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Tag Archives: Winfield S. Hancock
Dranesville: A Troubled Town, Part 4
Part 4 of a series. In 1860 James Coleman owned thirteen people. The oldest was 62 years old; the youngest, five months. Eight of them were females, including the baby, and five were males, and together they helped propel Coleman … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles
Tagged 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry, 34th New York, Alexandria, Camp Griffin, Camp Pierpont, Caroline Jackson, Charles P. Stone, Day Brothers, Dranesville, George Coleman, George D. Bayard, George G. Meade, George McCall, Isaac Madison, James Coleman, John Coleman, John Hawxhurst, Joseph Ordwick, Lewinsville, pennsylvania reserves, Philip Carper, Restored Government of Virginia, Thomas Coleman, William F. Smith, William Farley, Winfield S. Hancock
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The First Battle of Deep Bottom: July 28, 1864
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Jimmy Price Part four in a series. In my last post we examined the first large-scale fighting of the First Battle of Deep Bottom – the clash at Tilghman’s Gate on … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities
Tagged 2nd U.S. Artillery, August Kautz, Chaffin's Bluff, David M. Gregg, Henry Heth, James Lane, John Henagan, Joseph Kershaw, Long Bridge, New Market Road, Philip Sheridan, Richard Anderson, Robert Cowan, Robert E. Lee, Samuel McGowan, Thomas Devin, Tilghman's Gate, Wesley Merritt, William Dennison, William Wofford, Winfield S. Hancock
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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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An Enduring Controversy: The Pipe Creek Circular and the Battle of Gettysburg
Part Two In part one of this two-part series, we examined the content of the Pipe Creek Circular, and we also looked at the Pipe Creek Line itself. In this, the second part, we will examine the controversy created by … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities, Politics
Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, Benjamin Wade, Daniel Butterfield, Daniel Sickles, First Corps, George G. Meade, III Corps, Iron Brigade, John Buford, John Reynolds, Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Oliver O. Howard, Pipe Creek, Pipe Creek Circular, Winfield S. Hancock, XI Corps, XII Corps
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