Chris Mackowski’s review o A. Wilson Greene’s A Campaig of Giants: The Battle for
Petersburg (vol. 1) also app in the September 2019 issue
Derek Maxfield, of Rudely Stamp’d, will perform the pl Now We Stand by Each Other Always on • August 24th at the Attica Historical Society, Att NY at 2:00 PM, • Sept. 7th at Genesee Community College Medin Campus Center, Medina, NY at 1:00 PM, • Sept. 21st at BuffaloNiagara Heritage Villag Amherst, NY at 1:00 PM, and • Oct. 23rd at the Hornell Public Library, Hornell at 6:30 PM.
“If you can make one of th performances,” he says, “you
Kevin Pawlak’s new book, Antietam National Battlefiel the Images of America series cently hit the shelves. Look at your local book retailer.
Antietam National Battlefiel by Kevin Pawlak is part of
Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America Series.”
Kolakowski talked about the Civil War connections of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Douglas MacArthur and the Civil War: “The Reunion of Blue & Gray Personified”
The American Civil War was immediate and formative experi ence for Douglas MacArthur’s parents and their families, an their experiences helped inspire and shape MacArthur. MacArthur’s wife also had a significant Civil War pedigree Between them, General and Mrs. MacArthur had ties to virtuall every major land campaign east of the Mississippi River. The MacArthur Memorial and Emerging Civil War are co-spon soring a symposium with four scholars exploring the Civil W activities of Douglas and Jean
MacArthur’s ancestors. Speaker include Chris Mackowsk
Charlie McKnight, Dan Welch, and Brian Steel Wills. Chris Kolakowski will moderate. Join us on September 28, 20 from 9:15 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at MacArthur Memorial, 198 Bank Street, Norfolk, VA 23510. The event is FREE, but registratio is required. Call 757.441.2965 reserve a seat or register onl Revolutionary War News
The month of August in American Revolutionary military history saw highs and low for the American cause. Paulus Hook, which saw a nighttime strike by “Light Horse” Harry Lee, was fought in this month, along with some of the battles of the Saratoga Campaign. In
the southern theater, in 1780, one of the worst defeats for t Continental Army happened in South Carolina at Camden. Many
of these sites are preserved t day by local, state, and/or na al parks for you to visit and
28, 2019, in partth Gadsby’s Tavern Alexandria, Virginia.
Speakers Bureau broow available. This akers bureau features ee historians who offer 150 talks. s year: ECW is pleased series of talks based k Turning Points of an Civil War, the first m our “Engaging War” Series published tion with Southern niversity Press.
speakers bureau ilable. download a free PDF chure here: s : / / e m e rg i n g c i v i l w ng-presentations/ ureau.
Vol. 42, No. 3 Battlefield Of Franklin Land Prese
By GreGory L. Wade FRANKLIN, Tenn. — What is considered the bloodiest acreage i the Nov. 30, 1864, Battle of Frank is now being reclaimed as part of evolving Carter Hill Battlefield P Local preservation leaders recentl
from owners Reid and Brenda Lovell after a months-long process of coordinating various funding sources for the critical 1.6 acres adjoin the Carter House, a major battle landmark. Details were recently provided a press conference led by Franklin
Charge board member Julian Bibb, who praised the “remarkable transition” of the Franklin battlefiel Franklin’s Charge is a coalition o civic and preservation groups who joined together more than ten year ago to purchase local battleground Over 150 years ago the Army of Tennessee stepped off in a series
of charges to be virtually destroy by Federals under John Schofield i hopes of taking Franklin and later Nashville. At that time, most of the terra was open farmland on the outskirts of what was once a small Middle Tennessee farming community. Over
time development covered much of the battlefield with houses, light dustry, and small businesses. All that remained of the critic area where the Confederates temporarily broke the Federal line wa the small farmhouse and a few acre known as the Carter House farm. The 1.6 acres purchased, which
adjoin the southern boundary of th Carter House property, is comprise of two lots. Today, they are occup
that were turned over to the City of Franklin Parks Department by Franklin’s Charge and the Battle o Franklin’s Trust (BOFT), managers of the Carter House the nearby Car ton Plantation. The structures wil removed in coming months, possibly
relocated for other use. The purchase is only the latest in a long and arduous effort to re build the Franklin battlefield. “It had to be a miracle,” quipp Civil War Trust (CWT) President James Lighthizer, referring to the most recent acquisition. Local res ident Michael Grainger, long time
Trust board member and former chairman, said, “Local leadership has been incredible and will conti ue to be a partner [with the CWT]. In 2005, after years of frustra attempting to preserve Franklin ba tleground, local preservationists cided it would have to be done the hard way, by buying properties, of
ten with buildings on them. The largest parcel of land was originally a local golf course sla to be sold to a developer to build houses on what was the right flank of the Confederate attack north to ward the Federal lines just south the town.
It was then that Franklin’s Cha came into existence. Funds have
chase from private donors, the CWT the City of Franklin and others. T 110-acre segment, now fully interpreted and known as the Eastern Flank Battlefield, is what got the preservation ball rolling in Frank
Since that time nine other parc in proximity to the Carter House have been purchased and have been, or will be, turned over to the Fra
at the Lovell purchase regory L. Wade photos)
lin Parks Department, according t Bibb. But it was the land just south Carter House, long considered the most bloodied ground in Franklin, and some say in America, that was the most coveted. BOFT Chief Executive Officer
Eric Jacobson noted, “to not have this ground reclaimed and preserv would be like having Omaha Beach cut out of Normandy.” The most recent acquisition evolved when Franklin’s Charge an the BOFT began discussions with t Lovells, who have a strong sense
the history of the land, having g up in Franklin. “I was born and raised in Fran lin on ground many believe should have been a national park,” said Lovell. He recalled when visitors came to town and had to envision what happened, not walk on ground where it transpired.
“My great-grandfather, who fou here, and my parents would be pro of what we are doing here today,” said at the press conference. The Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted unanimously in February to fund part of the remaining debt on the Lovell property purchase. The previously
paid by the city on a non-interes basis over seven years. These funds will cover the bal now bridged by a local bank and w
tel tax. Local banker Chuck Isaac was instrumental in working out t loans. All the city funds are all
by his employer, First Farmers an Merchants Bank.
100 Significant Civ War Photographs: Atlanta Campaign. By Stephen Davis. Introduction, bibliography, in dex, 126 pp., 2019. Historical
This is just the kind of Ci War book I want: super-clear photographs, crisp captions th tell me what I want to know, a in a handy and affordable form And, it’s an author you can tr
Stephen Davis, master of what he aptly terms “Barnardiana,”
the study of George N. Barnard 1864 photographs of Atlanta an the Atlanta Campaign. Even if you’re an old Civil
Warrior and think you’ve seen all, ponder this question: if had to choose 100 photographs of the Atlanta Campaign, which
ones would you pick? Davis starts by breaking down all the available images (Barnard produced well over two hundred into thematic chapters. So you have portraits of the generals made by Barnard), Confederate fortifications (why the U.S. Army hired Barnard in the first place),”War Scenes” (the campaign north of Atlanta), followed by “Federals in Atlan “City Scenes,” and “Wrecking Atlanta.” Among many nuggets
in these pages, don’t miss the “less familiar view” of Barnard’s iconic “Destruction of Hood’s Ordnance Train.” It’s less famili because it’s never been published before. My favorite chapter is in the middle of the book: “Barnard Under the Microscope.” Here Davis draws on the work of Bob Zeller, Garry Adelman,
Ken Denny, and many others whose careful dissections of the high-resolution scans produced
mid-2000s revealed hidden and quite telling details of otherwis
Do you know why a lone African American soldier sits in front of
Street, reading a book? Neither does anybody else, but there he i with corporal’s stripes and a U.S Model 1861 rifle-musket. If you think it’s hard decidin which images to include, try cap-
tioning them in half a page (it’s one image per page). Davis’s
captions are pithy and cut right to the cool details. For example,
that’s not just any horse under General Sherman, it’s “Duke.” Or, “Joe Wheeler earned his nickname, ‘Fightin’ Joe, ‘fightin
Indians.” By the way, the names of those U.S. officers in front o the Windsor Smith house (view #1) are known today only be-
cause a copy of the photograph was discovered in the 1940s with the names on the back, probably written by one of the officers. For those who worry that we can’t get the next generation interested in the Civil War, buy th book for your kids. Even better, this is just the first in a serie the next volume is Charleston.
Gordon L. Jones is Senior Militar Historian at the Atlanta History Center.
Memoir General Sh The Perfect Scout: A Soldier’s Memoir of the Great March to the Sea and the Campaign of the Carolinas. By George W. Quimby. Edited by Anne Sarah Rubin and Stephen Murphy. Notes, maps, bibliography, index 224 pp., University of Alabama
if not thousands, yet this work stands unique in that it is one
stealth and speed as they gather enemy intelligence, generally on
the march. Meanwhile, their columns utilized advance guards or pickets toward the front. These activities separated scouts from spies who may have assumed secret civilian or military iden
ties as they pretended to work f one side, while secretly feeding
intelligence to the other. This the important groundwork that
author and Union scout George Quimby (1842–1926) sets out to convey to his readers. On occasion, though, that
distinction became blurred. In Quimby’s case, he explains how he often rode into enemy territo wearing Confederate grey as a
ruse to gain the locals’ trust o to slip past Confederate pickets Left unsaid is that had he been captured by the Rebels in such attire, he most likely would hav faced an immediate hanging. Readers will learn via the Introduction that Quimby first enlisted in 1862 with the 32nd Wisconsin Infantry and served in that regiment in western Tennessee and near Vicksburg before marching toward Georgia. The core of this book, however,
of s Scouts Quimby’s recollections as a scout in General William T. Sherman’s army during the legendary 1864 “March to the Sea” and 1865 Carolinas Campaign. Quimby’s memoir is certainly captivating for his war recollections. In one instance, for example, he details his disagreement with General Sherman’s recollections over a particular incide in the latter’s Memoirs. Even better are Quimby’s homespun accounts of his impressions and
stories of contact with enemy soldiers, white civilians—especially trying to flirt with angry Southern women—and African American slaves. The author kept his personal politics out of his story; nonetheless, an element of sympathy shines through toward the hardscrabble Southern farmer who had little time to focus o war but merely wanted to feed his family. Quimby had low regard for the infamous “bummer” who “liberated” hams or chick-
ens from the poor; however, his disapproval was less so when the homes of wealthy Southerners
Also enlightening are his tale of capturing Confederate scouts
for he and his men knew that if—and when—the tables were
in a similar manner. Quimby wrote his memoir around 1901 and it is filled with derring-do and hilarity. His
explanation as to how he and his fellow scouts would give fake commands in loud voices when the enemy was near-–in the hope that their adversaries would thi they were leading a much larger force—will certainly bring a smile to any reader’s face. As Professor Anne Sarah Rubin points out in her illuminating Introduction, this memoir indeed reads more like an adven-
ture novel than a dry retelling of names and dates. Such books
written from memory long after the fact should generally be tak by the reader with a grain of sa however, in this case, we are to that Quimby’s neatly typewritten manuscript often referred to oth historical evidence to support h version of events. Though family lore often told of Quimby’s Civil War exploits, it appears the typed mem oir lay dormant and unseen until 1990, when Stephen Murphy (the husband of Quimby’s
great-great-granddaughter) found it in three legal-sized folders while cleaning out the house of
ther. Civil War students everywhere should be thankful that
to the Civil War era. His new bo is titled “The Most Complete
The North’s Union Leagues in the American Civil War, recently published by Kent State Universi Press.
in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863-August 1865. Edited by J. Gregory Acken. Notes, index, 352 pp., 2019. Kent State
William Brooke Rawle was born into a privileged Philadelphia fa ily. As a nineteen-year old he fi ished his studies at the Universi of Pennsylvania in May 1863 and within two months had participated in the battles of Brandy Stati and Gettysburg with the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. Instead of attending his college graduation, fighting the Army of Northern Virginia’s cavalry on July 3 in East Cavalry Field turned out to be the “supreme moment” of his life. The young man gave up a refined, cultured life of wealth an luxury for two years of adversity challenge, and exhilaration. The 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry was organized during the summer of 1861. Its second commander, Colonel William Averell, imparted Regular Army responsibilities and practices to the volunteers and prepared them for the burdens they would face. Averell appointed many officers who had prior military experience, but many did not. Rawle and the sons of many other prominent Philadelphia families such as the Newhalls, Stilles, Treichels, and Wetherill were commissioned as officers into the regiment. J. Gregory Acken makes an excellent point that many of the enlisted veteran did not accept these appointments and viewed Rawle and his colleagues as unqualified men who had prevented the advancement of more capable individuals from the ranks. Following the Gettysburg Campaign, Brooke Rawle and the Third Pennsylvania would
serve with the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac through
the spring of 1864, fighting partisans and guerillas in northern Virginia and seeing action during the Bristoe Station and Mine Run campaigns of late 1863. Their fighting involvement stopped prior to the Overland Campaign. These men went on to provide security for Union General George Meade and his headquarters staff, escorting prisoners, gathering up stragglers during combat, arresting deserters, and guarding large herds of cattle. A painstaking diarist and lett writer, Brooke Rawle documented almost everything that he observed in 150 well-written letter sent home to his family over the twenty-seven months he spent in the Union army. 136 of these letters are included in this volume. The letters, augmented by Rawle’s diary entries, provide a captivating and richly comprehensive eyewitness account into the life of a regimental cavalry officer during the last two years of the Civil War in the eastern theater. The typescript duplicate of the diary, completed in 1898, contained 154 single-spaced, single-sided pages and was entitled “Diary of Service with the Army of the Potomac.” Most of the correspondence was written to Rawle’s mother; however, once he wrote one of his sisters and a vised that his letters needed to be kept private. Though the lieutenant participated in a few important and deadly battles, rarel were any specifics from the fight ing mentioned in the communications home. While Rawle wrote a great deal concerning his military service, he left no record of why he joined the army. Sadly, he never mentions how the political and military events of the war influenced him or his opinion of anything prior to enlisting in 1863. Additionally, he remained quiet on slavery. However, during his postwar life, he wrote histories of several prominent Philadelphia families and a study of the cavalry fighting on the Union right flank at Gettysburg on July 2-3. Acken’s use of numerous photographs and George Skoch’s excellent maps are most effective and helpful. While an expensive volume, Blue-Blooded Cavalryman is well written and tells much about the life of a Northern cavalry office in the last two years of the war.
David Marshall teaches high school history in Miami.
Confederate Ironclads Confederate Ironclads at War. By R. Thomas Campbell. Maps, photos, illustrations, endnotes, index, appendix, 276 pp., 2019. McFarland,
The CSS Virginia, which battled the USS Monitor in the Civil War’s most famous naval engagement, was but one of 34 ironclads built by the Confederacy and one of 25 put into service. Some never fired a shot at the enemy; some, like the Virginia, saw temporary success and wreaked havoc, at least for a while. Most we well-armed with rams as well as guns. They punched hard, and could take a punch too. Only one Confederate ironclad was sunk by the enemy. From the James River to the Mississippi and the Red these ungainly craft fought with tenacity in the South’s effort to break th blockade and to keep its inland waterways free of the enemy. In Confederate Ironclads at War, R. Thomas Campbell capably tells the story of these ships, the men who built them and the officers and crews who sailed them into action. In fourteen chapters, each of which stands alone as the history of a single ship or a squadron Campbell tells how these ships were constructed; how the builders struggled to do their work in the face of dire shortages of eve kind; how the workers somehow made repairs after breakdowns and battle damage; how the ships struggled to maneuver with woefully underpowered engines; and how, on rivers and in coastal waters from Virginia to Louisiana, the crews slugged it out with the foe. Everybody who reads this
review knows about the March 1862 battle in Hampton Roads, but many, I am sure, are far le familiar with the history of th Albemarle, the Louisiana, the Tennessee, and the many other ironclads featured in Campbell’ account. Excellent diagrams sho us how the ships were designed. We learn a great deal about the industrial enterprises responsi for the work. Many readers will meet officers with whom they were not previously acquainted, like Comdr. James Johnston and Comdr. Isaac Brown, and become more familiar with the lik of Adm. Franklin Buchanan, Comdr. James Bulloch and Lt. Catesby ap Roger Jones. Campbell draws on many primary sources as well as secondary material. His own narration is supplemented by interesting passages written by the men who built the ironclads and who officered them in battl Campbell, who has written and edited several other books on the Confederate Navy, points out that as the war progressed the authorities realized that t “behemoths were in no way seaworthy and could not challenge the Union blockade.” They focused instead on smaller, more nimble ironclads to protect the rivers and harbors. Still, they did not give up completely on ocean-going ironclads. The CSS Stonewall, built in Bordeaux,
managed a stormy Atlantic crossing in 1865. Arriving in Havana on May 11, the ship’s captain, Thomas Jefferson Page, learned that he was too late. Page refus generous surrender-terms offered by an old friend commanding a U.S. ship in the same harbor. Instead, he sold the vessel to t captain-general of Cuba for the
crew were paid off by the proceeds of this sale. An appendix lists the officers and crewmen assigned to six of the more significant Confederate ironclads. There is no glossary naval terms, so landlubber readers, like this landlubber review must keep a dictionary on hand for words like keelson, sponson, holystone, and kedge.
Gould Hagler is a retired lobbyist living in Dunwoody, Ga. He is a past president of the Atlan Civil War Round Table and the author of Georgia’s Confederate Monuments: In Honor of a Fallen Nation, published by Mercer University Press in 2014. Hagler speaks frequently on this topic and others related to different aspects of the Civil War and has been a regular contributor to CW since 2016.
An Approachable Look at the B Visual Antietam Vol. 1 Ezra Carman’s Antietam Through Maps and Pictures: Dawn to Dunker Church. Edited by Brad Butkovich. Illustrations, map bibliography, index, 230 pp., 2018. Historic Imagination LL
In Visual Antietam Vol. 1: Ezra Carman’s Antietam Through Maps and Pictures:
Dawn to Dunker Church, editor Brad Butkovich attempts t
of Antietam for Beginners and No present a new look on the battle of Antietam with “an emphasis on visual context.” However, he fails to provide anything new or unique to this highly scrutinized battle. The main text is composed of Ezra Carman’s famous manuscripts on the Maryland Campaign. Butkovich accompanies Carman’s text with 63 images and 26 maps. This is the first in a series of three books that follow the chronological order of the battle. Volume One focuses on the first four hours of the battle that begins with the Union advance at dawn and ends with the fighting around the Dunker Church. All three volumes combined will trace the beginning of the battle to its conclusion. Carman was the legendary early Civil War historian. As a veteran of the battle and “historical expert” for the Antietam Battlefield Board, his text is widely accepted as the most complete and accurate account of the battle. Carman used after-action reports, regimental histories, an correspondence from hundreds of veterans. His text is revered by Antietam historians. However, Butkovich’s use of Carman’s text
fails to provide a new or unique perspective. Past historians have
s provided richer and more indepth evaluations of Carman’s text. The most thorough of these is Tom Clemens’ The Maryland Campaign of September 1862. Clemens’s three-volume masterpiece provides an annotated and edited analysis of Carman’s work that is an invaluable source for Antietam historians. Visual Antietam takes Carman’s text in a different direction. Butkovich picks and chooses chapters of Carman’s work that only focus on the events of the battle. He keeps the text in its original for without all but the basic notes or corrections. It seems Butkovich’s intention was to create a volume that could be carried onto the bat tlefield. He does succeed in making the book small and compact. However, in doing so, he loses some of the explanation and clarification that are necessary to tr ly understand Carman. Therefore, if you are a serious historian who wants a detailed look at Carman’s text and the battlefield, this boo is not for you. However, I would recommend it for a more casual observer of Antietam or those who will be taking a trip to the battlefield and want a portable
of Visual Antietam are its maps and images. The maps are Butkovich’s own and are impressive in their detail. Each of the 26 maps includes topographical and terrain details including elevation, crops, and fences. These details are overlaid with troop movements down to the regimental level. Along with these maps, there are 63 images including photographs taken by the author on the battlefield. The author’s images provide the reader with a good understanding of the terrain and view of the battlefield today, which is very useful to readers both on and off the field. Togethe the maps and the images allow the reader to visualize the battle field. However, these great assets have a major drawback. In the paperback edition that I reviewed, all the maps and images were in black and white. This is a major detriment to such a noble endeavor. Butkovich’s goal in Visual Antietam of bringing the battle to life is lost with the absence o color. His maps are highly detailed and this feature at times b comes lost. Likewise, some of his photos are dark and hard to see. Bradley Gottfried’s The Maps of
Antietam contains similar maps in color. Therefore, the utility o
the book is diminished with the absence of color. Overall, if you are a longtim historian of Antietam this book is not for you. You can find the major components of this book in greater detail elsewhere. If you want comprehensive and easy-to-read maps of Antietam, Gottfried’s The Maps of Antietam is for you. If you want an in-de look at Ezra Carman’s manuscript of the Maryland Campaign, see Tom Clemens’ The Maryland Campaign of September 1862. However, if you are a casual or novice historian on the battle o Antietam, Visual Antietam is worth your while.
Claire Affinito graduated in May 2019 from Shepherd University with her bachelor’s in history. is currently an education intern Antietam National Battlefield.
The Decision Was Always My Own: Ulysses S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign. By Timothy B. Smith. Notes, index, 249 pp. 2018, Southern Illinois
Historian Tim Smith has once again penned a wonderful work that takes a look at the Vicksb Campaign, but not in the typica manner of a campaign or battle study (the latter he has done w his excellent book on Champion Hill). Rather, he makes an exam ination of how Union General Ulysses S. Grant looked at the problem of taking the city and how he made his decisions to do so during the campaign. Smith organizes the book int eight chapters, each one focusing on a specific decision Gran made. These decisions and their outcomes are somewhat explained in the Introduction and Prologue where Smith compares Grant to a four-year college st dent with West Point being the freshman year in his military growth. The classroom of the Mexican and Civil War battlefields took care of his three o er “college” years quite well, whole point being that West Poi
graduated officers with more of an engineering background than tactical/strategic background and that the better graduates would grow in their respective commands. That Grant was able to do what he did at Vicksburg, a ninemonth campaign covering no less than six attempts to take the cit is a real testament to his abilit as a military commander along with his ability to be flexible o the battlefield and operationally Smith correctly labels Grant a Clausewitzian commander rather than a Jominian one (pretty much the rest of the Civil War commanders) despite the fact that Grant had never read a word of the Prussian theorist. Upon assumption of command of the Department of Tennessee in October 1862, Grant wrote his boss Henry Halleck, asking what was expected of him and his new command. After not being prohibited to begin an offensive, Grant did just that, thus showing one of his prime attributes a a commander. Smith delves into this—covering Grant’s proposed lines of advance, his corresponding supply problems, and manpower needs for a successful offensive. All this culminated, how ever, in the defeat Grant suffere in December when Confederate cavalry raiders smashed his railroad line of supply and Sherman was repulsed in his thrust down the Mississippi River. Despite this, as Smith shows, Grant displayed talent in getting multiple columns moving into Mississippi in a coordinated manner. Within the Vicksburg Campaign Grant had to deal with his own subordinates (some of whom he liked and some he did not, McClernand being at the fore of the latter), his logistic Confederate movements and reinforcements, his own family (son Fred and wife Julia attended him during the campaign), as well as writing mounds of paper to his superiors in terms of
reports and daily communications. Smith’s book offers plentiful examples of each and how Grant dealt with them. Yet when things seemed to go against him, Grant just dug in his heels and figured out a different way to ge things done. Halleck got testy as time wore on but Lincoln, seeing the bigger picture, wrote Grant, “I know that you can judge these matters there much better than I can here,” showing well how officials in Washington rarely understood realities in the field. How Grant dealt w McClernand takes up a fair bit of Smith’s account. Grant changed his opinion from good (“McClernand performed his job with much skill and without loss” to bad, and when McClernand finally got on Grant’s nerves for too long, he was able to fire him The work culminates with how Grant dealt with the captured Confederate garrison of some 30,000 troops as well as how he made sure his own rear was protected from Joe Johnston’s Confederates. Grant also had to deal with superiors who balked at the proposed parole of the large Rebel army. Halleck, somewhat a thorn in Grant’s side to this point in the war, complimented him with a telegram comparing his victory to that of Napoleon a Ulm. This is a fine study of Grant and how he tackled the Vicksburg dilemma. It is well researched and written and uses often the words of those involved to move the story along. Smith’s analysis is even-handed. If you ever had doubts as to Grant’s ability as a commander or perhaps thought him overrated, this book should shatter those conceptions. Grant was the pinnacle of Civil War commanders, Vicksburg was his masterpiece and Tim Smith nails it.
Greg Biggs, of Clarksville, Tenn. has studied military history from the Spartans to today. His main interests include the Napoleonic Wars, Civil War and World War Two and tanks/armor. He is also a recognized authority on Civil War flags. Greg lectures across the country to roundtables, museums and other history groups and conducts Civil War tours for history groups and staff rides for the U. Army.
Contributions of Civil War Chapla In God’s Presence: Chaplains, Missionaries, and Religious Space during the American Civil War. By Benjamin L. Miller.
Photos, notes, bibliography, index, 268 pp., 2019. University
The Civil War impacted countless aspects of everyday life, in cluding religion. In this clearly written study Benjamin Miller applies the concept of spatial th ory to illuminate continuity and change in religious practices fro the antebellum era to the war. Chaplains, and to a lesser extent civilian missionaries sent to vis the troops, served as catalysts t helped transfer religious meaning from “static physical spaces” of churches at home to battlefields, camps, hospitals, and prisons. In essence, “by their presence” chaplains brought “dynamic sacred spaces” to these war setting The book provides a valuable collective portrait of the duties and daily experiences of chaplains. Of course, the methods and messages of these religious leaders changed little from their pre war work among their congregations. Preaching outdoors or in makeshift chapels shared similarities with antebellum revivalism. Encouraging Bible reading and prayer, admonishing men to resist temptation and shun sin, and winning converts through personal testimony and exemplary living remained a constant theme of pastoral work whether at home or in the army. However, the war posed challenges that created new opportunities and reshaped religious practices. Most Protestant chaplains set aside denominational differences and cooperated with each other to promote a shared faith. Preaching for each other, uniting to perform baptisms and observe communion, and soliciting soldier memberships in
a degree of ecumenism that foreshadowed postwar shifts in the religious landscape. Some Union chaplains ministered to black soldiers or freedmen, providing a glimpse of racial equality that leaders of some denominations briefly pursued during Reconstruction before segregated churches, oftentimes favored by both blacks and whites, became the norm. Miller also maintains that hospitals and prisons, new spaces of religious activity for most clergy, “proved to be the foundation for Northern and Southern civil religions that came to fruition in the postbellum era.” Imprisoned chaplains defiantly prayed for their respective armies and presidents in earshot of their captors and hospital chaplains observed days of national thanksgiving or publicly mourned Lincoln’s death. But far from originating a patriot ically imbued faith, these activities, as documented in Richard Carwardine’s Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America (1993) or my own A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War (2011), merely carried on a long tradition of blending religion and politics that cha acterized both northern and southern churches across most denominations throughout the sectional crisis and during the war. Diaries, personal correspondence, Union chaplains’ hospital reports, and postwar reminiscences furnish a solid source base for this study, although incorporating the abundance of chaplain letters from religious periodicals could have yielded additional insights. Miller offers a balanced description that considers Protestant, Catholic, Union, and Confederate examples to form his assessment of the valuable contributions of chaplains. Ample anecdotal evidence confirms that some men who served as Civil War chaplains were impostors, hypocrites, or otherwise unfit for their duties, but most o their rank more readily deserved one Confederate soldier’s commendation for being “a sincere and hard working Christian.” Anyone interested in the religious history of the war should enjoy Miller’s fine addition to this growing literature.
Sean A. Scott, assistant professor of history at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities, is writing a biography of chaplain and postwar carpetbagger missionary Nelson L. Brakeman of the 21st Indiana Volunteers.
Voices of the Civil War Ser Peter Carmichael, Series Edit For my What the Yankees Did to Us (2012), I drew upon a n ber of Union soldiers’ letter memoirs and diaries. Some of them w unpublished, from libraries a
(Latin for “my fat work”—it was 527 pages!) I thanked the late, great Albert Castel. Wh I was reading Dr. Castel’s dr of Decision in the West in th summer of 1990, Albert told m that he had researched beyond Sherman’s capture of the city into its occupation by Union troops. He once thought of including the Federal occupat in his book, and had accumula research material on it; but by then he had sufficient tex
concerning the occupation, most from Northern libraries and archives that I could never hop to visit. Albert surprised me further when my Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions was published in 2001. Unknown to me, my publisher had sent my draft to him, asking for a prelication assessment. Imagine my surprise when the first copy
Albert’s blurb on the back cover: “Demolishes old myths and replaces them with new truths, and does so in a fashion that i as hard-hitting as a 20-pounder Parrott shell striking its targ To be read with profit and joy. (Wherever you are, thank you, Albert!) But back to the published li ature of the occupation, which rich and diverse. Every now and then it behooves us armchair historians t put aside the increasingly micr
als’ biographies, and get the r scoop on the war, which is to say, from the writings of the s diers themselves. In my researc on the Union occupation of our city, one of the most valuable sources I found was A Legacy of Valor: The Memoirs and Letters of Captain Henry Newton Comey, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry. It has been edited by Lyman Richard Comey; Captain Comey was his great-grandfather’s cousin. Publication was by the
University of Tennessee Press in its “Voices of the Civil War” Series in 2004. Henry Comey was 21, recently graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, when he enlisted as a private in Co. G, 2n Massachusetts Infantry, on May 14, 1861. He was promoted corporal in June 1862, 1st sergeant three months later, and second lieutenant in January 1863. In l ters, a diary, and a memoir (wri ten just after the war), Comey d scribed his experiences with an arresting admixture of sensitivi and erudition. At Kernstown he saw a man’s head blown off by cannon-shot. “It was the worst
sight I have ever seen in my lif and I would never forget it….but I will never be able to find the
diers are so poorly informed tha they often do not know much about their regiment’s success o failure in a particular battle.” More, soldiers exercised a ve justified right to question the erals’ take on a battle. Comey did: “General Pope [says] that the battle of Cedar Mountain was a ‘great victory.’ We have great doubt about that. Possibly somebody’s purpose was accomplished, but the members of the
not.” After Antietam, Comey again found words wanting to describe what he had seen in a let of September 18: “You must not wonder if I don’t write you. You would not if you knew.” Then, after Chancellorsville, where he “had splattered in my face twice, men’s brains,” Comey confessed to his father that he “so much to write, everything is mixed up.” On the third morning of Gettysburg, Comey, a captain by now, overheard his regimental commander question an order to
“Are you sure that is the order?” “Yes,” answered the courier “Well, it is murder, but it the order. Up, men; over th works.” Later, Comey buried the body of his colonel. Seeing such things, Comey recorded what many of his comrades concluded: “I had learned a hard lesson of loyalty, courag and valor which I would never forget. I had also learned about
lent death and dying, and I w I would be forever changed some way by that experience.” aptain Comey’s service with 2nd Massachusetts extendto the western theater, as he lowed Sherman into Georgia the Carolinas. Through his ds, artfully edited by Lyman ey from their three sources, have a chance yet again to unstand the soldier’s experience: dship and suffering, violence
George N.The Barnard’s Atlantaphotographs Campaign of the Atlanta Campaign The American Civil War was the first used entrenchments, repeating rifles, communications.
It was also the first American War to While Mathew Brady, Timothy Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner and T having made iconic photographs in the O’Sullivan and a few others won fame George N. Barnard deserves to be rank work in the war’s western theater.
A civilian photographer hired by Gen. as photographers of the American take pictures of fortifications aroun them in and around the city in the fa Union Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson’s Civil War’s eastern theater, George N. 1864. Thus far, no comprehensive, definitiv Barnard earned a reputation as the key work. The Library of Congress has 130 image Point, New York, has at least 98 phot cameraman of the war’s western area. Other repositories, such as the Gilde New York City, have smaller collectio Evidence of this is Barnard’s hundreds For this book we have chosen a hundre
We hope that this work will stimulate of photographs taken of Atlanta Barnardiana, and that other scholarly
Campaign scenes. Some were published in 1866, but many more have
appeared in the countless pictorial histories of the Civil War.
A Long and Bloody Task The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw Mountain to the Chattahoochee Ri May 5–July 18, 1864
All the Fighting They Want The Atlanta Campaign from Peachtree Creek to the City’s Surrend July 18–September 2, 1864
With the Yankee army five miles outside of Atlanta, Hood promised not to give up with city without a fight—
which is all President Jefferson Davis asked. Davis’ companion volume, All the Fighting They Want, describes Hood’s efforts to defend Atlanta. Its fall in early September 1864 was a mortal blow to Confederate hopes for independence and a big boost to Lincoln’s hopes for presidential reelection. Paperback, 192 pages.
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mpaign. The album of si -one photographic plate oduced by Barnard in 18 me 100 to 150 copies. E atured pictures taken b otographer as he travel erman’s army during the d in spring 1866, when rned to the South. Barnard’s Photographic reprinted in Keith F. finitive George N. Barn
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War Stuff: The Struggle for the Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War. By Joan E. Cashin. Notes, works cited, index, 258 pp., 2018. Cambridge Universit
In the last several years Ci War scholarship has seen a
surge of studies focused on th war and its relationship with
Total War for Resource environment. In his 2001 article for the National Humanities Center, environmental historian Jack Temple Kirby called for the connection of Civil War and environmental studies. Since then, historians from both fields have answered the call. Organized thematically and divided into seven chapters, Joan E. Cashin’s War Stuff is a valuable contribution to this growing Civil War subfield. Building on the work produced by Megan Kate Nelson’s Ruin Nation and Matthew Stith’s Extreme Civil War, Cashin combines the themes of these two books to grow our understanding of how consuming the Civil War was for resources and civilians. As Cashin’s subtitle indicates the book focuses on the human and environmental resources available to both armies during the war. Furthermore, it illuminates the tensions between military and civilian relations. Unio and Confederate armies’ attitudes towards civilians, their habitats, food and timber, and ineffective policy on attaining those resources made the Civil War “a ‘total’ war, in that it involv
the complete exploitation of human and material resources.”
Cashin further contends there was no early war period of cooperation between the armies and civilians. “From the beginning, both armies practiced ‘hard’ war because of failures of supply and discipline.” The “total” war waged by both armies destroyed the South’s human and natural resources. Important to the book’s contribution, and persuasively ar gued, is that Confederate armies were as guilty as their Union adversaries for the destruction of southern resources. The book’s final chapter discusses this noti with greater depth. In it, Cashin explores how the destruction of the South’s resources affected th way Southerners understood the war. Throughout War Stuff, Cashin urges that soldiers put their needs for resources over anything else. Necessity trumped policy. Early in the war, both armies adopted the Articles of War, written in 1806, that aimed to regulate actions between soldiers and subordinate civilians to the military. Later in the war each side implemented new official policies for civilian-mil-
itary relations: Union General John Pope’s and Secretary of War
Edwin Stanton’s General Orders in July and August 1862 and official Confederate regulations in January 1863. Even with these policies, Cashin contends, both armies “proved willing to exploit civilians for their own purposes, regardless of what policy might say…[and] had little impact on the behavior of soldiers on the ground.” A central aspect of the book is its analysis of antebellum notions of communalism towards other whites and stewardship of resources. These attitudes were vital to life and culture in the Nor and South in the pre-war decades. Ideas of communalism and stewardship, however, were shattered by the conflict as armies took advantage of available resources and civilians continually looked towards their survival. One element of human resources, however, is glaringly absent from War Stuff. Slaves proved to be valuable resources to both
armies. Whether they provided Union armies with intelligence or built Confederate fortifications, each side had a vested interest in South’s enslaved population. More inclusion of this group would provide a deeper analysis of the South’s human resources. Still, Cashin has produced a meticulously researched and eloquently written book. Underscoring the strained military-civilian relationship betwee both Union and Confederate armies, War Stuff illuminates how devastating and total the American Civil War was.
John Martin McMillan is a Ph.D. student and graduate teaching assistant in the Department of History at West Virginia Universi in Morgantown, West Virginia. His master’s thesis examined the role of the natural environment on the early military campaigns in West Virginia during the summer and fall of 1861.
nics on the beach, and peaceful exploration against a backdrop of silent cannons at Dry Tortugas National Park's Garden Key. The national landmark was designed as “an immense gun platform and heavily armed,” according to the Park Service staff. Today, only twenty-five 15-inch smoothbore Rodman cannon, each weighing around 50,000 lbs., are known to exist. They note that among the fort`s various cannon types, in addition to Parrott rifles, one o the largest was the “Rodman Cannon,” with a 15-inch bore, Publishers: Send your book(s) fo CWN Book Review Editor, St 3670 Falling Leaf Lane, Cummin
al Rodman's Cannon that could fire a 440-pound shell over 3-½ miles. 'Rodman gun' refers to a series of Columbiads designed by Union artilleryman Bvt. Brigadier General Thomas Jackson Rodman; these were smoothbore, heavy guns that fired both solid shot and shell. Rodman had developed a new cannon founding process, hollow casting, that resulted in cast iro guns much stronger than those previous made. Intended for seacoas fortifications and manufactured with 8, 10, 12, 15, and 20-inch bores, "they were all nearly identical in design, with a curvin soda bottle shape, and a large fla back with rachets or sockets for the elevating mechanism."
The South Florida National Parks Trust says its 25-ton Rodman was mounted on a Maryland-made reproductio carriage in 2015. The undertaking to mount the cannon began five years earlier in 2010, accord ing to museum curator Nancy Russell, who said at the time, “A Rodman cannon hasn’t been seen at Fort Jefferson in over 100 years.” The original gun carriages had been scrapped in 1900 leading to corrosion and deterioration of the cannon at Fort Jefferson. A team of civilian and government experts from many backgrounds, plus the military from Homestead AFB, were enlisted in 2010 to mount the massive gun. Logistics were a major challenge as the site location was 70 miles west of Key West where accessibility was only possible by boat
and carriage 45 feet above the parade ground posed difficulties. Safety was also daunting because working with such a heavy object with a crane or helicopter was not possible. The barrel was ultimately raise 7.5 feet with a ‘gun lift’ inspire by a circa 1876 Rodman jack designed by Colonel Theodore T.S. Laidley specifically for the 15inch Rodman, but with a modification. With the barrel suspended, the carriage was then assembled, one part at a time, underneath the gun. The assembly was complicated because pieces weighed
almost 1,000 lbs. and each had be hauled to the terreplein.
The NPS contracts for continu ing conservation treatment meth ods and coatings established by the Naval Research Laboratory's Center for Corrosion Science an Engineering. The goal is longterm sustainability in the hars marine environment of Garden Key. A Side Note: Thomas Rodman, an 1841 West Point graduate who designed the gun, began his career in the Ordnance Department at the Allegheny Arsenal. Durin the Civil War, he served as superintendent of the Watertown Arsenal, in Cambridge, Mass., before taking command of the
Civil War period photograph of Alexandria, Va., 1864. Note the
Rock Island Arsenal in August 1865. In addition to creating a arsenal master plan, he tested metal, supervised cannon manufacture, tested guns and gunpow der, and served on ordnance and artillery boards. View the Rock Island Arsenal Museum's website
org/museum for its history and visitor hours. Arsenal: Explori Tomorrow Through Yesterday, published in 1996, is available many university libraries. A st ry by the author also appeared the Summer 2014 issue of The Artilleryman.
Joan Wenner, J.D. is a longtime history and maritime writer previously published in The Artilleryman, America’s Civil W Military Heritage; and others.
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Battlefield Of Franklin Land Preservation Purchase By GreGory L. Wade that were turned over to the City SHOWS, LIVING HISTORY AND REENACTMENTS • HISTORICAL ARTICLES FRANKLIN, Tenn. — What is of Franklin Parks Department by considered the bloodiest acreage in Franklin’s Charge and the Battle of the Nov. 30, 1864, Battle of Franklin Franklin’s Trust (BOFT), managers is now being reclaimed as part of the of the Carter House the nearby Carnevolving Carter Hill Battlefield Park. ton Plantation. The structures will be Local preservation leaders recently removed in coming months, possibly
MONTHLY COLUMNS • CALENDAR OF EVENTS from owners Reid and Brenda The purchase is only the latest step Lovell after a months-long process in a long and arduous effort to reof coordinating various funding build the Franklin battlefield. sources for the critical 1.6 acres that “It had to be a miracle,” quipped adjoin the Carter House, a major Civil War Trust (CWT) President battle landmark. James Lighthizer, referring to the Details were recently provided at most recent acquisition. Local resa press conference led by Franklin’s ident Michael Grainger, long time Charge board member Julian Bibb, Trust board member and former CALLOnly
who praised the “remarkable tran- chairman, said, “Local leadership sition” of the Franklin battlefield. has been incredible and will continFranklin’s Charge is a coalition of ue to be a partner [with the CWT].” civic and preservation groups who In 2005, after years of frustration joined together more than ten years attempting to preserve Franklin batago to purchase local battleground. tleground, local preservationists deOver 150 years ago the Army of cided it would have to be done the Tennessee stepped off in a series hard way, by buying properties, ofof charges to be virtually destroyed ten with buildings on them. by Federals under John Schofield in The largest parcel of land was hopes of taking Franklin and later originally a local golf course slated Nashville. to be sold to a developer to build At that time, most of the terrain houses on what was the right flank was open farmland on the outskirts of the Confederate attack north toof what was once a small Middle ward the Federal lines just south of Tennessee farming community. Over the town. Battle of Franklin. 1891 print by Kurz and Allison. Restoration by Adam Cuerden. (Library of Congress) time development covered much of It was then that Franklin’s Charge the battlefield with houses, light in- came into existence. Funds have lin Parks Department, according to
All that remained of the critical chase from private donors, the CWT, But it was the land just south of the area where the Confederates tem- the City of Franklin and others. That Carter House, long considered the porarily broke the Federal line was 110-acre segment, now fully inter- most bloodied ground in Franklin, the small farmhouse and a few acres preted and known as the Eastern and some say in America, that was known as the Carter House farm. Flank Battlefield, is what got the the most coveted. The 1.6 acres purchased, which preservation ball rolling in Franklin. BOFT Chief Executive Officer adjoin the southern boundary of the Since that time nine other parcels Eric Jacobson noted, “to not have Carter House property, is comprised in proximity to the Carter House this ground reclaimed and preserved, of two lots. Today, they are occupied have been purchased and have been, would be like having Omaha Beach
The most recent acquisition evolved when Franklin’s Charge and the BOFT began discussions with the
Lovells, who have a strong sense of the history of the land, having grown up in Franklin. “I was born and raised in Franklin on ground many believe should have been a national park,” said Reid Lovell. He recalled when visitors came to town and had to envision what happened, not walk on ground where it transpired. “My great-grandfather, who fought here, and my parents would be proud of what we are doing here today,” he 520 Folly Road, Suite 25 PMB 379 Charleston, SC 29412 said at the press conference. Franklin Alderman Michael Skinner, left, and Franklin Charge Board The Franklin Board of Mayor member Ernie Bacon attended the Franklin press conference. and Aldermen voted unanimously in February to fund part of the funding and the most complex, preservation group in Franklin who remaining debt on the Lovell according to Bibb. for years advocated the possibility property purchase. The previously “With help from city officials, the of a battleground park, attended the
are being transferred to the city in ABPP, we got it done,” Bibb noted. “have been with us every step,” said
paid by the city on a non-interest nors including local Civil War Trust The site interpretation work will basis over seven years. board member Grainger, who has be led by representatives of the TenThese funds will cover the balance been involved with other national nessee Civil War National Heritage now bridged by a local bank and will preservation efforts. Franklin Charge leader Julian Bibb speaks at the Lovell purchase closing. (Gregory L. Wade photos) be derived from the city’s hotel-mo- Representatives of Save the Frank- H Franklin tel tax. Local banker Chuck Isaacs lin Battlefield, the oldest battlefield . . . . . . . . . . . see page 4 was instrumental in working out the loans. All the city funds are allotted
by his employer, First Farmers and Merchants Bank. 23 – Black Powder, White Smoke 11 – The Source
National Park Service’s American 33 – Critics Corner 10 – Treasures From The Museum Battlefield Protection Program 36 – Events Section 14 – The Watchdog (ABPP) was a major piece of the Buying, Selling and Brokering Purveyor of Original Artillery Items Let me help connect you with a buyer or seller. I specialize in cannon, projectiles, fuses and wrenches, implements, sights, gunner’s equipment, tools, and other artillery related equipment. From single items to collections. Finders Fees Paid.
