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Tag Archives: Mary Chesnut
Of Dawn & Dusk, Beginnings & Endings
Wait for it. Dawn creeps along the horizon. The coming day is foretold with growing light, long before the sun’s disk crests the horizon. Like a saga of history – an event long looming on time’s horizon, then bursting suddenly … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Primary Sources
Tagged Appomattox, Charleston South Carolina, Fort Sumter, Joshua Chamberlain, Mary Chesnut, Primary Sources
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On To Appomattox…
As the days passed and the armies slogged forward in the days after the breakthrough at Petersburg, civilian and soldier alike sensed a coming end of the Army of Northern Virginia. Through the week, Union cavalry and infantry cut off … Continue reading
Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path: The Wounding Site of Daniel Sickles
Part of a series. Major General Daniel Sickles was the wild card in the Army of the Potomac, and a survivor. Sickles was a prewar lawyer and politician who was tried, and acquitted for, the murder of Philip Barton Key … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Leadership--Federal
Tagged Alexander Webb, Battle of Gettysburg, Daniel Butterfield, Daniel Shaeffer Farm, Daniel Sickles, David Birney, Edwin Morgan, Emmitsburg Road, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path, Henry Hunt, James Hessler, James Kelly, Joe Hooker, Marsena Patrick, Mary Chesnut, The Peach Orchard, Thomas Sim, Trostle Farm, Winfield Scott Hancock
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Pick #5 In the Top Ten: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War/Diary from Dixie, edited by C. Vann Woodward/ Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary.
Part of a Series: Books Every Civil War Buff Ought to Own There is absolutely no doubt that this book, whichever version you choose, should be on every Civil War bookshelf. It is Gone With the Wind writ true, and … Continue reading
