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Hispanic Americans in the Civil War
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15), I’d like to provide our ECW readers with an overview of the contribution that Hispanic Americans made to the Civil War. Across the nation, Americans and immigrants that could claim some lineage to Spain, Portugal, Cuba, Mexico, or any other Central and South American […]
Read more...ECW Honors Dan Welch with Upton Award
Emerging Civil War has selected Dan Welch as the recipient of this year’s Emory Upton Award. The Upton Award is presented to a member of the Emerging Civil War (ECW) community in recognition of outstanding service to ECW. “Dan has been a pinch hitter for ECW in so many ways it’s almost impossible to track […]
Read more...Yellowhammers and Environmentalism: Following Law’s Alabama Brigade to Gettysburg (part five)
This is the latest installment in an occasional series about a journey I took in the summer of 2003 with my friend Joe Loehle. We followed the route of Law’s Alabama Brigade from Raccoon Ford, Virginia, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. You can read the first four installments here. According to authors Penny and Laine of Struggle […]
Read more...What If James Longstreet Had Been at the North Anna River?
I’ve long maintained that James Longstreet’s wounding in the Wilderness had a bigger negative impact on the Army of Northern Virginia in the immediate moment than the wounding of Stonewall Jackson a year earlier at Chancellorsville. In fact, the wounding of Jackson when it happened may have been the most fortuitous accident that could have […]
Read more...ECW Podcast: Cedar Mountain
The first action of the Second Manassas Campaign OR the last action of the Peninsula Campaign? ECW author Mike Block talks about the battle of Cedar Mountain and his recent book, The Carnage was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862 (Savas Beatie, 2022). Listen for free here on our website or by using Spotify or Apple Podcasts. […]
Read more...Battle of Port Republic: “The Place To Try Mens Soulds”
Some accounts in the historiography of the 1862 Valley Campaign give the impression that only the Confederates marched long distances at speed. While the accounts of Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry” are impressive, it must be remembered that these long marches did not endear Stonewall to his infantry at the time. Later, in memory and with […]
Read more...“New Orleans gone and with it the Confederacy” – The Fall of New Orleans
ECW welcomes back guest author Patrick Kelly-Fischer The signposts of my mental outline of the Civil War have always been major land battles – Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg. The histories we grew up on are framed around these titanic battles. They’re the most popular battlefields to visit, and it would be intuitive that the most important […]
Read more...Week In Review: May 23-29, 2022
Lots of historic anniversary posts this week! Monday, May 23: Question of the Week is about choosing a capital. Sarah Kay Bierle posted Part 1 and Part 2 of some research about Belle Boyd and the battle of Front Royal for the Valley Campaign anniversary.
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