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“A Period of Great Trial”: The 1st Massachusetts Cavalry in the Maryland Campaign
Recently while preparing for an upcoming tour of the Kelly’s Ford battlefield, I was reading through A History of the First Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers by Benjamin Crowninshield. One of their officers, Maj. Samuel Chamberlain, played a critical role in the opening phase of the engagement. Thumbing through the narrative for background information on Chamberlain, […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review 28 Aug-3 Sept.
The last week of summer has been very busy heading into Labor Day Weekend. Highlighting our posts was our first formal announcement concerning the Fifth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium, scheduled for August 3-5, 2018 at Stevenson Ridge. You may click on the links below to read the posts.
Read more...“I Intend to Make the Yankees Pay”: A Monumental Discussion
Conclusion of a series. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 are available. This past Saturday, while passing through Richmond, I decided to visit the J.E.B. Stuart statue on Monument Avenue. Lately it seems that I have been in Stuart’s shadow. Beginning in the last week of July, I prepped for the ECW Symposium Tour of […]
Read more...A Monumental Discussion: Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Matthew Christopher Hulbert, PhD, a colleague of Emerging Civil War’s through our “Engaging the Civil War” series, teaches history at Texas A&M-Kingsville. He has produced two books on guerrilla warfare in the Civil War, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times, Civil War History, Journal of the Civil War Era, Journal of […]
Read more...Statues of Stonewall
It’s probably no surprise that “Confederate statues” has shown up as a frequent term in the ECW search engine this week. In particular, people have been searching for “Stonewall Jackson statues.” Back in 2011, I put together a series, “Statues of Stonewall,” that provided some history about various Stonewall Jackson monuments in Lexington, Richmond, Manassas. […]
Read more...A “Visionary” Plan? The Proposed March 1865 Peace Conference, Part 5
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 are available.) In any event, on Tuesday, February 28, Longstreet and Ord met again purportedly to discuss prisoner exchanges, when Ord suggested that Lee should contact Grant and request “an interview, stating that General Grant was prepared to receive the letter, and thought that a way could be […]
Read more...A “Visionary” Plan? The Proposed March 1865 Peace Conference, Part 3
(Part 1 and Part 2 are available.) So why was Ord’s idea even considered, and actually supported, at the highest levels of a Confederate government steeped in a patriarchal culture? Porter offered an answer in that “it must be remembered that the condition of the Confederacy was then desperate, and that drowning men catch at […]
Read more...A “Visionary” Plan? The Proposed March 1865 Peace Conference, Part 2
(Part 1 is available here.) While many were disheartened by the failure of the February conference, the Confederates were not willing to give up their hope of establishing an independent nation, although that hope was becoming dimmer with each passing day. So before they left Hampton Roads, the commissioners tried to leave a door open […]
Read more...C-SPAN Live from the Emerging Civil War Symposium
All of us at Emerging Civil War are thrilled to welcome back C-SPAN to this year’s Fourth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge. For the first time ever, C-SPAN will air our Saturday lineup of speakers in its entirety, LIVE from Stevenson Ridge. C-SPAN will tape Friday evening’s events, which include our Keynote […]
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