Question of the Week: 11/28-12/4/16
What’s your favorite historical account/story from a winter encampment?
Read more...ECW Weekender: The Virginiana Collection at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library
Usually, our ECW Weekenders profile battlefields and historic sites to visit. This weekend, I want to share word about a groovy little spot to do some research. This past week, I had the opportunity to our through some of the files in the Virginiana Room at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library’s headquarters on Caroline Street […]
Read more...Small Business Saturday
If you are looking for a great holiday gift, and to support a small business, think of Emerging Civil War this Small Business Saturday. Our early-bird pricing of just $110.00 is still available for tickets for the Fourth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge. This three day event will be held August 4-6, […]
Read more...Civil War Cookin’: What To Do With Leftovers (According To Major Pendleton)
If you had a feast yesterday, there’s a good possibility you have left-overs today. You might not believe it, but I have a story about left-overs during the Civil War. First, let’s clarify – there wasn’t a lot of extra food in the armies or on the Southern homefront. The phenomenon of left-overs likely didn’t […]
Read more...Meade After Mine Run on Grant After Chattanooga
Just before the Army of the Potomac set out for what would be the Mine Run campaign in late November 1863, word reached the men of the Union victory at Chattanooga. Between Nov. 23-25, the Federal armies of the Tennessee and the Cumberland, under the overall command of Ulysses S. Grant, swept the Confederate Army of […]
Read more...Review: Jeff Shaara’s The Smoke at Dawn
When I originally heard that Jeff Shaara was writing a trilogy of books about the Western Theater, but that he intended to cover only Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Sherman’s March to the Sea, I was a bit put out that he was apparently skipping Chickamauga and Chattanooga. Chickamauga, I understood, since he planned to follow Grant […]
Read more...Civil War Cookin’: A Soldier’s Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving didn’t actually become an official American holiday until 1863. That doesn’t mean that Civil War Era soldiers and civilians were unfamiliar with giving thanks prior to Lincoln’s proclamation. Did Civil War soldiers celebrate Thanksgiving in the way we think of it today? Yes and no.
Read more...Civil War Cookin’: Don’t Cry…It’s Just An Onion
Onions. They add great flavor to holiday foods, but they aren’t fun to cut and chop. I usually end up a crying mess…and – oh joy – either my mom or I will have to chop the onions for stuffing and casseroles today! In honor of this vegetable that sneaks into so much of our […]
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