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Week In Review: May 23-29, 2022
Lots of historic anniversary posts this week! Monday, May 23: Question of the Week is about choosing a capital. Sarah Kay Bierle posted Part 1 and Part 2 of some research about Belle Boyd and the battle of Front Royal for the Valley Campaign anniversary.
Read more...Week In Review: May 16-22, 2022
It’s a nice balance of east and west Civil War feature articles this week, along with some international flair, too… Monday, May 16: Question of the Week highlighted the history of the Gulf States. Edward Alexander wrote about a Pennsylvania family on Petersburg’s front lines.
Read more...Week In Review: May 8-15, 2022
Flying balloons, battle anniversaries, and more on the blog this last week! Sunday, May 8: In the evening, Sarah Kay Bierle posted about the VMI Cadets at the battle of McDowell.
Read more...Week in Review: May 1-8, 2022
It’s been a full week of battle anniversary posts with a variety of perspectives and “emerging” accounts…
Read more...Happy 200th Birthday, Ulysses S. Grant!
I think we sometimes forget the magnitude of what Ulysses S. Grant did: he saved the United States of America. That’s no small thing, saving the country. And he did so in a way that ensured the end of slavery, giving force to the political vision laid out by Lincoln through victory on the battlefield. […]
Read more...Week in Review: April 18-24, 2022
Last week of the blog series On The March and plenty of other historical topics “emerging” this week… Monday, April 18: Question of the Week focused on ways of marching on campaign. On The March: Sarah Kay Bierle posted about General Barlow and the stragglers.
Read more...Week In Review: April 11-17, 2022
We’ve been “campaigning through” the week with new posts in the marching series, a few anniversary posts, prisoners of war, and even Confederates and baseball. Read all about it here! Monday, April 11 Question of the Week focused on Civil War marches as part of the current blog series.
Read more...Week In Review: April 3-10, 2022
Lots of posts for the 160th anniversary of the battle of Shiloh this week, and we’ve started a new series about Civil War marching. Sunday, April 3: In the evening, we posted links to videos about the battle of Shiloh from ECW YouTube page.
Read more...Week In Review: March 27-April 3, 2022
Sunday, March 27: In the evening, Chris Mackowski posted photos from Rocky Face Ridge. Monday, March 28: Question of the Week discussed the colonels who never made general. Kevin Pawlak re-examined what Robert E. Lee thought of George B. McClellan. Tuesday, March 29: Meg Groeling shared about cats and war, comparing the Union army of […]
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