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10/21/2024

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-balls-bluff

On October 21, 1861, Union troops suffer a devastating defeat in the second major engagement of the Civil War. The Battle of Ball’s Bluff in Virginia produced the war’s first martyr and led to the creation of a Congressional committee to monitor the conduct of the war. After the Battle of Bull R...

10/16/2024

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-browns-raid-on-harpers-ferry

Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery. Born in Connecticut in 1800 and raised in Ohio, Brown came from a staunchly...

10/12/2024

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/robert-e-lee-dies

General Robert Edward Lee, the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, dies at his home in Lexington, Virginia. He was 63 years old. Lee was born to Henry Lee and Ann Carter Lee at Stratford Hall, Virginia, in 1807. His father served in the American Revolution under George Washington...

https://nobility.org/2017/01/general-lee-shared-meager-rations-prisoners/
10/11/2024

https://nobility.org/2017/01/general-lee-shared-meager-rations-prisoners/

That General Lee was a “square” fighter was evidenced time and again during the great conflict for the Union. When his army invaded the North in the campaign that culminated at Gettysburg he gave strict orders that no harm should be done to private property, and General Lee was once seen to get ...

10/04/2024

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-watches-a-balloon-ascension

President Abraham Lincoln observes a balloon demonstration near Washington, D.C. Both Confederate and Union armies experimented with using balloons to gather military intelligence in the early stages of the war, but the balloons proved to be dangerous and impractical for most situations. Though ball...

09/16/2024

Award-winning author William Connery
Will give a presentation on his book
Civil War Northern Virginia 1861
to the Lee-Jackson Camp #1 SCV
On Tuesday September 17, 2024, at 7:00 pm
Social Hour starts at 6:00 pm
The Wilton House
215 S. Wilton Road Richmond, VA 23226
In the mid-nineteenth century, Alexandria was a port across from the Nation’s Capital; Arlington was an eleven-hundred acre estate managed by U.S. Colonel and Mrs. Robert E. Lee; Fairfax, Prince William and Loudoun Counties consisted of rolling farmland and tiny villages. This peaceful region was thrown into chaos as South Carolina seceded from the Union in December 1860 and other slave states followed until Virginia finally joined the Confederacy in April and May 1861. The ‘invasion’ of Northern Virginia on May 24, 1861, created a no-man’s land between Yankee and Rebel armies. Some citizens joined Confederate forces, while others stayed to face uncertainty. The first Union and Confederate officers killed in the War happened here. The Confederate Battle Flag was designed here. This book offers new insights into this most important time in American history.
William S. Connery grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, considered “neutral territory” in the War Between the States. As a young boy, his family visited the battlefields of Gettysburg, Sharpsburg, Harpers Ferry and other local historical sites. He has a degree in history from the University of Maryland, College Park. Since 1989, Mr. Connery has lived in Fairfax County, near Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. He is the author of two History Press books: 'Civil War Northern Virginia 1861' & 'Mosby’s Raids in Civil War Northern Virginia.'

09/04/2024

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/confederate-forces-enter-kentucky

Confederate General Leonidas Polk commits a major political blunder by marching his troops into Columbus, Kentucky—negating Kentucky’s avowed neutrality and causing the Unionist legislature to invite the U.S. government to drive the invaders away. Kentucky was heavily divided prior to the war. A...

08/23/2024

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rose-greenhow-is-arrested

Allan Pinkerton, head of the new secret service agency of the Federal government, places Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow under house arrest in Washington, D.C. Greenhow was a wealthy widow living in Washington at the outbreak of the war. She was well connected in the capital and was especiall...

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