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.)
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