A Week of Good Things

It’s been a good week for Emerging Civil War.

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Drawing the War, Part 2: Edwin Forbes

second in a series Edwin Forbes may very well be the new Winslow Homer. Although mainly forgotten about for many years (like almost 150), apparently there is a resurgence of interest in this artist’s work.  Many pieces are offered online, and Cowan’s Auctions sold a  “gathering” of 30 signed Edwin Forbes etchings for $1, 150.00. […]

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Women of Winchester (part 4): Anticipation and Anxiety, The First Union Occupation, March 1862

Part four in a series In the last article the focus was on the adventures of Emma Riley Macon who left Winchester, Virginia just prior to the Union occupation by Union General Nathanial Banks, but it focused on her experiences in Luray, Virginia.  Everyone in Winchester, whether Unionist or Confederate, knew the Union troops were […]

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Truth and Valor Wearing: Myles W. Keogh in the War of the Rebellion

The experiences of the various European immigrant groups who fought on both sides of the American Civil War are thoroughly documented by writers and historians. None, however, have captured the public’s imagination more than the Irish. In fact, the men who came from the Emerald Isle have reached the status of near pop icons within […]

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Fire at the Bloody Angle

On the early morning of May 12, 1864, the Confederate soldiers who had so hastily built earthen fortifications the night before in preparation for the morning’s battle were awakened by the deluge of rain. Unfortunately, their firearms were not (apparently black powder and water never mixed well). Quickly finding themselves amidst hand-to-hand combat with the […]

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The Bullets Rattled Like Hail: Forgotten Skirmish at Catlett’s Station

Today, Catlett’s Station and the surrounding area are nearly indistinguishable, except to the local population. Situated just several miles south of Manassas the open and rolling farm fields have avoided the engrossing urban sprawl that is so nearby. But in March 1862, this lonely station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, sat directly in the […]

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For Once, Warren Has a Legitimate Reason to Slow Down

Little Roundtop Gettysburg NMP Sunday, March 11, 2012

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John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, and The Day After

“John Brown was one of the first Kansas heroes—or at least he was for me,” writes Steven Church in his book The Day After the Day After: My Atomic Angst. Last October, we offered a little ditty about John Brown’s beard as it appears in John Steuart Curry’s mural Tragic Prelude. I recently came across a more serious reference […]

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Oliver Roe’s Prayer

“Our father which art in Washington, Uncle Abraham is they name, Thy victory won they will be done at the South as at the North Give us this day our daily rations of crackers and pork and forgive us our shortcomings as we forgive our quartermasters for these are the prayers of he soldiers and […]

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