ECW Weekender: Forts Footage from the ECW YouTube Page

We have forts on the brain this month, so if you’re looking for something to do this weekend, how about a video tour of some of our favorite forts? We have a ton of fort footage on the Emerging Civil War YouTube page. Here’s a run-down:

Phill Greenwalt offers a first-person look around Fort Union National Monument in New Mexico (Dec. 2021):

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The first shots of the Civil War fired in Charleston Harbor against Fort Sumter, with Mark Maloy from the 2021 ECW Virtual Symposium (Sept. 2020):

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Visit Fort Edward Johnson along the road to the McDowell battlefield on the western edge of the Shenandoah Valley (May 2020):

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Go “On Location” to Fort Sumter with Chris Mackowski (Apr. 2020):

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On the anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Chris Mackowski visits Brown’s fort (Oct. 2019):

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In Knoxville, Tennessee, visit Fort Dickerson and Fort Sanders with Chris Mackowski and Jim Doncaster of the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable (Nov. 2019):

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Go “On Location” to Fort Towson in Oklahoma, a state park near the scene of the final Confederate surrender of the war (Nov. 2019):

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Rob Orrison and Steve Phan talk about Fort Stevens from the 2019 ECW Symposium (Sept. 2019):