tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71611761186269502632024-02-19T11:30:29.565-05:00Freedom by the SwordJimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.comBlogger249125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-88099953262326560932018-12-20T13:52:00.000-05:002018-12-20T14:04:22.655-05:00A Battlefield Monument at New Market Heights: The Time Has Come
In the epilogue to my first book, The Battle of New Market Heights: Freedom Will Be Theirs By The Sword, I wrote the following:
If the…commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War is to have any truly lasting impact, the preservation and interpretation of endangered sites like the New Market Heights battlefield must top any list of priorities. Until this situation changes, Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-41400610492341264952018-12-06T14:21:00.001-05:002018-12-06T15:27:01.752-05:00Milton Holland and H.R.1010
Greetings and salutations everyone! My apologies for
another extended break from blogging. While my posts have grown few and far
between, my passion for the topic of the American Civil War has not waned, I
can assure you.
Need proof?
Okay.
Today I received an email that “got my dander up,” to use
a 19th century idiom. How this topic eluded me for so long escapes
me, but once it was Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-6061390804080408422018-06-04T09:31:00.002-04:002018-06-07T09:12:48.993-04:00At Long Last, The Petersburg Campaign is Getting Its DueThis is slightly depressing to admit, but it was twenty years ago this month that I started my first job in public history. A faintly emaciated college freshman, my initial foray into educating the wider public about the American Civil War was launched at Stop 3 of Petersburg National Battlefield, better known as the “Union camp” because I was part of a group of about ten other seasonal Park Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-72888418195450194112018-05-25T10:40:00.003-04:002018-05-25T11:05:06.704-04:00The Trump Administration & Camp NelsonI’d like to draw your attention to an article that was published this morning over at The Guardian regarding the preservation efforts under way at a place that is essential to our understanding of the history of United States Colored Troops.
Image: Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park
Camp Nelson, Kentucky was originally constructed in 1863 as a supply depot for the Federal Army of the Ohio.Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-47350606364622051172018-05-17T15:12:00.003-04:002018-05-18T09:42:54.452-04:00Post-Sesquicentennial Homesick Blues Greetings and salutations to the three of you who still remember that this blog exists! Well, it’s 2018 and three years have passed since any substantive content has been posted on this site…three years since the 150th anniversary commemorations of the American Civil War came to a close.
My sesquicentennial was a madcap whirlwind of activity that saw the publication of two books, researching andJimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-34581683907050055082017-01-12T15:18:00.002-05:002017-01-13T08:19:14.488-05:00The Battle of New Market Heights at Five: Looking Back
Greetings, and happy 2017! It’s hard to believe that this blog has been dormant for over a year…
Much has changed since I last posted. I am now heading up the Programs and Education Department for the National Museum of the U.S. Army, a rewarding endeavor that takes up most of my waking hours.
In the wild melee to get this museum ready to go by the proposed opening date of 2019, the Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-41205701172106913672015-12-31T13:37:00.004-05:002015-12-31T13:41:55.610-05:00He Had Won for Himself an Honorable Name: The Untimely Death of John Chambliss
Part six in a series.
The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign witnessed many dark days
for the Army of Northern Virginia, but one that has received scant attention is
August 16, 1864. On that day, Lee’s army lost two brigadier generals. This post
will briefly examine the life of Brig. Gen. John R. Chambliss, Jr. and the
impact his death had upon events north of the James in 1864.
John R. Chambliss,Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-56547208418525632372015-12-18T20:04:00.005-05:002015-12-18T20:05:25.126-05:00Valor in Blue and Gray: Timothy O’Connor and Adam Ballenger at First Deep Bottom
Part five in a series.
In my last post we finished off the First Battle of Deep
Bottom by examining the final day of major fighting, July 28, 1864. This day
saw intense combat that pitted Confederate infantry under Brig. Gen. James
Conner against Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. David McM. Gregg at the Darby
Farm.
During that fight, two individuals stood out for heroism
above and beyond the Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-67484107093179369092015-12-08T20:25:00.003-05:002015-12-08T20:28:03.194-05:00Collision at the Darby Farm: July 28, 1864
Part four in a series.
In my last post we examined the first large-scale fighting
of the First Battle of Deep Bottom – the clash at Tilghman’s Gate on July 27,
1864. When we left Hancock and Sheridan, they were hesitant to follow up the
gains they had won when they pushed the Confederates out of their line along
the New Market Road. Hancock spent the rest of the morning of the 27th
Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-46952846708383937252015-11-23T13:33:00.001-05:002015-11-23T13:33:46.143-05:00Center of Military History, Here I ComeGreetings, and Happy Thanksgiving everyone -- I hope you all have a chance to relax, gorge yourself on some turkey, and do some light reading over the next few days (may I suggest catching up on my Operations North of the James series? I'd certainly be thankful if you do!)
In any case, while I usually keep personal stuff off of this page, I have an announcement that directly applies to the Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-77747461272130399012015-11-19T09:30:00.003-05:002015-11-19T09:31:54.935-05:00The First Battle of Deep Bottom: July 27, 1864The First Battle of Deep Bottom– also occasionally called the Battle of Darbytown, Strawberry Plains, Tilghman’s Gate, New Market Road ,Gravel Hill, and even Malvern Hill (the latter causing a great deal of confusion) – was part of Grant’s Third Offensive of the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, which culminated in the infamous mine attack known as the Crater. It lasted from July 27-29, 1864.
In Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-27594605850648381982015-11-11T09:49:00.000-05:002015-11-11T09:50:00.758-05:00Establishing the Deep Bottom Bridgehead
Part two in a series.
In my previous post I outlined the important series of
actions fought north of the James River during the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
from July – October 1864. This post will explore the means by which Federal
forces participated in these battles – the Deep Bottom bridgehead. The name
“Deep Bottom” refers to an area on the James River 11 miles southeast of
Richmond Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-69882414568768457062015-11-09T10:28:00.000-05:002015-11-09T10:29:58.537-05:00Operations North of the James River: June - October 1864
Part One in a Series.
What if I was to tell you that a series of desperate battles
was fought on the footsteps of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia?
You’d most likely think that I was referring to the Seven Days Battles of 1862,
right?
Wrong.
Skip forward two years past the famed debut of Robert E. Lee
as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia and you will Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-58072332445307182572015-10-26T10:00:00.007-04:002015-10-26T10:38:47.092-04:00Return to Deep Bottom
Greetings! My apologies for falling off the face of the
planet for a while, but my previous post elicited such deranged hatred from some
of the self-appointed gatekeepers of ACW blogging that I thought it best to lay
low for a while.
Mike Andrus describing the collapse of Girardey's line.
In any case, I had the pleasure of helping lead a tour of
the Fussell’s Mill battlefield for the Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-6007809198792058632015-07-30T21:56:00.000-04:002015-08-21T12:41:18.535-04:00Ain’t I a Human? – Dehumanization, Then & Now
In my previous post, I lamented the troubling legacies of
the American Civil War that have been cropping up in recent headlines. In the
intervening weeks since I wrote that post, a new scandal has broken into the
headlines – a story which contains several parallels to the dehumanizing
practice of slavery in the antebellum South and which originates from the same
ideological cesspool…and yet no Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-72408878761604081802015-07-04T15:47:00.003-04:002015-07-04T15:48:56.574-04:00We’ve Got a Long Way to Go: The Confederate Battle Flag, George Takei’s “Uncivil” Rant, & the Legacy of Race in America Well, if ever anyone needed ammunition to bolster their arguments that the haunting legacies of slavery and the Civil War still impact our nation today, the past few weeks have provided an abundance of troubling evidence.
I, for one, was very troubled over the initial debate over the public display of the Confederate battle flag in the wake of the horrific hate crime in Charleston. To me, it Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-29832736892089132962015-05-25T08:19:00.001-04:002015-05-25T08:20:10.863-04:00The Unknown Loyal Dead
Just around the corner from Mrs. Lee’s famed rose garden
at Arlington house lays a nearly-forgotten monument that was the first Tomb of Unknown
Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Erected in 1866, this massive crypt
houses the remains of 2,111 Union war dead that were removed from hastily dug
mass graves on the battlefields stretching from Manassas to the Rappahannock
River.
Tomb of the Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-12156760672233142432015-05-12T10:16:00.001-04:002015-05-12T10:17:59.871-04:00May 12, 1864: Death of a Legend
The following is an eyewitness account of Maj. Gen. J.E.B.
Stuart’s death on May 12, 1864. Stuart’s adjutant, Maj. Henry McClellan, wrote
to Flora Stuart to explain the circumstances of how he was wounded and the
manner of his death. Flora had arrived at the home Dr. Charles Brewer on May 12th
to find that Stuart had been dead for several hours and was greatly grieved to
know that she had just Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-89663740691259666732015-05-11T20:26:00.002-04:002015-05-11T20:29:55.092-04:00“Bully for Gordon!” – Fighting at Ground Squirrel Church, May 11, 1864
While many people are familiar with the Battle of Yellow
Tavern and the resultant mortal wounding of famed Confederate cavalry chieftain
J.E.B. Stuart, the hotly contested fighting that centered around Goodall’s
Tavern and Ground Squirrel Church in Hanover County on the same day has
received scant attention. This rear guard action pitted Brig. Gen. James B.
Gordon’s Tarheel Brigade against some Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-20523144107583609442015-04-30T23:03:00.001-04:002015-04-30T23:04:40.644-04:00Virginia Time Travel Appearance Look ma, I'm famous!
I recently sat down with the good folks at Virginia Time Travel to discuss a variety of subjects, to include Freedman’s Village, the Battle of New Market Heights, and this very blog.
If you’ve got a cool thirty minutes to kill, why not take a gander?
(NOTE: At one point in the interview I tripped over my tongue and said that two Federal Corps crossed the James Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-56187166475061925262015-04-20T12:11:00.001-04:002015-04-20T12:15:26.799-04:00A Heartrending Letter from Freedman’s Village
Every once in a while in my research I find something that transcends
the usual dry recitation of facts and events – something that leaps off of the
page and eradicates the 150 year barrier that separates me from the people and
events I am investigating.
A recent find that falls into that category is a letter
housed in the collection of the Library of Georgia from a woman named Ann Butler
whoJimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-28693469253271054632015-04-14T16:20:00.002-04:002015-04-14T16:24:23.275-04:00In Memoriam: Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Today the sad news was announced that Elizabeth Brown Pryor, author of the Lincoln Prize-Winning Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private Letters, was killed in a tragic car accident in Richmond, Va.
I had the pleasure to meet Ms. Pryor on a few occasions, mainly when I worked at Arlington House, and she was always upbeat and kind, with a memorable smile.
She was a Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-76310800646780592402015-04-06T21:40:00.003-04:002015-04-07T10:50:44.302-04:00Lest We Forget: New Market Heights Medals of Honor Issued 150 Years Ago Today
While the nation is busy commemorating the Battle of Sailor’s
Creek and Lee’s flight to Appomattox, today marks another, less famous
anniversary that is nonetheless extremely significant.
On April 6, 1865 – 150 years ago today – the Medal of Honor
was authorized for African American foot soldiers for the very first time in
American history (Sgt. William Carney of the 54th Massachusetts did
Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-59857686147983915392015-03-12T22:22:00.004-04:002015-03-12T23:43:53.503-04:00Back in the Saddle (Again)
Well hello there, sorry for the prolonged absence! In my
defense, my wife and I recently welcomed a third bundle of joy into the House
of Price, so things have been a bit chaotic recently.
Other than checking in to reassure you that I am still alive
and have not absconded my role as Civil War author, blogger, and occasional annoyance to Kevin Levin, I thought I’d update you on my newest book Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161176118626950263.post-21630940613250373572015-01-21T18:24:00.001-05:002015-01-21T18:24:46.566-05:00Fun with Facebook: New Market Heights Edition
For those interested in an exercise regarding history,
memory, and modern (mis) understandings of the American Civil War, I present to
you the following link from the Civil War Trust’s Facebook page.
Murica
The link gives the full text of an article by Gordon Berg
entitled “Battle of New Market Heights: USCT Soldiers Proved Their Heroism.”
The article originally appeared in the March Jimmy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518362560292852052noreply@blogger.com1