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Don’t Give an Inch
“Don’t give an inch, boys! Don’t give an inch!” — Col. Strong Vincent on Little Round Top Don’t Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—from Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge by Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White, and Daniel T. Davis Savas Beatie, 2016 192 pp.; illustrations, 10 maps ISBN: 978-1611212297 […]
Read more...ECW at Yellow Tavern
May 12, 2016 marks the 152nd anniversary of Jeb Stuart’s death. Yesterday we posted instructions to reach the monument to his mortal wounding at Yellow Tavern. It can be quite difficult to find. The Virginia contingent of ECW welcomed Jimmy Brookes, our contributor from across the Pond, to Richmond the other week. Having eaten dinner close […]
Read more...A Drive on Fort Fisher
The mouth of the Cape Fear River ends in a messy maze of barrier islands, sandbars, and shoals, but the commuter ferry seems unconcerned. It goes about its morning work in the same matter-of-fact way its passengers do. The morning rush has passed, so there’s a more relaxed pace and people read their papers and […]
Read more...ECW panel at St. Bonaventure University looks back at the 150th and the war
Some of ECW’s historians traveled to western New York last weekend for a Civil War event at St. Bonaventure University. Descendants of the 154th New York Infantry gathered on campus for their 30th annual reunion. The day also marked the official unveiling of the new “Mark Dunkelman-Mike Winey Collection,” a major archive that consists of the […]
Read more...“Securing a Likeness”: Union Soldiers Visit the Photographer’s Studio
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back guest poster James Brookes Many northern volunteers had a portrait taken upon their enlistment. Several post-war memoirs exist in which Union veterans recall a visit to the photographer as a significant moment in their transition from civilian to citizen-soldier. These accounts reveal not only the subjects’ unfamiliarity […]
Read more...ECW on the Road: St. Bonaventure University, the 154th New York, and a Discussion of the Future of the War
Emerging Civil War historians visiting St. Bonaventure University next Saturday won’t simply be reflecting on a battle that ended 150 years ago—they’ll discuss why the ripple effects of the nation’s darkest period still wash over us today. The Confederate flag controversy that boiled to the surface in South Carolina after the church killings June 17 in Charleston […]
Read more...Mr. Gardner and the Erosion of the “Good Death”
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author James Brookes. Alexander Gardner’s images of the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam were the first serious attempts of their kind to document the true carnage of conflict. Prior to the Civil War the preponderance of visual representations of conflict sought to display war as an […]
Read more...This Preparation of Husks: Desiccated Vegetables and the Union Army
Today we are pleased to welcome back guest author James Brookes. Federal soldiers often mused over the origins of the rations issued to them. One supplement, “furnished in lieu of potatoes, rice and peas or beans”, particularly perplexed them.[i] It came dried in cakes, blocks and sheets, swelled to an astounding size when boiled, and […]
Read more...I Wish I Had Been in the Case: Portrait Photography, Federal Soldiers, and the Home Circle (part two)
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author James Brookes. This is the second part of a two-part series. The mass transition of images between Federal soldiers and their home communities was entirely unprecedented. In February 1862, Humphrey’s Journal observed “A very large number of soldiers get their ‘pictures’ taken and send them to their […]
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