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The 20th Maine raids a black regiment’s sutler, part 2

While camped near Sutherland Station on the Southside Railroad in late April 1865, soldiers from the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment got into what became a bloody fracas with black cavalrymen and their white officers. Read part 1 here. The sutler selling food and other items to a black cavalry regiment from Massachusetts set up his […]

Appomattox Road: “A heavy blow struck me just above the left breast” — Joshua Chamberlain at Quaker Road

  The end was approaching. By late March 1865, “we felt sure that he (Ulysses Simpson Grant) was preparing some great movement, and this must be still to the left, to cut [Robert E.] Lee’s communications and envelop his existing lines,” said Brig. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, commander of the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 5th […]