Month: July 2006
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: July 11, 1864
July 11, 1864 The capture of railroad trains at Magnolia, MD. Skirmish at Frederick, MD. The District of Columbia militia is called into service of the United States. The Skirmish near Ft. Stevens, Washington, DC, between Lieut. Gen. Jubal A. Early, CSA, and the hastily assembled Union troops, where after skirmishing, Early decides to terminate […]
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for Cause and for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin, Part 3
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 10, 1864
July 10, 1864 The burning of the Gunpowder Bridge, MD. Skirmish near Monocacy, MD. Skirmish at Rockville, MD. 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 the Rebellion. Order the book […]
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Keep Them Yankees Out!
Old Times are indeed not forgotten down here, but seems to be taking it an extreme. It appears that the Northern invasion of the South is complete — at least it is on a patch of land known as Delta Plantation in Jasper County.There, a diehard rebel named Henry E. Ingram Jr. made his last […]
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: July 9, 1864
July 9, 1864 The Confederate forces under Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA, levy the city of Frederick, MD for $200,000 in retribution for the suffering extracted on the Shenandoah Valley by Maj. Gen. David Hunter, USA. The Battle of Monocacy, MD, where Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA, routs the Federals under Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace, […]
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The Battle of Fort Stevens
I’ve blogged about the battle of Fort Stevens previously here, here, and here. Next Tuesday and Wednesday (July 11 and 12) will the the 142nd anniversary of one of the more important and least understood battles of the war, and the only battle in which a sitting president came under fire. Although usually written off […]