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Book Review: Searching for Irvin McDowell: The Civil War’s Forgotten General
Searching for Irvin McDowell: The Civil War’s Forgotten General. By Frank P. Simione, Jr. & Gene Schmiel. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2023. Softcover, 219 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Kevin C. Donovan The question raised by this book is whether the search is worth the candle? Most think they already know Irvin McDowell; he […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: American Battlefield Trust 2023 Year in Review
In 2023, the American Battlefield Trust (ABT) saved 2,088 acres, on 29 battlefields, across 11 states. Working with their preservation partners and landowners, ABT completed 49 transactions in 2023. Included in this is 117 acres at Buffington Island where the largest battle in Ohio took place during the Civil War. Confederate Maj. Gen. John Hunt […]
Read more...In (Somewhat of a) Defense of Franz Sigel
ECW welcomes back guest author Jarred Marlowe The Battle of New Market in May 1864 is considered one of the more famous secondary battles of the American Civil War. Though written and talked about more than other battles of far more size and consequence, two prevailing conclusions are often drawn from the battle. The first […]
Read more...Annoyed Union artillery captain personally targets enemy battery at Fredericksburg
As the Pennsylvanians commanded by George Gordon Meade charged across the plain toward Prospect Hill south of Fredericksburg on Saturday, December 13, 1862. some 150-200 yards away Capt. James A. Hall sat coolly in the saddle as his 2nd Maine Battery gunners steadily loaded and fired. Under orders from Col. Charles S. Wainwright (I Corps’ […]
Read more...“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 […]
Read more...Civil War Art: Marine Artist of the Civil War—Julian O. Davidson
“American marine painting, as a specialized art form practiced by a rather select group of American painters, reached its golden age in the last half of the 19th century,” wrote curator Lynn S. Beman in her catalog for a 1986 exhibition of work by Julian Oliver Davidson (1853-1894).[1] Davidson was among the even more select […]
Read more...Civil War Art: Two 10th Maine Infantry officers drew wartime art
By Brian Swartz and Nicholas Picerno The military service of George H. Nye and Henry Martin Binney overlapped in the 10th Maine Infantry Regiment. Their wartime art survived the passage of time and, in Binney’s case, capture by a Confederate soldier. According to the 1860 Lewiston (Maine) census, the 32-year-old Nye was a factory “overseer,” […]
Read more...Civil War Art: Robert Knox Sneden, Artist
Robert Knox Sneden (1832-1918) In 1994 two gentlemen entered the Virginia Historical Society (now the Virginia Museum of History and Culture) to show Dr. James Kelly a collection that had been held in a bank vault in Connecticut. Kelly was certainly accustomed to people bringing in things for the Museum, but this was something special… […]
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