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Week In Review: April 29-May 5, 2019
It’s a big historical anniversary week for the Battle of Chancellorsville and Battle of the Wilderness, and we’ve featured articles about both! Stay tuned for more Wilderness and Spotsylvania next week… This weekend Chris Mackowski and Dan Welch have been busy at the re-opening of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond and creating videos […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: Where Grant Turned South
In later years, Ulysses S. Grant remembered the hours following the Battle of the Wilderness this way: More desperate fighting has not been witnessed on this continent than that of the 5th and 6th of May. Our victory consisted in having successfully crossed a formidable stream, almost in the face of an enemy, and in […]
Read more...The Night March into Fredericksburg, May 2-3, 1863
The orders made no sense. Their recipient lacked the creativity to make them work. The Union army dawdled as its commanders traded confused messages, while Lee and Jackson struck their masterpiece victory. To explain why Joseph Hooker’s Chancellorsville campaign failed, one must understand what he did not at the time—the situation at Fredericksburg. John Sedgwick’s […]
Read more...May-June 2019 Presentations
May: 9th: Doug Crenshaw, “The Battle of Glendale,” Hanover Tavern Series 14th: Chris Mackowski, “The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson,” Richmond (VA) Civil War Roundtable, Richmond, VA 14th: Derek Maxfield, “Hellmira,” Butler Civil War Roundtable, Butler, PA 15th: Sarah Kay Bierle, Virginia Military Institute, booksigning
Read more...U.S. Grant’s Birthplace (Happy Birthday, Gen. Grant!)
Maybe he’s lonely, and that’s why it looks like he’s crying. The green patina on the bronze plaque has streaked with age and rain, creating what looks like tears on Ulysses S. Grant’s right cheek. I’ve known Grant to cry only once—documented by one of his staff members on the evening of May 5, 1864, […]
Read more...The Ballad of Black Bess
[Editor’s Note: With all that’s happening about Confederate monuments these days, it’s all right to remember a time when monuments to Confederate heroes became a source of humor.] Robert E. Lee had Traveller and Stonewall Jackson his Little Sorrel. Bedford Forrest rode King Philip, and that other famed Confederate cavalryman, John Hunt Morgan, had Black […]
Read more...Paul Revere and the Civil War
“Listen, my children, and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April in ’75, Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year…” Thus begins Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic (albeit not accurate) version of Paul Revere and his famous ride to warn to the […]
Read more...ECW Podcast “The High Tide of the Confederacy, Part 1” Is Now Available
We don’t mean to rush the weeks away, but…the beginning days of May will mark the anniversary of the Battle of Chancellorsville. Chris Mackowski and Kris White start a two-part conversation about the high tide of the Confederacy on the Emerging Civil War Podcast! It’s a discussion you won’t want to miss… What made Chancellorsville […]
Read more...Emerging Scholar John Legg
As part of our partnership with the American Civil War Museum in Richmond and Civil War Monitor, we’re pleased to introduce the next of our “Emerging Scholars,” John Legg. John will be presenting his work at the museum’s Grand Opening May 4. The U.S.-Dakota War: A Reconsideration of Civil War Era History When we think about the American Civil […]
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