Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service
The program begins at 5:30 pm
clarifying the great military leader’s thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War and offering his invaluable perspective on battlefield decision making
the other a horse soldier with a Southern cavalry unit—is based on what happened in reality after the Battle of Gettysburg
and the president himself is godfather to the Sickles’ six-year-old daughter
The Battle of Brandy Station: North America's Largest Cavalry Battle (Eric J. Wittenberg - CWC) Amos Humiston Doctors in Gray: The ConfederateThe Battle of Brandy Station: North America's Largest Cavalry Battle by Eric Wittenberg Just before dawn on June 9, 1863, Union soldiers materialized from a thick fog near the banks of Virginia's Rappahannock River to ambush sleeping Confederates. The ensuing struggle, which lasted throughout the day and included some 20,500 soldiers, was to become known as the Battle of Brandy Station. By the end, Union casualties were 907 (69 killed, 352 wounded,