Drawing the War, Part 1: Alfred Waud
first in a series In today’s world of instant messaging, instant downloads, iBooks, iPads, iPhones and iReporters, it is hard to imagine the difficulties of war reporting in the 1860s. Embedded journalists, sending news by telegraph (some called it “the lightning”) were the first wave of what we take for granted today–instant news. Images were […]
Read more...Emerging Civil War Tour Reminder!!!
The bus is filling up quickly, so sign up soon and don’t miss out. Join Emerging Civil War historians Daniel Davis, Phil Greenwalt, Chris Mackowski, and Kristopher White as we explore Culp’s Hill, East Cavalry Field, and South Cavalry Battlefield at Gettysburg. Our tour will take place May 5th, 2012. Special guest historian Eric Wittenberg will add […]
Read more...Sacred Scars, Shadowed Ground
Almost every vacation we went on, “The Book” went with us. It didn’t matter that we might be driving from our home state of Indiana to the coveted vacation destination of Disney World in Orlando, Florida—the book of every known Civil War site sat cozily next to the atlas in the front seat of the […]
Read more...A Soldier From Siam
We are happy to welcome back guest author Jim Sundman. When George Dupont appeared before Lieutenant John Grimes to join Company B of the 13th New Jersey Volunteers on August 12, 1862, Grimes may have hesitated before he wrote down Dupont’s place of birth on the enlistment form. Dupont was foreign-born, which was not unusual […]
Read more...When War Came: One Family’s Encounter with America’s Civil War…Part 2
Part two in a series. Margaret was at her grandmother’s when the Fifth Corps arrived. “All around us was bustle and commotion, infantry marching, cavalry dashing about, artillery and ammunition wagons rumbling through the fields.” In the lower fields, shells plowed the ground. Artillery began to fall close to the house, a shell passing through the […]
Read more...When War Came: One Family’s Encounter With America’s Civil War…Part 1
Part one in a series. The passengers jostled to and fro as they steered their carriage and wagon over the rutted roads of Hanover County and onto the farm lane that led to the Watt farm near Dr. Gaines’ grist mill, northeast of Richmond. It was August, and as the caravan of excited children and […]
Read more...Welcome to Our New Full Time Authors
We are excited to welcome two new full-time authors to Emerging Civil War. Today we welcome Christian E. Fearer and Virginia Bensen. We will have Christian’s first post later today. Virginia is the author of the continuing series The Women of Winchester.
Read more...Standing Under the Blazing White Sun
Read more...Cementing Chancellorsville
One of the projects I’m working on right now entails a closer look at the evolution of the Chancellorsville battlefield over the years. Here’s a photo I pulled from the files as I was working this week. This is the Chancellorsville intersection circa 1975:
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