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Category Archives: Trans-Mississippi
“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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Battlefield Protection at Mansfield
This spring, the Civil War Trust, along with Cleco, announced the protection of more than a dozen acres of battlefield ground in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Louisiana’s Lt. Governor, Billy Nungesser, as well as Civil War Trust Chairman emeritus John L. … Continue reading
The Great Naval Leaders
On May 10 I lectured about the Battle of Midway to Old Dominion University’s Institute of Learning in Retirement. Over the course of a wonderful discussion, I assessed one of the U.S. commanders, Raymond Spruance, as “one of the greatest … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Federal, Navies, Personalities, Ties to the War, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Admiral David G. Farragut, Battle of Lake Erie, Battle of Mobile Bay, Battle of Perryville, David Dixon Porter, David Farragut, David Porter, Fall of New Orleans, Fort Fisher, George Dewey, Lake Erie, Manila, Midway, Mobile Bay, Okinawa, Oliver Hazard Perry, Perryville, Philippine Sea, Raymond Spruance, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, Red River Campaign, U.S. Grant, U.S. Navy, Vicksburg Campaign, War of 1812, World War II
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The Second City
The Civil War defined America – that statement is heard often in many quarters. We use that phrase in ECW’s tagline. Many effects from that conflict are quite visible in today’s America, while others are not as apparent at first … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Economics, Ties to the War, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Chicago, Erie Canal, Fall of New Orleans, Great Lakes, Interstate Highway Act, Interstate highways, Island No. 10, louisville, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New York, New York Central, New York City, railroads, St. Lawrence River, St. Louis, trucking in the US, Vicksburg Campaign, westward expansion
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WHM Profile: Kristen Trout
by ECW Correspondent Emily Losito Although the Missouri Civil War Museum in St. Louis has only been open for four years, Kristen Trout has been working there a lot longer. When she was younger, Trout helped her father out at … Continue reading
