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Category Archives: Gen. Lafayette McLaws
Burnside’s truce
After the attack on Fort Sanders finally ground to a halt, Gen. Lafayette McLaws received the following Union message: “General : Under instructions from Major-General Burnside. commanding the Army of the Ohio. I address you this communication for the purpose … Continue reading
Reprise: Bayonets
Fixed bayonets was part of Confederate Gen. Lafayette McLaws’s order for the attacking troops. So those who still had their bayonets fitted them to the barrels of their Enfields and Springfields in preparation for the assault on Fort Sanders. More … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War armament, Fort Sanders, Gen. Lafayette McLaws
Tagged bayonets, Fort Sanders, Knoxville 1863
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A Soldier’s General
One of the better books on Gen. Lafayette McLaws is John C. Oeffinger’s 2001 A Soldier’s General. It’s a “translation” of McLaws’ awful handwriting in his collected letters home. Therein you find not only McLaws’ side of Gen. Longstreet’s decision … Continue reading
Reprise: Longstreet’s faulty recon
At least one reviewer of the novel has complained about Gen. Longstreet’s apparent mistake in insufficiently reconnoitering Fort Sanders before his Mississippians and Georgians attacked. Indeed, after the battle, Longstreet tried to pin the blame for the mistake on his … Continue reading
Rebel Gen. McLaws’ Union brother-in-law
Another major Civil War figure whose family life buttresses my fictional division between Unionist Parthenia Leila Ellis and her Confederate husband Clayton Ellis, was Gen. Lafayette McLaws. McLaws, whose division was the first in the attack on Fort Sanders, joined … Continue reading
Longstreet to McLaws: “a want of confidence”
Gen Lafayette McLaws protested his relief by Gen. James Longstreet and eventually won reinstatement. And then lost it. Here is Longstreet’s reply to McLaws’ initial protest. Headquarters Near Bean’s Station, December 17th, 1863. Major-General McLaws, Confederate States Army General: I … Continue reading
McLaws on court-martial politics
He would be vindicated by review of the court martial, but he was embittered by the whole process against him: “I am charged with not having ladders to cross a ditch,” he wrote his wife in an undated letter before … Continue reading
Who led the attack?
Depending on whose recollections you read, either the Thirteenth Mississippi or the Seventeenth Mississippi regiment led the right-hand column in the charge on the Northwest Bastion. Dunbar Rowland in the Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898, says it was the Thirteenth. … Continue reading
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Tagged John Calvin Fiser, Kennon McElroy, Knoxville 1863, Seventheenth Mississippi, Thirteenth Mississippi
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Rich man’s war, poor man’s fight
In a letter to his wife on Oct. 1, 1863, shortly before his division marched for Knoxville, Gen. Lafayette McLaws told how Gov. Brown of Georgia, who was then running for reelection, visited the Georgia troops in Gen. William Wofford’s … Continue reading
