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Stand in the Cemetery: George Washington Getty and the Battle of Cedar Creek
Following the engagement at Tom’s Brook on Oct. 9, 1864, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan’s Union Army of the Shenandoah continued north toward Winchester. Sheridan eventually put his men into camp along a stream known as Cedar Creek south of the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Army of West Virginia, Battle of Cedar Creek, Battle of the Wilderness, Brock Road-Orange Plank Road Intersection, Clement Evans, Daniel Bidwell, Frank Wheaton, George Washington Getty, Horatio Wright, J. Warren Keifer, James Warner, Jedediah Hotchkiss, John Gordon, Jubal Early, Lewis Grant, Maj. Gen. William Emory, Philip Sheridan, VI Corps, XIX Corps
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The Final Resting Place of Lee’s “Old Warhorse”
Gainesville, Georgia, a town of 36,306 people at the last census, sits in North Georgia perched on the banks of Lake Lanier and straddling Interstate-985. Yet, in this Georgia town, lie the remains of James Longstreet, affectionately known during his … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Monuments, Ties to the War
Tagged Battle of the Wilderness, Confederate generals, Gainesville, General James Longstreet, Georgia, Gettysburg, Memory, Mexican-American War, Old Warhorse, Republican Party, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, West Point
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Binge Watch the 2016 ECW Symposium
Can’t get enough of Emerging Civil War? Well, you are in luck. C-SPAN will be airing the programs of the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge this week. All episodes will air on C-SPAN 3. Check out … Continue reading
Posted in Speakers Bureau, Symposium, Upcoming Events
Tagged Atlanta, Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of the Wilderness, C-SPAN, Chris Mackowski, Chris Mackowski; Kristopher D. White, Dave Powell, Edward Alexander, Fourth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, Franklin, Great Attacks of the Civil War, James Longstreet, James Ogden, Lee White, Steve Davis, Stevenson Ridge, Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge
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Civil War Echoes: Pearl Harbor
Today 75 years ago the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, catapulting the United States into World War II – a conflict that turned out to be the country’s bloodiest save for the Civil War. Many of the U.S. ships in Pearl … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Leadership--Federal, Navies, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged Admiral David G. Farragut, Antietam Campaign, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Mobile Bay, Battle of the Wilderness, Battle of Wilderness, Bennet Place, blockade, California, CSS Virginia, David Dixon Porter, David Farragut, Early's invasion of Maryland, Fall of New Orleans, Fort Fisher, Japan, Medal of Honor, Monitor, Monitor and Merrimac, New Orleans, Pearl Harbor, Roger B. Taney, St. Louis, Tennessee, USS Cumberland, USS Monitor, West Virginia, West Virginia statehood, World War II
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Grant, the Wilderness, and the Loneliness of Command
On the evening of May 6, 1864, Lieutenant General U.S. Grant considered the day’s events. The Battle of the Wilderness had just ended its second day, and Grant’s forces had been beaten and battered in a way he’d never seen. … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Ties to the War
Tagged Army of the Potomac, Battle of the Wilderness, British Army, Bruce Catton, Burma, Dunkirk, France, Gerald Templer, India, Lord Gort, Orde Wingate, Overland Campaign, The War in 1864, U.S. Grant, William Slim, World War II
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Book Review: “Riding for the Lone Star: Frontier Cavalry and the Texas Way of War, 1822-1865”
On May 6, 1864, during the midst of the Battle of the Wilderness, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s right flank crumbled under a strong Federal attack. As Lee rode about, frantically trying to rally his troops, a new column, wearing gray … Continue reading
“Was Taken Prisoner”: A Pennsylvanian in the Wilderness and Andersonville
On May 5, 1864, my wife’s great-great-great grandfather, Levi Bowen, was wounded and taken prisoner in the Battle of the Wilderness. By the spring of 1864, Levi, a member of Company H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves was a seasoned veteran. In … Continue reading
The Shared Ground of Chancellorsville and the Wilderness
Yesterday, I wrote of the Civil War Trust’s current focus on a tract of land it’s calling the Chancellorsville-Wilderness Crossroads, which saw troop movements during both battles. Separated by a year, the battles shared much of the same geography even … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Preservation
Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of the Wilderness, Central Virginia Battlefields Trust, Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, Chancellorsville-Wilderness Crossroads, Civil Wart Trust, CVBT, II Corps, John Haley, Preservation, wilderness
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“On Many a Bloody Field”: The Forgotten Story of Daniel Davidson Bidwell
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Kevin Pawlak When I first became interested in the American Civil War at the age of 9, I was living in a small town in western New York sandwiched halfway between … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Federal, Memory
Tagged 49th New York, Army of the Shenandoah, Battle of Cedar Creek, Battle of the Wilderness, Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Fort Stevens, John Sedgwick, Jubal Early, Middletown Cemetery, Philip Sheridan
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Civil War Echoes: The Desert War II
A charismatic general fights for an extended period in one theater against the same force under a succession of generals. Despite being outnumbered and often under-supplied, he manages to win a series of spectacular victories that capture the world’s attention … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Ties to the War
Tagged Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Army of the Potomac Cavalry Corps, Battle of the Wilderness, British Army, Eastern Theater, Eighth Army, El Alamein, Erwin Rommel, Gazala, Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Montgomery, North Africa, Robert E. Lee, U.S. Grant, World War II
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