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Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost: Part Three
Part three in a series. This series was put together from one of my extended graduate school research papers. The sources used were the current research between 2007-2008, obviously the historiography of the Civil War expands on a monthly basis, thus some of the “current research” in the paper is no longer exactly current. ************ […]
Read more...“Never More Certain of Victory”: The Confederate Strike at Rocky Branch, February 5, 1865
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author Nigel Lambert On the morning of Sunday, February 5, 1865, two days after a failed peace conference, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched another offensive around Petersburg. As Union cavalry headed towards Dinwiddie Courthouse, Maj. Gen. Andrew Humphreys, with two 2nd Corps divisions, had to secure the critical Hatcher’s […]
Read more...Book Review: My Dearest Lilla: Letters Home From Civil War General Jacob D. Cox
My Dearest Lilla: Letters Home From Civil War General Jacob D. Cox. Edited by Gene Schmiel. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2023. Paperback, 260 pp. $ 34.95. Reviewed by Joseph D. Ricci Over the last decade, Gene Schmiel has contributed greatly to the understanding of one of the Civil War’s most overlooked figures, […]
Read more...The Death of Ira Petty, Company F, 13th New York Heavy Artillery
ECW welcomes back guest author Jeff T. Giambrone In February 1865, John Alcooke, superintendent of the United States Sanitary Commission’s Soldiers’ Lodge in Portsmouth, Virginia, related to a friend a particularly sad episode that he had witnessed: About ten days ago a poor woman, who had never been ten miles away from her home before, […]
Read more...From The Susquehanna River to Stones River Pennsylvanians at Stones River, Part III
Part of a Series: Part 1 and Part 2 Few eastern units served with the western Union armies in places like Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. In the Army of the Cumberland, which fought at Stones River, Tennessee, most of the troops were from Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa, along with smaller numbers from Michigan, Wisconsin, […]
Read more...2023 Year in Review: Book Reviews
After accepting the book review editor role here at Emerging Civil War in March, I set a personal goal of increasing the number of book reviews that we offer our readers. After all, most of us history enthusiasts consume our passion subject largely through reading books, so what better way to make ECW readers aware […]
Read more...Sealing the Cork: The Forgotten Battles of Foster’s Place and Ware Bottom Church
ECW welcomes guest author Aaron Stoyack Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant initiated a multi-pronged campaign in the spring of 1864 to destroy the Confederacy. The Army of the Potomac commanded by Major General George Gordon Meade undertook one of the two main thrusts, marching toward Richmond against General Robert E. Lee and the Army of […]
Read more...Civil War Art: Antietam by James Hope
With the exception of Gettysburg’s and Atlanta’s cycloramas, few other pieces of Civil War art bring the viewer into the immediacy of combat than the large paintings done by veteran James Hope of the Battle of Antietam. But unlike those two more famous works of art, whose artists depicted scenes through the eyes of participants, […]
Read more...What If: Longstreet at Chickamauga
In a recent episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast, historian Jeff Hunt talked about one of the most interesting ramifications of James Longstreet’s move to the Western Theater in the fall of 1863. We were talking about the Bristoe Station campaign with my ECW colleague Kevin Pawlak, and of course, Longstreet wasn’t involved in […]
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