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Help Protect More Ground at Appomattox
Our friends at the Civil War Trust pass along this news of an active preservation campaign to help preserve seventy-four acres of ground at Appomattox Court House. This latest announcement comes to us from Trust President Jim Lighthizer. Continue reading … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Material Culture, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Preservation
Tagged A Stillness at Appomattox, Appomattox, Appomattox Campaign, Appomattox Court House, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Battle of Appomattox Station, battlefield preservation, Civil War Trust, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Preservation, Robert E. Lee, Surrender, Ulysse S. Grant
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A Mother At Petersburg
The Confederate lines around Petersburg, Virginia, broke in the first days of April 1865. As Lee’s army headed west into the Appomattox Campaign, Union troops occupied the small city that had been the heart and namesake of a nine month … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Holidays, Leadership--Confederate
Tagged Appomattox Campaign, Civil War Era Mothers, fanny gordon, frances gordon, general gordon, John B. Gordon, Jubal A. Early, Mothers, Mothers Day, mrs. gordon, Petersburg, sentry, Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, Surrender, Ulysses S. Grant
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Noah Trudeau Explains Lincoln’s Greatest Journey
Recently I chatted with award-winning author Noah Andre Trudeau, who has written several well-regarded books on the Civil War in 1864 and 1865. We discussed his next book, Lincoln’s Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days That Changed a Presidency, March 24 – … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Book Review, Books & Authors, Leadership--Federal, Lincoln, Personalities, Reconstruction, Sieges, Slavery
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Appomattox Campaign, Breakthrough at Petersburg, City Point, David Dixon Porter, Fall of Petersburg, Fall of Richmond, General William T. Sherman, Grant, Julia Grant, Lincoln in Richmond, Mary Todd Lincoln, Noah Andre Trudeau, Savas Beatie
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War’s End: Remembering a Cavalry Captain
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Sarah Kay Bierle Your brother, Captain Hugh McGuire is wounded. The message branded itself into Dr. Hunter McGuire’s mind while dread twisted like a tourniquet around his heart. The situation he had … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Personalities
Tagged 11th Virginia Cavalry, Amelia Springs, Appomattox Campaign, Battle of the Wilderness, Brandy Station, Bristoe Station, Chancellorsville, Dr. Hunter McGuire, Fairfield, Gettysburg, Henry Kyd Douglas, Hugh McGuire, Jetersville, Laurel Brigade, Overland Campaign, Siege of Petersburg, Stonewall Jackson, Winchester
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ECW Weekender – Farmville, Virginia
Southside Virginia still maintains most of its historic scenery of the 19th century. Small towns and windy roads abound. In the area between Petersburg and Lynchburg “Virginia’s southside,” Lee and Grant’s armies left marks that still resonate today. Any visit … Continue reading
Sailor’s Creek – 150 Years Later
Recently I had the opportunity to visit Sailor’s Creek Battlefield, which is part of the same-named Virginia State Park. On April 6, 1865, Union forces delivered a devastating blow to the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, which included eight generals … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Monuments, Photography, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 150th anniversary, Appomattox Campaign, Battle of Sailor's Creek, Horatio Wright, Richard Ewell, Sailor's Creek, Sailor's Creek Battlefield, Virginia State Parks
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Emerging Civil War 