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Barksdale’s stand: Glorious or insubordinate?

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Dick Stanley

The U.S. Army’s Center of Military History, has no doubt what happened on Dec. 11, 1862, or of what it meant: “At Fredericksburg, Brig. Gen. William Barksdale’s Mississippians, firing from houses along the river, repeatedly stopped the bridge building. Artillery … Continue reading →

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Women & children flying from bombardment

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dick Stanley

“Scarcely had we reached our camping ground,” Spartan Band Private Albert Wymer Henley wrote of the 13th’s arrival near Fredericksburg on Nov. 20, 1862, “when our Regiment and the 17th were detailed to go to town to move some commissaries.” … Continue reading →

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Among the dead

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Dick Stanley

More than forty years after the war, Robert Stiles, the Richmond Howitzers’ memoirist, recalled that the bloody defeat at Malvern Hill in 1862 depressed much of the gray army. “The demoralization was great and the evidences of it palpable everywhere. … Continue reading →

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Battles: Malvern Hill

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Dick Stanley

The Union had massed artillery almost wheel hub to wheel hub on the crest of a plateau 150-feet above the James River to cover its retreat to the river from Gen. Lee’s pursuing Rebels. The position had clear fields of … Continue reading →

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The artillery company

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Dick Stanley

The forty Minutemen and others in the 13th who Newt Nash wrote Mollie wanted to form an artillery company apparently were inspired by Robert Stiles of the Richmond Howitzers. Stiles, in his 1903 memoir Four Years Under Marse Robert, recalled … Continue reading →

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