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Category Archives: Common Soldier
Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Yorktown Monument – A Victim of Another War
It was early in the war, in the spring of 1862 when the armies converged on Yorktown, Virginia. The fact that many had not yet seen combat and been hardened to the realities of war, combined with the surge of … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Common Soldier, Monuments, Primary Sources
Tagged 13th alabama, 2nd Florida, 40th New York, 4th North Carolina, American Revolutionary War, civil war vs. revolutionary war, markers-and-monuments-17, relic hunters, Yorktown, yorktown history, yorktown surrender monument
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Stand in the Cemetery: George Washington Getty and the Battle of Cedar Creek
Following the engagement at Tom’s Brook on Oct. 9, 1864, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan’s Union Army of the Shenandoah continued north toward Winchester. Sheridan eventually put his men into camp along a stream known as Cedar Creek south of the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Army of West Virginia, Battle of Cedar Creek, Battle of the Wilderness, Brock Road-Orange Plank Road Intersection, Clement Evans, Daniel Bidwell, Frank Wheaton, George Washington Getty, Horatio Wright, J. Warren Keifer, James Warner, Jedediah Hotchkiss, John Gordon, Jubal Early, Lewis Grant, Maj. Gen. William Emory, Philip Sheridan, VI Corps, XIX Corps
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Preservation Victory at Bristoe Station
Great news from our friends at the Civil War Trust! On this, the anniversary of the Battle of Bristoe Station, the Trust announces more hallowed ground saved at this northern Virginia battlefield. Prince William County’s Historic Preservation Division will be … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Civil War Trails, Common Soldier, ECW Weekender, Emerging Civil War Series, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Monuments, Preservation
Tagged A Want of Vigilance, Anniversary, battlefield preservation, Briste Station, Bristoe Campaign, Civil War Battlefield Preservation, Civil War Trust, Prince William County
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“If We Fail Now the North Has no Hope:” The Antietam Campaign of 1862
The Fifth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium, August 3-5, 2018, will focus on Turning Points of the American Civil War. We were excited to announce that our Keynote Speaker will be retired Gettysburg National Military Park Supervisory Historian Scott Hartwig. … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Lincoln, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Symposium
Tagged Emancipation Proclamation, Fifth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, keynote speaker, Maryland Campaign 1862, Scott Hartwig
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Dinner with Charles Gould and Horatio Wright
I am always amazed at the amount of source material that is out there for historians who are willing to mine the depths of the treasure troves at our disposal. I had keyword searched “Fort Welch” on Newspapers.com in hopes … Continue reading
He Should’ve Died (But We’re Glad He Didn’t)
That’s a terrible thing to think or say. “He should’ve died.” However, with some of the medical situations during the Civil War, it’s a thought that occasionally crosses the mind of a historian. Sometimes, there was an injury or illness … Continue reading
They Fell On The Fields Of Antietam
Emerging Civil War welcomes back Kristen M. Pawlak (Trout) On the fields to the east of the small western-Maryland hamlet of Sharpsburg and interposed between the Potomac River and Antietam Creek, just under four thousand Federal and Rebel troops lay … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier
Tagged "orange grays", 108th New York Infantry, 6th North Carolina, Antietam National Cemetery, Battle of Antietam, burial, Captain Houston Lowrie, Confederate cemetery, george washburn, Hood's division, Kristen Pawlak, Kristen Trout, legacy, miller cornfield, Sergeant Miles Casey, Sunken Road
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A Question of Morale
One of the controversial aspects of the Chancellorsville Campaign was the decision by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker to send his cavalry under Brig. Gen. George Stoneman into central Virginia. Hooker envisioned that Stoneman’s troopers would disrupt Robert E. Lee’s lines … Continue reading
Jackson Flank Attack Ground Saved
The Central Virginia Battlefield Trust has worked hard over the years to help in the effort to preserve the ground in which Stonewall Jackson’s famous flank attack made history in May 1863. Their most recent announcement shares the great news … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Trails, Common Soldier, ECW Weekender, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Material Culture, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Newspapers, Personalities, Photography, Preservation, Primary Sources
Tagged Central Virginia Battlefields Trust, Chancellorsville, Dowdall's Tavern, jackson's flank attack, Last Days of Stonewall Jackson, Orange Turnpike, Preservation, Stonewall Jackson
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Voices of the Maryland Campaign: September 20, 1862
The day began with Confederate soldiers, led by A.P. Hill’s Division, advancing back to Boteler’s Ford downstream from Shepherdstown, ordered there because of the alarm Pendleton created the previous night that crossing Federals captured all of his 44 guns (in … Continue reading
