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Civil War Echoes: General Wainwright and Corregidor
Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright broadcasts a surrender announcement in Manila, May 7, 1942. May 6 also marks the second day of another landmark American battle: the battle and surrender of American forces on Corregidor. Japanese forces landed on the island the night of May 5, 1942, and pushed eastward on the morning of May 6 despite several […]
Read more...Civil War Echoes: General Patton
Today in 1945 General George S. Patton Jr. breathed his last in a hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. Three days later he was buried in the American Military Cemetery in Hamm, Luxembourg, where he rests today. General Patton is today one of America’s iconic generals, a status cemented by the 1970 biopic about him. For many […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Equal Rights in New Hampshire Civil War Monument Dedication
ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog I was happy to be in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the 2024 New Hampshire Primary, less so for the politicians and more so to photograph the newly restored Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Monument in Veterans Memorial Park right across from the Doubletree Hotel where all […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction & Civil War Historic Sites
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. As many of you know, I had a life-threatening medical issue last March that led to me taking A LOT of very long walks. I try to take many of those walks near Civil War memorials and Reconstruction historic sites! I […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Free Exhibit Tells the Story of Black Soldiers in the Civil War
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. The last year has been a difficult one for me medically. My doctor suggested that I take up walking as one remedy for my ills, and I decided to combine strolls around the neighborhood with long walks at places where I […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Confederate Jubal Early Explains the Cause of the Civil War (part two)
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. This is the second in a two-part series looking at the ways Jubal Early’s book The Heritage of the South tried to “explain” the causes of the Civil War. The book was written during Early’s postwar self-exile but not […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Confederate Jubal Early Explains the Cause of the Civil War (part one)
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Part one of a two-part series. Jubal Early, a Virginian, was an important leader in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, and a primary constructor of The Lost Cause Myth of the Confederacy. Modern students […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Misusing the History of the Civil War Era in Drafting Alabama’s Constitution
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Usually we think of the study of history as a good starting point for the drafting of new laws. This is especially true when a state adopts a new Constitution. You are likely familiar with the Framers of the United States Constitution examining […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Stories of Atrocities at Civil War Prison Camps Increased Post-War Antagonisms
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Civil War prisoner of war camps occupied a big part of the consciousness of the warriors and civilians on both sides during the final two years of the conflict. Prior to 1863, a captured soldier could expect to be quickly exchanged for a […]
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