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Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 3: Who Shot Major Ellis?
This is part three of a three-part series. Part one. Part two. For decades after William Ellis’s death, his story concluded for all but his mother. Later that month, August 1864, the already widowed Catharine Ellis began the process of obtaining a pension for her own support. The fifty year old woman secured testimony from […]
Read more...Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 2: Mysterious Death and Elaborate Funeral
This is part two of a three-part series. Part one can be found here. Major William Ellis returned to the Army of the Potomac near Petersburg in mid-June. He knowingly cut short his recovery from a gruesome wound received from a Rebel who fired a ramrod at the 49th New York Infantry’s second-in-command at the […]
Read more...Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 1: Delayed Mortal Wounding at Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle
“This has been a Sabbath to me,” confessed Surgeon George T. Stevens to his wife, Harriet, in a letter written Thursday evening, August 4, 1864. “No day since the campaign commenced last May has seemed like Sabbath before, but this has been more than usually a day of rest and a day of solemnity with […]
Read more...Year In Review 2017: ECW Blog Series
It’s been a full year with wonderful articles on Emerging Civil War Blog. Take a moment to review the officially coordinate series and some of the multi-post articles featured this year! Modern Civil War Photography My Favorite Historical Person A Monumental Discussion Battlefield Markers & Monuments
Read more...ECW Week in Review Nov. 6-12
There is a touch of November chill in the air but Emerging Civil War remains busy. Our series Battlefield Markers and Monuments came to a conclusion and we also had another series on the experiences of a New York officer at Spotsylvania. We also had a major announcement regarding the Fifth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium (Early Bird […]
Read more...Breakthrough at Petersburg: “April Fool, Johnnies!”
After the thrilling Union victory at Five Forks on April 1, Lt. Col. Horace Porter raced back with a report to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s headquarters near Dabney’s Mill. He swiftly picked his way through the mess behind the lines to provide the Union commander with a full account of the actions on the […]
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