Month: July 2006
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: July 4, 1864
July 4, 1864 The operations about Harper’s Ferry, WV. 7/4/1864. Skirmish at Frankford, WV, with Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA. Skirmish at Patterson’s Creek Bridge, WV, as Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA, prepares to cross into Maryland. Skirmish at South Branch Bridge, WV, with Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA. Note: All “Today In The Petersburg […]
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“The Mother of all Wargaming Conventions”
The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society will host its annual Historicon miniatures gaming convention in historical Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from July 20 – 23, 2006. The convention will be held as usual at the Lancaster Host Resort and Conference Center on U.S. Route 30 just east of the city of Lancaster, in the heart of the Amish […]
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for Cause and for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin, Part 2
for Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin by Eric A. Jacobson and Richard A. Rupp Softback $24.95 plus shipping 519 pages! ISBN 0-9717444-6-7 Hardback $44.95 plus shipping 519 pages! ISBN 0-9717444-4-0 I first heard about this promising new book at the Dispatch Depot Civil […]
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: July 3, 1864
July 3, 1864 Skirmish at Buckton, VA, as Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA, drives Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel, USA, across the Potomac into Maryland. Skirmish at North River Mills, WV, with Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA. Skirmish at North Mountain, WV, with Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA. Skirmish at Martinsburg, WV, with Lieut. Gen. Jubal […]
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: July 2, 1864
July 2, 1864 Skirmish at Bolivar Heights, WV, as Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA, reaches Winchester, VA, and marches on Harper’s Ferry, WV. Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War per the Official Records of the War of […]
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Studying the June 22 Fight Near Jerusalem Plank Road: Maps
After posting a short blog entry commemorating the anniversary of the Battles for Jerusalem Plank Road on June 21, I was astonished to find that there has never even been so much as a magazine article focusing on the fighting on June 22, 1864 between Mahone’s Confederate Division and the Union II Corps, led that […]