Category: Civil War Research
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De Aragon, The Chronicle of a Confedere Surgeon – Part 9
Author’s Note: This is part 9 in the series on Major Ramon T. de Aragon. After the Battle of Chickamauga, De Aragon’s brigade returned to Mississippi and was placed in the division of Major General Samuel Gibbs French. It was to remain in this division till the end of the war. When reading excerpts of […]
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What were they doing over there?: Walker’s Div. at Chattanooga
The selection of Confederate reports for the battle of Chattanooga that made it into the Official Records is skimpy. There is a report from Bragg, the army commander, but not from either of his corps commanders, Hardee or Breckenridge, and there are no reports from several of the division commanders or their subordinates. Consider the […]
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DE ARAGON, The Chronicle of a Confederate Surgeon – Part 8
Author’s note: Part 8 of the series on Major Ramon T. de Aragon. After the fall of Vicksburg, Major De Aragon’s brigade is recalled to Tennessee as the Yankee forces under Rosencrans advance on Chattanooga. Ector’s Brigade was to play a pivotal role in the opening of hostilities at Chickamauga Creek. Chickamauga For the […]
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DE ARAGON The Chronicle of a Confederate Surgeon – Part 7
Author’s note: Part 7 of the series on Major Ramon t. de Aragon. After the Battle of Murfreesborough, Major de Aragon’s brigade was sent to Mississippi as part of the force led by General Joseph E. Johnston to attempt breaking through to Vicksburg. De Aragon – The Chronicle of a Confederate Surgeon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007BK8HFC?tag=5336653536-20 Two […]
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DE ARAGON – The Chronicle of a Confederate Surgeon – Part 6
This is the 6th part in the series about Major Ramon T. de Aragon, a surgeon in the Army of Tennesee. This post covers the Battle of Murfreesborough after Bragg brought his army back out of Kentucky following the Battle of Perryville. The journey back to Knoxville was about two hundred miles through country that […]
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Take Your Damn Quote Back To Ohio!
We recently passed the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh which prompts me to discuss a quotation which bothers me. Anyone who has read a modern book on Shiloh has probably seen some variation on “Take your damned regiment back to Ohio. There is no enemy closer than Corinth.” Allegedly this statement was the […]
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Anniversary Post – Two Notes on Chancellorsville
Bridging Problems Robert E. Lee’s skillful use of Virginia’s rivers made the Chancellorsville Campaign heavily dependent on the Union engineers. Any actions Hooker planned against The Army of Northern Virginia had to be proceeded by the crossing of the Rappahannock River. Because of their prominent role the engineers, like at Fredericksburg, drew the first criticism. […]