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Category Archives: Campaigns
This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for March 6-8, 1865
As General Grant tightened his grip on Richmond, and Sherman was coming up from behind, residents of the city looked forward fearfully to its evacuation by General Lee’s army. Saturday, March 4, 1865 J. B. Jones John Beauchamp Jones (1810-1866) … Continue reading
This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for March 4-5, 1865
NOTE: General Jubal Early commanded the last Confederate force in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. On March 2, 1865, in an encounter at Waynesboro with cavalry units under Union General Philip H. Sheridan, Early’s army was defeated, routed, and for all practical … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Diaries, Generals, The Confederacy
Tagged Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate army, Confederate deserters, Confederate states, Confederate War Department, John Beauchamp Jones, Jubal Early, Richmond, RonElFran, Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Union General Philip H. Sheridan, Virginia
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This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for March 1-3, 1865
Wednesday, March 1, 1865 J. B. Jones John Beauchamp Jones (1810-1866) was a writer who worked in the Confederate War Department in Richmond during the war. His diary was published in 1866 as “A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Confederates, Black soldiers, Campaigns, Diaries, Slavery, The Confederacy
Tagged black Confederate soldiers, Burning of Columbia, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Confederate War Department, Emma LeConte, John Beauchamp Jones, prisoner of war, Richmond, RonElFran, the Confederate States Capital, Virginia
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This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for Feb 28, 1865
Tuesday, February 28, 1865 J. B. Jones John Beauchamp Jones (1810-1866) was a writer who worked in the Confederate War Department in Richmond during the war. His diary was published in 1866 as “A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Confederates, Black soldiers, Campaigns, Diaries, Slavery, The Confederacy
Tagged black Confederate soldiers, Burning of Columbia, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Confederate War Department, Emma LeConte, Governor Joseph E. Brown, Jewish Confederate soldier, John Beauchamp Jones, Judith Brockenbrough McGuire, Louis Leon, prisoner of war, Richmond, RonElFran, Staunton, Staunton Spectator, the Confederate States Capital, Virginia
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This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for Feb 26-27, 1865
Sunday, February 26, 1865 J. B. Jones John Beauchamp Jones (1810-1866) was a writer who worked in the Confederate War Department in Richmond during the war. His diary was published in 1866 as “A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Confederates, Black soldiers, Campaigns, Diaries, Slavery, The Confederacy
Tagged A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, Augusta County, black Confederate soldiers, Burning of Columbia, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Confederate War Department, Emma LeConte, John Beauchamp Jones, Joseph Waddell, Richmond, RonElFran, Staunton, Staunton Spectator, Virginia
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This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for Feb 23-25, 1865
Thursday, February 23, 1865 Emma Leconte Emma Florence LeConte (1847-1932) lived in Columbia, SC and witnessed Sherman’s burning of the city. “Yankees – that word in my mind is a synonym for all that is mean, despicable and abhorrent.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Black Confederates, Black soldiers, Campaigns, Diaries, Slavery, The Confederacy
Tagged A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, black Confederate soldiers, Burning of Columbia, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Confederate War Department, Emma LeConte, Fall of Wilmington, John Beauchamp Jones, RonElFran, William Tecumseh Sherman
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This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for Feb 22, 1865
Wednesday, February 22, 1865 As J. B. Jones anticipates, Wilmington, NC fell to the Union on this day. General Sherman had taken Columbia, SC on the 17th. Though he denied ordering it to be burned, when his troops left, Columbia … Continue reading
Posted in Black Confederates, Black soldiers, Campaigns, Diaries, Slavery, The Confederacy
Tagged A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, black Confederate soldiers, Burning of Columbia, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Emma LeConte, Fall of Wilmington, John Beauchamp Jones, RonElFran, William Tecumseh Sherman
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A Civil War Propaganda “Broadcast”
Long before the Germans and Japanese used radio to broadcast propaganda in WW2, the American military tried a more primitive method during the Civil War. Anyone who has watched their share of old World War II movies is familiar with … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, The Confederacy
Tagged Admiral David Dixon Porter, bombshells, broadsides, Civil War, flyers, leaflets, propaganda, Vicksburg
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Was Bragg the Confederate Meade?
In posing the question of whether Braxton Bragg was the Confederate George Meade, I don’t mean to imply they were alike in general terms. Rather, I’m focusing on each man’s most celebrated battle in his Civil War career, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Generals
Tagged Braxton Bragg, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Civil War, George G. Meade, George Meade, Gettysburg, Meade, retreat, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant
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