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In (Somewhat of a) Defense of Franz Sigel
ECW welcomes back guest author Jarred Marlowe The Battle of New Market in May 1864 is considered one of the more famous secondary battles of the American Civil War. Though written and talked about more than other battles of far more size and consequence, two prevailing conclusions are often drawn from the battle. The first […]
Read more...Book Review: Confederate Privateer: The Life of John Yates Beall
Confederate Privateer: The Life of John Yates Beall. By William C. Harris. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023. Hardcover. 182 pp. $45.00. Reviewed by Gordon Berg On February 24, 1865, at Fort Columbus on Governors Island in New York Harbor, John Yates Beall was hanged as a spy for doing what his revolutionary forefathers […]
Read more...The Wheeling Horse Hospital
ECW welcomes guest author Christy Perry Tuohey “The Civil War was a war of animal power. Thousands of horses accompanied the armies of both sides, pulling artillery and supply wagons, carrying cavalry, cannoneers, and officers. They provided the power for transportation and communication, and made possible the kind of fighting that occurred, and the war’s […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum
During the Civil War, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad served as a lifeline for supplies and troops transportation east-west through Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Confederates frequently targeted the tracks, making it one of the most destroyed-rebuilt railroad lines. The history of the B&O stretches to both timeline sides of the Civil War and in […]
Read more...CSS Alabama Opens 1863 With a Bang, Part 1
The year commenced with one of only two major ship-to-ship engagements on the high seas, and the only Confederate win. The fiery clash in which USS Kearsarge sank CSS Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg on June 19, 1864, is the most famous. Alabama had her moment, however, when she destroyed USS Hatteras off Galveston, […]
Read more...Shrouded Veterans: Col. Ignatz Kappner
A veteran headstone was placed at Col. Ignatz G. Kappner’s unmarked grave. His father, Ferenc Kappner, served with Hungarian revolutionary leader Louis Kossuth. In 1854, Ignatz G. Kappner immigrated to the United States. He was living in New York City when the Civil War began. Kappner served from April to June 1861 as a private […]
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...Franklin Martindale, the Burning of Bedford, and the Lee Family, pt. 2
This post is part of a three-part series. See part one here. The day after the sickly, 54-year-old Henrietta Bedinger Lee watched her home be consumed by flames, there was still an angry fire burning in her. While she lashed out at Captain Franklin Martindale, the commanding officer tasked with burning Lee’s home, Bedford, and […]
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