Week In Review: August 2-8, 2021
There’s a new blog series that started this week…
Monday, August 2:
Question of the Week focused on “best dressed” regiments.
Brian Swartz shared about his experiences in Brewer, Maine and how it inspired his new biography about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
Introducing a new blog series: Fallen Leaders.
Tuesday, August 3:
Fallen Leaders: Major Andrew Grover, 76th New York (by Jon Tracey)
Guest author Neil Chatelain wrote about sea-going challenges officers faced as they journeyed back to the east coast in 1861.
Fallen Leaders: The Death of “Uncle John” Sedgwick
Wednesday, August 4:
Symposium Spotlight: There’s lots of traffic in Virginia!
Fallen Leaders: Colonel Isaac Seymour, 6th Louisiana Infantry, Part 1 (by Sheritta Bitikofer)
Thursday, August 5
Fallen Leaders: Colonel Isaac Seymour, 6th Louisiana Infantry, Part 2 (by Sheritta Bitikofer)
Sean Michael Chick posted about the Battle of Belmont...as seen in comic strips.
Have you heard about General Stevenson’s Quick Step?
Friday, August 6:
Fallen Leaders: Generals’ Deaths (archived posts by Chris Kolakowski)
ECW Weekender: Some previously recorded presentations…
Saturday, August 7:
Saving History Saturday: New ways to discover and study Civil War Graffiti.
Fallen Leaders: General Max Weber (by David T. Dixon)
Sunday, August 8:
Meg Groeling’s Weekly Whitman features “Sight in Camp”
I can’t understand why “The Passing of the Armies” by Chamberlain has never been made into a movie. It reads like a well-crafted screenplay, even in Chamberlain’s wonderful Victorian-era prose.