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Book Review: A Man By Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood
A Man By Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood. By Joseph M. Beilein Jr. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2023. Softcover, 282 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Sheritta Bitikofer Few characters that make it into Civil War memory are as controversial as William Clarke Quantrill. Infamous for his role […]
Read more...ECW Podcast: John Schofield
On this date in 1864, Maj. Gen. John Schofield marched two Union corps past Gen. John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee at Spring Hill, Tennessee. Schofield’s escape set up the battle of Franklin the following day, Nov. 30, 1864. After severely bloodying Hood’s army there, Schofield slipped away and joined Maj. Gen. George Thomas’s forces […]
Read more...Book Review: Hood’s Defeat Near Fox’s Gap: Prelude to Emancipation
Hood’s Defeat Near Fox’s Gap: Prelude to Emancipation. By Curtis L. Older. Philadelphia and Oxford: Casemate Publishers, 2023. Hardcover, 210 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by John G. Selby In writing Hood’s Defeat Near Fox’s Gap: Prelude to Emancipation, Curtis Older seeks to refute the standard interpretation of Confederate Brigadier General John Bell Hood’s battle for Fox’s […]
Read more...Cool Down With Hood’s Sarsaparilla
While hunting through articles in the National Tribune for a project, an advertisement caught my eye and intrigued me. With summer temperatures breaching the 100s in the last few weeks, I also found it a little poignant. Now, my first thought was, “General Hood made sarsaparilla?” Of course not, but the article piqued my interest […]
Read more...Joseph E. Johnston as a Commander
ECW welcomes guest author Greg Thiele The most important principle of command is that the commander is responsible for everything which happens or fails to happen — good or bad — in his or her command. It seems Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston either never learned this or sought to evade the judgment of historians […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: John Brown’s Raid: Harpers Ferry and the Coming of the Civil War
Writing John Brown “Brown was an inept businessman who failed twenty times in six states and defaulted on his debts.” – David McCullough “John Brown…John Brown. A very important person in history. Important though for only one episode. Failure in everything in life.” – Ed Bearss For some 40 million people in 1990–including me–this was […]
Read more...“Stonewall” Jackson’s Tree Climber: William S. Hood
John Bell Hood is easily the most famous man with that surname to serve in the Civil War. Not a close second, but a second nonetheless–especially for “Stonewall” Jackson and Antietam students–might be William S. Hood of the 35th North Carolina Infantry. You’ve never heard of him? You might have heard at least part of […]
Read more...Things I have learned on the way to Atlanta – Johnston as Executioner
Last week’s post, about Yankee pickets firing snow bombs at each other, made me laugh. Soldier life, however, was rarely so amusing. From my forthcoming volume on the first part of the Atlanta Campaign, to be published by Savas Beatie, LLC: The postwar view of Joseph Johnston, especially in the former Confederacy, was largely positive. […]
Read more...John Wesley Powell and the Wounds of War
In the hundreds of pages Major John Wesley Powell wrote about his postbellum career as an explorer of the American West, he seldom mentioned the injury he sustained at the battle of Shiloh. During the fighting at Pittsburgh Landing in April 1862, Powell was hit by a bullet in his right forearm. The wound required […]
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