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A Sharpshooter’s Postscript to Gettysburg Part 3: Two Armies March to Very Different Drummers
Today we are pleased to welcome back Rob Wilson Part of a series Following the Battle of Gettysburg, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac traveled on roughly parallel routes south to Williamsport, Maryland. Not only … Continue reading
Remembering Dick Garnett
I suspect I’m not the only kid during the Centennial who pored through Ezra J. Warner’s Generals in Gray (1959). My copy of this fine old standard had fallen into such bad shape through constant use that fully thirty years … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Leadership--Confederate
Tagged Generals in Gray, Gettysburg, Hollywood Cemetery, Pickett's Charge, Richard Garnett
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Review: The Gettysburg Cyclorama
Having worked so much at the Wilderness, I don’t buy into that whole “Gettysburg as the turning point of the Civil War” nonsense. Aside from that premise, though, there’s little negative to say about Chris Brenneman and Sue Boardman’s stunning … Continue reading
Civil War Witch Hunt: George Gordon Meade, The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
Part two in a series In the first installment of this series, we reviewed the findings of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War with respect to the conduct of the pursuit of the defeated Army of Northern … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities, Politics
Tagged A.P. Hill, Andrew Humphreys. Alfred Pleasonton, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Battle of Boonsboro, Benjamin Wade, Daniel Butterfield, Daniel Sickles, David Birney, David Gregg, Falling Waters, George Meade, George Sykes, Gettysburg Campaign, Henry Heth, Henry Slocum, I Corps, II Corps, III Corps, J. Johnston Pettigrew, John Buford, John Newton, John Reynolds, John Sedgwick, Joseph Hooker, Judson Kilpatrick, Oliver Howard, Pickett's Charge, V Corps, VI Corps, William French, Winfield S. Hancock, XI Corps, XII Corps
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From Waterloo to Cemetery Ridge
As the 152d Anniversary of Gettysburg passes into the rearview mirror, I cannot help but also note the juxtaposition of last month’s Bicentennial of Waterloo. Both of these battles are among the most discussed and debated events in military history. Why?
In Remembrance of Pickett’s Charge
As has become our custom at ECW, we offer you Faulkner’s famous reflection in remembrance of Pickett’s Charge: For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not … Continue reading
ECW Series is Ready to “Fight Like the Devil”
by ECW Correspondent Pat Tintle The Emerging Civil War Series has covered many key battles in the Civil War, but now the series is tackling the most significant—and well-known—battle between the two American armies. Fight Like the Devil: The First … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War Series
Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, Cemetery Hill, Chris Mackowski, Daniel T. Davis, Fight Like the Devil, Kristopher D. White, Little Round Top, Oliver O. Howard, Pickett's Charge, Richard Ewell, Stonewall Jackson, The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, The Wheatfield
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What It’s All About
I was in Gettysburg this past weekend to take an all-day tour of the Union lines from Culp’s Hill down to Little Round Top. In total, the group walked about ten miles over the course of the day, and I … Continue reading
U.S. Grant and the Shadow of Cold Harbor
At 4:30 a.m. on the morning of June 3, 1864, the II, VI and XVIII Corps commenced their assault on the Confederate line at Cold Harbor. One New Yorker recalled “as soon as the skirmishers were engaged, our artillery opened … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Ambrose Burnside, Battle of Franklin, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Gettysburg, Bethesda Church, casualties, Ft. Donelson, Ft. Henry, George Meade, Governeur Warren, Haw's Shop, Horace Porter, II Corps, John Bell Hood, Marye's Heights, Matadequin Creek, Old Cold Harbor, Pickett's Charge, Robert E. Lee, Totopotomoy Creek, U.S. Grant, VI Corps, XVIII Corps
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