Here's the link to the August 14, 2021 talk that my friend Charlie Knight and I gave about the night move of Mahone's brigade on July 2, 1863.
Map by Hal Jespersen for John Horn, "The Myth that Mahone's Brigade Did Not Move on July 2, 1863," Gettysburg Magazine No. 65, July 2021
Last night at the Petersburg Civil War Round Table I had a pleasant reception. We discussed The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown's Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865, my latest book. It received the 2019 Distinguished Writing Award from the Army Historical Foundation for Unit History. The soldiers did most of the distinguished writing.
Before arriving at Pamplin Park, the site of the round table meeting, I drove around the June 1864 and August 1864 battlefields, revisiting among other places that of Hagood's South Carolina brigade, which lost about 2/3 of its strength on August 21, 2021. (See The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864.)
We had a pleasant time at the Pender Civil War Round Table in Rocky Mount, North Carolina December 1, 2021. I presented on and we discussed upon my most recent book, The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown's Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865. The book won the 2019 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for Unit History. The regiment's soldiers did most of the distinguished writing.
On the way down from Richmond I stopped at Petersburg National Battlefield Park to pick up postcards for my grandchildren.
