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If Grant Goes East, I Will Follow…
On November 12, I boarded a plane at 5:30 PM, heading from Kansas City, Missouri to Richmond, Virginia. I did not arrive until 1 AM the following morning. Grant once told Meade, “Wherever Lee goes, you will follow.”[1] Therefore, I intended to follow the research for my dissertation on the Battle of Cold Harbor. Many […]
Read more...Year in Review 2020: Most-Read Posts of All Time
Before we get to our #1 post from 2020, let’s take a look at our most-read posts ever. We’ve had a monster year on the blog this year, so a majority of our Top Ten posts from this year have also made it into the list of most-read posts ever. We’ve taken this year’s posts […]
Read more...Going, Going, (almost) Gone!
Tomorrow – December 31, 2020 – is the last day for early bird registration rates for our Seventh Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium, to be held at beautiful Stevenson Ridge on August 6 – 8, 2021. You have until 11:59pm tomorrow to lock in your rate at $155, because starting January 1 prices will go […]
Read more...Year in Review 2020: #6
Of the ten most-read posts at Emerging Civil War in 2020, nine were written this year and one wasn’t. That post, written in 2015, comes in at #6 on our list. Interest in Ulysses S. Grant was especially high this year due to the History Channel’s Grant miniseries. Thanks to the media splash from the […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday is coming up next week, and we wanted to pass along word about a couple giving opportunities from some of ECW’s partners, the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust, the Civil War Roundtable Congress, and the American Battlefield Trust. (And while ECW isn’t doing a formal fund-raising “ask” this year, we are a 501(c)3 and […]
Read more...Payne’s Farm After Dark
November 27 marks the anniversary of the 1863 battle of Payne’s Farm, part of the Mine Run campaign. Elements of the Army of the Potomac and Army of Northern Virginia, converging toward a wayside in the Virginia Wilderness known as Robinson’s Tavern along the Orange Plank Road, stumbled into each other. The ensuing fight, known […]
Read more...Civil War Cooking: Thanksgiving Dinner at the Wolfe Street Hospital
The larger hospitals in cities usually tried to have special foods for holiday meals, and through the letters of Private Will Lamson from the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment, there’s a glimpse of the Thanksgiving dinner from 1862. Young Lamson had been hospitalized since early November since he had dysentery until “I got poor and weak […]
Read more...ECW Symposium 2021: Early Bird Tickets Available
As you’ve probably seen, we had to reschedule the Emerging Civil War Symposium this year due to health and safety concerns. Many of the registered guests decided to roll their tickets to 2021 since we’ll be hosting the same theme and planned symposium in 2021. If you’ve kept your ticket and rolled it to 2021, […]
Read more...Hancock’s Response To The 1880 Election Results
As I’m writing this on the evening to November 4 to be published in the morning of the 5th, the modern presidential election remains undecided. I’ve spent the day keeping an eye on projections and results until my head was ready to burst. Fortunately, work required me to take a drive, a little hike, and […]
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