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ECW Weekender: Sarah Morgan and the Old State House in Baton Rouge
The Louisiana Old State Capitol Museum in Baton Rouge has remained one of the many popular tourist sites for the city since 1994 when it was made into Louisiana’s Center for Political and Governmental History, and educational history museum. This grand Neo-Gothic structure, towering upon the bluffs along the Mississippi River never ceases to awe […]
Read more...A Taste of Vicksburg – The Story of the Jam Jar
Tucked away in the collection’s storage at the University of West Florida’s Historic Trust is a simple artifact with a greater history than meets the eye. A brown stoneware jar, about eight inches tall and four inches in diameter, its exterior polished with a raised band around the middle. The story of the jar is […]
Read more...Forts: Fort Collier — “It Seems Strong and Well Built”
In the evening of September 19, 1864, after the Third Battle of Winchester, Union cavalry commanders jousted their egos and boasted of their exploits that day. In Wesley Merritt’s division, George Custer and Charles Russell Lowell, Jr. playfully jabbed at each other. Their troopers had operated on the Federal right, eventually charging along the Valley […]
Read more...A Forgotten Fort: Fort Tejon in Lebec, CA
A calm, crisp mountain breeze blew down from the Tehachapi Mountains into La Cañada de las Uvas (Grapevine Canyon). Major Jonathan Letterman, stationed here since December 1859, removed his hat, and wiped his forehead with the back of his hand. It was mid-May in 1861, and he had just received orders to report to Washington […]
Read more...Week in Review: November 22-27, 2021
This past week saw lots of ECW-related news, the continuation of the “Emerging Civil War Series” Series, and the return of Sarah Kay Bierle’s annual Civil War Cooking series. Here’s what we had cooking:
Read more...ECW Weekender: The Rocktop Bookshop and Bindery
It’s always fun to discover a new used book shop. Recently, my colleague Dan Welch pointed me to a shop, new to me, in Cashtown, Pennsylvania, called the Rocktop Bookshop and Bindery. Located just down the street from the famous Cashtown Inn on Old Route 30, Rocktop takes up two buildings. One building, which used […]
Read more...Left Behind: Pieces of Lives & Personal Stories
Last afternoon, I stopped by the Jackson’s Flank Attack site at Chancellorsville battlefield for “coffee with the XI Corps.” As I sat under one of the trees looking east over the fields, I was thinking about the things the Union soldiers left behind when they were surprised by the attacking Confederates. This sentence from John […]
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