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Question of the Week: 4/16-4/22/18
What medical advancement during the Civil War era is most significant to you?
Prince Greer: Slave, Freedman, and Entrepreneur
One of the issues facing newly freed men and women was how to make a living in a world that had never paid them a living wage for their contributions. Even the USCT initially were paid less than white soldiers, … Continue reading
War Comes to St. George’s (part four)
(part four in a series) After the battle of Fredericksburg and before the battle of Chancellorsville, the Confederate army used St. George’s for services and revivals. J. William Jones reported in his memoir Christ in the Camp that revivals were … Continue reading
Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 3: Who Shot Major Ellis?
This is part three of a three-part series. Part one. Part two. For decades after William Ellis’s death, his story concluded for all but his mother. Later that month, August 1864, the already widowed Catharine Ellis began the process of … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Medical, Monuments, Newspapers
Tagged 16th Mississippi Infantry, 49th New York Infantry, 95th Pennsylvania Infantry, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Bloody Angle, G. Norton Galloway, John G. Darrah, monuments, Pensions, ramrod, Richard T. Owen, Spotsylvania, Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Thomas T. Roche, Wiley Sword, William Ellis
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Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 2: Mysterious Death and Elaborate Funeral
This is part two of a three-part series. Part one can be found here. Major William Ellis returned to the Army of the Potomac near Petersburg in mid-June. He knowingly cut short his recovery from a gruesome wound received from … Continue reading
Clara Jones: A Civil War Nurse
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author John Lustrea While only roughly 20% of all Civil War nurses were women, several notable women occupy a prominent place in our modern imagination when we think of Civil War nurses. Dorothea Dix, Clara … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Medical, Personalities
Tagged Army Nurses Pension Act, civil war nurse, Clara Jones, Gettysburg, hospital ship, John Lustrea, Johnstown Flood, Lyceum Hospital, National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War, Northern Civil War Nurses, Red Cross, Spanish American War, Woman's Permanent Emergency Association
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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
The Question I Could Not Answer
She stood there, staring at the minie ball in her tiny hand and feeling the weight of that original bullet. I was busy talking to the other children and adults at the medical display table and keeping an eye on … Continue reading
Three Virginia Battlefields See More Preserved Ground
The Civil War Trust recently notified us of a successful campaign to save nearly 400 acres at several Virginia battlefields, including Gaines’ Mill, Cedar Mountain, and Cold Harbor. President of the Trust, Jim Lighthizer, recently sent us this follow up … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Trails, Common Soldier, ECW Weekender, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Material Culture, Medical, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Personalities, Photography, Preservation
Tagged Battle of Cedar Mountain, Battle of Cold Harbor, Battle of Gaines Mill, battlefield preservation, Brandy Station and Cedar Mountain Station Park Alliance, campaign, Civil War Trust, National Park Service
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Book Review: Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness
This latest offering from Savas Beatie is a reissue of Mark J. Crawford’s Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness, originally published by McFarland & Company, Inc. in 2000. As far as I can tell … Continue reading
