Tag Archives: Petersburg

Greene’s A Campaign of Giants Selected for ECW Book Award

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Emerging Civil War

Emerging Civil War has chosen A. Wilson Greene’s A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg (UNC Press, 2018) as the recipient of this year’s ECW Book Award. The Emerging Civil War Book Award recognizes a work of Civil War history … Continue reading →

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Kill General Lee: A Yankee Officer Opposes Reconciliation

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Edward S. Alexander

We’ve all heard the simplified story. Confederate veterans roll up their battle flags at Appomattox and Robert E. Lee charges them with being good citizens as they return to the United States. Impressed by this act of good faith and … Continue reading →

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“Move at the Sound of the Bugle, …Straight to the Front”

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

The 2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment formed in June 1861 and fought from First Bull Run through the Appomattox Campaign. By the opening days of April 1865, Elisha Hunt Rhodes – who had enlisted as volunteer corporal – promoted to … Continue reading →

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A.P. Hill’s Death Wish?: The Problem with Using Quotes

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Edward S. Alexander

Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill rode to his death during the immediate aftermath of the April 2, 1865 breakthrough at Petersburg. Hill sought to meet Major General Henry Heth at the division commander’s Pickrell house headquarters. Instead he encountered Pennsylvania … Continue reading →

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Symposium Spotlight: Edward Alexander

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Emerging Civil War

One of our afternoon speakers for the Fifth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium is Edward Alexander. Our Symposium Spotlight introduces us to this presenter as well as his topic, Grant Crosses the James.

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Another Courier’s Perspective: William Henry Jenkins and the Death of A.P. Hill

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Edward S. Alexander

Earlier this week I shared some new information discovered about William Bennett Kirkpatrick, a previously unidentified courier who relayed A.P. Hill’s last message to his Third Corps headquarters on April 2, 1865. Within the hour, Corporal John Watson Mauk shot … Continue reading →

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Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Gettysburg vs. Petersburg

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Sarah Kay Bierle

A veteran Union general reflected on battlefield landscapes, markers, and monuments several decades after the war during a visit to Petersburg, Virginia. There is a peculiar impressiveness about the forsaken. Some deep places in us are moved by a forlorn … Continue reading →

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Mapping the Attack on Fort Mahone, April 2, 1865

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Edward S. Alexander

The VI Corps assault on the morning of April 2, 1865 unraveled the Confederate earthworks in Dinwiddie County and forced Robert E. Lee to issue orders to evacuate the lines around Petersburg and Richmond. Their dawn attack that I frequently … Continue reading →

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A Mother At Petersburg

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Sarah Kay Bierle

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 →

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Don’t Impede Edward Ord’s Columns

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Edward S. Alexander

Edward O.C. Ord commanded the Army of the James at the end of the Civil War. In March 1865 they held the Union position north of the James River opposite the daunting Confederate works protecting Richmond. Before his final offensive … Continue reading →

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