Christie, Cox, Crook, Confusion, and the Burnside Bridge
Sometimes, going down rabbit holes of research will lead you to unexpected places. Occasionally, they lead nowhere. But every once in a while, you get rewarded. Hence, the case of Lt. Samuel L. Christie of Jacob Cox’s staff during the Maryland Campaign. It all started by reading George Crook’s Autobiography. “About ten a.m.,” Crook remembered, “Capt. […]
Read more...Remembering Franklin 2020
Today, November 30, is the anniversary of the 1864 battle of Franklin. When I visited the battlefield in September, I was struck by this sign outside Carnton Plantation. It serves as an invitation to all of us, as students of the Civil War, to remember the people at the heart of our studies.
Read more...Question of the Week: 11/30-12/6/20
In your opinion, who was the best corps commander for the Union’s Army of the Tennessee?
Read more...Gaines’ Mill Sunset
Read more...Week In Review: November 22-29, 2020
We hope you’ve had a nice week and start of the holiday season. You’ll find some fun Civil War cooking experiments and gratitude lists to celebrate Thanksgiving and some details about lessons from Fredericksburg, night at Paynes Farm, JFK in Texas, and poetry from Whitman. Happy reading!
Read more...Weekly Whitman: “Thick-Sprinkled Bunting”
THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag!—long yet your road, and lined with bloody death! For the prize I see at issue, at last is the world! All its ships and shores I see, interwoven with your threads, greedy banner!
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday is coming up next week, and we wanted to pass along word about a couple giving opportunities from some of ECW’s partners, the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust, the Civil War Roundtable Congress, and the American Battlefield Trust. (And while ECW isn’t doing a formal fund-raising “ask” this year, we are a 501(c)3 and […]
Read more...Payne’s Farm After Dark
November 27 marks the anniversary of the 1863 battle of Payne’s Farm, part of the Mine Run campaign. Elements of the Army of the Potomac and Army of Northern Virginia, converging toward a wayside in the Virginia Wilderness known as Robinson’s Tavern along the Orange Plank Road, stumbled into each other. The ensuing fight, known […]
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