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Category Archives: Slavery
Question of the Week: January 19, 2015
This week’s question actually comes from ECW’s business officer, Jennifer Mackowski. Pondering some of the discussions and controversies that have swirled around Virginia this past weekend in relation to Lee-Jackson Day and Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, she asks: What … Continue reading
The Art of Hiding Personal Effects, Part One: Slaves
As Union forces marched south under Sherman, wreaking havoc across several Southern states, stories of Northern atrocities spread. It’s hard to say which stories were true, and which were fanciful creations that played on Southern sentiments, like some of those … Continue reading
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Tagged Hiding personal effects, March to the Sea, Slaves, William T. Sherman
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ECW Continues to Emerge
Weave in, My Hardy Life by Walt Whitman Weave in, weave in, my hardy life, Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come, Weave in red blood, weave sinews in like ropes, the senses, sight weave … Continue reading
Shaping Chancellorsville: Cementing the Story
Part eight of a series The area on the Chancellorsville battlefield known as Fairview was a central point of action during the fighting on May 3. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park (FSNMP) already owned much of the land there … Continue reading
A Little Poetry
Sometimes in the middle of all the carnage, a little poetry helps to clear one’s vision. After all, the American Civil War was about some pretty defining things, a few of which are still undergoing examination.
Posted in Books & Authors, Civilian, Memory, Personalities, Politics, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged American Civil War, Crisis Magazine, James Weldon Johnson, poetry, WEB Dubois
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The 23rd USCT at Spotsylvania
At the beginning of the Overland Campaign, the 23rd Regiment United States Colored Troops was an infantry regiment in the 4th Division of the independent IX Army Corps. This regiment became the first black regiment to fight in directed combat … Continue reading
Fort Sumter’s Cat Jack: the Cat that Went to War
I have often wondered exactly why the point of view of animals in any historical situation is of any interest whatsoever. Everyone knows animals really have no well-defined point of view. Anthropomorphizing animals is one of the things all “pet … Continue reading
Top 15 Posts of 2013
From now until the new year we will be running the top 15 posts of 2013 (we will also include some that deserve honorable mentions). We wanted to take a moment and thank all of our readers. From all of … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Slavery, Ties to the War
Tagged 11 Corps, Chancellorsville, Gary Gallagher, Gettysburg, hardtack, John Bell Hood, Stafford Court House, Top 15 Posts of 2013, Top Posts of 2013, William T. Sherman, Wisconsin, XI Corps
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Seizure of the Planter
During a recent trip to Charleston, I came across the following story, presented on a historical marker by the Historic Charleston Foundation and the African American Historical Alliance: The Seizure of the Planter
Posted in Civilian, Navies, Personalities, Slavery
Tagged Charleston, Planter, Robert Smalls
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My Life as a Black Civil War Living Historian—part three
Part three in a series One fall day in 2010 at the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield, while giving a tour, I ran into John Cummings, a Spotsylvania Civil War historian I had known for a while. We served together on … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War Events, National Park Service, Slavery, USCT
Tagged Henderson-memoir, living history, Steward Henderson, USCT
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