Tag: siege of petersburg
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Today In The Petersburg Campaign
May 7, 1864 August Valentine Kautz, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen. The US gun-boat, Shawsheen, is captured at Turkey Island, the James River, VA, during Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler’s Union operations on the south side of the James River, VA. Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from […]
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Today In The Petersburg Campaign
May 6, 1864 Encounter on the James River, near City Point, with the Union ironclad gunboat, the Commodore Jones, destroyed by a Confederate electronic torpedo, while Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler’s overwhelming Union army fails to take the city of Petersburg, VA, which is lightly defended by Maj. Gen. George Pickett, CSA. The Engagement at […]
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Today In The Petersburg Campaign…
May 5, 1864 Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, USA, lands at Bermuda Hundred and City Point (now Hopewell), VA, below Richmond, VA. Brig. Gen. August V. Kautz’s, USA, raid against the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, VA, including skirmishes: a) at the Birch Island Bridges, the Blackwater River (6th) b) Stony Creek Station (7th), and c) […]
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Today In The Petersburg Campaign…
May 4, 1864 Operations on the South side of the James River, VA, as Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, USA, and the Army of the James, started out in transports and prepared to attack Richmond, VA, from the south. 5/4-6/2/1864. Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald […]
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New Blog Idea: Today In The Petersburg Campaign
Chronological Siege of Petersburg Entries As I was driving home from work the other day, I started thinking about short, almost daily blog entries I could post with a minimum of effort but that also were informative and interesting. My thoughts turned to Ron Mosocco’s book Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War per the […]
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Review In Brief: Mother, May You Never See The Sights I Have Seen
Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen: The Fifty-Seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac, 1864-1865 by Warren Wilkinson 665 pp., 11 maps I want to preface this review with the admission that I have read very few unit histories to this point. While I feel very comfortable reviewing […]
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Siege of Petersburg Project Update
I’ve now updated the Confederate OOB of my Petersburg Campaign Project through the month of November 1864 (after the Sixth Offensive of October), and I’ve completed all units found in Sifakis’ Compendium of the Confederate Armies. The OOBs I’m starting with are from F. Ray Sibley, Jr.’s reference work The Confederate Order of Battle: The […]