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What If James Longstreet Had Been at the North Anna River?
I’ve long maintained that James Longstreet’s wounding in the Wilderness had a bigger negative impact on the Army of Northern Virginia in the immediate moment than the wounding of Stonewall Jackson a year earlier at Chancellorsville. In fact, the wounding … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate
Tagged A. P. Hill, Army of Northern Virginia, inverted V, James Longstreet, Leadership, Longstreet's wounding, North Anna River, Overland Campaign, Richard Anderson, Richard S. Ewell, Robert E. Lee, Spotsylvania Court House, Strike Them a Blow, What If? What-if-2022, wilderness
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What if Longstreet hadn’t been wounded in the Wilderness?
On May 7, 1864, Robert E. Lee made one of his most critical decisions of the entire Overland Campaign: who to promote to take the place of his wounded Old Warhorse, James Longstreet. Longstreet was caught in the middle of … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate
Tagged James Longstreet, North Anna, What Ifs, wilderness
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March 2022 Maine at War Posts
In March 2022 my Maine at War blog examined topics ranging from a Gettysburg mystery solved to Confederate mayhem upon the sea and a young soldier’s last letter before the Wilderness. March 9, 2022: Reign of terror off Nova Scotia, … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Websites & Blogs
Tagged 17th Maine Infantry Regiment, 17th U.S. Infantry Regiment, 20th Maine Infantry Regiment, 5th Maine Infantry Regiment, 5th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 6th Maine Infantry Regiment, Adriatic, Alonzo Z. Parsons, Bob Velke, Brian Swartz, Brunswick, Cape Fear, Cape Sable Island, Carl Chatto, Caroline, Chandler M. Jewett, Chatham, Cornish, CSS Tallahassee, Dorchester, Dover, Dover-Foxcroft, Eliza Parsons, Ellis Spear, Floral Wreath, Foxcroft, Georgetown, Gettysburg, Greenleaf Lodge, Halifax, Hiram, Howard, Jefferson Davis, John C. Wadsworth, John Taylor Wood, Kennebec River, Levi Blake, Lingan, Little Round Top, Long Island, Lydia M. Hall, Maine at War, Maine State Archives. Mary E. Howes, New York City, New York Pilot Boat 22, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, oothbay, Orange & Alexandria Railroad, Portland Daily Press, Portland Harbor, Rappahannock Station, Restless, Riverside Cemetery, Sanford, Sarah B. Harris, Steve Dow, Ulysses S. Grant, Walter G. Morrill, Wheatfield, wilderness, William Parsons, Williamsburg, York County, Zachary Taylor
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The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Hell Itself
Fewer battlefields have more mystique than the Wilderness. For three days, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia hammered at each other in a dense second-growth forest that soldiers described as “the dark, close wood.” During … Continue reading
“On the Heights”: The Field Hospital at Brompton in May 1864
The wagons rolling into Fredericksburg never seemed to stop. Mary Caldwell, an inhabitant of the town, wrote in her diary, “The road near the fair grounds seems to be literally covered.”[1] They were filled with broken and bloodied bodies, the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Civilian, Common Soldier, Medical
Tagged 31st Maine, Brompton, Edward B. Dalton, Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Henry Lancaster, James Gardner, James Noyes, Mary G. Caldwell, Marye's Heights, Mathew Brady, medical care, Spotsylvania Court House, wilderness, William Howell Reed
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BookChat with Adam Petty, Author of The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historian Adam Petty, The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory (LSU Press, 2019). I reviewed the booked for the spring 2020 edition of Louisiana State … Continue reading
Reading and Re-Reading Some Civil War Fiction
I recently reviewed Ralph Peters’ newest Civil War novel, Darkness at Chancellorsville, for Civil War Monitor (you can read that review here). It was an enjoyable read by an author with a gift for capturing the essence of a character … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Engaging the Civil War Series
Tagged Civil War in Pop Culture, coal black horse, Darkness at Chancellorsville, ECW-Entertaining-History, fiction, Gettysburg: An Alternate History, Lance Weller, Peter Tsouras, pop culture, Ralph Peters, Robert Olmstead, Stephen King, The Stand, wilderness
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A Recap of the Overland Campaign’s 155th
One hundred fifty-five years ago, Ulysses S. Grant sat on the doorstep of Richmond, trying to figure out his next step now that Robert E. Lee had stymied him once again. The Overland Campaign was about to shift into a … Continue reading
2018 Year in Review: #4
We’ve reached #4 on our countdown of the top ten most-read posts of 2018. The story involved vandalism against Confederate monuments on the Wilderness battlefield: 4) The Wrongheaded Righteousness of Spray Paint by Chris Mackowski (May 31, 2018) “There is … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, Year in Review
Tagged Confederate heritage, Confederate monuments, wilderness, Year in Review 2018
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