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A Visit with Stonewall Jackson on his Birthday
It’s 21 degrees in Lexington, Virginia—a cold morning for a cemetery visit. It’s Stonewall Jackson‘s birthday, though, and I’m passing through town on my way to St. Louis, Missouri, for a talk later this week. (I’ll pass through Lexington, KY, later today.) I thought I should take a quick stop in Stonewall Jackson’s hometown to […]
Read more...2018 Year in Review: #2
Our second-most-read post from 2018 involved a recent discovery from the war’s first major battle: 2) Limb Pit at Manassas National Battlefield Continues to Show the Horrors of Civil War Medicine by Paige Gibbons Backus (August 27, 2018) Workers digging at a construction project on the Manassas National Battlefield discovered a limb pit that had […]
Read more...The Spirits of Bad Men Made Perfect
The Spirits of Bad Men Made Perfect:The Life and Diary of Confederate Artillerist William Ellis Jonesby Constance Jones “Engaging the Civil War” SeriesSouthern Illinois University Press,2019 Click here for ordering information This remarkable biography and edited diary tell the story of William Ellis Jones (1838–1910), an artillerist in Crenshaw’s Battery, Pegram’s Battalion, the Army of […]
Read more...Railroads: From The ECW Archives
Our editors looked around in the ECW Blog Archives and found some interesting posts with connections to Civil War Railroad history. We hope you’ll enjoy these articles from past years! Ulysses S. Grant and the Wilderness of Pennsylvania (2015) The Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg: Part One (2015)
Read more...Civil War Railroads: An Overview
As we discuss Civil War railroads this month, let’s start out with some basic concepts. It is important to remember that this was new technology when war broke out. No general, North or South, had ever used railroads in wartime before. Yet now whole armies were moved by rail, and depended on rails lines for […]
Read more...Mistake or Cover Up? Seven Pines, May 31, 1862
In late May 1862 George McClellan’s massive army was at the outskirts of Richmond, trying to move a few miles closer to the city so it could employ its massive siege guns. Confederate commander Joseph E. Johnston was desperately searching for an opportunity to strike and drive McClellan back. At the end of the month […]
Read more...Captain Hugh A. White: “To Draw Back Is Impossible”
“…his presence was soon missed, and a member of his company, fearing he had been injured, proceeded to look for him, and soon found his body. He was lying on his face, resting it in his hands, and his pistol and unsheathed sword lay by his side.”[i] When leaders fall as casualties of battle, the […]
Read more...Week In Review: July 15-21, 2018
This week we had some very exciting news: our 2018 Symposium is sold out! We are looking forward to seeing all our registered guests on the first weekend of August. It was also a good week on the blog with more reports from American Battlefield Trust’s Teacher Institute, some summer posts about baseball, and other […]
Read more...Preservation News: Grants To Preserve Virginia Battlefields!
Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation is pleased to share this press release they received and celebrate funding for several of their preservation campaigns in The Valley and on other battlefields in Virginia!
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