On April 4, 1865, General Robert E. Lee lead the retreating forces from Richmond and Petersburg into Amelia Court House. There, Confederates found empty box cars along the Richmond & Danville Railroad. A staff mistake of the highest order had deprived the hard-pressed Confederates of supplies. Lee was forced to appeal to the local populaceContinue reading “April 4, 1865: “I have no communication from General Lee since Sunday” as the Confederate high command splinters”
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Driving Dixie Down: A flooded Yadkin River delays Stoneman’s advance, March 30-April 2, 1865
Allow me to briefly outline the movements of Major-General George Stoneman’s raiders as they moved from Wilkesborough up to the North Carolina-Virginia state line from March 30 to April 2, 1865. In the last post on this thread, I closed with the capture of Wilkesborough on March 29. Stoneman’s command moved up to that pointContinue reading “Driving Dixie Down: A flooded Yadkin River delays Stoneman’s advance, March 30-April 2, 1865”
Sherman’s March, March 23, 1865: Sherman shuffles his command; Johnston throws in the towel
Over March 23-24, 1865, Major-General William T. Sherman ordered movements to close the Carolinas leg of the Great March. I’m mixing definitions there a bit, as “Great March” was somewhat a post-war term applied by the veterans as they recalled the roads from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. On the other hand, at the time, operationallyContinue reading “Sherman’s March, March 23, 1865: Sherman shuffles his command; Johnston throws in the towel”
To the Sound of the Guns 