Category Archives: Richmond Howitzers

The McLaws Minstrels

The revivals continued to preoccupy the 13th regiment and the rest of the Mississippi Brigade in their winter encampment in Fredericksburg. But religion wasn’t the only distraction. Spartan Band quartermaster clerk William H. Hill, for instance, “went to see McLaws … Continue reading

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Barksdale’s stand: Glorious or insubordinate?

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

“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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Battles: Malvern Hill

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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