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Tag Archives: James River
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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From the Chickahominy to the James: June 4-14, 1864
In the aftermath of Cold Harbor, the armies led by Robert E. Lee and George Meade were at a strategic stalemate less than twenty miles from Richmond. The advantage though was to the Confederates. Lee still held Richmond and his … Continue reading
Pontoon Bridges: The Great Crossings
Yesterday Sarah Kay Bierle looked at the ancient uses of pontoon bridges and its perspectives on the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg. While she addressed the difficulties of bridging rivers, I would like to look at the other side of the coin: … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Campaigns, Ties to the War, Weapons
Tagged Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Burma, Chindwin River, Churchill, engineers, India, Irrawaddy River, James River, Montgomery, Pontoon Bridges, Rhine River, Robert E. Lee, U.S. Grant, William Slim, World War II
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Question of the Week: 4/4-4/10/16
Here’s another QotW from Phill Greenwalt: Lee supposedly said, “If he [Grant] gets there [James River] it will become a siege and then it will be a mere question of time.” Do you agree with this sentiment or did Lee … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Question of the Week
Tagged Cold Harbor, James River, Overland Campaign, Question of the Week, Ulysses S. Grant
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The Real War that Never Got into the Books: Operations North of the James River, July-October 1864
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Jimmy Price Part One in a Series. What if I was to tell you that a series of desperate battles was fought on the footsteps of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia? … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Chaffin's Farm, Darbytown Road, Deep Bottom, Fort Gilmer, Fort Harrison, Fussell's Mill, Gravel Hill, James River, Jean Baptiste Girardey, JEB Stuart, John Gregg, John R. Chambliss, New Market Heights, Richmond, Robert E. Lee, Strawberry Plains, the crater, Tilghman's Gate, USCTs
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A Shift in Strategy: Battle of Globe Tavern
Since June 15, 1864 the Union army under Major General George Meade and Lieutenant General Ulysses Grant hammered the Confederate defenses around Petersburg. From limited success along the eastern front June 15-18, then a thwarted attack on the Confederate supply … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns
Tagged 10th Corps, Charles Field, Deep Bottom, Dimmock Line, George G. Meade, Globe Tavern, Gouverneur K. Warren, James River, New Market Road, Petersburg, Robert E. Lee, Rooney Lee, Siege of Petersburg, Ulysses S. Grant, Weldon Rail Road, Wiliam Mahone, Winfield Scott Hancock
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The Less Famous Lee
A devastated Robert E. Lee arrived too late for his older brother’s funeral in 1869. “A sad gap in our family… a grievous affliction to me which I must bear as well as I can,” he tearfully remarked to Mary, his … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Navies
Tagged Commadore Mathew Perry, Confederate Naval Academy, Confederate Navy, Drewry's Bluff, Elizabeth River, Gosport Navy Yard, James River, Peninsula Campaign, Richmond Virginia, Robert E. Lee, Sydney Smith Lee, Union Navy
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Fort Pocahontas
When I stopped at Jamestown, Virginia over the weekend, I expected to find Pocahontas—but to my surprise, I found Fort Pocahontas, too. Just outside the Jamestown colony’s original triangle fort, to the west of the rebuilt palisade, a line of … Continue reading
