Category: Eastern Theater
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Scott Mingus’ Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign Now Available
Award winning Johnny Reb III scenario designer Scott Mingus has a new book coming out entitled Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign. It weighs in at 104 pages and was released by Colecraft Industries on November 21, 2006. I believe this is Scott’s first non-wargaming effort, as he has released scenario books for Antietam […]
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New Market Heights, Ft. Harrison, and Peeble’s Farm
I missed the series of August battles of Grant’s Fourth Offensive due to real life issues, but I’m back with a look at perhaps the North’s best chance to drive Lee out of Petersburg and Richmond between July 30, 1864 and April 2, 1865. The events of September 29, 1864 nearly proved fatal to Lee’s […]
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That Antietam Anomaly
Brian Downey has a new blog post up about a subject I mentioned in August — General French’s march away from the West Woods toward the Sunken Lane. This really is the mystery of the battle and I’ve often wondered why so many historians have sort of passed over it with little or no comment. […]
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The Antietam Anomaly
In my last entry I discussed “Bull” Sumner’s attack on the West Woods and what went wrong, and why he ended up attacking with a single division instead of the three he had available. Here I want to consider one of the mysteries of the battle — why did two-thirds of II Corps suddenly angle […]
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Disaster in the West Woods
Thanks to Brett I recently picked up a nice little battle monograph – Disaster in the West Woods, General Edwin V. Sumner and the II Corps at Antietam, by Marion V. Armstrong (Western Maryland Interpretive Association 2002). At 77 pages it’s short, but a worthwhile read for anyone interested in Antietam. Right now it’s on […]
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Studying the June 22 Fight Near Jerusalem Plank Road: Maps
After posting a short blog entry commemorating the anniversary of the Battles for Jerusalem Plank Road on June 21, I was astonished to find that there has never even been so much as a magazine article focusing on the fighting on June 22, 1864 between Mahone’s Confederate Division and the Union II Corps, led that […]
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Review: Rebels At The Gate
http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Books/ACWEast/WestVirginia1861.htm Rebels At The Gate: Lee and McClellan on the Front Lines of a Nation Divided. W. Hunter Lesser. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc. (May 2004). 376 pp. 3 maps. The following is a review and summary of Rebels At The Gate, a book by W. Hunter Lesser focusing on the 1861 campaign in western Virginia. […]