We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/11/rock_creek_juba.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:11:11 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/11/rock_creek_juba.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/11/rock_creek_juba.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:35:16 -0600
  Lincoln took the advice and stepped back off the parapet, the officer only then realizing to whom he had hollered. The president took it all in good nature, despite the mortified appearance of the officer.

  The Battle of Monocacy also featured the deployment of several units of the Veteran's reserve Corps. This Corps was made up of soldiers who had been wounded and unable to return to field duty, but were well enough to either shoulder and use a weapon or to do light duty. they were assigned to various forts and batteries in the defenses of Washington, to POW camps as guard details, and to Hospitals and other areas as guards, clerks, etc. It was an excellent use of valuable manpower that would otherwise be lost through discharge to the civilian population, and freed up healthy men for service in the front ranks.

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]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/11/rock_creek_juba.html#comment-95259 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/11/rock_creek_juba.html#comment-95259 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:59:40 -0600 The date of Jubal's probe would surprise most people. That part of the war, while the Army of the Potomac was outside Petersburg, never received big play. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/11/rock_creek_juba.html#comment-95244 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/11/rock_creek_juba.html#comment-95244 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:29:21 -0600