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.
Trying to navigate around your Blog, to contact you, and not getting too far. I have self-published "The Fortunate Sons" a partial unit history (thru Aug. 1862) of the 3d Alabama much as you suggest in your foreword to "The Petersburg Regiment." Although my effort is in the form of a novel, it follows all known facts/records/letters/diaries very closely. Researching the 3d since 2010, I was not aware of your book till last week, but have enjoyed it, and the closeness of the 12th's experience to the 3d's. Fills in some blanks. I think you would enjoy a discussion from "our" viewpoint. They record a number of key interactions with the 12th - specifically the Norfolk Juniors. Booth Malone
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