Tag: braxton bragg
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150 years ago, July 1862
150 years ago, July 1862 One month ago, the Army of the Potomac listened to Richmond’s church bells. Now they are at Harrison’s Landing covered by gunboats on the James River. On the first, the Battle of Malvern Hill ends the Seven Days’ Campaign. The Army of Northern Virginia has suffered 20,141 causalities, about 4,300 […]
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150 Years Ago, June 1862
150 years ago, June 1862 The campaign season is underway and the armies are on the move. This June victory seems very close in Washington. At Seven Pines the Confederates under Gustavus W. Smith continue attacking the isolated II and IV Corps. Robert E. Lee orders the attacks stopped late in the day. Smith, in […]
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Odds & Ends: May 3, 2008
It’s time for another edition of O&E for your browsing enjoyment: The Civil War bread riots in Richmond (hat tip to the latest History Carnival) at Axis of Evel Knievel Lee White at Army of Tennessee links to an excellent Grady McWhiney talk on Braxton Bragg An interesting interview of Joseph W. Glatthaar about his […]