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Category Archives: Civilian
Under Fire: “Death waited often at our door”
When the invitation was given to contribute to this series on “First Experiences Under Fire” my thoughts, of course, drifted to the young soldiers with dreams of glory in combat, only to find that the battlefield wasn’t as glamorous as … Continue reading
Civilians Under Siege: A Confederate Woman’s Diary of the War in the Trans-Mississippi
I first encountered Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861–1868 in an undergraduate course on the topic of great Civil War writers. Looking at the syllabus at the start of the term, I circled the diary as a text I … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian
Tagged Confederate women, diary, Kate Stone, Louisiana, primary source, Texas, Trans-Mississippi
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From the ECW YouTube Page: A Tour of Pamplin Park
Earlier this summer, I had the chance to spend the day with my friend Tim Talbott at Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia. Tim is the director of education and interpretation … Continue reading
Finding Miss Susie
If studying history has taught me anything, it’s that everything is connected. Places, people, and events that shaped the nation did not occur in a vacuum. The soldiers and civilians we read about did not exist in just one place … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Reconstruction, Slavery, USCT
Tagged African American Memoirs, Beaufort South Carolina, Camp Saxton, Civil War Connections, Emancipation Proclamation, Green-Meldrim Mansion, Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, Rufus Saxton, Savannah Georgia, Sherman's Headquarters, Susie King Taylor, William Sherman
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Book Review: Marriage on the Border
Marriage on the Border: Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War By Allison Dorothy Fredette University Press of Kentucky, 2020, $60 hardcover Reviewed by Meg Groeling Allison Dorothy Fredette’s Marriage on the Border: Love, … Continue reading
Fallen Leaders: What About The Women?
I’ve been trying to think of a different angle of “Fallen Leaders”: the context of women’s studies. While many women made great sacrifices and endured significant hardship of social “falls” due to the war, I wanted to keep a literal … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian
Tagged Fallen Leaders, Fallen-Leaders-21, Mary Todd Lincoln, Varina Davis
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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: Joshua Chamberlain lost “the gleam of white light”
By Brian Swartz The Civil War killed Joshua L. Chamberlain on Tuesday, February 24, 1914, almost nine years after “the gleam of white light … shed upon my soul” flared into eternity. Since a Confederate bullet punched through his groin … Continue reading
Untangling the Marmillions, Part 1
On January 30, 1864, Harper’s Weekly published a set of accounts from formerly enslaved blacks from New Orleans. Emancipated by Benjamin Butler during the Federal occupation of the town, these individuals came forward to give their testimonies to the atrocities … Continue reading
