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Fighting at Monocacy’s Thomas Farm
Today is the 153rd anniversary of the battle of Monocacy—the “Battle that Saved Washington.” Fought just miles south of Frederick, Maryland along the banks of the Monocacy river the battle was Federal Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace’s last-ditch effort to slow … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns
Tagged 106th New York, 13th Georgia, 14th New Jersey, 61st Georgia, 9th New York Heavy Artillery, Christian Keefer Thomas, Clement Evans, Eugene C. Gordon, Frederick, James H. Baker, James Ricketts, John B. Gordon, Jubal Early, Lew Wallace, Louisiana Tigers, Monocacy, Stonewall Brigade, Thomas Farm, William Seward Jr.
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A Mother At Petersburg
The Confederate lines around Petersburg, Virginia, broke in the first days of April 1865. As Lee’s army headed west into the Appomattox Campaign, Union troops occupied the small city that had been the heart and namesake of a nine month … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Holidays, Leadership--Confederate
Tagged Appomattox Campaign, Civil War Era Mothers, fanny gordon, frances gordon, general gordon, John B. Gordon, Jubal A. Early, Mothers, Mothers Day, mrs. gordon, Petersburg, sentry, Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, Surrender, Ulysses S. Grant
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Time to Talk (Civil War) Books: A Conversation with Marc Ramsey—part four
Part four of five In yesterday’s segment of my interview with bookseller Marc Ramsey of Owens & Ramsey Booksellers, he mentioned a recent book panel he served on where he doled out his best-book recommendations for 2016. But now, he said, … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Personalities
Tagged A Glorious Army, Abraham Lincoln, Berry Benson, Bert Dunkerly, Chris Kolakowski, David Dixon Porter, Dawn of Victory, Dennis Rasbach, Edward Alexander, Elmira Prison, Fort Stedman, Grant's Last Battle, Jeffrey Wert, John B. Gordon, Joshua Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Julia Grant, Leadership, Lee's Lieutenants, Lincoln in Richmond, Lincoln's Greatest Journey, Mary Lincoln, Noah Andre Trudeau, Palmetto Sharshooters, Reminiscences of the Civil War, Time-to-Talk-Civil-War-Books-with-Marc-Ramsey, To the Bitter End, Under the Blue Pennant
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A Civilian Remembers the Battle of Monocacy
Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Monocacy, fought in 1864 between Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace and Lt. Gen. Jubal Early. Wallace’s badly-outnumbered Federals aligned themselves along the Monocacy River, hoping to hold off the Confederates in a last-ditch … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Civilian
Tagged 61st Georgia, Alice Thomas, Antoinette Gambrill, Araby, Battle of Monocacy, C. Keefer Thomas, Daily Frederick News, Gambrill Mill, James Van Valkenburg, John B. Gordon, John Gambrill, John Lamar, Jubal Early, Lew Wallace, Mary Addison 'Mamie' Tyler, Peter Vredenburgh
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The Army of Northern Virginia’s Great Winter Battles
Since nearly half of the authors at Emerging Civil War are snowed in this weekend, and all of us at the site have been living with the great debate of the week—over canonizing Lee and Jackson, or hanging them from … Continue reading
Posted in Battles
Tagged 13th Georgia, 18th North Carolina, 28th North Carolina, 2nd South Carolina, 37th North Carolina, 61st Georgia, Charles McArthur, Fredericksburg, James Lane, James Longstreet, John B. Gordon, Joseph Kershaw, Kernstown, Lane's Brigade, Noah Collins, Stonewall Jackson, Texas Brigade
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Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path: The 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia Monuments
Part of a series. The 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia came into existence during the opening stages of the Gettysburg Campaign. As Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army moved north, the War Department created two new military departments to deal with the … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns
Tagged 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Bell's Adams County Cavalry Company, Chambersburg Pike, Darius Couch, Department of the Monongahela, Department of the Susquehanna, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path, Granville Haller, John B. Gordon, Joseph Carr, Jubal Early, Marsh Creek, Richard Ewell, Robert Bell, White's Comanches, William T. H. Brooks, William W. Jennings
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The Curmudgeon, The Eccentric, and the “Norse God”: How Three Men Impacted the Battle of Gettysburg: Part Nine
Part nine in a series. “…a timely diversion…” Everything was seemingly going well for the Confederates on July 1st. Although the Army of Northern Virginia had blundered into the enemy, they had engaged two Federal corps and driven them from … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Leadership--Confederate
Tagged 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, 35th Virginia Battalion of Cavalry, A.P. Hill, Alpheus Williams, Baltimore Pike, Battle of Gettysburg, Benner's Hill, Campbell Brown, Cemetery Hill, Daniel Sickles, Extra Billy Smith, George Meade, James Power Smith, John B. Gordon, Jubal Early, Richard Ewell, Robert E. Lee, The Curmudgeon The Eccentric and the “Norse God” How Three Men Impacted the Battle of Gettysburg, Winfield Scott Hancock
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The Curmudgeon, The Eccentric, and the “Norse God”: How Three Men Impacted the Battle of Gettysburg: Part Seven
Part Seven in a Series Lee’s Bad Old Man Takes the Field: At the outset of the Chancellorsville Campaign, Major General Jubal A. Early was the junior ranking division commander in Lee’s army. By the time he arrived at Gettysburg … Continue reading
“It seemed a cruel fate for one so deserving to share in his country’s joy”: The Death of Hiram Clark at Appomattox
The Civil War in Virginia was in its closing moments. As Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia tried its last desperate attempts to break through the ever-tightening Federal cordon, the last men died.
