Tag: fort harrison
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Google Earth and Civil War Battlefields
Poster “historicus” over at the History Channel forums recently had an extremely good idea. He used Google Maps to take a look at Civil War battlefields. Poster “Scotsman” gave readers a few sites he found after the suggestion was made: 39 28’15.06″ N 77 44’15.34″ W (Bloody Lane, Antietam) 39 47’29.89″ N 77 14’32.59″ W […]
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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 […]