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ECW Podcast “Reaping The Whirlwind at Bennett Place” Is Now Available
We’re releasing our podcasts on Tuesdays! Our second podcast for September appeared this morning on Patreon. It’s taking a closer look at the 1865 events at Bennett Place, the site of the Confederate surrender in North Carolina in a Civil War discussion with Eric Wittenberg and Chris Mackowski.
Read more...Eric Wittenberg Rides the “Whirlwind” at Bennett Place
“We Ride a Whirlwind”: Sherman and Johnston at Bennett Place is award-winning historian Eric J. Wittenberg’s 20th published book on the Civil War. Unlike almost all of his other works, this is not a battle study. Rather, it’s a detailed look at the nine days in April 1865 that brought about the true end of the Civil War. After […]
Read more...On Location: Bennett Place
While the surrender at Appomattox Court House represented a neat and tidy ending to the Civil War narrative—and is thus the best-known surrender of the war—the largest surrender actually place more than a week later in North Carolina, at Bennett Place. I’m On Location for a closer look.
Read more...Appomattox and Bennett Place: A Remarkable Contrast
I had the honor and privilege of attending and participating in a portion of the weeklong commemoration sof the surrenders at Bennett Place on April 18, 2015, the 150th anniversary of the signing of the initial peace treaty by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Sadly, I won’t be there for […]
Read more...Events Larger Than One Person: The Surrenders at Bennett Place, Durham, North Carolina
Conclusion. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, ever the good soldier, obeyed Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s order. He informed his adversary, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, that the civil authorities in Washington, D. C. had rejected their treaty on the grounds that Sherman had exceeded his authority. He informed Johnston that his sole authority to treat […]
Read more...From the ECW Archives: Bennett Place Redux
ECW contributors Chris Mackowski and Phill Greenwalt have both made visits to Bennett Place that they’ve written about for the Emerging Civil War. In fact, Chris’s post, “The Road to Bennett Place,” was his first-ever contribution to Emerging Civil War. In the post, he reflects on Bennett Place as a place of endings and beginnings: […]
Read more...Events Larger Than One Person: The Surrenders at Bennett Place, Durham, North Carolina
Part One. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston learned of the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia in Wilmer McLean’s parlor in the hamlet of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 several days later. Lee had been trying to outrace the pursuing Union armies in an attempt to link up with […]
Read more...Bennett Place
On April 26, 1865 the surrender finally happened. On a 325-acre farm owned by the Bennitt (or Bennett as it is more commonly written and referred to) family. Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrendered the remnants of the Army of Tennessee and all Confederates still serving on the Eastern Seaboard. In total over 89,000 Confederate soldiers […]
Read more...The Road to Bennett Place
The road to Bennett Place started for me, as it did for William T. Sherman and Joe Johnston, in Manassas. Unlike the two army commanders, though, I’ve come here, to north-central North Carolina on the outskirts of Durham, with intent rather than through happenstance.
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