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Category Archives: Trans-Mississippi
Remember Poison Spring!
If you have seen the 2012 film Lincoln, you may remember the first two scenes: a gruesome hand-to-hand fight between white Confederate troops and African-American Federal soldiers, and two USCTs speaking with their commander-in-chief. Besides the overarching themes of race, … Continue reading
Primary Sources: Thoughts and Favorites
A primary source is defined as one produced by an eyewitness to an event offering their recollections. Some primary sources provide just basic facts with limited additional details. Other sources, like battle reports, provide more details but often offer little … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Primary Sources, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Bataan, Burma, Corregidor, General Grant, Grant's Memoirs, John T. Wilder, Manila, Marcus Toney, Munfordville, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Primary Sources, primary-sources-19, Simon Buckner, Wilbur Fisk, William Slim
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“Good Cheer Prevailed” – Celebration and Reflection for a Confederate Surgeon in 1863 Arkansas
Christmas of 1863 was one of relief for the five-thousand men of the Confederate District of Arkansas. They had been settled in their winter encampment just west of Camden, Arkansas after months of battlefield defeats at Prairie Grove, Helena, and … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Medical, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged 1863, Arkansas, Christmas, St. Louis, Sterling Price, William McPheeters
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The Grinch of St. Joseph, Missouri
Nearly 100 years before the 1957 classic Dr. Seuss book appeared on the shelves, there was another Grinch who lived in the frontier town of St. Joseph, Missouri during the Civil War. Typically, we think of Christmas during the Civil … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Newspapers, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged Civil War Christmas, Missouri, St. Joseph, Trans-Mississippi
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“What Shall Be Done with the Slave?” The 9th Illinois Cavalry and Practical Emancipation
I am frequently sidetracked when scanning through historic newspapers on a quest for specific information. What can I say, the headlines are still doing their job. Such was the case while digitally flipping through August 1862 issues of the Chicago … Continue reading
Confederates Invade San Francisco?
Shortly before his death in 1886, James I. Waddell, former captain of the CSS Shenandoah, wrote in his memoirs: “I had matured plans for entering the harbor of San Francisco and laying that city under contribution.”[i] Waddell never did pass … Continue reading
The Unexpected Turn
In my conclusion to Turning Points of the American Civil War, I suggest that Lincoln’s assassination was perhaps a turning point of the war rather than just a tragic coda that followed the surrender at Appomattox. In his outstanding book … Continue reading
A Conversation with Dave Roth (part three)
(part three in a five-part series) I’ve been talking this week with Blue & Gray Magazine editor Dave Roth, the recipient of this year’s Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History. Yesterday, he shared a few … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Books & Authors, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood Home, Blue & Gray, Conversation-with-Dave-Roth, Dave Roth, Don Alberts, Fourth Texas Mounted, Jerry Potter, john hunt morgan, Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, Lt. Gen. Howard Graves, Ohio Penitentiary, Sibley's New Mexico Campaign, Sultanna, West Point
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A Monumental Discussion: Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Matthew Christopher Hulbert, PhD, a colleague of Emerging Civil War’s through our “Engaging the Civil War” series, teaches history at Texas A&M-Kingsville. He has produced two books on guerrilla warfare in the Civil War, and his essays have appeared in … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged 39th Missouri Mounted Infantry, Centralia, Confederate monuments, Dave Poole, George Todd, guerrilla warfare, Lone Chimney, Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Missouri, monumental-discussion, National Park Service, Thomas Ewing, Trans-Mississippi, William "Bloody Bill" Anderson
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