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Category Archives: Leadership–Federal
“I Confess That My Life at West Point Was Wretched”: O.O. Howard’s Plebe Year
Had his cousin William been in better physical shape, O.O. Howard probably would have never gone to West Point. Otis, as his family called him throughout his life, was in his senior year at Bowdoin College in Maine when his … Continue reading
Continuous Contact: Grant’s Tactical Doctrine in the Eastern Theater
ECW welcomes back guest author Nathan Provost “In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then he who continues the attack wins.”[1] This quote by Ulysses Grant, general-in-chief of Federal forces, signifies the grand tactic … Continue reading
C’mon, Cump!
In his recent, admiring biography of William Tecumseh Sherman, Brian Holden Reid terms him a “dazzling literary stylist.” Well, watch out for that razzle-dazzle, at least in Sherman’s Memoirs (1875). I am not the first to notice that in his … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Primary Sources
Tagged Albert Castel, Alpheus Williams, Atlanta Campaign, B. A. Dunn, Brian Holden Reid, Cump, Daniel Butterfield, Jefferson C. Davis, Kennesaw Mountain, National Tribune, New Hope Church, Oliver O. Howard, Patrick Cleburne, Pickett's Mill, Prevaricating Through Georgia, Resaca, sherman's memoirs, Thomas Wood, William T. Sherman
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“I Think, Boys, I am Done For!”: A Prussian General in Union Blue Endures Trying Times in Georgia
ECW welcomes back guest author David T. Dixon August Willich heard the commotion and leapt onto his horse, desperate to rejoin his command.[1] Amid the smoke and confusion, he galloped directly into McNair’s Arkansans, who were mopping up what was … Continue reading
Benjamin F. Kelley’s Confederate Kinfolk
General Benjamin F. Kelley doesn’t get a lot of attention in Civil War historiography. His military career was primarily confined to western Maryland and West Virginia, where he spent the war years dueling with the likes of Mosby, McCausland, Imboden, … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Leadership--Federal
Tagged Alfred Hughes, Benjamin Kelley, Camp Chase, George Thompson, Lucy Bagby, West Virginia, Wheeling, William Goshorn
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Sheridan and the Franco-Prussian War
150 years ago this month, the Franco-Prussian War broke out. By early September the Prussian/German forces had smashed two French armies, captured Emperor Napoleon III, and were marching to Paris to lay siege to the city. When the war ended … Continue reading
Constant and Devoted Friends of the Soldier: Seneca and Elmira Simmons
The Pennsylvania Reserve Division is likely not one of the first to come to mind if you were asked to name a famous unit of the Army of the Potomac. Yet it was one of the hardest fighting divisions within … Continue reading
FREE ECW Podcast: “Curt Fields: Portraying General Grant”
As a living historian Curt Fields portrays Ulysses S. Grant. Get inside Grant’s mind, and learn some surprising insights, in the latest Emerging Civil War podcast. Listed for free, you can hear the audio or download for listening later through … Continue reading
The Second Seminole War as a Civil War Training Ground
In the popular narrative of the coming of the Civil War, the U.S.-Mexico War is often identified as the military crucible through which many of the war’s most famous battlefield leaders first passed—gaining lessons in leadership and combat operations under … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Ties to the War
Tagged Braxton Bragg, C. S. Monaco, Cecily Nelson Zander, Cecily Zander, Col. Duncan L. Clinch, Everglades, Florida, George G. Meade, George H. Thomas, John K. Mahon, John Sherman, Joseph E. Johnston, Joseph Hooker, Jubal Early, Mexican-American War, Robert Anderson, Rock of Chickamauga, Second Seminole War, Seminole Nation, U.S.-Mexico War, Vera Cruz, William T. Sherman, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor
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