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Tag Archives: Joseph E. Johnston
Wilmer McLean: A Plague on Both His Houses
Wilmer McLean is one of those oddities of the Civil War, where truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. Wilmer McLean was a Virginia wholesale grocer, who at age 39 married a well-to-do widow with two children and a moderate plantation … Continue reading
Posted in American Civil War, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Appomattox Court House, Civil War history, Col. Charles Marshall, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Battle of Bull Run, First Manassas, Ft. Sumter, General Joseph E. Johnston, General Lee aide Col. Marshall, General Pierre Beauregard, General PTG Beauregard, General Robert E. Lee, General Ulysses S. Grant, history, Joseph E. Johnston, Manassas, President Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Second Battle of Bull run, Second Manassas, The Peninsula Campaign, The siege of Petersburg, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, Wilmer McLean
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“Prince” John Magruder: Confederate Showman
John B. Magruder was the Confederacy’s master showman whose tactics have gone down in history as the best flim-flam of the Civil War. John Bankhead Magruder: Virginia Soldier John Bankhead Magruder (1807-1871) was Virginia born and raised, University of Virginia … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Civil War, Civil War Battle of Yorktown, Civil War history, Civil War Siege of Yorktown, Feather Schwartz Foster, General George McClellan, General John B. Magruder, General Joseph E. Johnston, Geprge McClellan, history, John B. Magruder, John Magruder's maneuvers in Yorktown, Joseph E. Johnston, McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Peninsula Campaign, US Civil War, US history
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