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BookChat with Adam Petty, Author of The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historian Adam Petty, The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory (LSU Press, 2019). I reviewed the booked for the spring 2020 edition of Louisiana State … Continue reading
Opening the Mine Run Campaign at Germanna Ford and Creating a History of Our Own
Everything was brown: the barren trees, the fallen leaves, the river itself as it pushed between the high banks on either side. Even the crushed gravel of the path was somehow brown as it wound down the hillside from the … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Memory
Tagged Germanna Ford, Maxwell Mackowski, Mine Run, Mine Run Campaign, Rapidan River, YouTube
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ECW on C-SPAN 3: Fort Stevens
C-SPAN 3 has a ton of great content coming up on the next few days from Emerging Civil War and our sister site, Emerging Revolutionary War.
ECW on C-SPAN3: Mine Run
The “forgotten battle” of Mine Run comes to C-SPAN 3’s “American History TV” this weekend—just in time for the anniversary of the campaign later this month! Chris Mackowski’s talk from the Sixth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, … Continue reading
Podcast Additional Resources: “The Forgotten Fall, Part 2”
Did you catch last week’s podcast? Part 2 focusing on Autumn 1863, it delved into the history at Mine Run and discussed the “great battle never fought.” Today, we’ve rounded-up some sources from our archives to add to the conversation. … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Podcast
Tagged ECW Podcast, Mine Run, podcast resources, The Great Battle Never Fought
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The Evening Smoke and Armchair Generalling After Mine Run
On the evening of December 2, the Army of the Potomac settled back into its camps around Brandy Station and Culpeper, exactly where they’d departed from just a week earlier. The baffling—and frigid—events of the campaign weighed fresh on their … Continue reading
From Lee’s Side of Mine Run
The story of Mine Run is generally remembered thus: The Army of the Potomac found themselves facing a strongly fortified Confederate position that was so formidable, George Gordon Meade declined to attack and, instead, retreated back to the far side … Continue reading
Robinson’s Tavern Today
In 2017, I wrote a post, “The Mine Run Campaign Comes to Locust Grove,” that offered historical and modern views of the former Robinson’s Tavern intersection along modern Route 20. Today, a reader responding to that post expressed disappointment that … Continue reading
Deconstructing Meade’s Decision at Mine Run
On the morning of November 30, 1863, Gouverneur K. Warren awoke to a surprise. The evening before, he had positioned nearly half of the Army of the Potomac on the far Confederate right, poised for an attack at 8:00 the … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Leadership--Federal
Tagged George Gordon Meade, Gouverneur K. Warren, Mine Run
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Facebook LIVE from Payne’s Farm 155
Today is the 155th anniversary of the battle of Payne’s Farm, the most significant action of the Mine Run Campaign. I had the chance to commemorate the day with the American Battlefield Trust out in the field and on Facebook … Continue reading
