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Week In Review: January 10-16, 2022
Treason? Blockade Runners? Interviews? Fallen leaders? Check all the boxes! We’ve had some unique topics featured on the blog in the last week and here’s the complete list:
Read more...Missed Opportunity? The Confederates’ Lost Chance at Chattanooga
ECW welcomes back guest author Patrick Kelly-Fischer In September 1863, the Confederates executed one of the largest troop maneuvers of the entire war, setting themselves up to potentially destroy a major Union field army. They shifted Lieutenant General James Longstreet and approximately 15,000 troops of his First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia by […]
Read more...Favorite Soldier Memoirs
In his self-published book An Epic on “Old Abe,” The War Eagle (The War Eagle Book Association, 1894), S. C. Miles, a veteran of the 8th Wisconsin, extolled the virtue of first-person accounts of the war. Such accounts required “no coloring of imagination or romance to satisfy the taste of the reader for the romantic […]
Read more...1861 in Gone With The Wind
On the 82nd anniversary of Gone With The Wind’s movie premiere in Atlanta (December 15, 1939), I thought it might be interesting to look at the book and movie’s treatment of the first year of the Civil War. For better or worse, Gone With The Wind has shaped the way Americans and the world view […]
Read more...“Wounded July 1st by a ball:” An Iron Brigade Soldier’s Medical Treatment Record
During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of soldiers became casualties. Those who survived their wounds long enough to make it to a field hospital received detailed treatment records. These records helped to professionalize American medicine, and taught valuable lessons about what worked and what didn’t. Below is the Camp Letterman treatment record for Theodore Pease, […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: The Carnage Was Fearful
by Michael Block When I was working as a government contractor, I was “offered” the opportunity—in addition to my other duties and responsibilities—to manage, mentor, and support a small group of our team members, working on one- or two-person contracts at remote locations in the greater Washington, D.C., area. It meant for me a lot […]
Read more...Book Review: Our Comfort in Dying: Civil War Sermons by R.L. Dabeny, Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff
Our Comfort in Dying: Civil War Sermons by R. L. Dabney, Stonewall Jackson’s Chief-of-Staff Transcribed and Edited byJonathan W. Peters Sola Fide Publications, 2021, $21.99 paper For Thursday, June 13, 1861—barely two months into the war—President Davis announced a national day of fasting and prayer throughout the South. He urged the people to participate in […]
Read more...Book Review: Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station
Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army of the Potomac’s First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, From Kelly’s Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863 By Jeffrey Wm Hunt Savas Beatie, 2021, $32.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Zachery A. Fry General readers probably know little about the maneuvers and clashes between the Army of the […]
Read more...My ECW Story: Sheritta Bitikofer
Throughout the year in this occasional series we’ve sat down with some of our “old head” historians to ask about their ECW stories. This month we have one of our newest members and a rising star in the field, Sheritta Bitikofer. We hope her story inspires you to consider submitting your own content to Emerging […]
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