Good news - The Battle
of Hanover Court House: Turning Point of the Peninsula Campaign has
recently been released in paperback.
Follow along as Federal general George B. McClellan advances
north from the Peninsula and Irvin McDowell advances south from Washington, D.
C., with orders to meet in Hanover County, Virginia. Sent to guard the railroad
brigades in the area is the brigade of Brig. Gen. Lawrence Branch. His Tar Heel
brigade is composed of the 7th, 18th, 28th, 33rd, and 37th Regiments of North
Carolina Troops. These men, along with the 12th North Carolina State Troops and
Latham's battery, pitch into the Federals of Fitz John Porter's V Corps. While
the Confederates are heavily outnumbered, they fight valiantly, at times
driving the Federals back. In the end, massive Federal reinforcements arrive
and force the Tar Heels to retreat to Ashland, Virginia. Federal losses were
355; Confederate losses amounted to 798.
This is the only book-length treatment of the battle, and in
2007, won the Willie Parker Peace History Book Award from the North Carolina
Society of Historians. You can order your signed copy today for $27.50 (plus
shipping and handling) by visiting www.michaelchardy.com/books.html or through
your local book seller.
As an aside, I've been contacted by some folks in the
Hanover area about doing a tour of the area on May 27, 2012. Keep watching for
more details.
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