10,000 Posts: Patrick Kelly-Fischer Dips into the ECW Archives

What Was So Wrong with Slavery? by Steward Henderson, posted on April 26, 2019. It’s mind-blowing that people are still asking this question, and I feel like this should be required, annual reading for students of the Civil War.

Failed Ironclads: CSS Mississippi and CSS Louisiana at New Orleans by Dwight Hughes, posted on April 24, 2017. The battles of New Orleans and Memphis have always fascinated me, not least because I think their impact is underappreciated in comparison to the big land battles. But really, this is a stand-in for how much I enjoyed all of Dwight’s writing.

Horseshoes Win the Civil War by Brian Kowell, posted on February 16, 2024. This has always stuck with me because Brian Kowell does such a great job of succinctly highlighting the importance of both horses in the Civil War and the war-changing scale of the North’s industrial base, wrapped in a compelling biographical story.

And of my own, I’m partial to A Fight for “a Square Drink of Water”: The Battle of Valverde, posted on March 4, 2022. This was the first serious writing I did about the 1862 New Mexico Campaign, and that did a lot to put me on the road to having a book about that campaign coming out this month.

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