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ECW Week in Review April 30-May 6
May has opened at ECW and what a week it has been! With our friends at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and the Civil War Trust, we participated in the Trust’s Facebook Live events for the 155th Anniversary of the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2 and May 3. Spots remain available for […]
Read more...Battlefield Protection at Mansfield
This spring, the Civil War Trust, along with Cleco, announced the protection of more than a dozen acres of battlefield ground in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Louisiana’s Lt. Governor, Billy Nungesser, as well as Civil War Trust Chairman emeritus John L. Nau, III were also on hand for the announcement. Read further for details on the battle […]
Read more...Recollections of Confederate Officers for The News
Today we are pleased to welcome back guest author, Joe Owen. This post concludes Sergeant Val Giles’ newspaper account originally of published in the Galveston Daily News on May 16, 1897. You may read the first part here.
Read more...The Underground Railroad Offers a Harrowing Journey through American Race Relations
As a boy, Colson Whitehead imagined an underground railroad full of steam engines that ran through tunnels deep beneath the Antebellum earth on routes that stretch to indeterminate places. He was disappointed to discover the railroad—as important as it was in helping escaped slave reach freedom—was only a metaphor. In his unflinching new novel, The […]
Read more...Returning Yell for Yell: The Rebel Yell’s Antebellum Origins
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Matthew Guillen. The Rebel Yell was much romanticized during and after the war. Despite the popular belief in the Yell’s death with the death of the Confederacy, it also enjoyed wide currency after the war, as discussed in Craig A. Warren’s 2014, The Rebel Yell: A Cultural […]
Read more...New Market in Mississippi
I just returned from a weekend trip to St. Simons Island, Georgia. It’s a marvelous little beach town, with an attendant gentility. I saw this sign in a yard near the Lighthouse: “Where tramps must not, surely ladies and gentlemen will not trespass.” A beach weekend demands a good beach book, so I brought along […]
Read more...Kolakowski Comes Out of the Jungle
ECW offers our congratulations to Chris Kolakowski for his newest book! McFarland Press has just released his new book, Last Stand on Bataan. When he’s not been sailing the high seas with the Federal or Confederate navies here at Emerging Civil War, Kolakowski has been spending a lot of his time in the Philippines (at least metaphorically […]
Read more...An Honorable Beginning
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Dwight Hughes April 13, 1861—the broad, brown Mississippi flood tugged at United States mail steamer Bienville as she lay alongside a New Orleans levee preparing to sail the next morning with passengers, mail, and cargo for New York. Rumors were flying that fighting had begun somewhere, […]
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