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Monroe, Michigan’s Civil War Connections
Located along Lake Erie’s western shore, about midway between Detroit, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio, Monroe, Michigan was the scene of numerous events during the War of 1812. Today they are commemorated at River Raisin National Battlefield Park. Two battles were fought here in 1813, and armies passed through the region numerous times during the conflict. […]
Read more...Manticores, Myths, and Memory (part three)
(Part three of four) Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill are co-authors of the latest book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory (Southern Illinois University Press). Yesterday, they explained their “manticore” metaphor and how figures such as Sherman, Mosby, Forrest, and Custer fit that metaphor—a […]
Read more...Manticores, Myths, and Memory (part two)
(Part two of four) Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill are co-authors of the latest book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory (Southern Illinois University Press). In yesterday’s opening part of their series, they touched on the quartet who’ve been the focus of their […]
Read more...Manticores, Myths, and Memory (part one)
(Part one of four) Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill are co-authors of the latest book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory (Southern Illinois University Press). In this series, they’ll talk a bit about their work on Civil War-era figures, including Wild Bill, and […]
Read more...The Astonishing Life of an Italian American Civil War Soldier
Lt. Charles DeRudio inched along on his belly through dense underbrush to the bottom of a dry creek bed, concealing himself to avoid capture and certain death. Pistol shots rang out nearby, followed by female voices. DeRudio raised his head gingerly and observed two Lakota women scalping a dying US soldier while two others danced […]
Read more...The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry
The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry: George A. Custer in the Civil War by Daniel T. Davis Savas Beatie, 2019 192 pp.; 165 images; 7 maps ISBN: 978-1-61121-411-6 Click here to order Also available in Audiobook! Click here to order * * * On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer […]
Read more...Vanishing Monuments – The Case of Custer City, Colorado
“Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?” – The Specials In the months and years that followed the battle of the Little Bighorn, dozens of towns and counties named after Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer sprang up across the United States—paying tribute to a soldier who committed, arguably, one of the […]
Read more...Week In Review: June 25 – July 1, 2018
The posting schedule was jammed this week with wonderful historical content. (We actually had to move to four posts a day at a couple points, which is a rare change from our typical scheduling!) This week featured the final posts for our 2018 Artillery Series on the blog, and we finished strong. We also welcomed […]
Read more...From the ECW Archives: Scattered Across the Earth
On June 25, 2017, I wrote this article on the placement of headstones at the Little Bighorn battlefield. Today marks the 142nd Anniversary of the engagement. With that in mind, I decided to update the original work from the ECW archives and post it again. Initially placed near the turn of the nineteenth century, many […]
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