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ECW Weekender: Wisconsin Veterans Museum
While home for the holidays in Wisconsin, I always try to do something historic like visit a museum, explore a city, or go to a brewery. This year, with the World War I centennial and the newly released documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old, I decided to go to Madison to the Wisconsin Veteran’s Museum […]
Read more...September-October 2018 Presentations
September: 8th: Derek Maxfield & Tracy Ford perform “Now we stand by each other always,” Clarendon Historical Society, Clarendon, NY; part of the 2018 Orleans County Heritage Festival, 2:00 PM 9th: Kevin Pawlak and Rob Orrison, “Highway to War: Loudoun Valley and the Summer Campaigns of 1862,” Rust Library, Leesburg, VA 11th: Chris Mackowski, “Second-Guessing Richard […]
Read more...ECW Honors Greg Mertz with Stevenson Award
Emerging Civil War (ECW) has chosen historian Gregory A. Mertz as the recipient of this year’s Thomas Greeley Stevenson Award. ECW presents the Thomas Greeley Stevenson Award to a person or organization that has made a significant contribution to Emerging Civil War’s success. Mertz has worked for the National Park Service for more than 37 […]
Read more...Paige Gibbons Backus
Social Media Manager A native of Wisconsin, Paige graduated from the University of Mary Washington with a bachelor’s degree in Historic Preservation and George Mason University with a master’s degree in Applied History. She has been in the public history field for close to ten years focusing on educational programming and operations working at several […]
Read more...Notes on Richmond’s Civil War Hospitals
Recently, while doing some research on Richmond’s hospitals, a few interesting trends and stats stood out to me, which I will share here. The city became home to dozens of hospitals over the course of the war. Centrally located and easily accessible by rail from the battlefields of Virginia, the capital overflowed with wounded after […]
Read more...Telling Stonewall Jackson’s Story Atop Henry House Hill
I always think of July 21 as Stonewall Jackson’s birthday. Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, so that’s his actual birthday, but he got his famous nickname at the battle of First Manassas, which took place in this date in 1861. That’s when he became “Stonewall.” That’s where the legend was born. […]
Read more...A Needle in a Stack of Needles: Researching the Miscellaneous Medical Records Files at the National Archives
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Paige Gibbons-Backus. At Ben Lomond Historic Site, we are constantly trying to find new information about its use as a hospital during the Civil War. Unfortunately, for historians, the records are scarce for numerous reasons. When the Pringle family home was converted into a hospital during the Battle […]
Read more...Artillery: Alfred Mordecai, the Napoleon, and Changing Artillery
Many know Arthur Fremantle, the famed British observer sent to the United States to observe the respective armies in the Civil War. Fremantle was just one of many observers from Great Britain, Prussia, France, and even Hungary sent by their governments to detail how Federal and Confederate soldiers killed each other. But what is perhaps […]
Read more...Georgia Infantry Regiments Get New Attention in Research Resource
Our friends at Savas Beatie have been pumping out some interesting resource material lately. We told you recently about their index for the National Tribune. Their latest outing is a four-volume Biographical Roster of Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiments. The 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th Georgia infantry regiments spent most of the Civil War fighting under […]
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