Just a Few Days Left-“Simply Murder” featured as an Amazon “Big Deal” for Kindle
Just a few days left!!!! The flagship title of the Emerging Civil War Series—Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White—the downloadable Kindle edition is available for just $1.99 through Amazon.com. To take advantage of Amazon’s limited-time special offer, check out this special link.
Read more...Congratulations to Chris Mackowski
Congratulations to author Chris Mackowski. Chris has been named Historian-in-Residence at Stevenson Ridge. Stevenson Ridge is located on the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield, and will host the First Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, in August. (Click here for a quick overview or jump past the page break for full details).
Read more...More than Mountains Separated Them
Today we welcome guest author Gordy Morgan. Gordy hails from the Youngstown, Ohio area. Gordy Morgan is a life-long history buff who became intensely interested in the Civil War during the Glory/Ken Burns The Civil War era. He is editor of Drum and Bugle Call, the newsletter of the Mahoning Valley Civil War Round Table, […]
Read more...First Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge
All of us at Emerging Civil War are proud to announce our first annual Civil War Symposium. The symposium will be hosted by Stevenson Ridge, on the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield, and will be sponsored by Savas Beatie, LLC. The theme of the August 15-17 weekend will be “The War in 1864.” Our own Chris […]
Read more...Review: Searching for George Gordon Meade by Tom Huntington
Guest post by Ryan Quint On December 7, 1863, Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade wrote a letter to his wife from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. He spent most of his letter complaining of a lack of recognition from Washington for his prior services and finished his letter with, “I suppose after […]
Read more...Repercussions of Drewry’s Bluff 1862
Earlier this month, Caroline Davis wrote about the Confederate defenders of Drewry’s Bluff. For students of the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, the Federal Navy’s defeat on the James ranks as a key moment in the operation. The main Federal effort for the spring of 1862 involved an attempt to capture Richmond by Major General George B. […]
Read more...A Few Notes from Author Frank Varney
On Wednesday, I posted a review of Frank Varney’s General Grant and the Rewriting of History. While I don’t normally pass reviews along to authors, I did in this instance pass the review along to Frank and asked if there was anything he wanted to respond to. Indeed, there were two points he hoped to […]
Read more...Review: General Grant and the Rewriting of History
One of Ulysses S. Grant’s greatest strokes of genius was to title his book The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. The label “memoir” gave him tremendous latitude to present his story as he remembered it and wanted it told. Unfortunately, too many people—including professional historians—have accepted Grant’s Memoirs as history. These are often the […]
Read more...“Bloody Autumn” now available!
Bloody Autumn: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864 by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt, the latest title in the Emerging Civil War Series, is now available. To launch the book, Dan and Phill will be conducting a book signing on Saturday, January 25 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the Winchester Book Gallery, 185 North Loudon Street, Winchester, VA.
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