As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Mike West, Managing Editor Writer Wednesday, November 28, 2006 FRANKLIN – The Carter House Association Inc. announces the acquisition of a key part of Franklin’s battlefield—a portion of the homestead garden of Fountain Branch Carter—from Chris Waller in a transaction that closed on Nov. 14,…
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Mike West, Managing Editor Writer Wednesday, November 26, 2006 The Union had its modified “Anaconda plan,” but did the Confederate States of America have a master strategy when it launched the Civil War? That question is even more complicated than it appears. Yes, Confederate President…
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Mike West, Managing Editor Writer Wednesday, November 19, 2006 Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Commanding Ohio Volunteers, Cincinnati, Ohio: SIR: I have read and carefully considered your plan for a campaign and now send you confidentially my own views, supported by certain facts of which…
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Mike West, Managing Editor Writer Wednesday, November 19, 2006 It’s time to talk a little strategy. Just why did Union forces decide to attack on the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers and force their way into Middle Tennessee during the early part of the Civil War?…
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Mike West, Managing Editor Writer Wednesday, November 12, 2006 First ordered to active duty in Bowling Green, Ky., Joseph B. Palmer’s regiment was largely inactive until one of the first major conflicts in the Western theater of the Civil War – the siege of Fort…
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Mike West, Managing Editor Wednesday, November 5, 2006 One of the stateliest houses on East Main Street does little to reveal the character of the battle-scarred general who built it. Brigadier General Joseph B. Palmer, a prominent state military and political leader, built the Italianate…
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, October 15, 2006 By Mike West, Managing Editor Nov. 6, 1860: Lincoln is elected president Dec. 20, 1860: South Carolina secedes. Feb. 9, 1861: Confederate government is formed. March 4, 1861: Lincoln is sworn in as president March 6: Confederate Congress authoritizes establishment of an…
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, October 29, 2006 By Mike West, Managing Editor It’s not easy to put a face on the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Stones River. Where were they from? How did they end up here? Combined together, the Federal Army of the Cumberland…
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, October 29, 2006 By Mike West, Managing Editor Just like their Union counterparts, the Confederate Army of Tennessee had its own share of interesting characters: Maj. Gen. Daniel S. Donelson Donelson had an impressive mix of military and political connections. Born in Tennessee in…
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, October 29, 2006, by Mike West, Managing Editor When the Civil War began in earnest, the U.S. government had one very decided advantage in the form of a trained, standing army with officers trained at West Point. But as Southern states began to succeed,…