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Civil War Book Review: The Great Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign, November 26 – December 2, 1863 by Chris Mackowski

Mackowski, Chris. The Great Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign, November 26-December 2, 1863. (Savas Beatie: November 2018). 192 pages, 175 illustrations, 8 maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-61121-407-9. $14.95 (Paperback) Chris Mackowski’s new book The Great Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign, November 26-December 2, 1863 is another in the now lengthy […]

February 4, 2019
Permanent Page for sfcdan’s Excellent Campaign Studies at History Forum

Long time History Channel forum poster sfcdan has done quite a few multi-post campaign sketches on the History Channel forum. These posts are a nice change of pace from the constant quarrels over slavery that appear there endlessly, day after day. I thought it might be a nice idea to collect sfcdan’s posts at one […]

February 17, 2009
Mine Run Campaign Addendum

Since I posted last week, History Channel forum poster “sfcdan” has written parts 6-9 of his Mine Run Campaign series. Here are the links to the individual posts. Go check them out! Mine Run Part 6 – Payne’s Farm Mine Run Part 7 – New Hope Church Mine Run Part 8 – Parker’s Store Mine […]

October 13, 2008
Meade, Mud, Mistakes, and Stalemate: The Mine Run Campaign

As many TOCWOC readers know, I am interested in the post-Gettysburg campaigns in the East and have commented on them in the past. Andrew A. Humphreys, Army of the Potomac’s Chief of Staff at the time of Bristoe Station and Mine Run, did write a short campaign study in 1883 (available to read or for […]

October 6, 2008