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Tag Archives: Patrick Cleburne
The “Crime” at Pickett’s Mill
…and we have to pass over the dead Yanks of the battle field of yesterday; and here I beheld that which I cannot describe; and which I hope never to see again, dead men meet the eye in every direction, … Continue reading
Modern Photography: A Trip to Ringgold, Georgia
Fans of General Patrick Cleburne go here all the time: Ringgold, Georgia – a historic borough in north Georgia, just a few miles below the Tennessee. Last summer I went there with Jack Melton, publisher of Civil War News and … Continue reading
Remembering Pickett’s Mill
This past weekend (June 3-5) I was privileged to participate in activities connected with the 152nd Anniversary of the battle of Pickett’s Mill. I cover the engagement in our new volume in the Emerging Civil War Series, A Long and Bloody … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Emerging Civil War Series, Western Theater
Tagged A Long and Bloody Task, Alatoona Pass, Ambrose Bierce, Dallas, Emerging Civil War Series, Georgia State Historic Sites, Joseph Johnston, New Hope Church, Patrick Cleburne, Picket's Mill, Western & Atlantic Railroad, William T. Sherman
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Black Confederates: Laborers or Soldiers? (part four)
Part four of a series Some people suggested using slaves to fight from the very beginning of the war. However, the overwhelming fear was of slave insurrection. The John Brown raid was less than two years before the Civil War … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Common Soldier, Slavery, USCT
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Benjamin Quarles, Black Confederate soldiers, Black Confederates, Black-Confederates-Laborers-or-Soldiers, General Order 14, Jefferson Davis, John Brown, Louisiana Native Guards, Patrick Cleburne, Richard Ewell, slavery, The Negro in the Civil War, USCT
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Black Confederates: Laborers or Soldiers? (part one)
part one of a series When I first arrived at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in 2005, I was very interested in researching black Confederate soldiers. Over the past 11 years, I have read books on this subject, … Continue reading
Preservation of the Franklin Battlefield
From ECW Correspondent Jason Klaiber Over the last ten years, the Civil War Trust has worked tirelessly to reclaim the once-lost Franklin battlefield in central Tennessee, where Confederates attacked Union forces on November 30, 1864. The attack ignited horrific, close-quarters … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Personalities, Preservation
Tagged Battle of Franklin Trust, Carter Cotton Gin, Civil War Trust, Eric Jacobson, Franklin's Charge, Heritage Foundation of Franklin, Lee White, Patrick Cleburne, Save the Franklin Battlefield
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The Last Charge of the Army of Tennessee
As the line of gaunt and scared Confederate veterans emerged from the piney forest and advanced over the cool, sandy soil, the scene inspired nearby onlookers. The Army of Tennessee was moving forward that afternoon for an assault once more. … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Western Theater
Tagged 150th Anniversary of Bentonville, A. P. Stewart, Army of Tennessee, Battle of Bentonville, Bentonville, Braxton Bragg, Chickamauga, D.H. Hill, Henry Slocum, Joseph E. Johnston, Joseph Johnston, North Carolina, Patrick Cleburne, Sam Watkins, William Hardee, William J. Hardee, William T. Sherman, XIV Corps
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Franklin 150th: “I never saw the dead lay near so thick.”
It was a near-run thing—John M. Schofield’s Federals steadily marching down the Columbia Pike towards Franklin through the night of Nov. 29 while sitting close to their camp fires were the Confederates of John B. Hood. The two former West … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Emerging Civil War
Tagged 125th Ohio, 24th Wisconsin, 36th Illinois, 44th Illinois, 74th/88th Illinois, Army of the Cumberland, Army of the Ohio, Arthur MacArthur, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Chattanooga, Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Franklin, Battle of Shiloh, David Stanley, Emerson Opdycke, George D. Wagner, John Bell Hood, John M. Schofield, John Q. Lane, Joseph Conrad, Patrick Cleburne
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Franklin 150th: To Die Like Men
It had all led to this: Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, known as the “Stonewall of the West,” galloped up to his brigade commanders assembled on top of Breezy Hill, just south of the little town of Franklin, Tennessee. “He … Continue reading
Franklin 150th: The Last Thing He Ever Saw….
William Decatur Mintz, known as Dee, was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, to a respectable farming family, but like many young me, he saw opportunity on the frontier. Dee ended up in Little Rock, Arkansas, when the Secession Crisis … Continue reading
