union Balloon Corps, Yorktown
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America’s First Air Force: Union Aeronauts and McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign, Part Three – Gaines’ Farm Station
ECW welcomes back guest author Jeff Ballard Read Part One and Part Two. The final week of May 1862 denoted the high-water mark of McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign as five corps of the Army of the Potomac partially encircled Richmond. By … Continue reading
America’s First Air Force: Union Aeronauts and McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign Part One – Maker of Water
ECW welcomes guest author Jeff Ballard On the last day of May 1862, Lieutenant E. Walter West, U.S. Army, peered through his field glasses and noted Confederate infantry preparing to attack the Union position straddling the Richmond & York Railroad … Continue reading
On The March: Magruder’s Deception on the Peninsula
Though usually the means of moving from Point A to Point B and perhaps determining a campaign or battle by speed, marching also became a tool for deception. Especially in April 1862 on the Virginia Peninsula. Confederate General John Bankhead … Continue reading
The Sleeping Sentry’s Final Rest
“By the hand of God helping me, I shall some day outride the storms of affliction and land my soul on the other side of Jordan and head our weary souls home to rest where there shall be no death. … Continue reading
