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The Most Devastating Confederate Attack?
Chancellorsville is often seen as one of the Army of Northern Virginia’s greatest attacks, achieving a victory against overwhelming odds, yet I would argue that rivaling that is the one launched on the third day of fighting at Second Manassas. Although not involving as many troops, the magnitude of the attack violently and abruptly altered […]
Read more...A Chronology of the Confederacy’s 1862 Counterstrokes
Several months ago, I crossed an item off my Civil War bucket list: visiting the Perryville battlefield. While at the visitor center, I watched a video which put the Confederate invasion of Kentucky into the larger context of the war. This orientation video showed seven red arrows moving north in the summer and fall of […]
Read more...Question of the Week: 8/30-9/5/21
Which battle do you prefer to study, First or Second Bull Run/Manassas?
Read more...“Too trivial for big history:” One Yankee Private and Three Accounts of Second Bull Run
ECW welcomes back Douglas Ullman, Jr. Martin Alonzo Haynes was 20 years old when he and approximately 2,000 men under Union Brig. Gen. Cuvier Grover charged the unfinished spur of the Manassas Gap Railroad on the afternoon of August 29, 1862. Grover’s five-regiment brigade achieved one of the promising Federal breakthroughs of the Second Battle […]
Read more...Fallen Leaders: General Richard B. Garnett
Tuesday, May 12, 1863. The location: Richmond, Virginia. The bells tolled, the military bands played dirges, and uniforms and civilian attire displayed mourning badges. The casket of Lieutenant General Thomas J. Jackson was drawn through the streets to Capitol Square where the general’s remains were carried into the building to lie in state. One of […]
Read more...ECW BookChat: Matchless Organization by Guy Hasegawa
I had the fortune to spend some time (over the past couple of years, actually) with the new book by Guy Hasegawa, Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Department. Guy’s book is the latest in the Engaging the Civil War Series, published by Southern Illinois University Press in partnership with ECW. Guy was kind enough […]
Read more...ECW Honors Gibbons Backus with Upton Award
Emerging Civil War has selected Paige Gibbons Backus as the recipient of this year’s Emory Upton Award. The Upton Award is presented to a member of the Emerging Civil War community in recognition of outstanding service to ECW. Paige, who has blogged with ECW since 2016, serves as ECW’s social media manager. “As a digitally-based […]
Read more...Fallen Leaders: Colonel Isaac Seymour, 6th Louisiana Infantry, Part 1
The loss of a leader had the potential to impact the morale of the soldiers below them. It had less to do with how important they were to the success of the battle or what rank they held, and more to do with the connection they shared with the men they left behind. A leader […]
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