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Battlefield Markers and Monuments: The Custer Maple

One aspect of battlefield tramping that continues to fascinate historians and visitors alike are witness trees. These unique specimens provide a tangible link to the events of the past. Although it no longer stands, one is commemorated in the town square of Hanover, Pennsylvania.

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Battlefield Markers and Monuments: “To the Workingmen of Manchester”

There was a moment when America’s Civil War resonated across the Atlantic, creating a significant, but momentary impact on the British working class…and creating a monument. “I know and deeply deplore the sufferings which the working-men of Manchester, and in all Europe, are called to endure in this crisis,” penned President Abraham Lincoln on January […]

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Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Johnson Island & McPherson’s Grave

Emerging Civil War welcomes back Frank Jastrzembski to share about a recent trip and his musings on historical graveyard markers. My wife reluctantly agreed to go on another of my weekend cemetery hunts. Only a few weeks before, we had taken another couple to visit Brevet Brigadier-General Orland Smith’s grave in Green Lawn Cemetery after […]

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Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Colonel Elmer Ellsworth and the Marshall House Hotel Plaque

This relatively small, gold & brown marker is attached to the side of the newly purchased Hotel Monaco*, the latest incarnation of the Marshall House, in Old Town Alexandria, VA. It commemorates the death of James W. Jackson, reading: The Marshall House stood upon this site, and within the building on the early morning of […]

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Civil War Monuments and Memory

The Emerging Civil War 10th Anniversary Series: Civil War Monuments and Memory: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War Savas Beatie, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-61121-633-2 Specs: 6 maps, 94 images, 336 pp. Click here to order *** About the Book In the century and a half since the war, Americans have […]

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Thinking about Drama, Battle, and Memory at New Market

One of my favorite pieces of classic literature is Shakespeare’s Henry V. Not necessarily for its historical accuracy, but for the drama of leadership and the perspective on battle. I read parts of the play while I wrote Call Out The Cadets: The Battle of New Market and used a line from it on the […]

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Henry Boynton, Battlefield Preservation, and Civil War Memory

Emerging Civil War welcome back guest author Colonel (ret) Ed Lowe… Civil War battlefields evoke a range of emotions in visitors. One may imagine the Confederate attacks against Major General George Meade’s lines at Gettysburg or the Union gunboats battling their way through Vicksburg’s defenses.  As I look up at Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, I […]

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Battle of Nashville Tour and Preservation

On July 31, 2019 I took the driving tour of the battle of Nashville offered by Ross Massey, the author of Nashville Battlefield Guide. As a native of the area who has studied the battle for decades, Massey is one of the leading experts on the engagement. It was a pleasure to ride around with him, even […]

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ECW Weekender: Monocacy National Battlefield

Located just outside the sprawling development around Frederick, Maryland is the green space of Monocacy National Battlefield. Though the park was the site of what could be considered a small engagement in the scale of the war in the east, nobody should underestimate the effect of the battle. Fought by Major General Lew Wallace’s slapped […]

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