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Category Archives: Campaigns
Arkansas’s Role in the Vicksburg Campaign (part two)
ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Carson Butler. Part two of two. Following victory at Port Gibson, Grant pushed his forces north-eastward, and ultimately marched his army towards Jackson, the capital of Mississippi. After defeating a Confederate force under … Continue reading
Arkansas’s Role in the Vicksburg Campaign (part one)
ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Carson Butler. Part one of two. The Mississippi River is one of the most defining features of the North American continent, and during the American Civil War, it proved to be vital in … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Sieges, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged 12th Arkansas Battaltion, Arkansans-at-Vicksburg, Arkansas, Big Black River, Carson Butler, Champion Hill, Franklin Gardner, John Pemberton, Magnolia Church, Martin Edwin Green, Port Gibson, Port Hudson, Siege of Vicksburg, Trans-Mississippi, Vicksburg Campaign
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A Comprehensive View of the Overland Campaign: Part I
Emerging Civil War welcomes back Nathan Provost… Antoine-Henri Jomini was a general in the Napoleonic Wars who served under various generals, including Napoleon himself. After Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile, Jomini began writing a series of works that dealt with the principles … Continue reading
A.C.L. Gatewood, the Lost Cause, and Two Different Accounts of the Appomattox Campaign
Andrew Cameron Lewis Gatewood came from an influential family in Bath County, Virginia. Before the war, the wealth and status of his family helped secure him a position as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute. He spent most of … Continue reading
BookChat with Steven Woodworth and Charles Grear, editors of Vicksburg Besieged
I have been spending a lot of time lately with the latest volume in Southern Illinois University Press’s “Civil War Campaigns in the West” Series, Vicksburg Besieged, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear (see info on the … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Sieges, Western Theater
Tagged BookChat, Charles Grear, Chuck Grear, Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland, Civil War Campaigns in the West, Siege of Vicksburg, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, Steven Woodworth, Vicksburg Besieged, Vicksburg Campaign
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Sherman’s “Demon Spirit”
In a letter written on April 29, 1863, to his wife Ellen, William T. Sherman privately expressed his misgivings about the Vicksburg campaign Ulysses S. Grant was just then launching. “My own opinion is that this whole plan of attack … Continue reading
Conduct Unbecoming an Officer: John B. Hood’s Efforts to Cover Up the Bad News From his Tennessee Campaign
EDITOR’S NOTE: ECWer Stephen Davis has had published the second volume of his study of Confederate General John B. Hood’s generalship in 1864. This piece is from his second volume, released this past autumn by Mercer University Press. After the … Continue reading
“You can do a great deal in eight days”: Ulysses S. Grant’s Forgotten Turning Point (part two)
Part two of two With an escort of twenty cavalrymen, Ulysses S. Grant rode on the evening of May 3, 1863, into the newly captured town Grand Gulf, Mississippi. He passed the now-abandoned Confederate forts, Cobun and Wade, and made … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Navies, Western Theater
Tagged a-great-deal-in-eight-days, Baton Rouge, Brad Gottfried, Civil War turning points, David Porter, Grand Gulf, Hankerson's Ferry, Henry Halleck, Milliken's Bend, Nathaniel Banks, Parker Hills, Port Gibson, Port Hudson, Turning Points of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, Vicksburg Campaign
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“You can do a great deal in eight days”: Ulysses S. Grant’s Forgotten Turning Point (part one)
Part one of two Ulysses S. Grant had envisioned his arrival in Grand Gulf, Mississippi, under other circumstances. A week earlier, he had targeted the landing as the ideal spot to cross his army from the west bank of the … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Navies, Western Theater
Tagged a-great-deal-in-eight-days, Bruinsburg, Civil War turning points, Commissary Banks, Grand Gulf, Hankerson's Ferry, Henry Halleck, John McClernand, Milliken's Bend, Nathaniel Banks, Port Gibson, Port Hudson, Turning Point of the War, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg Campaign
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Incendiaries on the B&O: The Burning of the Fish Creek Spans During the Jones-Imboden Raid (Part II)
See Part I here… On the night of April 27, 1863, Hannah Church spied five men building a fire under the two spans of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crossing of a fork of Fish Creek bearing her family’s name. … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Cavalry
Tagged 19th Virginia Cavalry, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Benjamin Stone Roberts, Burton, Cappo Fork, cavalry, Church's Fork, Fairmont, Francis H. Pierpont, John D. Imboden, John W. Garrett, Jones-Imboden Raid, Joseph A.J. Lightburn, Mannington, Raids, Robert Schenck, West Virginia, Wetzel County, William E. Jones
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