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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Cruel war allowed the Confederate general only two chances to see his beloved daughter. ven as Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson supervised the movement of his Second Corps from the Shenandoah Valley toward Fredericksburg, Va., in late...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
General Roswell Ripley couldn’t get along with anyone. Not even Robert E. Lee. or nearly four years Roswell Sabine Ripley wore the wreath and three stars of a Confederate general officer, despite being an unmistakable Yankee by any...
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Civil War Times Magazine
Father of a Fractured Country What a sight it must have been, to be sitting on the riverside porch of Mount Vernon late in March 1862, watching Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac glide by in a massive armada of 389 ships...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard almost took command of the Army of Tennessee in 1864. Almost. “Atlanta gone,” Mary Boykin Chesnut wrote in her diary in early September 1864. “Well—that agony is over.” With that blunt statement,...
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Civil War Times Magazine
Can poor planning and bad maps explain the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg? In early June 1863, two Union topographical engineers spent several days studying the southern banks of the Rappahannock River with their field glasses, ascending...
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Civil War Times Magazine
Battle Extraordinaire During the 150th anniversary commemorations of the Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address, visitors will pore over the peculiar topographical and geological features of the battlefield. The three-day fight...
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Civil War Times Magazine
Most British historians were Lee fans. In November 1865, Robert E. Lee informed Jubal A. Early that he intended to write a history of the Army of Northern Virginia. “My only object,” he explained regarding the soon-abandoned project,...
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Civil War Times Magazine
Why, exactly, did Robert E. Lee fight for the Confederacy? ROBERT E. LEE should not be understood as a figure defined primarily by his Virginia identity. As with almost all his fellow American citizens, he manifested a range of loyalties...
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Civil War Times Magazine
Lee’s Loyalty I have great respect for Robert E. Lee as a man and a soldier, but disagree with his example, cited in Gary Gallagher’s October article, “A Question of Loyalty,” of George Washington as a person who had to change his...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
John Bigelow’s 1910 Study of Robert E. Lee’s Victory Over Joe Hooker Remains an Exemplar Tactical and operational studies occupy a prominent place in the literature devoted to the Civil War. Admirable examples of well-researched,...
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HistoryNet
During the 1864 Siege of Petersburg, deserters from both sides foiled an imminent bloody assault. Mid-July 1864 found Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George G. Meade’s Army of the...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
About 4:30 a.m. on April 2, 1865, the Army of the Potomac’s 6th Corps breached the Confederate defenses near Petersburg, Va., ending a bloody 10-month stalemate. The Confederate capital of Richmond had to be evacuated the next day, and...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War By Elizabeth R. Varon, Oxford University Press 2013, $27.95 Wars, as Thucydides observed, are driven by fear, honor and interest. Consequently, as Americans have...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Summer Lightning: A Guide to the Second Battle of Manassas By Matt Spruill III and Matt Spruill IV, University of Tennessee Press, 2014, $28.56 Some argue Chancellorsville was Robert E. Lee’s “masterpiece” battle during the Civil...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Fort Harrison and the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm: To Surprise and Capture Richmond By Douglas Crenshaw, The History Press 2014, $19.99 In late September 1864, Federal forces launched the Fifth Richmond–Petersburg Offensive,...
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America's Civil War Magazine
The president and his best general knew they had to end the menace in Virginia—but which strategy would work? In the mind of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the great problem with Union strategy up to 1864 had been that Northern armies had...
