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Symposium Spotlight: Keynote Books!
Timothy B. Smith will be the keynote speaker at the 2023 Symposium, and we’re looking forward to his presentation on the siege of Vicksburg! He’s the author of numerous books and we encourage you to check out the list here. Maybe there’s a volume or two that you’d like to order and ask him to […]
Read more...“Grant is My Man and I am His”
The news of Vicksburg’s July 4 surrender didn’t reach President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. until the following day. On the afternoon of July 5, Lincoln was talking with inner members of his circle when he expressed confidence in operations on the Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant had been trying for well over seven months to […]
Read more...July 4, 1863: “This Most Eventful Day to the American People”
Happy Independence Day! Seth J. Wells served in the 17th Illinois Infantry Regiment at the time of the Siege of Vicksburg. His unit was part of the Third Brigade, Third Division of General James B. McPherson’s XVII Corps. Wells left a diary that was published in part in 1915, highlight his experiences near Vicksburg, Mississippi, […]
Read more...Question of the Week: 7/3-7/9/23
We’ve been right in the midst of the 160th anniversaries of Gettysburg and Vicksburg this past weekend. Who’s your favorite person at either location?
Read more...Fantasy & Reality: A South Carolinian Marches North, Part 3
Part of a Series Read Part 1 and Part 2 The Pennsylvania Campaign took Taliaferro Simpson (Tally) away from camp life, and he had less time to write letters. However, from the late July and early August letters when he told family members details about the campaign, it is fairly easy to piece together experiences […]
Read more...Morgan’s Raid Begins – June 1863
Things looked bleak during June 1863. The American Civil War had entered its third summer, and there was no end in sight. Both the Union and Confederacy reeled from their winter and spring losses. May, in the east, had brought the Confederate victory at Chancellorsville and the subsequent death of Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson. […]
Read more...“This is no place for you!”…A Father and Son at Cedar Mountain
Emerging Civil War welcomes back Mike Block… On Father’s Day, I wish to relate a story that appeared in Brevet Major Jacob Roemer’s Reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion, published a year after his death in 1897. Born in the German village of Waldheim in 1818, Roemer came to New York after being discharged […]
Read more...The Second Assault on Port Hudson
For Nathaniel Banks, his defeat on May 27, 1863 at Port Hudson was the turning point of his life. A victory would have allowed Banks to proceed to Vicksburg and take command or at least share in the acclaim of the city’s fall. Now he was stuck besieging the secondary prize. To his wife Mary he […]
Read more...Question of the Week: 6/12-6/18/23
Confederates had to make a choice invade Pennsylvania or go west and try to save Vicksburg. If it’s your choice, what do you decide and and what’s your reason?
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