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“The Death of A Hero”: Lieutenant Wilhelm Roth at Gettysburg

On July 1, 1863, Lieutenant Wilhelm Roth must have had déjà vu. Nearly two months earlier, a Confederate flank attack swept his regiment and the entire Union Eleventh Corps from the field, forcing Roth and his men to flee. Now, he found himself in a similar position at Gettysburg—caught up in the Eleventh Corps retreat […]

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Book Review: July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta

July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta. By Earl J. Hess. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2023. Hardcover, 432 pp. $44.95. Reviewed by Patrick Kelly-Fischer In July of 1864, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman closed in around Atlanta, beginning the process of cutting the several railroad lines that supplied the city. Sherman’s largely uncontested […]

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BookChat: From the Wilderness to Appomattox by Edward Altemos

The 15th New York Heavy Artillery regiment saw its initial service in the Wilderness as part of Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign. Author Edward “Andy” Altemos has written a new history of the regiment, From the Wilderness to Appomattox: The Fifteenth New Your Heavy Artillery in the Civil War (Kent State, 2023). I recently had […]

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Book Review: The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger

The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger. Edited by Terry L. Jones. El Dorado Hills: CA, Savas Beatie, 2023. Softcover, 180 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Michael C. Hardy Considering the number of Confederate staff officers who served various generals, there is a dearth of published accounts chronicling their […]

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From Pony Express Hero to Civil War Casualty: Remembering Johnny Fry

This year marks the 160th anniversary of many important Civil War battles – Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga quickly come to mind. One that has received little attention, however, is the Battle of Baxter Springs, more commonly known as the Baxter Springs Massacre, where 103 Union soldiers were killed on October 6, 1863, in […]

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Evan Portman

Evan Portman has been passionate about history for as long as he can remember. He has enjoyed reading, writing, speaking, and learning about the Civil War ever since he took a trip to Gettysburg as a seven-year-old. Evan majored in history and secondary education at Saint Vincent College and is currently pursuing a master’s degree […]

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BookChat: We Fought at Gettysburg by Carolyn Ivanoff

I recently had the opportunity to chat with author Carolyn Ivanoff about her new book We Fought At Gettysburg: Firsthand Accounts by the Survivors of the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry (Gettysburg Publishing, 2023). “These personal accounts are framed and woven into the sequence of the three-day battle, the aftermath, and beyond, and are presented in […]

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What If: Longstreet at Chickamauga

In a recent episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast, historian Jeff Hunt talked about one of the most interesting ramifications of James Longstreet’s move to the Western Theater in the fall of 1863. We were talking about the Bristoe Station campaign with my ECW colleague Kevin Pawlak, and of course, Longstreet wasn’t involved in […]

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“A Brave and Gallant Officer”: Colonel Thomas M. Griffin of the 18th Mississippi

This past weekend I’ve been doing some extra research and writing about the second battle of Fredericksburg on May 3, 1863. Part of the Chancellorsville campaign, this fight resulted in the capture of Marye’s Heights and the retreat of the relatively small Confederate force, allowing the Union General John Sedgwick to head west and attempt […]

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