Month: September 2006
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: September 10, 1864
September 10, 1864 The assault on the Confederate works at the Chimneys, the Richmond, VA, Campaign. Skirmish at Darkesville, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign. 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 […]
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for Cause and for Country Update
The Franklin chapter of Eric Jacobson’s Franklin and Spring Hill study for Cause and for Country is taking me longer than I had expected, but it should be up this weekend some time.
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Charge! Issue 12
Charge! Issue 12 (Summer 2006) Charge! Web Site Page 1 From the Editor’s Desk by Scott Mingus Editor Scott Mingus discusses his family’s trip to this year’s Gettysburg reenactment on July 9, 2006, a new music CD by the 2nd South Carolina String Band, and a slew of new writers and contributors to this issue […]
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Chinese in the Civil War
I got to know one of the social workers at the VA hospital at Augusta (where I go for an annual eval every year). He was of Chinese descent himself and was also interested in the Civil War, and so was pleasantly surprised when I told him that yes, there were Chinese in the Late […]
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: September 7, 1864
September 7, 1864 Skirmishes near Brucetown and near Winchester, VA, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign. Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, USA, resumes the command of the Army of the James, the Richmond, VA, Campaign. Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological Tracking of the […]
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The New (new) Historians
Reunions of old soldiers, such as the one I just attended in Gettysburg, invariably bring forth reflections on mortality. You see your old comrades in arms, once so young and strong, vainly fighting the last battle with a foe they have no hope of beating — father time. Civil War reunions were, I am sure, […]
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Civil War Times Illustrated, August 2006
Civil War Times Volume 45, Number 6 (August 2006) Civil War Times Web Site Page 7 Turning Points: Civil War Photography by Jeffry D. Wert Photography was only thirty years old at the time of the Civil War. The first recorded instance of men slain in battle was taken by Alexander Gardner and James F. […]