My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor (Paul Taylor - DLM) postcard Apollo-like Philip Barton Key

Apollo-like Philip Barton Key

Sheridan’s task was a tall one: sweep Jubal Early’s Confederate army out of the bountiful Shenandoah

the Union suffered 17

and radicalism

the bloody fight at Germantown proved that Continental soldiers could stand toe-to-toe with British Regulars

My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor (Paul Taylor - DLM) postcard Apollo-like Philip Barton Keyby Paul Taylor (Editor), Earl J. Hess (Foreword) More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, West Point engineer and Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe (18321895) remains one of the Unions most unsung heroes. He served the Union in uniform from day one of the conflict until the Confederate surrender in North Carolina in late April 1865, and he used his unparalleled ability to predict Confederate movements to lead multiple successful