Category Archives: Battles: Leesburg

Visiting a 13th soldier’s Richmond grave

Posted on September 2, 2012 by

Texan Weldon Nash, Jr., whose ancestor Nimrod Newton Nash wrote so many of the good letters in this digital regimental until he was killed at Gettysburg, recently visited the Richmond grave of Henry T. Nash, another Minute Men private. Henry, … Continue reading →

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Shoveling up Fort Beauregard

Posted on November 19, 2010 by

The battles of Ball’s Bluff and Edwards Ferry had been over for almost four months when the whole 13th regiment was assigned to help construct a new protective earthwork near Leesburg. On Feb. 15th, Hill recorded in his diary: “Snowing … Continue reading →

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The Dranesville fight

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

The Dranesville fight which Newt Nash mentioned in his Jan. 1st letter to wife Mollie was the Dec. 20 battle between Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry, riding a reconnaissance north from Centerville, and Union troops under Gen. Edward Ord. Nash relied … Continue reading →

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Spies in the sky

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

Thaddeus Lowe, chief aeronaut of the fledgling Union Army Balloon Corps, had been making preliminary flights throughout the fall of 1861 to observe Confederate troop positions. On Saturday, Dec. 14, from a base he’d established on the Maryland shore near … Continue reading →

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The new battle flag

Posted on October 24, 2010 by

Richmond still was celebrating the victory at Leesburg/Ball’s Bluff when, on Dec. 9, Gen. Evans took leave of the Seventh Brigade. He presented each regiment with the new Confederate battle flag sewn by some Richmond ladies. Virginia Miller, a resident … Continue reading →

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Brigadier Gen. D.H. Hill

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

Daniel Harvey Hill, like Evans a South Carolinian, was the hero of Big Bethel, an early skirmish of the war near Fortress Monroe on the Virginia peninsula. Also like Evans, Hill was a West Point graduate. But the brother-in-law of … Continue reading →

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Move to Hogback Mountain

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

Just as he had feared, Newt Nash had to pull down his excellent rock stove the day after he wrote to Mollie about it.  That Monday, Dec. 2, the regiment broke camp and left Carter’s Mill on the Oatlands Plantation. … Continue reading →

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Sketch of Fort Evans

Posted on October 10, 2010 by

Independent historian Craig Swain’s sketch of Fort Evans, which he paced off at the real earthwork with the owner’s permission. Note the curious, multiple configurations of the bastions at the corners of what was a huge fortress—three of the sides … Continue reading →

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Aftermath of Leesburg/Ball’s Bluff

Posted on October 4, 2010 by

The Seventh Brigade was reinforced on Oct. 23, the day the Yankees withdrew their thousands of soldiers from the Virginia shore at Edwards Ferry. The Second Virginia, Fifth South Carolina and Eighth Louisiana regiments came up from Manassas, as well … Continue reading →

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The Minutemen’s report

Posted on October 2, 2010 by

Following is the after-action report of Captain Lorenzo D. Fletcher, commander of the Minutemen of Attala—the only company of the 13th regiment that fought at Ball’s Bluff—to Col. William Barksdale, commanding the regiment. Remember that our letter-writer Nimrod Newton Nash … Continue reading →

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