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Campaign Through the Carolinas: An Ohio Cavalryman’s Recollections in the National Tribune
This is the third part of the 1892 account of the last days of the Civil War in North Carolina by an unidentified captain of the 10th Ohio Cavalry.
Read more...Campaign Through the Carolinas: An Ohio Cavalryman’s Recollections in the National Tribune
This is the second part of the account of the final days of the Civil War in North Carolina by an unidentified captain of the 10th Ohio Cavalry.
Read more...Sailors Are Not Soldiers
Dwight Hughes Civil War deep-water sailors—North and South—were not like soldiers. They came from very different backgrounds and fought a much different war. “[They] looked, moved, and talked like typical sailors,” noted one study. “Ruddy cheeks worn by the sun and wind, scars from working with wood and metal, and clothes tarred for waterproofing all […]
Read more...The Weight of a Year
Working on the layout for Bert Dunkerly’s upcoming To the Bitter End, I was searching for a photo of President Lincoln from 1865. As I sorted through the Library of Congress’s stash, I came across a pair of photos taken almost a year apart–the first on February 9, 1864, and the second taken 150 years […]
Read more...Long Abraham Lincoln a Little Longer: Soldier Voting in the Election of 1864
With the fall midterm state elections upon us once again, I thought perhaps we should look back at some of the things that made the elections of 1864 so important a part of the eventual Union victory in 1865. ECW will present a series of posts concerning Lincoln’s election, the earlier October state contests, and […]
Read more...Really? You Needed That?
I do not know if any of our readers know historians or history buffs. Perhaps you fit into these categories yourselves. If so, I hope this post resonates with you.
Read more...Making Naval History: The CSS Hunley
Originally christened as Fish Boat and constructed in Mobile, Alabama, the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley was plagued with bad luck. The Hunley was first launched in July 1863 and sank during a training exercise just 17 days after reaching the Confederate port in Charleston, South Carolina. Five crewmembers were killed. The Hunley was repaired […]
Read more...An Ornament of the Army
On August 25, 1863, the following appeared in the Rochester Democrat and American. It was written by Ira Clark. Clark, a one time Adjutant of the 140th New York Infantry, wrote it in tribute to the regiment’s Colonel, Patrick H. O’Rorke. O’Rorke had been killed leading the regiment on Little Round Top at Gettysburg on […]
Read more...Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost: Part Three
Part three in a series. This series was put together from one of my extended graduate school research papers. The sources used were the current research between 2007-2008, obviously the historiography of the Civil War expands on a monthly basis, thus some of the “current research” in the paper is no longer exactly current. ************ […]
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