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May 3, 2024 · Perhaps best known, thanks to Robert K. Krick’s book, Civil War Weather in Virginia, are the Reverend C. B. Mckee’s (also spelled Mackee) dutiful recordings at Georgetown taken every day of the war, with few exceptions, at seven o’clock in the morning, two o’clock in the afternoon, and nine o’clock at night.
Mar 29, 2023 · Anecdotal descriptions of weather found in contemporary soldiers' diaries and correspondence combines these scattered records into a chronology of weather information that also includes daybreak and sunset times for each day.
Jun 6, 2018 · Robert K. Krick begins the introduction of his new book, Civil War Weather in Virginia, by recalling an appeal by the famed Civil War historian Douglas Southall Freeman for a “meteorological register of the War Between the States.”Although Krick does not claim to have achieved that in his new book, it goes a long way towards filling that ...
Aug 27, 2021 · The most famous weather impact of the war was Burnside’s Mud March in January 1863. Though started in reasonable weather, a strong storm with numbing temperatures, howling wind, and heavy precipitation bogged down a bold plan and led to dramatic and demoralizing failure.
Jan 1, 2009 · Civil War Weather in Virginia uses “the fundamental weather details of temperature and precipitation” kept in a ledger by the Reverend C.B. Mackee, “who faithfully made readings in...
- A. Wilson Greene
The information in Civil War Weather in Virginia is indispensable for students of the Civil War in the vital northern Virginia/Maryland theater of operations, and of the effects of weather on...
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weather conditions experienced by armies engaged in the tumultuous Northern Virginia theater of war. Union and Confederate armies sought and menaced each others’ capitals, Richmond and Washington, D.C., on this ground. Krick draws up weather charts from October 1860 through June 1865. Prior to the establishment of
