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Tag Archives: Stephen Dill Lee
“Our Army Was Thoroughly Beaten”: An English Rebel Remembers Champion Hill
ECW is pleased to welcome back Daniel A. Masters This extraordinary letter, written by former English army officer Stephen Edward Monaghan Underhill to his mother in Coldstream, Scotland in the waning days of the siege of Vicksburg, gives us an … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Primary Sources
Tagged 65th Alabama, 78th Ohio, Baker's Creek, Big Black River, Champion Hill, Daniel Masters, Edward's Depot, Elias S. Dennis, John Pemberton, Lloyd Tilghman, Lt. John C. Douglas, S. D. Lee, Stephen Dill Lee, Stephen Edward Monaghan Underhill, Vicksburg, Vicksburg Campaign, William Loring
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Nashville: The Second Day
Despite the results of the 15th, Hood determined to fight. That night he pulled his army back two miles to a more compact line, anchored on both flanks by hills along the Franklin Pike (US 31 today) and Granny White … Continue reading
Jonesborough, Georgia: The Battle that Doomed Atlanta
Like Corinth, Mississippi or Petersburg, Virginia, the town of Jonesboro, Georgia was significant to military planners and general officers for one simple fact: two or more railroads came to a junction there. Running south from Atlanta was the Macon and Western … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Western Theater
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Battle of Atlanta, Battle of Jonesborough, John Bell Hood, Jonesborough, Patrick Cleburne, Stephen Dill Lee, Western theater, William Hardee, William Sherman
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To Georgia With Lee
When John Bell Hood assumed command of the Army of Tennessee on July 18, 1864 he quickly changed the tactics employed by the main Confederate army in the west. Under the leadership of Joseph E. Johnston, the Army of Tennessee … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged 1864, Army of Tennessee, Battle of Atlanta, Battle of Ezra Church, Confederate Joseph E. Johnston, General William T. Sherman, John Bell Hood, Stephen Dill Lee, Western theater, William Hardee
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The “Other” Lee
Mention the surname “Lee” to a Civil War enthusiast or quite possibly any American that sat through a high-school American History class and the name Robert E. Lee is the first one given in reply. Ask that Civil War enthusiast … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Monuments, National Park Service, Personalities, Sieges, Western Theater
Tagged Battle of Antietam, Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Battle of Ezra Church, Battle of Nashville, Battle of Spring Hill, Battle of Tupelo, Bennett House, Charleston Harbor, Charleston South Carolina, Fort Sumter, Frank Cheatham, John Bell Hood, Joseph Johnston, Nathan Bedford Forrest, National Park Service, P.G.T. Beauregard, Peninsula Campaign, Second Manassas, Stephen Dill Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Vicksburg, William T. Sherman
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