I finished my paper for the upcoming SCWH conference in Philly and am back to work on finishing up my project on the demobilization of the Army of Northern Virginia. Today I read the last two chapters of Carlton McCarthy's...
Last night I spoke with Ted Savas, Marketing Director of Savas Beatie LLC, and he informed me that our new book One Continuous Fight: The Retreat From Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 was shipped out from the printer in Michigan yesterday (Wednesday). So, all you kind folks [...]
Sarah Keeney, the marketing director at Savas-Beatie, informed us today that the completed copies of One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 183 will ship from the printer tomorrow, right on schedule. Actually seeing a copy of the finished book is only a [...]
J. D., Mike, and I are pleased to announce the launch of our new website for the promotion and sale of our new book, One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863. The book is due out in about two weeks. Please [...]
About two weeks ago I shared my very rough introduction to my essay on the demobilization of the Army of Northern Virginia. I took on this project with few prior assumptions about what I would find. Problems abound in trying...
I've gotten quite a bit done over the past few weeks, including a very rough draft of my essay on the demobilization of the Army of Northern Virginia which will appear in Virginia at War, 1865, edited by William C....
Fred Ray was kind enough to send along a review copy of his excellent book Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia. Fred is the descendant of one of those sharpshooters, which i...
Today is, of course, the anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. “After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed...
The surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865 effectively ended the Civil War and slavery in the United States. Why are we no longer "expected to join in singing Patriotic songs" to mark the...
Rea Andrew Redd gave our One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 a great plug on his blog yesterday, which we really appreciate. Thanks, Rea.
The sad story of the officers and men of the 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment of late 1862 is typical for a number of the tattered units of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) who were at Sharpsburg that September. Th...