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Tag Archives: Robert E. Lee
Book Review: The Cornfield, Antietam’s Bloody Turning Point
Alongside Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle and Shiloh’s Hornet’s Nest, the fighting in David Miller’s Cornfield on the Antietam battlefield ranks as one of the toughest Civil War landscapes to make any sense of. It should then come as no surprise that … Continue reading
“Be Not Ashamed To Say You Loved Them”
(This blog is in remembrance and in honor of the love between a commander and his men. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13, King James Version.) For … Continue reading
New Market: Lee’s Message to Breckinridge
Today, I’m prepping notes for another Battle of New Market presentation, and as I went through General Lee’s letters to General Breckinridge again, the wording grabbed my attention. Take a look:
A Lost Opportunity: Glendale
In late June 1862, Robert E. Lee Struck George McClellan’s right flank at Mechanicsville. This attack, plus reports that Stonewall Jackson’s valley army was approaching on his right, caused McClellan to change his base from White House Landing on the … Continue reading
Posted in Battles
Tagged a-lost-opportunity, Battle of Glendale, George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, Seven Days
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Playing the numbers: Robert E. Lee, the Army of Northern Virginia, and Maryland in 1862
The Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River into Maryland on September 4, 1862, embarking on what history has come to call The Antietam (or Sharpsburg) Campaign. In three months, since Lee took command outside Richmond, he had won … Continue reading
Book Review: “Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 – 14, 1863”
Are we firmly in the golden age of Gettysburg publishing? The past 15 – 20 years have produced a wealth of essential Gettysburg reading for those of us interested in the climactic battle of the American Civil War. That’s not … Continue reading
Friendly Rivalries at the Brandy Station Grand Review
Rivalries between military branches are well-known (Army vs. Navy, anyone?). Throughout the Civil War, jabs between infantrymen and cavalrymen of the same armies can be found in letters, diaries, and postwar accounts of soldiers. On June 8, 1863, at the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Cavalry, Personalities
Tagged Brandy Station, Fitzhugh Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, John Bell Hood, rivalry, Robert E. Lee
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Kill General Lee: A Yankee Officer Opposes Reconciliation
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
From Spotsylvania’s Eastern Front
155 years ago this evening, Ulysses S. Grant began his withdrawal from Spotsylvania Court House, swinging once more around Lee’s right flank, moving south. To recap the anniversary of the two-week battle, I want to share a project I did … Continue reading
Posted in Battles
Tagged 23rd USCT, Battle of the Ni, Central Virginia Battlefield Trust, CVBT, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Gordon Rhea, Gouverneur K. Warren, Robert E. Lee, Robert Spear, Stevenson Ridge, The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Thomas Rosser, Ulysses S. Grant
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