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Maine at War June 2022 blog posts
In June 2022 my Maine at War blog examined topics ranging from cold-hearted elected officials to a “what if” 20th-century TV game show involving six Civil War celebrities, plus a look at two special monuments in Middleburg. June 1, 2022: … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Websites & Blogs
Tagged 12th Maine Infantry Regiment, 15th New York Battery, 18th Maine Infantry Regiment, 19th Maine Infantry Regiment, 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, 1st Maine Veteran Infantry Regiment, 20th Maine Infantry Regiment, 24th Maine Infantry Regiment, 43rd U.S. Colored Troops, 4th Maine Infantry Regiment, 6th Maine Battery, 6th Maine Infantry Regiment, Abraham Bryan, Alden D. Chase, Aldie, Belfast, Belfast City Greys, Belle Boyd, Blue Ridge, Brian Swartz, Bridget Newenham, Bridled Veterans, Bud Collyer, Bull Run Mountains, Catoctin Mountain, Cemetery Ridge, Cherryfield, Chris Wilson, Codori Farm, David Tucker, Elvira Newenham, Emmitsburg Road, Emulos Small, Fort Riley, Frederic A. Hodsdon, Frederick Douglass, Fredericksburg, Freeman McGilvery, Gallops Island, George A. Custer, George B. McClellan, Hannibal Hamlin, Henry House Hill, Henry J. Hunt, Henry W. Cunningham, Horatio H. Carter, Horses and Mules Memorial, Isaac C. Abbott, Israel Washburn Jr., James H. Newenham, James Wakefield, JEB Stuart, John Day Smith, John Hodsdon, John Mosby Highway, John Smith, John W. Haley, Julia Ward Howe, Lewiston, Litchfield, Livia Angier, Lizzie Baker, Maine at War, Maine State Archives, Manassas National Battlefield Park, Marye's Heights, Middleburg, Mt. Defiance Park, Narraguagus, National Sporting Library and Museum, New Brunswick, Nicholas Newenham, Patrick Hart, Peirces’ Hall, Petersburg, r Silas M. Fuller, Republican Journal, Richard S. Ayer, Rockland, Shenandoah Valley, Silas Adams, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, St. David’s, Steamboat Landing, Steve Bunker, Stockton Springs, Studio 54, Tessa Pullan, The Plains Road, Thomas H. Marshall, To Tell the Truth, Upperville, Virginia Museum of History and Culture, William H. Fogler, William H. Simpson, William Hart, William Newenham, William O. Poor, Winfield Scott Hancock
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Pap Greene, David Ireland, and Little Round Top
Every Gettysburg fan with even just a passing knowledge of the battle knows the story of Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine on Little Round Top. Those with a deeper understanding of the battle know that an equally … Continue reading
“The air was blue all around him”
A young Maine officer forever remembered the profanity-spewing Winfield Scott Hancock ordering a charge early in the Peninsula Campaign. Commanded by Col. Edwin C. Mason, the 7th Maine Infantry Regiment had “camped some days near Alexandria waiting our time to … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Battles
Tagged 1st New York Battery, 33rd New York Infantry Regiment, 49th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 5th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 6th Maine Infantry Regiment, 7th Maine Infantry Regiment, Andrew Cowan, Bath, Brian Swartz, Charles C. Wheeler, Cub Creek, Dennis Hart Mahan, Dwight Harvey Hill, Edwin C. Mason, George A. Custer, John Davidson, Jubal A. Early, Thomas W. Hyde, William F. “Baldy” Smith, Williamsburg, Winfield Scott Hancock, York River, Yorktown
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On the March: Jeb Stuart ambushes a Maine regiment
Jeb Stuart could not resist ambushing Union infantry marching through northern Virginia on Thursday, June 25, 1863. The particular Yankees he attacked belonged to the 19th Maine Infantry Regiment (Col. Francis E. Heath), until that moment unbloodied in combat. Assigned … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Internet, Websites & Blogs
Tagged 19th Maine Infantry Regiment, Androscoggin County, Bull Run, Francis E. Heath, George G. Meade, Gum Springs, Harrison Landing, Hay Market, Haymarket, II Corps, Israel D. Jones, JEB Stuart, Joe Hooker, John Day Smith, John Gibbon, Litchfield, Monocacy Junction, Occoquan River, Orange & Alexandria Railroad, Potomac River, Prince William County, Salem Depot, Thoroughfare Gap, Uniontown, William Harrow, William Hays, Winfield Scott Hancock, Wolf Run Shoals
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BookChat with Tom McMillan, author of Armistead and Hancock
I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with the new book by author Tom McMillan, Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War (Stackpole Books, 2021). You can find out … Continue reading
Petersburg Day One: Wednesday, June 15, 1864
On June 15 the Army of the Potomac began to cross the James River. It was an emotional moment. A. M. Judson of the 83rd Pennsylvania likened the army’s arrival at the James to Xenophon and his 10,000 Greeks reaching … Continue reading
Maine at War: April 2021
Here’s what our friend Brian Swartz was up to in April at his blog, Maine at War: April 7, 2021: Maine’s largest cannonball is in … Hodgdon? Although he served only 16 months with the 6th Maine Battery, Aroostook County … Continue reading
Generals in the Garden?
The first day of spring was March 20, and signs of spring are definitely starting in Virginia. As I’ve been watching my little window-box plants sprout, I remembered some stories about Civil War generals who liked to garden. I’m sure … Continue reading
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
