2024 Year in Review: The Most-Answered Questions of the Week
One of our favorite traditions here at Emerging Civil War is the Question of the Week every Monday morning. Here are the questions that received the most answers this year:
4. What is your favorite Civil War era themed film or television show?
1. What Civil War book are you currently reading?
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What would you like to see featured in our Question of the Week? Drop your ideas in the comments, and you might see it posted one Monday morning in the near future.
Question: “What would you like to see featured in our Question of the Week?”
Answer: What was the absolute dumbest order issued during the War?
Whose biography and/or which battle/campaign deserve a new book-length treatment?
Medals of Honor during the Civil War were awarded for everything from capturing a Confederate flag to re-enlisting. Which recipient of the Medal of Honor do you think was the most worthy and why?
During the Civil War years military technology emerged. Which military invention do you think had the greatest impact on the outcome of the Civil War and why?
What Civil War topic and/or Battle/Campaign would you like to see covered in and upcoming book?
Which Civil War biography most needs to be re-written for today’s modern audiences?
I’d like to see this as a Question of the Week: “Is it true that John Bell Hood was Elvis Presley’s great-granduncle?”
I have heard this many times but have never seen conclusive genealogical proof. They certainly bear a strong resemblance to each other. A vital issue for American history and culture!