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Arkansas’s Role in the Vicksburg Campaign (part one)
ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Carson Butler. Part one of two. The Mississippi River is one of the most defining features of the North American continent, and during the American Civil War, it proved to be vital in dictating who would win the conflict. Both President Abraham Lincoln and President Jefferson Davis commented […]
Read more...Had Come Close to a Dazzling Victory
Read more...ECW’s March 2021 Newsletter Now Available
March Madness! Women’s History Month! Saint Patrick’s Day! The ECW March 2021 Newsletter! This past month had all sorts of great stuff going on! The newest newsletter hit inboxes today. In this issue:
Read more...Week In Review: March 8-14, 2021
From the battle of the ironclads to book reviews, podcasts, The Wilderness, bus tours, new museums, and more…there’s a wide variety of articles from the ECW blog this week! Monday, March 8: Question of the Week…went animated? Guest author Nathan Provost posted a comprehensive view of the Overland Campaign.
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Phil Kearney
Welcome back to another installment of our 2021 Emerging Civil War Spotlight series. Each we have introduced you to another of our outstanding topics that will be presented at the Seventh Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium August 6-8, 2021. Today we have Kris White preview his talk on fallen leader Phil Kearny:
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Preservation at New Market Heights
The following text is an official press release from American Battlefield Trust, shared on February 10, 2021. PRESERVATION OF LAND AT NEW MARKET HEIGHTS HONORS THE VALOR OF BLACK CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS American Battlefield Trust protects 22 additional acres of Virginia battlefield where 14 members of the United States Colored Troops earned the Medal […]
Read more...On Monuments, America Must Never Surrender to Confederates, Old or New (part two)
part two of four ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Frank J. Scaturro. Frank is president of the Grant Monument Association and the author of President Grant Reconsidered and The Supreme Court’s Retreat from Reconstruction. He is currently writing a book about New York City’s largely forgotten sites from the founding era. The views expressed are […]
Read more...2nd Company G: A Short and Atypical Service
During the gap between graduate school semesters, I’ve been taking some time to look at family trees and genealogy. After all, staring at old records is my specialty, and apparently, I can’t convince myself to just take a break! In this particular case, I was investigating my fourth-great grandfather (through marriage), Henry Melvin Gohn, who […]
Read more...The Preservation “Miracle” at Stones River
It’s been a big week for the American Battlefield Trust. A few days ago, we told you about a major initiative they’re launching to preserve the core of the Gaines’s Mill and Cold Harbor battlefields. They also announced this week a huge preservation win at Stones River. We’ll be featuring a bunch of Stones River […]
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