Question of the Week: 9/19-9/25/16
Do you have a favorite battlefield monument? Why is it special to you?
Read more...ECW Symposium on C-SPAN tonight!
C-SPAN 3 begins airing its coverage of the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge tonight. Tune in at 6:00 p.m. for Dave Powell’s talk on Civil War tactics. Here’s a preview, courtesy of C-SPAN: C-SPAN says it plans to air subsequent speakers at the same time, week after week, through October. Of […]
Read more...The Fog of War–When Modern Weather Gives Us a History Lesson
Col. Lonsdale Hale first coined the now oft-used phrase “fog of war” in 1896. He termed it as “the state of ignorance in which commanders frequently find themselves as regards the real strength and position, not only of their foes, but also of their friends.” Hale meant this figuratively, but there are times in war […]
Read more...ECW5: Bert Dunkerly
by Bert Dunkerly Sometimes the best thing is saved for last. You’ll see what I mean.
Read more...“An Especial Prize to the Boys:” Union Soldiers and the Illustrated News (Part 2)
This is the second of two posts regarding the relationship between Union soldiers and the emerging illustrated press during the Civil War. Part 1 may be found here. Soldiers were evidently grateful to receive the illustrated weeklies. Albert O. Marshall of the 33rd Illinois noted the receipt of a “neat box… full of Harper’s and other good […]
Read more...Longstreet Goes West, part five: Davis Hurries West
Part Five in a Series President Jefferson Davis departed Richmond on the morning of October 6, headed to Atlanta. James Chesnut’s urgent appeal had borne fruit; Davis boarded and early morning train, passing through Petersburg by 8:30 a.m. He made short speeches at stops along the way, at Weldon and Wilson, North Carolina. He was […]
Read more...ECW5: Dan Davis
If I had to choose one memory (although there are a bunch I could have gone with) it is the Western Tour that Chris Mackowski and I did last May/June.
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