Tag: Virginia Tech

  • Picketing, Skirmishing, and Sharpshooting in the Civil War

    My essay on Picketing, Skirmishing, and Sharpshooting in the Civil War is up at Essential Civil War Curriculum, a Sesquicentennial project of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech. Primary sponsors are Dr. James I. (Bud) Robertson and Professor William C. (Jack) Davis, both Professors at Virginia Tech. The security of an […]

  • Valentine scrapbook

    Came across a very nice scrapbook of illustrations by a Union veteran H. E. Valentine, mostly of Eighteenth Corps in the Petersburg area. The ink wash drawings are here, and if you hunt around there are some higher res versions available. More letters and other source material on the Virginia Tech Civil War Collection home […]