The “Educated Young Man” Who Realized the Importance of the Lee’s Lost Orders
The discovery by Union troops of a copy of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Special Order 191 on Sept. 13, 1862, had significant consequences for the Maryland Campaign, which ended days later when Confederate forces were checked on the battlefield of Antietam. Hailed as one of the most consequential intelligence breaks of the Civil War, what became known as the Lost Orders involved three soldiers from Company F of the 27th Indiana Infantry. Here's the story. "Life on the Civil War Research Trail" is hosted by Ronald S. Coddington, Editor and Publisher of Military Images magazine. Learn more about our mission to showcase, interpret and preserve Civil War portrait photography at militaryimagesmagazine.com and shopmilitaryimages.com. Image: Rick Brown Collection of American Photography This channel is a member of the YouTube Partner Program. Your interest, support, and engagement is key, and I'm grateful for it. Thank you!
Hood’s Long-Delayed Gettysburg Report Describes His Protest At Little Round Top
The Old Breed and the Costs of War | Eugene B. Sledge (1994)
Robert E. Lee Testifies Before a U.S. Congressional Committee, 1866 (Part 1)
Shelby Foote on the Civil War (FULL INTERVIEW)
Why German Engineers Couldn't Understand How Britain's Worst Bomber Became The Lancaster
Why Lee Admitted Grant Knew His Army Better Than He Did
East St. Louis Was ABANDONED & Left to ROT
Gettysburg Behind the Scenes: How Jeff Daniels was Cast as Chamberlain
From Collapse To Survival: A Confederate Officer’s Journey After Richmond Fell
What Andersonville Survivors Said Was Waiting for Them Inside the Dark Gate
A Confederate Before Pickett's Charge: "The cannon balls plunged through our batteries with a whirl"
What Robert E. Lee Said When Grant Crossed the James River Without Detection
"It Nearly Broke My Heart to Look Over the 10 Surviving Members of the 8th" after Pickett's Charge
Grant on Confederate War Morale: "The South Was a Military Camp"
The True Origin of the French Revolution: What Historians Get Wrong
A Confederate Colonel Pays Tribute to Chamberlain and the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
German Women POWs Were Too Thin to Work — Then Texas Cowboys Did the Unthinkable.
What Longstreet Understood About Grant That Lee Refused to Accept Until It Was Too Late
What Grant Said About Lee and Longstreet (That Rewrote Everything We Thought We Knew)
