Month: January 2014
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The Battle of Ft. Harrison: Richard S. Ewell’s Previously Unpublished Account
Lt. General Richard S. Ewell is well-known among students of the early was battles, perhaps being most famous for his decision not to attack the Union position on Cemetery Hill on the evening of July 1, 1863 at Gettysburg. Ewell’s performance at Gettysburg, in the Fall of 1863 and in the Overland Campaign caused General […]
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The “Confederate Column” in the Richmond Times Dispatch: A Gold Mine of First Person Accounts
Recently K. S. McPhail, who runs the excellent New Kent County History web site, has been sending me a ton of excellent first person accounts from post-war newspapers, many of which you’ll find on my Siege of Petersburg Postwar Newspaper accounts page. The articles Mr. McPhail has been sending along are mostly from papers which […]
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Chickasaw Bayou (8)
December 28 – Lake House Road On the Lake House Road BG Morgan prepared for his renewed attack by assigning 7th Battery, Michigan Light Artillery, normally a 2nd Brigade asset, to DeCourcy. The six guns were placed on the south side of the road and took the 29th Louisiana under fire. Their exposed position was […]