Civil_War_Quarterly_-_Early_Winter_2015_USA
Well-led and well-equipped, Union cavalrymen in the western theater of the war were able to match their Confederate opponents in ...
of success, two other short raids were to be launched at the same time by the Army of the Tennessee into northern Mississippi. M ...
Lt. Col. Clark Barteau’s 2nd Tennessee Cavalry, which was part of Ruggles’ com- mand, stationed less than 20 miles away with 400 ...
returned with news that the small force of Federal cavalry had turned north, Barteau ordered his men to follow the main force of ...
men now rode a group of scouts led by a Canadian quartermaster sergeant named Richard Surby. According to Surby, he approached h ...
that an additional 10 men be sent up to reinforce the Butternut Guerrillas. When Surby saw the help coming, he led his scouts fo ...
After a three-hour rest five miles south of Newton Station, the raiders pushed on to Garlandville around dusk. Grierson would la ...
graph operator, but as the two scouts headed out onto the muddy street they were spotted by the Smith County sheriff, who had es ...
At dawn they stopped for a brief rest at a plantation. Richardson’s and Love’s combined force charged into Summit at 3 AMon May ...
STONEWALL’S Victorious Defeat CWQ-EW16 Kernstown_Layout 1 10/22/15 3:06 PM Page 90 ...
Exultant Union troops clamber over the much-fought-over stone wall at Kernstown in this painting by Keith Rocco. S UNDAY MORNING ...
Jackson and his men did not make it there. Instead, Jackson halted his men at Kern- stown, a few miles south of Winchester. He w ...
war. Jackson felt that his only options were to either intercept Banks before he could join forces with McClellan or else cause ...
and uncovering the only high ground in the area, a small knoll called Pritchard’s Hill. Immediately realizing the hill’s importa ...
fire from both the enemy’s batteries and musketry. Soon all of the regiments above named were pouring forth a well-directed fire ...
based in large part on Ashby’s badly underestimated numbers. For his part, Ashby admitted his erroneous intelligence in his offi ...
felt that his actions at Gettysburg were a pointed attempt to regain the reputation he had lost at Kernstown. Kernstown remained ...
While the wave of battle swept north- ward from later-named Lytle Hill and the remnants of the Union army came to rest a mile aw ...
C-UnivMO FP Winter2016:Layout 1 10/23/15 1:18 PM Page 1 ...
C-NatGeo FP Winter2016.qxp_FP 10/20/15 2:54 PM Page 1 ...
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