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On The March in Quick-Time: A Zouave Demonstration
With the Virtual World Tour for First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero underway, I have been collecting frequently asked questions. The most popular queries by far concern Ellsworth’s actual Zouave drill. What did it look like? Why was it entertaining? How does it relate to the military […]
Read more...Book Review: Confederates and Comancheros, Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands
“Skullduggery,” the word graces the cover and the third paragraph of the introduction to this detailed study that highlights a very niche component of the American Civil War and the frontier establishment of the American southwest. Authors and historians James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely bring to the forefront impeccable research and a […]
Read more...“Old Lady Hamilton”: A Woman Who Knew History
January 31, [1839] Old Lady Hamilton was in the office this morning; she’s as spry as usual. She had walked down from St. Mark’s Place and was going to walk back, which is certainly doing very well for an old lady of her degree of antiquity. . . .[i] George Templeton Strong’s diaries are often […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Confederate Ambitions of a Southwestern Empire
Welcome back to our yearly spotlight series, highlighting speakers and topics for our upcoming symposium. Over the coming weeks, we will continue to feature previews of our speaker’s presentations for the 2022 Emerging Civil War Symposium. We’ll also be sharing suggested titles that you may want to read in preparation for these programs. This week […]
Read more...Henry O. Flipper: From Slavery to Freedom to West Point
“Mine eyes have seen the glory…” echoed an anthem associated with the arrival of freedom for enslaved families and their children across the South. For one nine-year-old, that song symbolized the “salvation” of freedom[i] and his life became a salute and a challenge toward recognition and equality during the Reconstruction Era. Henry Ossian Flipper — […]
Read more...The Romney Expedition: “Jackson’s Pet Lambs” and Loring’s Protests
Part 3 of a series “General Jackson now proceeded to place the command of General Loring in winter quarters, near Romney, and to canton Boggs’ brigade of militia along the south branch, from that town to Moorefield, with three companies of cavalry for duty upon the outposts. The remainder of the cavalry and militia returned […]
Read more...Memorials and Memory on a French Quarter Dog Walk
My wife and I, along with our spunky mutt Mouton (named after General Jean-Jacques-Alfred- Alexandre Mouton), spent the week before Christmas 2021 in New Orleans. My younger sister got married that week and we were sure to not miss out. Throughout the festivities, we stayed at my uncle’s house in the Faubourg Marigny, just to […]
Read more...Week In Review: November 14-21, 2021
Here’s your handy-dandy synopsis of all the cool things that went on this past week here at Emerging Civil War:
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