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Tag Archives: Robert E. Lee
Public and Private Recollections of Confederate General Edward Porter Alexander
ECW welcomes back guest author Abbi Smithmyer Nearly fifty years after the conclusion of the American Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander’s book Military Memoirs of a Confederate became available to the public. Alexander’s opening remarks begin with the following passage: … Continue reading
Picturing Union Victory – Early Images of the Surrender at Appomattox
Here’s a familiar story: On April 9, 1865, generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met in Wilmer McLean’s parlor at Appomattox Courthouse to sign the documents that would dictate the surrender of the most important national institution in … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Memory
Tagged Appomattox, art, Philip H. Sheridan, Reconciliation, Robert E. Lee, Surrender, Ulysse S. Grant, Union
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Invading the North and Protecting the Capital
On June 5, 1862, as he settled into his new command of the Confederate army outside Richmond, Robert E. Lee contemplated his next moves. For starters, he put his men to the shovel building defensive fortifications—a course of action that … Continue reading
Lee’s Last Great Field Victory: A Reassessment of Cold Harbor
ECW welcomes guest author Nathan Provost. On June 3, 1864, Federal soldiers waited anxiously to assault the seven-mile-long Confederate line near Mechanicsville, Virginia. The largest engagement of the battle of Cold Harbor was about to take place. Unbeknownst to them, … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns
Tagged Adam Badeau, Alfred Young III, Ambrose Burnside, Battle of Cold Harbor, David Hunter, E. Porter Alexander, George G. Meade, Gordon Rhea, Henry Halleck, J.F.C. Fuller, Jubal Early, Petersburg, Philip H. Sheridan, Richard Anderson, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant
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Missed Opportunities in the Race to the North Anna
On the evening of May 20, 1864, Ulysses S. Grant sent Winfield Scott Hancock’s II Corps south from Spotsylvania Court House to Massaponnax Church, with orders to march onward toward Bowling Green, Milford Station, and—if Hancock thought he could make … Continue reading
“My father served under both Lee and Grant…”
A few days ago whilst weeding some of my old Civil War periodicals collection – because that’s what I’ve been reduced to during this quarantine – I came across something interesting. In the August 1961 issue of Civil War Times I … Continue reading
Posted in Artillery, Emerging Civil War, Personalities
Tagged Civil War Times, Harpers Ferry, John Brown's Raid, John Tidball, Robert E. Lee
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The Confederate “Slave Hunt” and the Gettysburg Campaign
ECW welcomes guest author Cooper Wingert Civil War historians are apt to recite one well-known fact about the battle of Gettysburg—that despite the immense carnage which blanketed the fields outside of the small Pennsylvania borough, the Civil War’s bloodiest battle … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Slavery
Tagged Albert Jenkins, Castle Thunder, freedmen, George Pickett, Gettysburg Campaign, James Longstreet, Moxley Sorrel, Robert E. Lee
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The Battle of Bank’s Ford and a Preview of Gettysburg
May 4, 1863, might have been one of the most frustrating days of the war for Robert E. Lee—no small bar considering some of his other frustrating days. But with the Federal Sixth Corps pinned against the Rappahannock River after … Continue reading
Book Review: “Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station”
Here’s an understatement: there have been a lot of books written about the American Civil War. Hundreds of them about Gettysburg; thousands about Lincoln; biographies, campaign monographs, and studies about the home front. You name it, there’s probably a plethora … Continue reading
In the Wake of Shiloh, Something to Consider about Vicksburg
In the wake of the Confederate loss at Shiloh, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard worried about his situation. Expecting the Federals to press their advantage, he sent pleas to Richmond for additional reinforcements. On April 10, 1862, Robert E. Lee, serving as … Continue reading
