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Tag Archives: X Corps
The Best Missed Opportunity at Richmond
We are pleased to welcome back guest author Doug Crenshaw, who continues to look at communications mishaps during the campaigns for Richmond. Today, he turns to 1864. As they peered over the walls of Fort Harrison, Confederate soldiers witnessed an … Continue reading
From the ECW Archives: The Union Assault at Cold Harbor June 1, 1864
All through the night of May 31 and into June 1, 1864, Horatio Wright’s VI Corps trudged along the dusty and choked Virginia byroads. They had been pulled from the Union right flank and ordered to march to reinforce and relieve … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Monuments, Personalities
Tagged 121st New York Infantry, 2d Connecticut Heavy Artillery, 5th Maine, 95th Pennsylvania, 96th Pennsylvania, column assault, Emory Upton, George G. Meade, Horatio Wright, Lee's Last Line, Mule Shoe Salient, North Anna River, Old Cold Harbor, Philip Sheridan, Richard Anderson, Spotsylvania, Theodore Lyman, VI Corps, William "Baldy" Smith, X Corps, XVIII Corps
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To Divide the Attention of the Enemy’s Troops: Establishing the Deep Bottom Bridgehead
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Jimmy Price Part two in a series. In my previous post I outlined the important series of actions fought north of the James River during the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign from July – … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities
Tagged Benjamin Butler, Deep Bottom, George Washington Custis Lee, Henry Heth, Jones' Neck, Joseph Kers, Robert E. Lee, Robert Foster, U.S. Grant, X Corps
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