Tag: petersburg campaign
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In The Review Queue: Petersburg 1864-65: The longest siege
The “In the Review Queue” series provides TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers with a brief look at books Brett Schulte is planning to review here on the blog. These will be very similar to Drew Wagenhoffer’s “Booknotes” series at Civil War Books and Authors. Petersburg 1864-65: The longest siege is the second of […]
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Dominating the Skirmish Line
I see that Brett is offering a free copy of Earl Hess’s book on the rifle musket, so it might be a good time to revisit a controversy raised therein, namely did the ANV’s sharpshooter battalions punch above their weight in Virginia? I would say they did, and base this as much as anything on […]
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Off-duty Amusement
Now this sounds like an interesting tour. Might be even better if they included something stronger than water, and perhaps a period condom. Beats having to tote that Enfield around. “Hard Liquor and Women” – How Off-Duty Soldiers Amused Themselves During the Siege of Petersburg At 11:00 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, […]
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Odds & Ends: June 21, 2008
This Odds & Ends is going out while I’m in LA on a business trip. I’ll probably either be packing up our booth from the Trade Show or on a plane home when you read this. Good thing you get to do some Civil War related reading while I’m away! 😉 Old Picture of the […]
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Digging Up The Crater
I’ve been watching parts of “Digging Up The Trenches” on the Military Channel tonight. One segment deals with the Battle of Messines (7 June, 1917) in Flanders which has some very obvious parallels to the Battle of the Crater fought near Petersburg almost exactly 53 years before. The objective in the Flanders battle was Messines […]
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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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America’s Civil War, September 2006
America’s Civil War Volume 19, Number 4 (September 2006) America’s Civil War Web Site Page 11 Eyewitness to War by Kevin M. Levin Captain John C. Winsmith, a South Carolinian serving with the 1st South Carolina Infantry, describes in a letter home the severe fighting in the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania Court House. Winsmith took […]