Category: Civil War Research
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Phenomenal Research Resources on CD/DVD from the National Archives, Part 1: Ordnance Returns
Editor’s Note: This post was cross-posted at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. Microfilm Rolls Available for Purchase Online from the National Archives As my Siege of Petersburg site Beyond the Crater continues to expand, my research has often led me to exciting and useful new resources online. One such recent example was […]
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Richard Sommers’ MASSIVE Thesis on the Fifth Offensive at Petersburg is FREE Online
I was pleasantly surprised tonight to find Richard Sommer’s massive 1500 page Ph. D. thesis freely available online tonight from Rice University. Written in 1970 and entitled “GRANT’S FIFTH OFFENSIVE AT PETERSBURG: A STUDY IN STRATEGY, TACTICS, AND GENERALSHIP. THE BATTLE OF CHAFFIN’S BLUFF, THE BATTLE OF POPLAR SPRING CHURCH, THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE […]
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The National Tribune: The Postwar Mouthpiece of the GAR is Online!
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. While in the process of reading John J. Fox’s excellent new book on the defense of Fort Gregg and Fort Whitworth at Petersburg, I ran across several references to the National Tribune, a monthly and then weekly newspaper published from […]
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Thomas Lowry Admits Falsifying Document, Then Recants
The saga of historian Thomas Lowry, who had admitted falsifying a pardon signed by Abraham Lincoln earlier this week, got a bit murkier today when he denied doing it. In a phone interview Tuesday, Lowry recanted his confession and said he offered repeated denials to Archives investigators over the course of a two-hour interview but […]
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BTC Notes: A Detailed New Way to Look at Siege of Petersburg Materials
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. Introducing BTC Notes at The Siege of Petersburg Online BTC Notes is a new feature at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater which takes a detailed look at Petersburg Campaign materials such as books, articles, essays, maps, […]
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Bryce Suderow Comments on Grant and Meade’s Leadership Early in the Petersburg Campaign
Many dedicated students of the Civil War, and especially the Petersburg Campaign, are probably familiar with Bryce Suderow. Bryce did quite a bit of research for Gordon Rhea’s famous series of books on the 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign, and he is the author of Thunder in Arcadia Valley: Price’s Defeat, September 27, 1864 about Sterling […]
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Help a Fellow Civil War Buff Find His Ancestor
UPDATE: Mr. Short’s ancestor was paroled in April 1865, not 1864 as was posted originally. TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog reader John Short recently sent us the following email: Hi – in the midst of an ever-expanding geneaology project, I’ve discovered that one of my ancestors was a POW at Andersonville. Isaac Bobb (OH) […]