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Upcoming Presentations: Oct.–Nov. 2023
October: 1: Derek Maxfield, “Man of Fire,” Town of West Sparta, West Sparta, NY 1: Sarah Kay Bierle and Jon Tracey, Battlefield Tour at New Market, New Market, VA (tickets available) 5: Brian Swartz, Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Civil War, New England Civil War Museum, Rockville, CT. 6: Chris Mackowski, “The ANV’s […]
Read more...Book Review: From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton’s Regulars: A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment
From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton’s Regulars: A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment. By Dewitt Clinton Beckwith and edited by Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023. Softcover, 249 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Tyler McGraw The 121st New York Infantry is one of those regiments that found themselves in some […]
Read more...The Lions of Antietam and Verdun
In June 2023 I had the privilege of a historian’s lifetime to be included on a trip to view and explore the campaigns of the First World War in Belgium and France. So often, as our tour bus rolled along the lines of the Allied and Central powers, my mind wandered to the war I […]
Read more...A Hat for a Coat: Revisiting the Famous Parley between J. E. B. Stuart and John Pope
While Robert E. Lee and John Pope came to grips with one another in central and northern Virginia in August 1862, J. E. B. Stuart and Pope had their own back-and-forth tiff. On the night of August 17, Federal cavalry raiders surprised Stuart at his headquarters in Verdiersville. Beyond capturing important military dispatches that warned […]
Read more...1863: Wash Roebling’s Gettysburg Letter
There is one location on the Gettysburg battlefield where heroism remains hotly contested. Atop two small hills at the field’s southern terminus, a host of monuments attest to the bravery of Union soldiers and celebrate the service of three of their leaders. On Gettysburg’s Round Tops visitors will find tributes to Lieutenant Colonel Strong Vincent, […]
Read more...“Old Pete” – A Confederate Apostle or Apostate?
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Evan Portman… In one of the final chapters of Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels, a dispirited General Robert E. Lee and a brooding General James Longstreet share a poignant moment after the bloody repulse of Pickett’s Charge. In a rare moment of vulnerability, Lee remarks to Longstreet, “Peter, […]
Read more...Girls & Hometown Gossip: A South Carolinian Marches North, Part 1
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been intrigued by romantic troubles in the South during the Civil War. There are multiple accounts that I’m still studying and analyzing about girls on the homefront starting rumors that they were engaged to absent soldiers and how those young soldiers responded with annoyance or outrage when they […]
Read more...Commanding The Regiment: Colonel Richard Coulter, 11th Pennsylvania
Born in Greensburg in 1827, just east of Pittsburgh PA, Richard Coulter attended Jefferson College in the town of Washington, PA. Following that he worked in the law office of a relative. He became a lawyer, was active in the local militia, and married Emmy Welty. The couple had six children. Coulter was also a […]
Read more...Commanding The Regiment: Major Roberdeau Wheat, 1st Louisiana Special Battalion
He sometimes was called Rob, Bob, or Roberdeau, but his actually first name was Chatham. At six feet, four inches and weighing about 240 pounds, Chatham Roberdeau Wheat was a giant of a man. Legends about him loom larger than life as well. But who was the real person? Born in Alexandria, Virginia, his father […]
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