Showing results for "Chancellorsville"
ECW Welcomes Robert Lee Hodge
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome Robert Lee Hodge to the fold. Rob, a living historian well known in reenacting circles for his devotion to accuracy, has also worked passionately in the preservation community for nearly three decades. In 1999, Rob came to national prominence upon the publication of Tony Horwitz’s Confederates in the […]
Read more...Podcast Additional Resources: “Making Civil War Maps”
Last week we released the podcast episode with Edward Alexander, Dan Welch, and Chris Mackowski talking about Civil War cartography in the 1860’s and the modern era. Edward has recently launched his own business, creating historical maps. He shares about some of his sources, challenges, and successes. Today, we’ve collected some of Edward’s maps and […]
Read more...June-July 2019 Presentations
Editor’s Note: Our apologies for publishing this list a week later than usual, but there are a lot of ECW members speaking during the rest of the month. We hope you’ll be able to catch one of their presentations! June: 1st: Gazette665’s Fourth Annual Civil War History Conference, Temecula, CA Chris Mackowski – Grant’s Overland Campaign […]
Read more...“Ever Forward”: The 116th Virginia Infantry & D-Day
On June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers waded ashore under enemy fire, battling to establish five beach-heads on the Normandy coast of Nazi-occupied Europe. Omaha Beach – one of the code-named stretches of shoreline assigned to U.S. troops for capture – offered difficulties in navigating the landing crafts and unexpectedly strong defenses which resulted in high […]
Read more...Podcast Additional Resources: “High Tide of the Confederacy, Part 2”
And we’re back with resources for Chancellorsville… Last month Part 1 went to Jackson’s wounding in the history discussion and now we’ve complied resources from May 3 through the end of the battle and then Jackson’s death on May 10. Yep, Chris and Kris continued their conversation about the battle of Chancellorsville and how this […]
Read more...Week In Review: May 20-26, 2019
Battles and Memory seems to have been an informal theme on the blog this week, likely because of Memorial Day weekend. In case you missed a post or just want to re-read, here’s the list of all our recent activities on the blog…
Read more...ECW Podcast “The High Tide of the Confederacy, Part 2” Is Now Available
It’s been called “Lee’s Greatest Victory.” Why? And exactly why was it “all downhill for the Confederacy” after Chancellorsville? Chris Mackowski and Kris White continue their conversation about the high tide of the Confederacy on the Emerging Civil War Podcast!
Read more...From Spotsylvania’s Eastern Front
155 years ago this evening, Ulysses S. Grant began his withdrawal from Spotsylvania Court House, swinging once more around Lee’s right flank, moving south. To recap the anniversary of the two-week battle, I want to share a project I did in my capacity as historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge. (For those who don’t know, Stevenson Ridge […]
Read more...Significant USCT Sites in the Eastern Theater: Virginia and Washington, DC
I have had a few inquiries about significant sites for the United States Colored Troops. Over the past several years, I have spoken about each of the five sites that I am writing about in this blog. I participated in the 150th anniversaries of the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg and the Battle of […]
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