“General Magruder, why did you attack?”
Today, we’re pleased to welcome guest author Doug Crenshaw. Doug, a volunteer with Richmond National Battlefield, is at work on books for the Emerging Civil War Series about the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days’ Battles. On July 1, 1862, Maj. General John B. Magruder ordered Confederate troops in his sector forward into a hurricane […]
Read more...The Underground Railroad Wins the National Book Award
In October, we offered a review by Chris Mackowski of Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad. As a quick follow-up, we wanted to report that the novel was selected last month as the recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. Check out this interview with Whitehead by the National Book Foundation.
Read more...ECW on C-SPAN: Lee White and the Battle of Franklin
Just in time for the anniversary of the battle of Franklin: Lee White’s talk from the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge! Lee spoke on the Army of Tennessee’s ill-fated but successful assaults at the battle of Franklin. His talk, originally slated to appear at the end of October, was bumped for […]
Read more...Meade’s Account of Mine Run
One of my favorite pieces of correspondence from the war is a Dec. 2, 2863, letter that George Gordon Meade wrote to his wife in the wake of the Mine Run campaign. The commander of the Army of the Potomac, facing immense political pressure to engage the Army of Northern Virginia in battle, called off […]
Read more...A True “Legend” that “Perfectly Describes the Character of the Army of the Potomac”
On the morning of November 30, 1863, as the Army of the Potomac prepared to assault the Confederate position west of Mine Run, the men in the ranks understood the grim task laid before them. “After leaving the wood the ground sloped to the run, then up a slope to where the rebs had their […]
Read more...ECW’s November 2016 Newsletter Now Available
Be on the lookout for Emerging Civil War’s November newsletter. It hit email inboxes at 11:15 a.m. EST. If you were expecting one and didn’t get one, check your spam filter or your junk mail box (and adjust your computer’s settings so we don’t end up there again). This month, aside from our usual News […]
Read more...The Affable Archie Botts
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome guest author Frank Jastrzembski Nestled in the Shockoe Hill Cemetery of Richmond, Virginia, is a discolored marker with a heartfelt epitaph that reads: Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Archibald B. Botts of the 4th U. S. Infantry, who died at Camargo, Mexico Jan. 1, 1847 He graduated […]
Read more...Book Review: “Decision at Tom’s Brook: George Custer, Thomas Rosser and the Joy of the Fight”
In the autumn of 1864, Maj. Gen. Phillip Sheridan and Lt. Gen. Jubal Early engaged one another in an effort to control Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. A Union defeat might well have offset gains made by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman out West and impact the Presidential election in November. Sheridan, however, prevailed. In a little […]
Read more...Woman Who Claimed to Dress as a Soldier “A Con Artist” and Kardashian, Says Jack Davis
by ECW Correspondent Amelia Kibbe After having written and published more than 50 books, it’s pretty safe to say William C. Davis has done a lot of research. But, he said, to him, that’s one of the best parts of being an author. So he was ready for the research challenge his latest book presented […]
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