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Home Libraries: Concluding The Saga
It’s been a couple weeks of going (virtually) from home to home and browsing the bookshelves. As the the series wraps up, we’ve compiled a list of all the posts for the blog collection. Sending a big thank you to all our writers who participated and all the readers who shared their stories in the […]
Read more...Who Tended to the Dying Arthur MacArthur?
ECW welcomes guest author Charlie Knight In his last few moments of life, Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur recounted the Atlanta Campaign in front of dozens of veterans of his former regiment, the 24th Wisconsin Infantry. Just as he began to describe the action at Peachtree Creek fought on July 20, 1864, he was stricken by […]
Read more...Perceptions of Emancipation in Gettysburg, Part One
ECW welcomes back guest author Jon Tracey Part One of a series Before the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was a battlefield, it was simply a small town in south-central Pennsylvania within Adams County. A mere 7.5 miles from the Mason-Dixon Line and slavery in Maryland, inhabitants were well aware of their borderland status. Before […]
Read more...Week In Review: September 13-20, 2020
From “Back to School” to the Battle of Antietam, new podcast, and more, there’s an overload of content on the ECW blog this week. Catch up and enjoy the week in review…
Read more...“The Morrow Would Be a Day of Blood”: The Eve of the Battle of Antietam
The evening of September 16 always draws my mind to the Antietam battlefield. 158 years ago tonight, Union and Confederate soldiers settled down for a tense night around Sharpsburg, Maryland. In some cases, they lay within earshot of one another. After darkness ended a brief but fierce clash in the East Woods, soldiers on both […]
Read more...Week In Review: September 6-13, 2020
It’s been a really full week on the ECW blog! You’ll find several posts by guest authors, meet the newest ECW member, discover some new historical perspectives, and find all the videos from the Virtual Symposium…
Read more...The Civilian Conservation Corps at Droop Mountain
ECW welcomes back guest author Jon Tracey The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s earliest programs to alleviate the hardship of the Great Depression. During its operation from 1933 to 1942, the Corps put over two and a half million young men to work.[1] Designed to put to work what Roosevelt saw […]
Read more...The Immortal 17: Civil War Veterans on the Active Army List in 1909, Part 1
While skimming old newspapers online, I discovered a fascinating article published on May 30, 1909, in the New-York Tribune. It was titled, “Memorial Day This Year Finds Sixteen Veterans of The Civil War Still on The Active List of U.S. Army Officers.” This discovery sent me down a research rabbit hole, something any historian is […]
Read more...A Useable History: Partisanship, Citizenship, and the Presidential Election
In the introduction to Gary Gallagher’s new book The Enduring Civil War, Gallagher talks about his own Civil War origins. “My lifelong interest in the Civil War era stems from its profusion of dramatic events, compelling personalities, unlikely political and social twists and turns, and engrossing military action,” he writes, articulating a sentiment that resonates […]
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