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Beauregard’s Slow Fade Into Oblivion
By the time the smoke cleared at Bull Run, one thing was certain for P.G.T. Beauregard. He was now the South’s premiere military hero. In the months after songs and poetry would be written about him. Letters from admirers, many of them female, flooded in. His image was everywhere, and many a Confederate named their […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Let Us Die Like Men
Writing the story of the battle of Franklin in Let Us Die Like Men was one I really wanted to do. Franklin captured my imagination and interest very early on after a visit there with my aunt and uncle sometime in the early 1980s. I was struck by the bullet holes in the buildings, the […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Don’t Give an Inch
When it came to writing Don’t Give an Inch, I was very excited to put pen to paper but, at the same time, I’m not going to lie: I was a little bit nervous. We decided to break up the Emerging Civil War series into smaller books when it came to Gettysburg because we knew […]
Read more...ECW BookChat: A Fine Introduction to Battle by Joe Owen
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by Joseph Owen, A Fine Introduction to Battle: Hood’s Texas Brigade at the Battle of Eltham’s Landing, May 7, 1862, published by Fox Run Publishing (find out more about it here). CM: The book is called “A Fine Introduction to Battle,” but readers […]
Read more...Fallen Leaders: Generals’ Deaths
Here are a few archived posts that I’ve written in former days about fallen leaders:
Read more...Fallen Leaders: Colonel Isaac Seymour, 6th Louisiana Infantry, Part 2
Read Part 1 HERE General Thomas Jackson’s tardy arrival to the Seven Days Battle meant that the 6th Louisiana Volunteers and Colonel Isaac Seymour (now in command of the entire Louisiana Brigade) missed the opening engagement at Beaver Dam Creek. They were, however, ordered to take the front of General Richard Ewell’s column as skirmishers. […]
Read more...Re-evaluating Ezra Carman, Pt. 2: Georgians in the East Woods
ECW welcomes back Chris Bryan (Part 1 of Re-evaluating Ezra Carman can be read here.) During Brig. Gen. John Bell Hood’s counterattack at Antietam, the 4th Alabama became increasingly detached from its brigade by fences while it advanced along the Smoketown Road. Captain William Robbins, suddenly thrust into command by casualties, later wrote, “…just as […]
Read more...Walking the Battlefield – Fort Blakely, Mobile, Alabama
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Sheritta Bitikofer… On the evening of April 9, 1865, the same day as Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, another battle was taking place on the opposite side of the Confederacy. For a week, 16,000 Union soldiers in the Army of West Mississippi under […]
Read more...ECW’s March 2021 Newsletter Now Available
March Madness! Women’s History Month! Saint Patrick’s Day! The ECW March 2021 Newsletter! This past month had all sorts of great stuff going on! The newest newsletter hit inboxes today. In this issue:
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