On the morning of May 10, 1863, one hundred and fifty years ago today, the weather around Guiney Station, Virginia was warm and pleasant. But inside a small, white frame building on the Fairfield plantation, […]
On the night of May 2, 1863 – the second day of the battle of Chancellorsville – Stonewall Jackson decided to personally reconnoiter the ground in front of his line in anticipation of renewing his […]
On April 20, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation, effective in sixty days, admitting West Virginia into the Union as the 35th state. Formation of the state, however, had required some creative legal maneuvering […]
In May 2012, a researcher working for The Papers of Abraham Lincoln project discovered a document in the National Archives many historians knew existed but had never found. It was the initial account of army […]
I recently had the pleasure of attending a superb lecture by author and fellow blogger Eric Wittenberg on the Battle of White Sulphur Springs. At the conclusion of the talk, he mentioned that Brig. Gen. William W. […]
William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield is best known for being the patriarch of the family involved in the famous Hatfield and McCoy Feud. Nearly twenty years prior to the start of hostilities with the McCoy […]
James Hanger wanted to be a cavalry soldier like his two older brothers. In the spring of 1861, the 18-year-old engineering student at Washington College in Lexington, Virginia left school and travelled to Philippi, (West) […]
On February 27, 1859, U.S. Congressman Daniel E. Sickles (D- NY) approached the Washington D.C. district attorney, P. Barton Key, in Lafayette Square and shot him three times. Then, walking to the house of Attorney […]
When Stonewall Jackson died on May 10, 1863, his attending physicians attributed the death to a pneumonia Jackson had developed four days after amputation of his arm. The infection was believed to be secondary to […]
The story is familiar to many. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson lies dying in an outbuilding near Guiney Station, Virginia. After being wounded in a friendly fire accident at the battle of Chancellorsville on May 2,1863, […]
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