Showing posts with label Petersburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Petersburg. Show all posts
Thursday, March 05, 2026

Petersburg Confederate Mines

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  Confederate countermine at Fort Mahone (LOC)    The battle of the Crater is a fairly well-known event during the war. Federal general Ambr...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Saving Pamplin Historical Park: Its Story, My Story, How You Can Help

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     On July 16, 2025, my friend Chris Mackowski hit the airwaves for Emerging Civil War News with a fantastic announcement: the American Ba...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Roderick D. Davidson and the Confederate Air Force

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   Disclaimer: yes, there was an organization called the Confederate Air Force, founded in Texas in 1961. They later changed their name to t...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Killing Confederate Prisoners at Fort Gregg

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   Any time someone mentions the killing of prisoners during the war, names like Fort Pillow, Saltville, Plymouth, and Champ Ferguson come t...
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Thursday, March 10, 2022

Fighting on both sides: Richard K. Meade, Jr.

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Maj. Richard K. Meade, Jr.     There are a handful of men who have the distinction of fighting on both sides during the war. One of those is...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Robert E. Lee’s Christmas Letters Home

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   Confederate general Robert E. Lee spent all four of the war-year Christmases away from his wife Mary. Three of his Christmas Day letters ...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Confederate Wayside Hospitals

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   There are many different types of Confederate hospitals. A regiment in camp early on in the war would set up a hospital in a tent or lo...
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