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Week In Review: May 17-23, 2021
Hope you’ve had a good week! Here’s the review of what ECW has been publishing in the last seven days… Monday, May 17: Question of the Week focused on famous orders for charges. Bert Dunkerly reviewed Imperfect Union: A Father’s Search for his Son in the Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Read more...A Comprehensive View of the Overland Campaign, Part III
Part of a Series – Part I and Part II The Center of Gravity Lies at Ox Ford Ulysses Grant suffered terrible casualties in the fighting around Spotsylvania Courthouse, and his periphery strategy failed. General Franz Sigel retreated from the Shenandoah Valley, and Benjamin Butler was “bottled up” on the James River peninsula. Only the […]
Read more...Harris Farm: The 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery’s Baptism of Fire
General Ulysses S. Grant had decided to move around Gen. Robert E. Lee’s right once again in another flanking maneuver in the Overland Campaign. On the night of May 18, 1864, the Union’s Army of the Potomac started shifting away from Spotsylvania Court House. On the following day, Private Joseph W. Gardner of Company K, […]
Read more...ECW’S Overland Campaign on YouTube
Don’t forget, ECW has a ton of material on our YouTube page about the Overland Campaign. Check out our “Overland Campaign” playlist, with more than twenty-five videos. You’ll find something for just about every day of the campaign as it moves from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania Court House to the North Anna River to Totopotomoy […]
Read more...A Comprehensive View of the Overland Campaign, Part II
Part of a Series Through sanguine fighting at the Battle of the Wilderness, the Army of the Potomac had just won a strategic victory against their longtime nemesis, the Army of Northern Virginia. After Ulysses Grant took the initiative from Robert E. Lee, he remained deeply concerned about Lee retaking the initiative. He relayed in […]
Read more...ECW’s January Bookshelf
Do you need some ideas about what books to read next from your collection? Look no further than the current list of what ECW’s members are reading this month! Let us know what books you are currently reading in the comments below. Ed Alexander I just started Ted Widmer’s Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to […]
Read more...If Grant Goes East, I Will Follow…
On November 12, I boarded a plane at 5:30 PM, heading from Kansas City, Missouri to Richmond, Virginia. I did not arrive until 1 AM the following morning. Grant once told Meade, “Wherever Lee goes, you will follow.”[1] Therefore, I intended to follow the research for my dissertation on the Battle of Cold Harbor. Many […]
Read more...Week In Review: November 9-15, 2020
Lot of great content this week, including several new historic site videos! Monday, November 9: Question of the Week addressed Army of the Potomac leadership in November 1862. Guest author Sheritta Bitikofer shared Part 1 of her research on Camp Moore, Louisiana’s largest training camp.
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