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“The prison over the Pearl River at Jackson, Mississippi, where Union prisoners have been confined.”
In researching my forthcoming book on the battle of Jackson, Mississippi—which took place on this date in 1863 as part of Grant’s campaign through Mississippi to take Vicksburg—I stumbled on a little bit of a mystery, although I didn’t know it at the time. My friend Jim Woodrick, a longtime historian for the Mississippi Department […]
Read more...Happy 200th Birthday, Ulysses S. Grant!
I think we sometimes forget the magnitude of what Ulysses S. Grant did: he saved the United States of America. That’s no small thing, saving the country. And he did so in a way that ensured the end of slavery, giving force to the political vision laid out by Lincoln through victory on the battlefield. […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Four Battlefields Targeted for Preservation
The American Battlefield Trust announced this week that they are working to save battlefields in four states, including their first ever effort in Ohio. The Buffington Island Battlefield is the site of one of only two battles that took place in Ohio. In July 1863 Confederate Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan led his 2,000 men […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Battlefield Preservation Grants Awarded
The National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) recently awarded $2,347,080 in Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants to four projects, including three Civil War preservation projects. The two of the projects are in Virginia and the third is in Mississippi, and total $1,260,774
Read more...Obscure Confederate Brigade Commanders of Shiloh
A variety of Confederate brigade commanders at Shiloh were for a long time something of a mystery to students of the war. Only minor details could be gleamed and for a few there were not even photographs. Each was a colonel, and for most Shiloh was their first and last battle. I did find a […]
Read more...On The March: The 44th Indiana 1862-63
One of the more oft-overlooked resources are local newspapers, which published letters from the battlefront throughout the war. For small towns where many of the military-age males had signed up, such letters were of community interest. One such town was Lagrange, Indiana, the county seat of Lagrange County. The county provided complete companies to the […]
Read more...Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet in Chattanooga, Part IV
ECW welcomes back guest author Ed Lowe Read the series What If…? This brings up the question that what if Longstreet had decisively defeated Burnside at Campbell’s Station, reaching that vital road junction before Burnside and pinning his army up against the Tennessee River? Grant did not initiate operations in Chattanooga until November 23, with […]
Read more...Week In Review: March 13-20, 2022
We hope you’ve had a good week. The blog writers have been rolling out some detailed content this week. If you missed some posts, here’s the Week in Review to help you catch up (or re-read)! Sunday, March 13: The full table of contents for the new book, The Great “What Ifs” of the Civil […]
Read more...In The Silence: Occupied Cities of the South
Beginning of a series When the American Civil War began, no one on either side thought the conflict would last more than a few months – let alone four years. Those in the North didn’t view their southern counterparts as “Rebels,” but as victims deceived by extremist politicians. They had no idea just how deep […]
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