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Category Archives: Campaigns
J. Johnston Pettigrew, Author
In the blockbuster movie Gettysburg, which hit the big screens in 1993, there is a moment in the film of an exchange between Confederate Generals James Longstreet and J. Johnston Pettigrew on July 3rd. For those reading this that are aficionados … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate
Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, George Pickett, Gettysburg, Gettysburg movie, Isaac Trimble, J. Johnston Pettigrew, James Longstreet, Michael Shaara, Notes on Spain and the Spaniards in the Summer of 1859, Phillip S. Greenwalt, Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge, The Killer Angels, With a Glance at Sardinia
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Question of the Week: 9/13-9/19/21
In your opinion, what was the most important turning point moment in the Maryland Campaign of 1862?
Posted in Campaigns, Question of the Week
Tagged Maryland Campaign, Question of the Week
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“Straggling is a crime which cannot be to strongly reprehended nor too severely punished”: The Sixth Corps’ Orders Against Straggling in the Maryland Campaign
Recently, I was sorting through what I found on a past trip to the National Archives, where I spent the day looking through the records of William B. Franklin’s Sixth Corps in the Maryland Campaign. In one of the bound … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Campaigns
Tagged Army of the Potomac, Maryland Campaign, Sixth Corps, straggling
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A Chronology of the Confederacy’s 1862 Counterstrokes
Several months ago, I crossed an item off my Civil War bucket list: visiting the Perryville battlefield. While at the visitor center, I watched a video which put the Confederate invasion of Kentucky into the larger context of the war. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Baton Rouge, Battle of Chantilly, Battle of Charleston, Battle of Corinth, Battle of Harpers Ferry, Battle of Iuka, Battle of Munfordville, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Prairie Grove, Battle of Richmond, Battle of Second Bull Run, Battle of Second Manassas, Battle of South Mountain, Braxton Bragg, Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap, Don Carlos Buell, Earl Van Dorn, Edmund Kirby Smith, foreign intervention, France, Francis Herron, George B. McClellan, Great Britain, Great Britain and the Civil War, Henry Halleck, James Blunt, Jefferson Davis, John Breckinridge, John Pope, Kanawha Valley Campaign, Kentucky, Lord Palmerston, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Robert E. Lee, Russia, Sterling Price, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Hindman, William Loring, William S. Rosecrans, Winchester
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Free ECW Podcast: Grant’s Left Hook
In this new ECW Podcast episode, historian Sean Chick talks about “Grant’s Left Hook: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign,” the latest book in the Emerging Civil War Series. Listen for free here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/55261821
The Effects of the Wilson-Kautz Raid through Newspaper Advertisements (part two of two)
ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott (part two of two) Evidence of the amount of disorder the Union horsemen wreaked on the region’s citizens during the Wilson-Kautz Raid appears in numerous newspaper advertisements placed by individuals seeking to reclaim … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Cavalry, Civilian, Newspapers, Primary Sources, Slavery
Tagged Emancipation Proclamation, Henry Wise, horses, mules, Petersburg, Petersburg Daily Express, Ream's Station, Richmond Daily Dispatch, Slavery, Slaves, Tim Talbott, Wilson-Kautz Raid, Wilson-Kautz-newspapers
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The Effects of the Wilson-Kautz Raid through Newspaper Advertisements (part one of two)
ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott, director of education and interpretation at Pamplin Historical Park (part one of two) Slave trader E. H. Stokes placed an advertisement in the August 6, 1864, edition of the Richmond Daily Dispatch, … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Cavalry, Civilian, Newspapers, Primary Sources, Slavery
Tagged August V. Kautz, Burkesville Station, cavalry, Fitzhugh Lee, Grant's Second Offensive, James H. Wilson, Petersburg, Ream's Station, Slavery, Southside Railroad, Tim Talbott, Wade Hampton, Weldon Railroad, William Mahone, Wilson-Kautz Raid, Wilson-Kautz-newspapers
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Fallen Leaders: Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, Part II
Read Part I here. Following the fateful Planters’ House Hotel meeting in St. Louis on June 11, 1861, the newly-promoted Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon took action immediately to oust the Missouri State Guard and secessionists from the state. At that … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Federal
Tagged Battle of Wilson's Creek, Fallen Leaders, Fallen-Leaders-21, Nathaniel Lyon
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A Bold Scheme and a Mysterious Coincidence in the Final Days of the Vicksburg Campaign
By July 15, 1863, Gen. Joe Johnston’s “Army of Relief” suddenly found itself in need of relief of its own. Johnston’s impotent posturing during most of the Vicksburg Campaign had done little to alleviate Confederate misfortunes inside the besieged city, … Continue reading
“All In Our Favor”: A Federal Officer in the Midst of the Tullahoma Campaign
ECW is pleased to welcome back Daniel A. Masters. After four days of marching in nearly constant rain and sticky Tennessee mud, Capt. Wesley Porter Andrus of the 42nd Illinois spent Sunday, June 28, 1863, in camp attending to one … Continue reading
