Category Archives: Gen. William T. Wofford

Gettysburg’s 150th

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Dick Stanley

I’m not sorry to be missing Gettysburg’s 150th anniversary these next three days. Too much of the occasion will be taken up by reenactment events, which reenactment participants call “impressions.” But too many of the reenactors are too corpulent and all … Continue reading →

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Reprise: Sharpshooter

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Dick Stanley

Literary critic and writing professor David Madden’s 1996 novel Sharpshooter is the only other fiction I’m aware of about the Siege of Knoxville and, very briefly, the Battle of Fort Sanders. It’s a good story, worth your money (as little as one … Continue reading →

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William Tatum Wofford

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Wofford’s Brigade cooperated with the Mississippi Brigade in the attack on Fort Sanders, as it had on the second day at Gettysburg five months earlier. But brigade commander William Tatum Wofford was absent, home in Georgia attending the unexpected funeral … Continue reading →

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