Early spring has arrived, and with it the promise of the large-scale resumption of battles. Today’s minor military happenings merely serve as preludes to the great clashes which are surely to come. Among the day’s developments are the capture of a Confederate outpost at Cherry Grove, Virginia and skirmishes in Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri. The…
Spring may have officially arrived, but the occasional winter battle continues, sometimes in rather unexpected fashion. Today is one of those days. This morning near Dalton, Georgia the winter weather leads to a spirited battle. Troops from Arkansas in the Army of Tennessee seize the initiative when Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, the highest-ranking Irish-born…
Peter Barrow was born a slave near Petersburg, Virginia in 1840. As a child he was taken to a plantation in Alabama. Earlier this year, perhaps when Union naval and army forces invaded and gained control over the Mobile Bay area in February, Barrow, now a young man, managed to escape. Fleeing to Vicksburg, this…