Honest Abe: Rail Splitter, Crowd Surfer!
As 1860 dawned, Abraham Lincoln was still not a candidate for President. He proceeded cautiously, talking to Norman Judd and David Davis about the likelihood of getting the nod from the Illinois Republican State Committee. Then a biography of Lincoln was leaked, courtesy of Jesse Fell, to a Pennsylvania newspaper. The biography grew legs.
Read more...The Republican Convention Site Is Chosen & the Dirty Tricks Begin!
Just as political parties wrangle now, so it has always been. In mid-December of 1859, Chicago’s finest, or maybe just Chicago’s wiliest–Norman Judd–went to New York City with one purpose in mind: to get the Republican Convention of 1860 held in Chicago! Norman Judd was the Chairman of the Illinois Republican State Central Committee and […]
Read more...Storm Clouds over Antietam Battlefield
Read more...Electing A President–1860
With the upcoming series of national conventions, it occurred to me to take to my keyboard and tell the tale of the Presidential Election of 1860. Never has an election embodied all the fun and foibles, fanaticism and foulness of politics like the one that put Republican Abraham Lincoln in the White House! My posts […]
Read more...Happy One-Year Anniversary!
Happy one-year anniversary! Today marks the one year anniversary of the launching of Emerging Civil War. It’s hard to believe in one year that we have amassed over 150,000 reads, of nearly 400 articles, from sixteen authors. We cannot thank our readership enough for supporting our efforts in the past year, and we hope to […]
Read more...Pick #1 on My Top Ten List–The Army of the Potomac, a Three-Volume set by Bruce Catton.
Part of a Series: Books Every Civil War Buff Ought to Own My #1 pick for Civil War books we should all have on our bookshelves is Bruce Catton’s trilogy The Army of the Potomac. This classic, first published in 1953, contains the books Mr. Lincoln’s Army, Glory Road, and A Stillness At Appomattox. It […]
Read more...Sunset at Monocacy
Read more...Orange flowers and amber waves: Fredericksburg photographed
Kris and I are wrapping up work on a writing project that focuses on the Battle of Fredericksburg. The project is scheduled for release just prior to the sesquicentennial anniversary in December. As I sorted through the photos I took for the project, I thought I’d share a few of my favorite scenic shots. The […]
Read more...Ask, & You Shall Receive . . .
A Civil War anecdote that may provoke a chuckle or so: There is a story purportedly about that photo of Lincoln and McClellan sitting in the tent looking at each other at Antietam. The photographer is supposed to have told them they would have to be very still for a long time, and Lincoln said, […]
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