Question of the Week: 11/7-11/13/16
What is your favorite late autumn battle, campaign, or other military movement to study? Note: “late autumn” refers to October, November, and the very beginning of December.
Read more...1860’s Politics: After All These Years, Why Do We Think President McClellan Would Have Given the Rebels an Armistice?
Approaching the 1864 Northern presidential election, students of the Atlanta Campaign tend to focus on how Sherman’s capture of the city on Sept. 2, 1864 helped President Lincoln win re-election. Conversely, we ponder Southerners’ hopes that the Democratic candidate, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, might have beaten Lincoln if the Confederate Army of Tennessee had […]
Read more...Ceremony at Upton homestead causes reflection
I’m not sure I would have liked Emory Upton. By all accounts, Upton was intense, ambitious and many times intolerant of others who were not zealous as he was in all things. Just a few days ago, the dedication of a historic marker at the Upton Farm outside of Batavia, NY for the first time […]
Read more...Site Updates for Emerging Civil War
As part of our fifth anniversary, Emerging Civil War has been working on a number of updates for our readers. Check back to the site next week for more details. As always, we thank all of our readers for their continued support. We look forward to interacting with you as we go forward.
Read more...1860’s Politics: Common Ground? (2nd Edition)
This is a 2nd Edition article. When it was first published, blog readers noticed some historical errors. I removed the pieced, fixed the errors, and now share it again. My sincere apologies for the original mistakes. (Sarah Kay Bierle) In 1860, President-Elect Lincoln received a letter from Alexander H. Stephens. Stephens was a Southerner politician who […]
Read more...Remembering Emory Upton
What is it that attracts us to particular individuals of the past? I think the answer varies from person to person. We all have people who we tend to gravitate towards in our studies. For readers of this blog, friends and family (especially my lovely wife) is it obvious I have an affinity for George […]
Read more...1860’s Politics: Lincoln-Douglas Debates Continue, Part II: Supreme Court and Choice
Politics and the Supreme Court are much in the news today, as they were in 1858 when Abraham Lincoln debated Stephen Douglas for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. Issues have changed but more recent court decisions demonstrate that underlying themes have not changed. Perhaps we can, again, learn from Mr. Lincoln and his thoughts […]
Read more...Memorializing Emory Upton
Upton Road runs straight as a railroad track away from Route 33 into the Genesee County countryside of western New York. The nearby town of Batavia—nestled roughly midway between Buffalo and Rochester—hails itself as “The Birthplace of Western New York” on the signs into town. But this particular ribbon of road looks Sleepy Hollow lonely, […]
Read more...ECW on C-SPAN: Edward Alexander
The final segment from the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge will air this weekend on C-SPAN 3. As part of our theme of “Great Attacks,” Edward Alexander looked at the Union Breakthrough at Petersburg–what Edward has called “the wedge to split the Confederacy.” Edward’s talk airs on C-SPAN3 at 6:00 p.m. […]
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