Month: August 2006
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Interview With John Fox
Drew Wagenhoffer has an interview with John Fox, chronicler of the Thirty-fifth Georgia. Worth reading, as John and I independently had many of the same unfortunate experiences with the publishing industry, which led us both to the same conclusion about doing it ourselves. I’ve gotten to know John pretty well, since as fellow micropublishers we […]
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: August 23, 1864
August 23, 1864 Action on the Dinwiddie Road, near Ream’s Station, VA, as the Union 5th Army Corps begins to dismantle the Weldon Railroad, the Richmond, VA, Campaign. Skirmish at Kearneysville, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign. Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological […]
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Bullets and Lethality
Finnish firearms expert P. T. Kekkonen ran a web site, “Gunwriter’s Questions and Answers” where he addressed various gun-related issues. Unfortunately Kekkonen passed away, but his site remains. If you scroll down a bit, he goes into a lengthy and quite interesting account of bullet design from round ball to the modern full metal jacket. […]
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: August 22, 1864
August 22, 1864 Skirmish on the Vaughan Road, VA, the Richmond, VA, Campaign. Skirmish at Charlestown, WV, as Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA, continues to move against Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, USA, who has moved to the vicinity of Harpers Ferry, WV. Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission […]
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Jack Coggins
I was sorry to learn of the death of artist Jack Coggins in January at age 94. His family put up a web site about him that gives the details of his life and work. Although Coggins is best known as a maritime painter, he had many other interests besides. As a kid in high […]
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: August 21, 1864
August 21, 1864 Brig. Gen. John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders, CSA, is mortally wounded during the siege of Petersburg, VA, on the Weldon Railroad, bleeding to death after having both of his femoral arteries in his thighs severed by a Federal Minie ball, unable to stem the massive flow of his life blood from his body. […]
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An Explosive Proposition
A gentleman on a discussion group I visited recently assured one and all that the Confederacy would never, nevah! use explosive bullets. Actually they did, on at least on one occasion. The Jacob’s rifle, mentioned previously, was capable of firing a bullet with an insert of fulminate of mercury, which would explode on impact up […]