The stakes for George Gordon Meade could not have been higher.After his stunning victory at Gettysburg in July of 1863, the Union commander spent the following months trying to bring the Army of North
The author takes readers on a chronological tour of the Battle of the Wilderness during May 1864, the first battle between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and part of the Virginia Overland Campaign
A prolific historian of the US Civil War, Mackowski here describes a battle in the Overland Campaign of 1864, which he characterizes as among the war's most pivotal campaigns and among the most exciti
Playwright and director Chris Mackowski shares the experiences and advice of more than fifty theatre professionals whose practical and insightful suggestions will help you raise the curtain on new pl
Mackowski (journalism and mass communication, St. Bonaventure U.) reconciles his split personality as daytime academic and nighttime playwright by setting out principles for community theaters to cond
"May 1863. The Civil War was in its third spring, and Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson stood at the peak of his fame. He had arisen from obscurity to become “Old Stonewall,” adored across
Thousands of soldiers who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg for both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia settled in Texas after the Civil War. Throughout the days, weeks, and ye
George Gordon Meade could hardly believe it: only three days earlier, he had been thrust unexpectedly into command of the Army of the Potomac, which was cautiously stalking its long-time foe, the Army
Focusing on the north end of the battlefield, the authors examine the first day of the battle at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, when the Union forces prevented the Confederates from occupying the heights
A historian specializing in the US Civil War, Mackowsky describes how Ulysses S. Grant, general of the US Army and later president of the US, struggled to complete his memoirs before he died of throat
By May of 1863, the Stone Wall at the base of Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg loomed large over the Army of the Potomac, haunting its men with memories of slaughter from their crushing defeat the
“I intend to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer,” Union commander Ulysses S. Grant wrote to Washington after he’d opened his Overland Campaign in the spring of 1864.His resolve entire
They melted like snow on the ground, one officer said—wave after wave of Federal soldiers charging uphill across an open muddy plain. Confederates, fortified behind a stone wall along a sunken road, p
Conner and Mackowski investigate what transformed the US Army of the Potomac between January 1863--when after 20 months of defeat, morale was so low that everyone expected the army to disintegrate--an
Although most Americans believe that the Battle of Gettysburg was the only turning point of the Civil War, the war actually turned repeatedly. Events unfolded in completely unexpected ways and had uni
