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ECW Weekender: Down By The Banks of Sailor’s Creek
In the first months of 1865, the Army of Northern Virginia had been whittled down to a mere 55,000 as it left the trenches of Petersburg. Desertion rates were high, driving General Robert E. Lee to...
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ECW Weekender: Sailor’s Creek
Recently Doug Crenshaw and I visited Sailor’s Creek, the only major battle of the Appomattox Campaign. Fought April 6, 1865, it was just three days before Appomattox, but of course no one knew that...
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Saving History Saturday: American Battlefield Trust Aims to Save Land at Four...
As one of its first battlefield preservation campaigns of 2020, the American Battlefield Trust is aiming to save over 600 acres of hallowed ground at four major battlefields – all in Virginia. Cedar...
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Artillery: Last Stand at Sailor’s Creek
During the Appomattox Campaign, some Confederate heavy artillery battalions fought as infantry since they didn’t have their big guns. This article from the ECW Archives shares details of their last...
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One Medal of Honor Too Many at the Breakthrough
There are a few corrections I would make to a revised version of Dawn of Victory: Breakthrough at Petersburg. Consider this a “setting the record straight” in the case of Sergeant Wesley Gibbs, 2nd...
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The Dismissal of Bushrod Johnson, the Confederacy’s Luckless Ohioan
Ohio-born Confederate General Bushrod Johnson was not a man to know much luck. He had been forced to resign from the Old Army during the Mexican War to avoid scandal; he went on to teach at the Western...
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The Battles for High Bridge April 6-7, 1865
High Bridge. After leaving Amelia Court House, Gen. Robert E. Lee headed his columns west in the hopes of putting some distance between himself and the pursuing Union armies under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S....
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A Second Medal of Honor: Thomas Ward Custer at Sailor’s Creek
George Armstrong Custer (left), his brother, Thomas W. Custer and wife, Libbie. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. The scene about to play out was one that had become all too familiar in recent days....
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Sailor’s Creek – 150 Years Later
Recently I had the opportunity to visit Sailor’s Creek Battlefield, which is part of the same-named Virginia State Park. On April 6, 1865, Union forces delivered a devastating blow to the Confederate...
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Crutchfield’s Last Stand at Sailor’s Creek
The column that made up Gen. Richard Ewell’s Reserve Corps of Richmond defenders was a colorful lot: the veterans of Gen. Joseph Kershaw’s division (formerly McLaws’); the sailors and marines of Capt....
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ECW Weekender: Sailor’s Creek
Recently Doug Crenshaw and I visited Sailor’s Creek, the only major battle of the Appomattox Campaign. Fought April 6, 1865, it was just three days before Appomattox, but of course no one knew that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Saving History Saturday: American Battlefield Trust Aims to Save Land at Four...
As one of its first battlefield preservation campaigns of 2020, the American Battlefield Trust is aiming to save over 600 acres of hallowed ground at four major battlefields – all in Virginia. Cedar...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Artillery: Last Stand at Sailor’s Creek
During the Appomattox Campaign, some Confederate heavy artillery battalions fought as infantry since they didn’t have their big guns. This article from the ECW Archives shares details of their last...
View ArticleClik here to view.
One Medal of Honor Too Many at the Breakthrough
There are a few corrections I would make to a revised version of Dawn of Victory: Breakthrough at Petersburg. Consider this a “setting the record straight” in the case of Sergeant Wesley Gibbs, 2nd...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Dismissal of Bushrod Johnson, the Confederacy’s Luckless Ohioan
Ohio-born Confederate General Bushrod Johnson was not a man to know much luck. He had been forced to resign from the Old Army during the Mexican War to avoid scandal; he went on to teach at the Western...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Battles for High Bridge April 6-7, 1865
High Bridge. After leaving Amelia Court House, Gen. Robert E. Lee headed his columns west in the hopes of putting some distance between himself and the pursuing Union armies under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S....
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Second Medal of Honor: Thomas Ward Custer at Sailor’s Creek
George Armstrong Custer (left), his brother, Thomas W. Custer and wife, Libbie. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. The scene about to play out was one that had become all too familiar in recent days....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sailor’s Creek – 150 Years Later
Recently I had the opportunity to visit Sailor’s Creek Battlefield, which is part of the same-named Virginia State Park. On April 6, 1865, Union forces delivered a devastating blow to the Confederate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crutchfield’s Last Stand at Sailor’s Creek
The column that made up Gen. Richard Ewell’s Reserve Corps of Richmond defenders was a colorful lot: the veterans of Gen. Joseph Kershaw’s division (formerly McLaws’); the sailors and marines of Capt....
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