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Crenshaw, Douglas. Fort Harrison and the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm: To Surprise and Capture Richmond  (The History Press, 2013). 144 pages, over 40 illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-1-61121-140-5 $19.99 (Paperback). Note: Also available in Kindle format. Fort Harrison and the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm: To Surprise and Capture Richmond is another in a growing […]

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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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Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65. (Osprey Publishing, September 20, 2013). 80 pages, illus., maps, orders of battle, select bibliography. ISBN: 978-1-78096-927-5 $18.95 (Paperback). Osprey’s Combat series takes a look at two opposing forces in a given war by looking at three combat situations in micro-tactical detail.  In this volume […]

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