Question of the Week: 3/14-3/20/16
This week’s question comes from Phill Greenwalt: “Was the battle of Stones River more of a turning point than Gettysburg?”
Read more...Book Review: “The Chickamauga Campaign—Glory or the Grave: The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863”
For three days in September, 1863 in northern Georgia two armies clashed in a brutal slugfest. The Battle of Chickamauga between William S. Rosecrans’ Army of the Cumberland and Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee left in excess of 30,000 casualties, the bloodiest battle the Civil War’s Western Theater saw during the four-year conflict. It came […]
Read more...A View and A Memory
On a recent park training held in Harper’s Ferry, I had the chance, after class, to drive over to Antietam National Battlefield and walk the grounds as the sun set on a crisp autumn day. In fact, the training was held in late September, just after the anniversary of this bloody and horrific day of […]
Read more...Kolakowski Comes Out of the Jungle
ECW offers our congratulations to Chris Kolakowski for his newest book! McFarland Press has just released his new book, Last Stand on Bataan. When he’s not been sailing the high seas with the Federal or Confederate navies here at Emerging Civil War, Kolakowski has been spending a lot of his time in the Philippines (at least metaphorically […]
Read more...Tattooed in Lieu of Dog Tags: The Identity of Capt. B. Frank Hean
New Years Day, 1896. The Melbourne, Australia suburb of St. Kilda. A man enjoying a beachside walk noticed a body lying beside the road, a glittering object clasped in its right hand. Walking over he found the man bleeding from the head, a revolver in his hand. Authorities investigated and determined the victim to be […]
Read more...Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path: Wesley Culp
Part of a Series. Many visitors to Gettysburg are familiar with the story of Wesley Culp, the boy who grew up in the town of Gettysburg. He hunted on his cousin Henry’s farm, learned the leather trade in Gettysburg, and moved to Shepherdstown, Virginia (today West Virginia), before the war. Wesley enlisted in Company B […]
Read more...Coming Soon: Hell Itself
One of the most anticipated volumes in the Emerging Civil War Series is finally on its way. Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness completes a cycle of Savas Beatie books that includes A Season of Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White; Strike Them a Blow: Battle […]
Read more...Question of the Week: 3/7-3/13/16
Where would you rank D.H. Hill in the pantheon of Confederate generals?
Read more...Across Georgia to Atlanta
Last October, I had the wonderful opportunity to spend a weekend with Steve Davis in Atlanta. We traveled and tramped about Georgia, getting pictures for his upcoming books in the Emerging Civil War Series. We started at Tunnel Hill and traveled to Rocky Face Ridge, Dalton, Resaca, New Hope Church, Pickett’s Mill, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree […]
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