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I Wish I Had Been in the Case: Portrait Photography, Federal Soldiers, and the Home Circle (part two)
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author James Brookes. This is the second part of a two-part series. The mass transition of images between Federal soldiers and their home communities was entirely unprecedented. In February 1862, Humphrey’s Journal observed … Continue reading
Searching for Frank Krug (part two)
Today, we’re pleased to offer the second of a two-part guest post by Tom Schobert. Tom is the president of the Buffalo (NY) Civil War Roundtable. A retired healthcare administrator, Tom is life-long student of the Civil War and has been a reenactor for more … Continue reading
I Wish I Had Been in the Case: Portrait Photography, Federal Soldiers, and the Home Circle (part one)
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author James Brookes. This is the first of a two-part series. In April 1855, the English photographer Roger Fenton wrote to his wife from the Crimean Peninsula to update her on his progress … Continue reading
Searching for Frank Krug (part one)
Today, we’re pleased to offer the first of a two-part guest post by Tom Schobert. Tom is the president of the Buffalo (NY) Civil War Roundtable. A retired healthcare administrator, Tom is life-long student of the Civl War and has been a reenactor for … Continue reading
A Distant Confederate Christmas
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Dwight Hughes. The CSS Shenandoah, the most remote and loneliest outpost of the beleaguered Confederacy, surged around the Cape of Good Hope and into the Indian Ocean about equidistant between Madagascar to … Continue reading
The Letters of William Child—December 14, 1864
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author, Dan Welch. William Child, surgeon of the 5th New Hampshire Veteran Volunteer Infantry, had decreased his writing of letters during the twilight of 1864. Few letters passed between William and his … Continue reading
Gettysburg Gets Personal
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Derek Maxfield. “There it is,” I said to a companion. “There is his name,” I said as I stared up at the bronze letters on the Pennsylvania monument, “That is my … Continue reading
Hood Remembered: The Sesquicentennial
Today, ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Sam Hood. Sam Hood is a descendant of Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood and author of the forthcoming The Lost Papers of John Bell Hood. He has also written a biography of … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Personalities, Sesquicentennial, Western Theater
Tagged Battle of Franklin, Battle of Nashville, Battle of Spring Hill, John Bell Hood
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A March Made in Georgia: Sherman’s Famous March to the Sea
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Derek Maxfield. One hundred-fifty years ago this fall, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman led an army of sixty-thousand men on a militarily-unorthodox campaign through the heart of Georgia. Sherman’s “March to the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Battle of Griswoldville, Ebeneezer Creek, Henry Slocum, Jefferson C. Davis, John Bell Hood, Joseph Johnston, Judson Kilpatrick, Leonidas Polk, March to the Sea, Meridian Campaign, Oliver Howard, Savannah Georgia, Thomas Ewing, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg Campaign, William Tecumseh Sherman, XIV Corps
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Hood Remembered: Crossing the Tennessee
Today, ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Sam Hood. Sam Hood is an descendant of Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood and author of the forthcoming The Lost Papers of John Bell Hood. He has also written a biography of … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged Alexander Stewart, Army of Tennessee, Atlanta, Frank Cheatham, Hood-Remembered, Jefferson Davis, John Schofield, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Sam Hood, Stephen D. Lee, William T. Sherman
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