September 2025 Newsletter Now Available
Emerging Civil War’s September 2025 newsletter went out along the e-telegraph today. Did you get your copy? In this issue:
- Chris Mackowski spends some time listening to Stonewall Jackson (over bottled lemonade, apparently!)
- Kevin Donovan goes on a road trip to Stone Mountain, inspired by a fellow contributor
- Joe Ricci parties it up at the New Orleans Civil War Roundtable, with “Minie Balls” galore
- Our new Executive Administrator, Sarah Canfield, answers 8 quick questions
- Madeline Feierstein makes her stunning ECW podcast debut
- Our contributors share a bevy of upcoming presentations for October and November
- And much more!
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Remember, J.E.B. Stuart always had Stonewall roaring with laughter. His reserved personality did not make him an unlikable man; one must consider the enormous responsibility that lay on his shoulders. In April 1861 he had not commanded men in battle for 13 years – and when he had, it was only 30 or so in a section of an artillery battery. By March 1862 he was commanding 17,000 while fighting three different armies at once in the Shenandoah Valley, with his secondary task to “keep up the skeer” on the nabobs in Washington City. On June 16 Lee wrote to inform him that it was time to bring his army to Richmond to join the offensive against McClellan, and cautioned him to share with no one, not even his top generals or aides, his plans, intentions, or movements. His secretiveness was always proved to be beneficial to his army. Many of the views we’ve been passed about personages in the war come from limited or narrow views from people who really had no understanding of them. Reading Jackson’s letters reveal much about the gentleness of the man.