Civil War Ancestors: Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick
Civil War Ancestors: Judson Kilpatrick
By Jeffrey R. Biggs
“This is no Place for a Civilian”: The Adventures of “GATH” During the Civil War
“This is no Place for a Civilian”: The Adventures of “GATH” During the Civil War
By Jeffrey R. Biggs
“I don’t care for John Pope one pinch of owl dung!”
Demanding quick transport of his division to the front, General Samuel D. Sturgis unleashed a choice phrase of words on the new army commander.
By Jeffrey R. Biggs
Reviewing Hooker’s Army
Abraham Lincoln's visit to the Army of the Potomac, April 1863
By Noah Brooks (1896)
The Hospital Transport
George Alfred Townsend, a war correspondent from the New York Herald, witnesses the final days of the Peninsula Campaign, hazards a trip on a hospital transport, and arrives at Fortress Monroe with a tale of the ages.
By George Alfred Townsend “GATH” (1866)
Lee’s Old War Horse Strikes Back
The Old War Horse opens up on the War, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Confederate Failures
By unknown interviewer, Washington Post (1893)
Civil War Ancestors: Alexander Springsteen, 14th New Jersey
Civil War Ancestors: Alexander Springsteen, 14th New Jersey
By Jeffrey R. Biggs
Book Review: I Dread the Thought of the Place
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign by D. Scott Hartwig (2023)
Book Review by Jeffrey R. Biggs
Book Review: Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command
Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command by Kent Masterson Brown (2021)
Book Review by Jeffrey R. Biggs
Sir William Howard Russell reports on the War
The Times correspondent Sir William Howard Russell of London describes the scene of McDowell’s army preparing to advance, July 19, 1861.
By William Howard Russell (1861)
A.L. Long recalls a conversation with Robert E. Lee
Lee’s Military Secretary, A.L. Long, claims his chief anticipated that the battle would be fought near Gettysburg.
By A.L. Long (1886)