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Author Archives: David T. Dixon
Book Review: The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage
The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage By John Harris Yale University Press, 2020, $30.00 hardcover Reviewed by David T. Dixon A large crowd gathered in the yard of a New York City jail … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Book Review, John Harris, Nathaniel Gordon, Slave trade, Slavery, The Last Slave Ships
10 Comments
Raising the Regiment: Die Neuner
Cincinnati’s German American community responded to the news of the surrender of Ft. Sumter and President Lincoln’s call for troops with unbridled enthusiasm. Handbills posted the evening of April 14, 1861 on the wall at Turner Hall on Walnut Street … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Regiments
Tagged 9th Ohio, August Willich, Cincinnati, German Americans, Recruiting-160, Recruiting-The-Regiment
9 Comments
A Radical Gettysburg Address
President Abraham Lincoln’s two-minute remarks during the dedication of the Soldiers’ Cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863 may be the most heralded words ever delivered in the English language. For nearly 160 years, the legacy and mythology surrounding that … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Federal, Lincoln, Politics, Slavery
Tagged Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Lincoln, Memory, Slavery, William Seward
7 Comments
A Hidden Gem of a Civil War Diary
Several weeks ago, I was contacted by a member of a large Midwestern Civil War round table following my Zoom presentation. “I am in possession of an original diary of a First Lieutenant of Company G, 21st Illinois who was … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Primary Sources
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ECW Weekender: Tramping with Mr. Resaca
The sixty-three-year-old Union general ascended the parapet and gazed through his field glasses at the scene of a bloody stalemate. A Confederate sharpshooter a few hundred yards to the east took careful upward aim and fired. The ball pierced the … Continue reading
Book Review: Courage Above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812—1863
Courage Above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812—1863 By Harwood P. Hinton Hinton and Jerry Thompson University of Oklahoma Press, 2020, $45.00 hardcover Reviewed by David T. Dixon Like many historical figures who were prominent … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Personalities
Tagged Book Review, ECW Book Reviews, john ellis wool
4 Comments
The Black Brigade and the Defense of Cincinnati
Panic seized citizens of Cincinnati during the first days of September, as the potential consequences of the recent Confederate victory at Richmond, Kentucky became apparent. As defeated Federal soldiers retreated north toward Louisville, Queen City residents worried that Confederate general … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Common Soldier, Monuments, USCT, Western Theater
Tagged Black Brigade, black history, black history month, Cincinnati, US Colored Infantry
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History, Heritage, and Hate: The Fate of Confederate Monuments in my Ancestral Home
Last week, a statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was taken down by city commissioners in Rome, Georgia. The monument, erected in 1909 by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, had stood in Myrtle Grove … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments
Tagged Confederate Monument, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Rome Georgia
56 Comments
Treüe der Union: A German Union Man Cheats Death in Texas
Three days after the attack on August 10, 1862, Ernst Cramer returned to the battlefield near the Nueces River to search for his wounded friends. Nineteen dead German Americans, bloated, blackened, and putrid in the unrelenting west Texas heat lay … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Common Soldier, Immigrants
Tagged battle of nueces river, conscription, Ernst Cramer, german-american, partisans, Texas, Unionist
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John Wolcott Phelps’ Emancipation Proclamation
The voyage of the U.S. Frigate Constitution ended at Ship island, a barrier island off the Gulf coast of Mississippi in December, 1861. Prior to disembarking, Brigadier General John Wolcott Phelps gathered all passengers on deck and recited one of … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Federal, Slavery
Tagged Abolition, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Butler, Edwin Stanton, emancipation, john wolcott phelps, refugees, Slavery
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