It used tried and tested Morse-code sending and receiving instruments, powered by heavy lead-acid batteries. For tactical communications — battlefield and intra-army communications — the U.S. Army's Signal Corps had its own tried and ...
Chancellorsville
General Buford , with his Reserve Brigade , will cross at the ford in the vicinity of the Rappahannock railroad bridge simultaneously with General Averell . As soon as General Averell and General Buford are across the river and both ...
Boston : Nichols & Noyes , 1866 . Fitzpatrick , Marion H. Letters to Amanda from Sergeant Major Marion Hill Fitzpatrick , 1862-1865 . Ed . Henry Mansel Hammock , Culloden , Ga . , 1976 . Freeman , Douglas Southall . Lee's Lieutenants ...
Donald B. Sanger , one of Longstreet's more able biographers , believed that Lee did not expect Longstreet to be able to join him before he would be forced to engage Hooker . “ Lee's letter of May 7 ( Lee to Longstreet , May 7 ...
After finding Lucille Farrell, Cory Brannon considers supplying the South with food and weapons, while his brothers enjoy a brief visit home before returning to fight with the Confederate army in Fredericksburg.
A variety of important but lesser-known dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign of spring 1863 are explored in this collection of eight original essays.
The topics covered in this volume include the influence of politics on the Union army, the importance of courage among officers, the impact of the war on children, and the state of battlefield medical care.