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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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Stonewall and the Chindit II: Unfinished Adventure Stories
In my last post, I compared and contrasted Generals Stonewall Jackson and Orde Wingate. I then closed with a question: Why are these men objects of such interest and fascination? There are two main reasons, and they … Continue reading
Stonewall and the Chindit I: On Character and Generalship
Contemporaries of British Major General Orde Charles Wingate, famed leader of the Chindit special forces in Burma and a noted guerrilla commander in Africa and Palestine before that, often searched for someone with which to compare him. They usually hit … Continue reading
Civil War Echoes: Burma Guerrillas
I’ve lately been reading about World War II’s China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater at length. Fought 1942-45 between the Japanese and puppet Indian and Burmese forces against British, Indian, Gurkha, African, American, and Chinese forces, the campaign moved up and down Burma … Continue reading
Posted in Arms & Armaments, Material Culture, Ties to the War, Weapons
Tagged British Army, Burma, Carl Eifler, CBI Theater, Civil War Echoes, Daniel Sultan, Enfield, guerrillas, India, Joseph Stilwell, Kachin Rangers, OSS, OSS Detachment 101, Springfield Rifles, War Department, Washington D.C., World War II
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The Stakes of Vicksburg
On April 30, and May 1, 1863, Union Major General U.S. Grant crossed his Army of the Tennessee over the Mississippi River south of Vicksburg. He then cut loose from his supply sources and plunged inland to surround the city … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Sieges, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged Army of the Tennessee, British Army, Earl Van Dorn, Guadalcanal, Imphal, India, Japan, Japanese Army, Kohima, Pea Ridge, Samuel Curtis, Siege of Vicksburg, U.S. Marines, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, Vicksburg Campaign, William Slim
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The Ghosts of Crimea Before Richmond
When judging Civil War leaders, we sometimes look at them in isolation of a period or event, forgetting that they always act in accordance with the sum of their knowledge and experience to date. But remembering what has gone before … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Sieges
Tagged Army of the Potomac, British Army, cavalry, Crimea, Crimean War, Delafield Commission, French Army, George B. McClellan, George McClellan, Peninsula Campaign, Richmond, Sevastopol, Seven Days Battles, Yorktown
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Who is Your Civil War Battlefield MVP?
Over the weekend I had the English Premier League on in the background while I was writing and taking care of some stuff around the house. Friday and Saturday nights I watched the Norfolk Admirals play the Manchester Monarchs in … Continue reading
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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Civil War Echoes: The Desert War I
75 years ago today, the German high command decided to send a contingent of German troops to North Africa to bolster Italian forces that had suffered a series of defeats at the hands of the British. This contingent fell under … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Ties to the War, Weapons
Tagged 1862 Valley Campaign, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, British Army, Crusader, Eighth Army, El Alamein, Erwin Rommel, Gazala, J.E.B. Stuart, Montgomery, North Africa, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, World War II
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A Doctor’s Duty
The photo to the right is the Union field hospital at Savage Station, Virginia, the day after the Battle of Gaines’s Mill on June 27, 1862. Hours after this photograph was taken, most of these men ended up as Confederate … Continue reading
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