The Women of Winchester (part 3): Emma Riley Macon
We are happy to welcome back guest author Virginia Bensen. Part three in a series. In the last article we discussed how the Unionist women reacted to the Confederate occupation during the first year of the Civil War. The discussion ended in December 1861. We will now skip over the winter months of 1862, and […]
Read more...Our Apologies
We have been having some technical problems with the site this week. As you probably noticed, we have changed the look of the site due to some of the issues. The problems have prevented us from posting this week. We now have the problems under control and have added some new links, updated the Recommended […]
Read more...150th Anniversary Posts
We have been working on a number of projects for the coming year. Some of us will be conducting a tour at Gettysburg May 5th. Others are preparing for upcoming speaking engagements. All of us are working on 150th anniversary posts. 2012 marks the anniversary of the 1862 battles, and as we make our way […]
Read more...The Battle of the Crater, by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen
African-American soldiers contributed greatly to the cause of the Union during the Civil War. By 1865, nearly one out of five men in blue was of African descent, but because the United States Colored Troops (USCT) never won any famous battles, their efforts are often overlooked. Today, black Civil War soldiers are mostly known through the […]
Read more...Emerging Photography
Picture this: You are visiting a Civil War battlefield for the first, fifth, or even twentieth time (yep, we know those people) and all of the sudden you stop. Maybe you got the chills. Maybe you were simply overwhelmed. You weren’t watching the events that made that ground famous, but you could still almost see […]
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