Year in Review 2015: ECW’s Top 10 Posts of All-Time
This week, ECW has been looking back 2015 and counting down the ten most-read posts of 2015. Before we reveal the year’s most-read post, here’s a treat for you: the top ten ECW posts of all time!
#10: “They Intended To Kill All Of Them: Battle and Death in Southwest Virginia” by Chris Kolakowski, originally posted on October 2, 2014
#9: “Telling History vs. Making Art: Killer Angels, Real and Fictional” by Chris Mackowski, originally posted on October 30. 2012
- Chris’s post was part of a ten-part series, “Telling History vs. Making Art“
#8: “Drawing the War (part five): Thomas Nast” by Meg Groeling, originally posted on July 9, 2012
- Meg’s post was part of a six-part series, “Drawing the War”
#7: “War Chicken” by Meg Groeling, originally posted on February 20, 2012
#6: “Jackson’s Arm and the Occupy Movement” by Meg Groeling, originally posted on January 17, 2012
#5: “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” by Meg Groeling, originally published on December 13, 2011
#4: “Civil War Nurses Series: Interesting Facts about Northern Nurses” by Virginia Bensen, originally published on September 3, 2013
#3: “Some General Thoughts on Maj. Gen. George Armstrong Custer” by Daniel T. Davis, originally published on August 22, 2011
#2: “‘Hellmira’—A Place of ‘Terrible Memory,’ Nearly Forgotten” by Chris Mackowski, originally published on October 14, 2011
#1: “African-Americans in the Civil War (part one) and (part two)” by Steward Henderson, originally posted on November 17 and November 21, 2011