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Hood on Hood—Part III
The third part of a four-part series. Today we welcome back guest author Stephen “Sam” Hood. Sam is the author of John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General. * * * Regarding the Spring Hill affair, Sword once again attacked Hood, ignoring the fact that Hood sent numerous orders to […]
Read more...Lewis A. Armistead and the American Civil War
Today we welcome back guest author William F. Floyd, Jr. William worked for forty years for the City of Norfolk. In his retirement, he’s now pursuing the study of history at Tidewater Community College. * * * Lewis A. Armistead was a Confederate general in the Civil War. He is best remembered for the role he […]
Read more...Top 15 Posts of 2013—Number 4: Gettysburg Memories: Field Trip
I’m in third grade. Hershey Elementary School. We all pile onto a row of big yellow school buses that rumble down Route 322 to I-83 to Route 15, which goes southwest from Camp Hill to Gettysburg. This is my introduction to the Civil War. In a photo that survives from the trip, twelve of us […]
Read more...“I Am Not Glad To See You By a Damned Sight.”
This is another post in the series “Tales From the Tombstone.“ James Jay Archer the lifelong bachelor born at Stafford near Havre de Grace in northeastern Maryland on December 19, 1817 came from a military family. The apple did not fall too far from the tree. Although, educated for the law in which he attended […]
Read more...Gettysburg Memories: Field Trip
I’m in third grade. Hershey Elementary School. We all pile onto a row of big yellow school buses that rumble down Route 322 to I-83 to Route 15, which goes southwest from Camp Hill to Gettysburg. This is my introduction to the Civil War. In a photo that survives from the trip, twelve of us […]
Read more...The Season of Battles: Perspectives on the 1863 Campaigns
This year marks the 150th Anniversaries of some of the Civil War’s most iconic engagements. The sesquicentennial of Chancellorsville and Stonewall Jackson’s death has just passed, while the Vicksburg and Gettysburg commemorations are in the future, followed by Chickamauga. Yet focusing on any one event over others obscures some of the key historical currents that […]
Read more...The Stainless Banner at the MOC
In commemoration of the sesquicentennial of Stonewall Jackson’s death, the Museum of the Confederacy recently displayed the second national flag of the Confederacy that had been used to drape Jackson’s coffin. Jack Humphries, a good friend of Emerging Civil War, was kind enough to serve as man-on-the-scene reporter for us and send back a few […]
Read more...Laid to Rest in Lexington
On May 15, 1863—150 years ago today—Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was laid to rest in his beloved Shenandoah Valley. He had died five days previously and, since his death, his remains had traveled from Guinea Station down to Richmond to rest in the Confederate capitol before beginning the trek westward. Jackson was brought home […]
Read more...“Uncle John” — R.I.P.
The monument to “Uncle John” Sedgwick, who was killed by a sharpshooter on May 9, 1864–149 years ago today at the Battle of Spotsylvania. “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance,” Sedgwick said just before taking a bullet below the left eye. The shot killed him instantly. He was the highest-ranking Union officer killed […]
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