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The newly appointed general-in-chief of Union armies, Ulysses S. Grant, decided to make his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac rather than in an office in Washington, D.C. Leaving George G. Meade in charge of the details, Grant sent the army not after Richmond, as his predecessors had done, but after Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. The resulting Overland Campaign in the spring of 1864 led to bloody battles at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. In spite of casualties in the tens of thousands, Grant continued to take the offensive. His cavalry commander, Philip H. Sheridan, wanted to do the same. While the fighting raged at Spotsylvania, he approached Meade regarding his function in the current campaign. The traditional role of cavalry was to “screen,” or obscure, the movements of its own army while gathering information on the strength and movements of the enemy. Sheridan, however, wanted his cavalry to strike out on its own, not simply to obs ....
Milestone Auctions sets new house record with $1.5M sale of historically important firearms WILLOUGHBY, Ohio Subject Line Please provide verification code Email is invalid 1880s hand-painted figural iron shooting gallery target depicting drummer with carved-wood hands. When target above shoulder is hit, figure plays drums. Provenance purportedly includes display at Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Ky. Sold for $27,000, more than four times the high estimate Milestone Auctions WILLOUGHBY, Ohio â An 1859 Berdan Sharps rifle, Sammy Davis Jrâs .357 Magnum, and a Walther pistol from Hitlerâs mountaintop retreat were among the highlights in Milestoneâs record-setting January 30 auction, but it was an artful and unusual shooting gallery target that unexpectedly rose to the top of prices realized. The 33-inch-high painted metal and wood target figure of a medieval drummer had attracted a flurry of enquiries in the run-up to the $1.5 ....
True West Magazine “Who was California Joe?” asked J.W. Buel in his Heroes of the Plains published in 1882, for Joe’s origin was as much a mystery to his contemporaries as it was for many who came later. Some claimed his name was Joseph Milner (favored by Buffalo Bill Cody) or Joseph Hawkins, and others claimed that he was Truman Head, the famous “California Joe” of Col. Hiram Berdan’s Civil War Sharpshooters. Even Custer admitted that he did not know Joe’s real name, for “no other name seemed ever to have been given him, and no other name ever seemed necessary.” ....