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Symposium Spotlight: A Horse Named Rienzi
With less two months remaining until our symposium, several of our authors further explore topics relating to their ‘What If’ theme. Today, Sarah Kay Bierle shares a little about General Sheridan’s famous horse… Meet Rienzi. That’s right, the old war horse was subjected to taxidermy after his death in 1878 and now resides on display […]
Read more...Week In Review: May 23-29, 2022
Lots of historic anniversary posts this week! Monday, May 23: Question of the Week is about choosing a capital. Sarah Kay Bierle posted Part 1 and Part 2 of some research about Belle Boyd and the battle of Front Royal for the Valley Campaign anniversary.
Read more...Exchanging a Saber for a Cane: The Case of Colonel Charles Augustus May
In 1861, over 250 U.S. Army officers resigned their commissions. The majority joined the rebellion, while a few remained loyal to the Union. Nineteen officers (seven percent) didn’t serve on either side. The choice was not so simple for these officers. Some were loyal to the Union but would not take up arms against friends […]
Read more...ECW Podcast: Grant vs. Lee
Follow “Grant versus Lee” from the Wilderness to Appomattox—in 304 pages. Chris Mackowski and Dan Welch talk about the latest book from the ECW 10th anniversary series, Grant vs. Lee: Favorite Stories from the Historians at Emerging Civil War (Savas Beatie, 2022). Listen for free using Spotify or Apple Podcasts or find the full episode below. […]
Read more...Happy 200th Birthday, Ulysses S. Grant!
I think we sometimes forget the magnitude of what Ulysses S. Grant did: he saved the United States of America. That’s no small thing, saving the country. And he did so in a way that ensured the end of slavery, giving force to the political vision laid out by Lincoln through victory on the battlefield. […]
Read more...Week In Review: April 3-10, 2022
Lots of posts for the 160th anniversary of the battle of Shiloh this week, and we’ve started a new series about Civil War marching. Sunday, April 3: In the evening, we posted links to videos about the battle of Shiloh from ECW YouTube page.
Read more...On the March to Sailor’s Creek with Tucker’s Naval Battalion
One thousand Confederate sailors and Marines defended Richmond by April 1865. Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes commanded the James River Squadron’s ironclads, wooden steamers, and torpedo boats. The Confederate Naval Academy, officers in training, operated CSS Patrick Henry. Captain John R. Tucker commanded land batteries guarding the James River at Drewry’s Bluff. A scattering of sailors […]
Read more...Nutmeggers in North Carolina
Connecticut, known as the Nutmeg state, furnished 30 regiments of infantry in the Civil War and they fought far and wide during the conflict. Two of those units, the 15th and 16th Infantry, had unhappy fates in two lesser-known battles in eastern North Carolina. The 15th was organized in August 1862 at New Haven and […]
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