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Petersburg Day Four: Saturday, June 18, 1864
Having rested throughout June 17, George Meade’s energy returned. He made preparation for a full attack along the entire front on June 18. Yet, the attack would not be easy. II and IX Corps had already taken heavy losses. Ambrose Burnside advised against an attack while Winfield Hancock was too ill to continue and passed […]
Read more...April’s ECW Bookshelf
Do you need some ideas about what books to read next from your collection? Look no further than the current list of what ECW’s members are reading this month! Let us know what books you are currently reading in the comments below. Ed Alexander Jeffrey Hunt – Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army […]
Read more...Guess The Commander For The War’s End?
The following excerpt is from James A. Scrymser’s reminiscence about the Civil War. Scrymser was a member of the 7th New York and, postwar, a telegraph cable pioneer. I’m very curious to see what readers think about the incident and what might have been evident in December 1861 that led to the leadership prediction…or was […]
Read more...Joe and the Illini: The Unclear Origins of Two “Fighting” Nicknames
Every few years my alma mater, the University of Illinois, renews the discussion of renaming its sports teams and creating a new mascot. In 2007 the school retired Chief Illiniwek and the trademarked Chief logo in an attempt to distance itself from connections with Native American imagery. Several weeks ago, the student senate recommended retaining […]
Read more...The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry
The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry: George A. Custer in the Civil War by Daniel T. Davis Savas Beatie, 2019 192 pp.; 165 images; 7 maps ISBN: 978-1-61121-411-6 Click here to order Also available in Audiobook! Click here to order * * * On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer […]
Read more...2020 ECW Virtual Symposium
We all have been saddened by news of our postponement of the 2020 Emerging Civil War Symposium until 2021. All of us at ECW will miss seeing all of our friends and supporters at our yearly symposium at Stevenson’s Ridge. Since the news of our postponement our symposium co-chairs, Dan Welch and Kevin Pawlak, have […]
Read more...Army Posts Since 1860
The names of U.S. Army posts are in the news of late. In an effort to inform the debate, here is some information about how the names and current situation came about, as expressed in three maps.
Read more...Opportunity Lost: Glendale – June 30, 1862
On June 25, 1862, George McClellan had 105,000+ men within just as few miles of Richmond. Robert E. Lee took over the Confederate Army from the injured Joe Johnson on June 1, and devised a plan to drive Federal Army from the very gates of the capital. Near the end of the month, Lee completed […]
Read more...The Civil War Zoom Boom: The Tattooed Historian
(part six in a series) John Heckman, a.k.a.the Tattooed Historian, might be the grand-daddy of the Civil War Zoom Boom. Since hitting the scene, Heckman has used social media made a full-court press to not just talk about Civil War history but also the field of Civil War history. As part of that, he’s been […]
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