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Question of the Week: 1/8-1/14/18
The first days of January 2018 marked the 155th anniversary of the Battle of Stones River. Do you have a favorite general or unit from that battle? Why?
Posted in Battles, Question of the Week
Tagged Battle of Stones River, generals, Murfreesboro, units
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Stanley Matthews: Lawyer in Blue
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Eric Sterner Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. may be the most famous lawyer to serve in the Civil War, but he wasn’t the only Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to wear … Continue reading
Looking Back to Cowpens: William J. Hardee and the Battle of Averasboro
After abandoning Fayetteville, North Carolina to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s army group, Lieutenant General William J. Hardee withdrew his corps north of the city. Hardee had ordered the Clarendon Bridge over the Cape Fear River destroyed, removing the possibility of … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Revolutionary War, Sesquicentennial, Western Theater
Tagged 150th Anniversary of Averasboro, Alfred Rhett, Army of Georgia, Banastre Tarleton, Battle of Averasboro, Battle of Bentonville, Battle of Cowpens, Battle of Gettysburg, Covering Force Action, Daniel Morgan, Defense in Depth, Henry Case, Henry Slocum, James Morgan, John Buford, Joseph Johnston, Joseph Wheeler, Lafayette McLaws, Murfreesboro, Nathaniel Jackson, Shiloh, Stephen Elliot, William Butler, William Hardee, William T. Sherman, William Vandever, William Ward
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Battle of the Cedars, 150 Years Ago
There was no rest for the weary after the slaughter at Franklin. Gen. Hood ordered most of his army to continue their pursuit of Schofield’s forces to Nashville. Along the way, on December 2, Gen. William Bate received the following … Continue reading
A Sharp Fight: The Battle of Farmington
On the morning of October 7, 1863, the Confederates of Henry B. Davidson’s cavalry division awoke to the urgent sounds of rifle and carbine fire. Davidson’s men were camped along the south bank of the Duck River, just a few … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities
Tagged Abram Miller, Anderson's Crossroads, Army of the Cumberland, Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Farmington, Braxton Bragg, Chattanooga, Cumberland Plateau, Edward McCook, George Crook, John T. Wilder, Joseph Wheeler, McMinnville, Murfreesboro, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Philip Roddy, Robert H.G. Minty, Stephen D. Lee, Walden's Ridge, Wilder's Lighting Brigade, William S. Rosecrans
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The Other Fort Rosecrans
For most Civil War aficionados, Fort Rosecrans shows up on their radar screen just outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee. There, in the months after its bruising victory over the Confederate Army of Tennessee at the Battle of Stones River, the Union Army … Continue reading
The Battle of Stones River: Remembering the Fallen
Hazen Brigade Monument Stones River National Battlefield
The Battle of Stones River: “Oh, my Orphans!”
Breckenridge’s Charge Stones River National Battlefield
The Battle of Stones River: The Slaughter Pen
The Slaughter Pen Stones River National Battlefield
The Battle of Stones River: “The nation could scarcely have lived….”
With the Emancipation Proclamation set to go into effect on January 1, 1863, and the Army of the Potomac still in ruins after its humiliating defeat on the heights beyond Fredericksburg, Virginia, President Abraham Lincoln desperately needed a victory. Major General … Continue reading
