Month: January 2011
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In the Review Queue: Dear Friend Amelia: The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd
Dear Friend Amelia: The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd Editors/Authors: Mary Jordan and Joyce Hatch BTC’s Take: An interesting little book filled with illustrations and photos, Dear Friend Amelia features the letters of a homesick soldier in the 109th New York who was involved in some of the worst of the fighting in […]
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Army of the Potomac Morale at the Siege of Petersburg
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater on Monday, January 17, 2011. Bryce Suderow is an author, researcher, and Siege of Petersburg specialist. “The Troops Did Not Meet the Attack with Vigor and Courage and Determination”: Union Army Morale at the Siege of Petersburg by Bryce Suderow […]
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Bryce Suderow Comments on Grant and Meade’s Leadership Early in the Petersburg Campaign
Many dedicated students of the Civil War, and especially the Petersburg Campaign, are probably familiar with Bryce Suderow. Bryce did quite a bit of research for Gordon Rhea’s famous series of books on the 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign, and he is the author of Thunder in Arcadia Valley: Price’s Defeat, September 27, 1864 about Sterling […]