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Author Archives: Chris Mackowski
Robert E. Lee as a “Fallen Leader”?
I’m working on a volume for the Emerging Civil War 10th Anniversary Series on “Fallen Leaders.” As we did with last year’s symposium, the book considers leaders who not only fell, dead or wounded, on the battlefield but those who … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Memory
Tagged Allen Guelzo, Frederick Douglass, Jubal Early, Robert E. Lee, treason, Ty Seidule, W.E.B. DuBois
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ECW Weekender: Vicksburg National Military Park
An ECW colleague emailed me a note the other day: “I’m reading the Vicksburg/Tullahoma book, and really enjoyed your article about visiting Vicksburg. I’ve never been and I’m more motivated now than ever.” The article he mentioned was based on … Continue reading
Favorite Soldier Memoirs
In his self-published book An Epic on “Old Abe,” The War Eagle (The War Eagle Book Association, 1894), S. C. Miles, a veteran of the 8th Wisconsin, extolled the virtue of first-person accounts of the war. Such accounts required “no … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Primary Sources
Tagged Civil War News, Daniel Holt, Jack Melton, John Haley, Live Eagle Brigade, Memoirs, National Tribune, Old Abe war eagle, Rice Bull, S. C. Miles, soldier memoirs, The Rebel Yell & The Yankee Hurrah, The Valiant Hours, Theodore Lyman, Thomas Francis Galwey, Wilbur Fisk, Wisconsin Historical Society
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ECW Weekender: Parker’s Crossroads Battlefield Park
Today is the anniversary of the December 31, 1862, battle of Parker’s Cross Roads in central Tennessee. The battle marks the culmination of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s west Tennessee campaign. Two Union forces converged on Forrest from opposite directions, forcing Forrest … Continue reading
The Birthplace of Christmas-Day Bells
While we have a fantastic array of Civil War resources in the Fredericksburg area–including four major battlefields–an oft-overlooked part of our Civil War story ties into one of America’s best-known Christmas carols. The story all ties back to this little … Continue reading
Western Swing: Day 07
The American Battlefield Trust has finished posting the videos from our trip to the western battlefields, and we’re pleased to be sharing them here with you. Kris White, Garry Adelman, and I began the day with Eric Jacobson at Carnton … Continue reading
The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Endnotes
A reviewer recently lamented about all the hard work it is to turn on his computer, wait for the internet to boot up, type in a web address, and go to the online repository of footnotes/endnotes for ECW books. “This … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War Series
Tagged citations, ECWS-Series, endnotes, footnotes
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Western Swing: Day 06
The American Battlefield Trust took a day off yesterday posting videos from our trip. (I think they’re trying to time things out so that our videos from Nashville show up on the anniversary of the last day of the battle!) … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Internet, Websites & Blogs, Preservation
Tagged ABT, American Battlefield Trust, Battle of Franklin Trust, Carter Cotton Gin, Carter House, Chris Mackowski, Eric Jacobson, Franklin, Franklin's Charge, Garry Adelman, Joseph Ricci, Kris White, Patrick Clebourne, Preservation, Western-Swing-2021
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The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Traces of the Bloody Struggle
In 2014, I was fortunate to marry into a family that owns a nice-sized chunk of the Spotsylvania Courthouse Battlefield. Spotsy had, by that time, come to be my favorite battlefield, so marry into a part of the battlefield was … Continue reading
Western Swing: Day 05
For day five of our video swing of western battlefields with the American Battlefield Trust, we skipped ahead to 1864. This was an exciting opportunity for me to do some interpretation on some battlefields I’d never had the chance to … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Internet, Websites & Blogs, Preservation, USCT
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Battle of Franklin Trust, Brices Cross Roads, Brices Crossroads, Chris Mackowski, Eric Jacobson, Franklin, Garry Adelman, John Bell Hood, Kris White, Missed opportunity at Spring Hill, Parker Hills, Spring Hill, USCT, Western-Swing-2021
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