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Category Archives: Sieges
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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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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Maine at War: December 2020
Here’s what our friend Brian Swartz was up to in December at his blog, Maine at War: December 2, 2020: Fraternity remembers Bowdoin brother killed at Cold Harbor Bowdoin College junior Edwin Rogers belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon when he … Continue reading
The Confederate Flag and the Assault on the Capitol
How does one process the image of a Confederate battle flag in the United States Capitol? “Trump did what Lee, Jackson, and Davis couldn’t in four years,” a colleague texted me as the first images of insurrectionists started appearing on … Continue reading
Lessons for 2021 from POWs and Sieges
Last October I looked at how the broadly-parallel experiences of prisoners of war and besieged forces could provide perspectives on the coronavirus situation. Now, as 2020 turns into 2021, I again looked at these situations to see if there are … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War Events, Memory, Sieges, Ties to the War
Tagged Bastogne, Bataan, Corregidor, Knoxville, prisoners of war, Siege of Knoxville, World War II
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Lessons for 2020 from POWs and Sieges
Being captured in battle can be a dramatic and traumatic experience. Instantly you are cut off from what was familiar and definite, and cast into a situation unfamiliar, out of your control, and with a most indefinite future. The same … Continue reading
Posted in Primary Sources, Sieges, Ties to the War
Tagged Chinese Gordon, Corregidor, James Stockdale, Java, Khartoum, Leningrad, prisoners of war, Vietnam War, Wladyslaw Anders, World War II
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Sketch of the Siege of Fredericksburg
View of Fredericksburg from Falmouth, VA, on the north bank of the Rappahannock River.
“Blowed to Freedom!”: Abraham and the Vicksburg Mine
Every February ECW does a series of posts about African Americans and the Civil War. There are many from which to choose, but I have made it my mission, as it were, to find those who are not as well … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Civilian, Common Soldier, Memory, Personalities, Sieges, Slavery, Western Theater
Tagged Abraham, Andrew Hickenlooper, Battle of Fort Hill, black history, black history month, black-history-2019, blowed to freedom, blown to freedom, the Vicksburg Crater, Vicksburg
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