The Peninsula - Fort Crafford, Mulberry Island, Warwick Line, April . . . These were tidal marshes filled with abundant wildlife, deciduous trees, and pine, blackberry and strawberry patches, wild onions, etc Near my old haunting grounds, the contractors came in and put a levee across the head of the marsh, damming it up from the sea to form a freshwater lake with its natural spring only a two-minute walk from my
Stonewall - Stonewall Jacksons Plan of Northern Invasion | Famous . . . A "Sherman-esqe" invasion where the force lives off the land and doesn't worry about supply lines is technically feasible early in the war but realistically; not so much lol The men weren't truly hardened yet and the threat of invasion might have pulled in the thousands of northerners into the militia and army that were sitting on the wayside Then the thought occurs what happens then, when
Civil War One-Liners | Quotations Forrest, as usual, showed up unannounced with his horsemen in Yankee occupied Memphis well before dawn August 21, 1864 3 Federal generals managed to evade capture, one- the district commander, General CC Washburn, in his nightshirt and out the backdoor as Forrest's men came in the front, and another- the former district commander, General
Jeb Stuart during the invasion | What if. . . Discussions No, the real problem is most historians forget that Stuart was engaged with Union cavalry, protecting Lee's backdoor, just days before his departure Stuart didn't start his trip north to Pennsylvania, the last large Confederate unit to do so, until June 25