“On Many a Bloody Field”: The Forgotten Story of Daniel Davidson Bidwell
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Kevin Pawlak When I first became interested in the American Civil War at the age of 9, I was living in a small town in western New York sandwiched halfway between Buffalo and Rochester. I lived there under the false impression that in order to find […]
Read more...ECW Symposium Room Rates
We are happy to announce the room rate specials for the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge. Lodging Information: Stevenson Ridge: Home of this year’s Symposium, Stevenson Ridge offers elegant and historic lodging at one of their several historic cottages. Attendees to the Symposium will receive 10% off the lodging rate. For […]
Read more...A Review of Mercy Street: The Miniseries That Could Have Been Worse
Today we’re pleased to welcome guest author Paige Gibbons Backus, the Historic Site Manager for Ben Lomond Historic Site, a Civil War hospital museum located in Manassas, Virginia. The Civil War is arguably one of the most studied subjects in American history. As a result, when the producers at PBS aired Mercy Street, a Civil War period […]
Read more...“The General Result Was In Our Favor”: The Army of Potomac’s Victory at Antietam
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Kevin Pawlak Fortunately, for the sake of debate, the outcome of Civil War battles is not as clear-cut as that of a football game, where one can look at the scoreboard at the end of the game and easily determine who won, who lost, or, in some […]
Read more...Another Mighty Scourge: Weather and the War
It seems there is no end to the snowy weather in the East. Several years ago (2013-14?) it was pretty snowy as well. ECW published the following article then, and it seems appropriate to shovel it out from beneath the drifts and look at it again. Sincerely, Meg Groeling. * * * […]
Read more...To: Abraham Lincoln, From: Republic of San Marino
Ever have a bad day and receive an out-of-the-blue, unsolicited letter (or maybe more appropriately now, an email), that uplifted your spirits and changed the day around? Abraham Lincoln did. In spring 1861, less then 60 days after his inauguration on March 4 and with turmoil gripping the country following the fall of For Sumter in […]
Read more...Question of the Week: 1/25-1/31/16
Today’s Question of the Week comes from Chris Kolakowski: John Palmer once said that if he had to fight one battle of dominion of the universe, he’d give Rosecrans command of as many men as he could see and who could see him. If you had to fight one Civil War battle for everything, who […]
Read more...“The Great Winter Battles” of the Army of Tennessee
Yesterday, Kris White wrote about some of the great winter battles of the Army of Northern Virginia. That called to mind an account from Sam Watkins of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, which wintered in Dalton, Georgia “during the cold, bad winter of 1863-64, about four months.” They, too, had some great winter battles, as […]
Read more...The Army of Northern Virginia’s Great Winter Battles
Since nearly half of the authors at Emerging Civil War are snowed in this weekend, and all of us at the site have been living with the great debate of the week—over canonizing Lee and Jackson, or hanging them from the closest gallows. I thought that I would write about some good old military history. […]
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