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Upcoming Presentations: August–September 2023
Here are the ECW authors hitting the road in the next two months. If someone is coming to your neighborhood, but you don’t belong to the hosting organization, reach out and inquire about guest attendance. Or, better yet, consider joining! You can check out our full schedule here. You can check out our list of […]
Read more...In Memoriam: Meg Groeling
Emerging Civil War is sad to share the news of the death of a treasured member of our community, Meg Groeling. In March 2021, Meg shared with ECW readers that she had been diagnosed with lymphoma. After an initial rough spell, she bounced back. “You don’t beat lymphoma,” she told me. “You live with it, […]
Read more...Teddy Roosevelt vs. Jeff Davis
One can easily imagine the outcome of an interaction between the ever-brittle Jefferson Davis and the bull-in-a-china-shop robustness of Theodore Roosevelt. While not contemporaries, Roosevelt did have occasion early in his literary career to cross pens with the elder-statesman Davis. The occasion was an article editors had invited Roosevelt to write for the October 1885 […]
Read more...Commanding The Regiment: Colonel William S. Lincoln, 34th Massachusetts – Part 2
This blog post traces the life and command experiences Lieutenant Colonel Williams S. Lincoln of the 34th Massachusetts Infantry. For a biography of Colonel George D. Wells with the 34th Massachusetts, please refer to Part 1. While George D. Wells held the place of beloved colonel of the 34th Massachusetts, William S. Lincoln operated in […]
Read more...Captured, Imprisoned: The Experiences of Union Civilian Families during the Second Battle of Winchester
On June 13-15, the Second Battle of Winchester brought war and threat of shelling to the streets of the pro-southern civilian population and the Union troops’ surrounding camps and forts. For nearly six months, Union General Milroy and his army had occupied and liberated the lower (northern) Shenandoah Valley, enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation for the […]
Read more...Commanding the Regiment: William Sperry’s Creative Cannoneering
During the final assault on the Confederate entrenchments at Petersburg, April 2, 1865, the 6th Vermont Infantry’s acting commander found himself among an artillery battery abandoned by its crew. The major cleverly devised a way to wield the cannons against the defenders as they rallied to retake the position. Having worked his way up from […]
Read more...American Cruise Lines announces 35-day Civil War tour
American Cruise Lines has unveiled the ultimate 2024 event for Civil War buffs: the 35-day Civil War Battlefields Cruise. According to a May 22 press release, the cruise will cross 13 states to visit “nearly every major battlefield of the Civil War.” The cruise will start with an overnight stay in New Orleans on May […]
Read more...Henry Boynton, Battlefield Preservation, and Civil War Memory
Emerging Civil War welcome back guest author Colonel (ret) Ed Lowe… Civil War battlefields evoke a range of emotions in visitors. One may imagine the Confederate attacks against Major General George Meade’s lines at Gettysburg or the Union gunboats battling their way through Vicksburg’s defenses. As I look up at Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, I […]
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