Crossroads

Published: 8/19/25

Surviving Pickett’s Charge

By: Andrew S. Bledsoe

Category: Battles

The ferocity of Pickett's Charge changed the soldiers who fought in it, including Union officer Henry Abbott and Confederate officer Henry Owen.

Published: 3/18/25

Failure at Fredericksburg

By: Andrew S. Bledsoe

Category: Articles

Union general William B. Franklin and the perils of indecision and delay at the Battle of Fredericksburg

Published: 12/12/24

The Guns at Chickamauga

By: Andrew S. Bledsoe

Category: Battles

John Mendenhall, Thomas Crittenden, and a Fateful Decision

Published: 10/2/24

A Burdensome Decision

By: Andrew S. Bledsoe

Category: Articles

A look at the difficult decision Colonel Lewis Johnson of the 44th U.S. Colored Troops faced at Dalton, Georgia.

Published: 3/18/24

An Unwilling Abolitionist

By: Andrew S. Bledsoe

Category: Articles

Joseph D. Hatfield and emancipation's effects within the Union army

Published: 12/1/23

John Bell Hood and Indecision Along the Tennessee River

By: Andrew S. Bledsoe

Category: Columns

A look at the fateful decisions made by Confederate general John Bell Hood during his campaign into Tennessee in 1864.