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USS Chancellorsville’s Name Shift and the US Navy’s History of Confederate-Named Vessels
In recent years, the US government ordered all service branches to investigate and collate listings of all installations named honoring Confederate leaders, symbols, or events. While many are familiar with the army bases named after Confederate leaders (Forts Bragg, Polk, and A.P. Hill for example), less known are warships that have previously or currently bear […]
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Read more...“I take my pen in hand:” An Unpublished Letter from a Pension File
As explored in an earlier post by Douglas Ullman, Jr., pension files can offer immense insight into the lives of soldiers. Sometimes, researchers are lucky enough to find wartime letters written by the soldiers in the file. In this case, my relative Peter Goodling Reever wrote this letter while in camp with the 87th Pennsylvania […]
Read more...Civil War Medicine: The Blue & Gray Hospital Association
As this medical series started, Mark Quattrock reached out to Emerging Civil War inquired if he could share about this living history group. We welcome his guest post. Hello and welcome to The Blue & Gray Hospital Association! My name is Mark Quattrock and for the past 11 years I have been the Director of […]
Read more...Week In Review: July 11-17, 2022
From North Anna to symposium news to arm chair generaling and Monocacy battlefield (and more!), there’s plenty of new content this week on the ECW blog. Here’s the Week in Review: Monday, July 11: Question of the Week focused on summer reading. Chris Mackowski revisited North Anna, a fiction book, and a what if.
Read more...Week In Review: July 4-10, 2022
From Independence Day to Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Franklin, book reviews, travel, and beyond…it’s been a full summer week on the ECW blog! Monday, July 4: Question of the Week highlighted quotes related to the battle of Gettysburg. JoAnna McDonald wrote about the capture of Vicksburg on the anniversary.
Read more...“New Orleans gone and with it the Confederacy” – The Fall of New Orleans
ECW welcomes back guest author Patrick Kelly-Fischer The signposts of my mental outline of the Civil War have always been major land battles – Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg. The histories we grew up on are framed around these titanic battles. They’re the most popular battlefields to visit, and it would be intuitive that the most important […]
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...On the March: Jeb Stuart ambushes a Maine regiment
Jeb Stuart could not resist ambushing Union infantry marching through northern Virginia on Thursday, June 25, 1863. The particular Yankees he attacked belonged to the 19th Maine Infantry Regiment (Col. Francis E. Heath), until that moment unbloodied in combat. Assigned to the 1st Brigade (Brig. Gen. William Harrow), 2nd Division (Brig. Gen. John Gibbon), II […]
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