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Christmas on the Rappahannock
About twenty years ago my parents bought me a Civil War painting by Ray W. Forquer. The painting, “Christmas on the Rappahannock,” has always been one of my favorites. It’s not the artistry that I love so much, but the story that painting is based on. While much of the Civil War art that is […]
Read more...Civil War Echoes: Pearl Harbor
Today 75 years ago the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, catapulting the United States into World War II – a conflict that turned out to be the country’s bloodiest save for the Civil War. Many of the U.S. ships in Pearl Harbor that day have names with Civil War ties. On this 75th Anniversary, I note […]
Read more...A Reminder at the Polls
At my polling place in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, this morning, the line stretched long out the door of Wilderness Elementary School, wrapping along the edge of the traffic circle. At 6:45 a.m., the temperature was just rising past thirty degrees. People waited for 35 minutes to cast their ballots. At the end of the school’s driveway, […]
Read more...A Sharpshooter’s Postscript to Gettysburg Part 4: The Muddy March to Williamsport with Fighting at Monterey Pass and Hagerstown
Part four in a series Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Rob Wilson The Union pursuit kept to a longer route towards Williamsport, east of Lee’s more direct lines to the river. 3rd Corps and Lt. Marden’s brigade travelled south to Emmitsburg, Maryland, on to Frederick, and from there turned west toward […]
Read more...A History of Civil War Drummer Boys (Part 2)
Emerging Civil War welcomes back Michael Aubrecht to share Part 2 of his article Perhaps the most photographed drummer boy of the American Civil War, Robert Henry Hendershot, was known as the “Drummer Boy of the Rappahannock.” His nickname supposedly came from his reputed heroics at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December of 1862. […]
Read more...“Their Balaklava”
There are some stories, no matter how heroic, that just do not fit into the standard interpretation of a battle. Take, for instance, the story of the 7th Maine at Antietam. They arrived on the northern end of the battlefield well after the major fighting ended in David Miller’s Cornfield and in the West Woods, […]
Read more...Tattooed in Lieu of Dog Tags: The Identity of Capt. B. Frank Hean
New Years Day, 1896. The Melbourne, Australia suburb of St. Kilda. A man enjoying a beachside walk noticed a body lying beside the road, a glittering object clasped in its right hand. Walking over he found the man bleeding from the head, a revolver in his hand. Authorities investigated and determined the victim to be […]
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