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ECW10 Series: Fallen Leaders
Symposium time is right around the corner for Emerging Civil War. I can’t help but think back to one of my favorite ECW symposia, 2021’s “Fallen Leaders.” The event brought together a great line-up of speakers who talked about leaders at all level—from the army level down to the regimental level—who fell during the war. […]
Read more...Morgan’s Raid Begins – June 1863
Things looked bleak during June 1863. The American Civil War had entered its third summer, and there was no end in sight. Both the Union and Confederacy reeled from their winter and spring losses. May, in the east, had brought the Confederate victory at Chancellorsville and the subsequent death of Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson. […]
Read more...Commanding The Regiment: Major Roberdeau Wheat, 1st Louisiana Special Battalion
He sometimes was called Rob, Bob, or Roberdeau, but his actually first name was Chatham. At six feet, four inches and weighing about 240 pounds, Chatham Roberdeau Wheat was a giant of a man. Legends about him loom larger than life as well. But who was the real person? Born in Alexandria, Virginia, his father […]
Read more...“I Stumbled Across Your Picture Today”: Nathaniel Shoup of the 84th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Sometimes an old photograph stops everything. Who was this person? What was his story? According to the 1850 U. S. Census, Nathaniel Shoup lived in Bedford, Pennsylvania, with his family. Nine-year-old Nathaniel attended school and probably had a list of chores before and after. His father, Samuel (age 32), was a farmer whose property was […]
Read more...Don’t Let Me Come Home a Stranger
Guinea Station Road winds through the Caroline County countryside the way a boxer might weave and duck and juke and roll. In places, tall cathedrals of trees line the road. Elsewhere, the road runs along low wetlands that look ready to spill over onto the blacktop. Open horse pastures and shadowy woodlots alternate. It’s May […]
Read more...Book Review: Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
The field of deathways studies is decidedly a niche market that many people find morbid, but there is no mistaking the fact that such work shines a light on American culture teaching us important things about ourselves – past and present. Author Sarah J. Percell’s new work, Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in […]
Read more...Hearing History: The Dead March from Saul
Ever read an account of a Civil War era funeral and seen the reference to the “Dead March”? That is typically a reference to an instrumental march from George Frederic Handel’s oratorio Saul. Written in 1738, it was part of a published collection of Handel’s music around the turn of the 19th Century which led […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Confederate Jubal Early Explains the Cause of the Civil War (part one)
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Part one of a two-part series. Jubal Early, a Virginian, was an important leader in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, and a primary constructor of The Lost Cause Myth of the Confederacy. Modern students […]
Read more...Medical Care at Second Manassas: Reaching A Crossroads?
At the crossroads of the Sudley-Manassas Road and Warrenton Turnpike (now modern roads Route 29/Lee Highway and 234/Sudley Road) stands a historic stone house. Dating back to 1848, this structure has stood guard at the trafficked intersection and witnessed two large-scale battles of the American Civil War. At both battles, the Matthew Family’s stone dwelling […]
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