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Tag Archives: Jubal A. Early
“The air was blue all around him”
A young Maine officer forever remembered the profanity-spewing Winfield Scott Hancock ordering a charge early in the Peninsula Campaign. Commanded by Col. Edwin C. Mason, the 7th Maine Infantry Regiment had “camped some days near Alexandria waiting our time to … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Battles
Tagged 1st New York Battery, 33rd New York Infantry Regiment, 49th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 5th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 6th Maine Infantry Regiment, 7th Maine Infantry Regiment, Andrew Cowan, Bath, Brian Swartz, Charles C. Wheeler, Cub Creek, Dennis Hart Mahan, Dwight Harvey Hill, Edwin C. Mason, George A. Custer, John Davidson, Jubal A. Early, Thomas W. Hyde, William F. “Baldy” Smith, Williamsburg, Winfield Scott Hancock, York River, Yorktown
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On The March: Respectfully, Jubal A. Early
Headquarters 2d corps, A. No.–Va. To Gen. Jubal A. Early, Commanding Division: General- Gen. Jackson’s compliments to Gen. Early, and he would like to be informed why he saw so many stragglers in rear of your division to-day. Respectfully, A. … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary
Tagged Antietam, D.H. Hill, Jubal A. Early, on-the-march, Sandie Pendleton, Stonewall Jackson, Winchester
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A Casualty of Red Tape and Colonel Mosby
As a collector of Civil War images I can’t say what it was about this particular image that jumped out at me when I purchased it some ten or twelve years ago. The CDV had been identified was Elijah Hobart, … Continue reading
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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The Curmudgeon, The Eccentric, and the “Norse God”: How Three Men Impacted the Battle of Gettysburg: Part Three
Part Three in a Series The March to Gettysburg: Richard Ewell and his 21,806 man Second Corps had performed outstanding work in the Gettysburg Campaign thus far. Moving down the Shenandoah Valley, Ewell and the Second Corps had won stunning … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Leadership--Confederate
Tagged Campell Brown, Cashtown, Edward "Allegheny" Johnson, James Longstreet, Jubal A. Early, Richard S. Ewell, Robert E. Lee, Sandie Pendleton, Stonewall Jackson, The Battle of Gettysburg, The Curmudgeon The Eccentric and the “Norse God” How Three Men Impacted the Battle of Gettysburg
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