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Ulysses S. Grant and the Wilderness of Pennsylvania (part three)
Part three of a three-part series The first two installments recounted Ulysses S. Grant’s trip to McKean County Pennsylvania on Nov. 16, 1883. The purpose of the trip: to visit the Kinzua Viaduct. Author Chris Mackowski originally hails from McCounty. The train rumbled onward into the Appalachians, fifteen miles to go. “No political matters were […]
Read more...Empty Arms: A New Sesquicentennial Image
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Sarah Kay Bierle Kate Corbin Pendleton’s photo is framed on my work desk. Her solemn expression and sad eyes have haunted me as I’ve read articles of delight, debate, and dissention as the Civil War Sesquicentennial comes to a close. The dead, the wounded, and the […]
Read more...Next ECW Symposium Talk on CSPAN3
Tomorrow evening (9/26) at 6 P.M. my talk at the Second Annual ECW Symposium will air on CSPAN3. For details, see this link: http://www.c-span.org/video/?327565-1/fall-richmond-Appomattox For a little sneak preview of some of what I’ll be discussing, see this post from December 2013 and April 2015: http://emergingcivilwar.com/2015/04/09/civil-war-echoes-bataan/ Enjoy, and hope to see you at the 2016 […]
Read more...Day One: Stone Mountain
Part three in a series Stonewall Jackson has always loomed large in my family’s life. He’s the reason Stephanie fell in love with the Civil War back when she was four, and her love affair dragged us all with it. It’s been going on now for seventeen years. Now he looms over us quite literally—fifty […]
Read more...World on Fire
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Dwight Hughes. This post is based on a forthcoming book on the CSS Shenandoah. In the cool dusk of Sunday, 2 April 1865, Abraham Lincoln sat with Rear Admiral David Porter on the upper deck of the USS Malvern at the massive supply depot of City […]
Read more...Following Orders: from “your Obd’t Servant” to SMEAC and METT-T
The Battle of Gettysburg has produced no end of enduring controversies, discussions, and disputes. Recently, on one of the Facebook sites devoted to exploring that battle, one such discussion surfaced yet again. This time the question was about J.E.B. Stuart, and his famous ride. Was Stuart late? Did he disobey Robert E. Lee’s orders and […]
Read more...Rebels Down Under
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Dwight Hughes. Part One in a Series. One hundred fifty years ago this month, the CSS Shenandoah steamed into Hobson’s Bay, Melbourne, Australia with flag flying. Vessels large and small saluted by dipping their ensigns; cheers were given and cheerfully returned. Like a great bird coming […]
Read more...Lee’s Inverted-V Salient
The Confederate position at the North Anna River has usually been characterized as an inverted V, but another way to look at it is as a giant salient—a portion of the line that juts out from the main line. Viewed in that light, echoes of the salient at Spotsylvania begin to reverberate. Salients are inherently weak positions, […]
Read more...“Sally had a baby, and the baby had red hair”—part two
Today, we bring you the second part of Lance Herdegen’s two-part piece about the music of the Iron Brigade, which was not only one of the most famous fighting units in the Army of the Potomac but whose members also happened to have a particular ear for music. “Any veteran memory of the long marching […]
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