Galleys in for Gettysburg Magazine Article Due out in the July Issue: "The Myth that Mahone's Brigade Did Not Move on July 2, 1863"

Recently I submitted the galleys for "The Myth that Mahone's Brigade Did Not Move on July 2, 1863" to Gettysburg Magazine, where the article is due to appear in the July 2021 issue.  Virtually every extant history of the battle or campaign goes no further into this incident than Brig. Gen. William Mahone's initial refusal to move after receiving contradictory orders from his superior, Maj. Gen. Richard Heron Anderson.  The situation was more complicated than that, and quite a bit happened afterward as the article will make clear.

Brig. Gen. William Mahone

Credit: National Archives

For a preview of the article, see The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War:  A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown's Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865 (Savas Beatie, 2019).  The 12th Virginia belonged to Mahone's brigade and its soldiers provided several accounts of the brigade's movements on the evening of July 2, 1863.  The article expands on the accounts in The Petersburg Regiment and includes accounts by soldiers in the 6th and 61st Virginia.

National Treasures: Beyond the Crater/Siege of Petersburg Online and The Petersburg Project

There are a couple of spectacular websites on the fighting around Petersburg in 1864-1865.  In my opinion, both qualify as national treasures.  Click on the following links to have a look at them.  They are Beyond the Crater/Siege of Petersburg Online and The Petersburg Project.  

Brett Schulte runs Beyond the Crater.  Dr. Phil Shiman, David Lowe (editor of Meade's Army:Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman) and Julia Steele operate The Petersburg Project.

To say that these websites contain maps, orders of battle, book reviews, photographs, drawings, articles, papers and presentations is to understate matters.  I'm using them consistently as I write about Grant's second offensive at Petersburg, June 20-July 1, 1864.  I used Meade's Army extensively as well.