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Tag Archives: Horace Porter
Echoes of Reconstruction: President Grant Reorganized the White House As Soon As He Took Office
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in as president on March 4, 1869. The immensely unpopular incumbent Andrew Johnson was finally deposed. The new President’s wife Julia Dent Grant … Continue reading
The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Hell Itself
Fewer battlefields have more mystique than the Wilderness. For three days, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia hammered at each other in a dense second-growth forest that soldiers described as “the dark, close wood.” During … Continue reading
U.S. Grant and the Shadow of Cold Harbor
At 4:30 a.m. on the morning of June 3, 1864, the II, VI and XVIII Corps commenced their assault on the Confederate line at Cold Harbor. One New Yorker recalled, “as soon as the skirmishers were engaged, our artillery opened … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Ambrose Burnside, Battle of Franklin, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Gettysburg, Bethesda Church, casualties, Ft. Donelson, Ft. Henry, George Meade, Governeur Warren, Haw's Shop, Horace Porter, II Corps, John Bell Hood, Marye's Heights, Matadequin Creek, Old Cold Harbor, Pickett's Charge, Robert E. Lee, Totopotomoy Creek, U.S. Grant, VI Corps, XVIII Corps
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June 2 at Cold Harbor
The initial reports coming back to the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac on the night of June 1 were encouraging: the Federals had carried the first line of Confederate works. At the same time, reinforcements were needed on the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities
Tagged Ambrose Burnside, Bethesda Church, Cadmus Wilcox, Cold Harbor, George G. Meade, Governeur Warren, Henry Heth, Horace Porter, Horatio Wright, John C. Breckinridge, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, William "Baldy" Smith, Winfield Scott Hancock
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Camp at Mangohick Church
Established when Virginia was still a British colony, Mangohick Church lay in the middle of the Army of the Potomac’s line of march to the Pamunkey River. As the Federals began their trek, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. … Continue reading
On the Road to Guiney Station
You’re trying to burn down my house, the old codger snapped. Ulysses S. Grant looked up from his cigar. Its ashy tip had just flaked off into a small pile onto the floor of the porch where he sat. His … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns
Tagged Horace Porter, Mary Chandler, Motley House, Overland Campaign, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant
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Grant’s Command Post
From this knoll, west of the intersection of State Routes 3 and 20 and just out of sight from the highway, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant oversaw his first battle in the Eastern Theater. Horace Porter, one of Grant’s staffers wrote after … Continue reading
Grant the Butcher?
Although saddled with the reputation of “Grant the Butcher,” Ulysses S. Grant was hardly unmoved by the butchery around him. An incident in the Wilderness, relayed by Grant’s chief of staff, John Rawlins, to biographer James Wilson (Federal cavalryman and … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Leadership--Federal
Tagged Grant, Grant the Butcher, Horace Porter, James Wilson, John Rawlins, Ulysses S. Grant, wilderness
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