Category: Beyond the Crater: Petersburg Campaign Notes

  • New Confederate Inspection Report: 5-P-17 Harris’ Brigade August 30, 1864

    Editor’s Note: For those of you who do not know, The Siege of Petersburg Online has an Online Store which currently features Confederate Inspection Reports and Union Ordnance Returns during the Siege of Petersburg. I purchase microfilm from the National Archives and make transcriptions of this expensive to buy research available at a very reasonable […]

  • Civil War Book Review: The Battle of New Market Heights: Freedom Will Be Theirs by the Sword

    Editor’s Note: This book review first appeared last Thursday at The Siege of Petersburg Online. Price, James S.. The Battle of New Market Heights: Freedom Will Be Theirs by the Sword (The History Press, 2011). 128 pages, photos, maps, notes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-1-60949-038-6 $19.99 (Paperback). When asked to name the most important fight in which […]

  • Siege of Petersburg Online Posts: Week of 9/04/2011

    This weekly series looks at the posts which have appeared over the last 7 days at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater.  It’s a way to show TOCWOC readers what I’ve been doing over at my other Civil War site. The regiments of the First Brigade, Second Division, Union Second Corps, Army of […]

  • Black Confederates at the Siege of Petersburg?

    A regimental history of the 36th Wisconsin by James M. Aubery, published in 1900, contains his observation of so-called “Black Confederates”, and whether or not they were soldiers.  I think Aubery’s statement1 speaks for itself on the matter, emphasis mine. The following from General Longstreet regarding Hatcher’s Run explains itself and shows that the slaves […]

  • Siege of Petersburg Online Posts: Week of 8/28/2011

    This weekly series looks at the posts which have appeared over the last 7 days at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater.  It’s a way to show TOCWOC readers what I’ve been doing over at my other Civil War site. The regiments of the First Brigade, Second Division, Union Second Corps, Army of […]

  • Siege of Petersburg Online Posts: Week of 8/21/2011

    This weekly series looks at the posts which have appeared over the last 7 days at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater.  It’s a way to show TOCWOC readers what I’ve been doing over at my other Civil War site.  This week was a bit lighter in terms of posting. The regiments of […]

  • Introducing the New Beyond the Crater Store

    Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared yesterday at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. I’d like to take a moment to announce the opening of The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater’s brand new online store offering Confederate Inspection Reports and Union Ordnance Returns.  You’ll also notice the new Store menu button […]