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Week In Review: January 24-31, 2021
Lots of great content this week! Here’s the review in case you missed something or want to re-read easily. Sunday, January 24: Symposium updated: limited tickets for now… Monday, January 25: Question of the Week asked about the portraits you’d pick for an office wall. Steve Davis posted about John Bell Hood’s attempts to cover […]
Read more...A Doctor, His Enslaved Man, and Georgia’s Union Circle (part two)
The devastation and upheaval created in the neighborhood near the Battle at Resaca gave people like Dr. Gideon’s enslaved man, Owen, their first viable opportunity to aid the Union cause. Owen Gideon was born into slavery about 1834 in Hall County, Georgia. Owen was five feet, eight inches tall, a cobbler by trade, and a […]
Read more...Book Review: Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War
Luckily for readers, Stephen M. Hood is a good writer. He is a collateral descendant of Confederate General John Bell Hood and takes his self-imposed charge to restore his ancestors’ good name and those of other Confederates very seriously. Patriots Twice goes a long way in that direction. Many of the men who served in the Confederate […]
Read more...Let Us Die Like Men
Let Us Die Like Men: The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 by William Lee White Savas Beatie, 2019 192 pp.; 198 images; 12 maps ISBN: 978-1-61121-296-9 Click here to order Also available in Audiobook! Click here to order * * * About the Book John Bell Hood had done his job […]
Read more...Past Symposia
Read more...C’mon, Cump!
In his recent, admiring biography of William Tecumseh Sherman, Brian Holden Reid terms him a “dazzling literary stylist.” Well, watch out for that razzle-dazzle, at least in Sherman’s Memoirs (1875). I am not the first to notice that in his recollections Cump glided through or omitted entirely stuff that didn’t make him look good.
Read more...Please—no more Jonesboropia!
In my new book, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer University Press, December 2019), I coin a word, Jonesboropia, to refer to the persistent myth that the battle of Jonesboro, fought south of Atlanta on August 31-September 1, sealed the city’s fate. Here’s an example, from a Georgia Historical Society […]
Read more...Week In Review: July 13-19, 2020
Stay safe and cool! And here’s the Week in Review from Emerging Civil War’s blog:
Read more...A Gem from the Gilder Lehrman
A century and a half after the war, we’re still finding cool stuff. I’ll give an example from my new book, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer, 2019). In my research I was perusing Kirk Denkler, ed., Voices of the Civil War: Atlanta (1996). In it I saw a photograph […]
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