Tim MurphyOct 23, 202222 minThe Battles of The Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court HouseThe American Civil War’s third full year of combat was its most vicious and destructive yet. The Battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and...
Tim MurphySep 11, 202214 minThe Battle of ChancellorsvilleMajor General Ambrose E. Burnside lasted only a single campaign as head of the Army of the Potomac. His abject failure at Fredericksburg,...
Tim MurphyAug 7, 202215 minThe Battle of Fredericksburg1862 was a calamitous year for the Union Army of the Potomac. George B. McClellan’s failed Peninsular Campaign and inability to vanquish...
Tim MurphyJul 24, 202218 minThomas Jefferson's MonticelloThomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell, his family’s 3,000-acre plantation in Albemarle County, Virginia. His father,...
Tim MurphyMay 29, 20227 minThe Cape Henry LighthousesLong before the installation of maritime navigation aids, coastal Virginia was a vast wilderness unadulterated by European...