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Book Review: “The Civil War Diary of Father James Sheeran: Confederate Chaplain and Redemptorist”
James Sheeran, a chaplain for the 14th Louisiana Infantry, wrote in his collection of diary and letters, “If perchance this manuscript should fall into the hand of any person unacquainted with me, I ask as a favor, that it may be destroyed, as it was never intended for the public eye.” The Civil War community […]
Read more...Modern Photography: Little Details At The Entrance
While I enjoy landscape photography, my favorite images to “shoot” are detail-oriented. As I sorted through my own image archives, I tried to figure out why my travel photo files of battlefields are intermixed with pictures of barn rafters, porch flags, stone steps, tiny flowers, historic medicine bottle labels, etc. I guess it’s because I like […]
Read more...Modern Photography: Battlefield Cannons
During my battlefield trips, I enjoying taking the “classic” cannon photos. Though serene battlefield markers today, these artillery pieces caused fearsome destruction during the Civil War.
Read more...Was Chancellorsville Lee’s greatest victory?
Chancellorsville was Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory in the Civil War, right? At least, that’s what is often said of the Confederate chieftain’s triumph over his Federal adversaries in early May 1863. But was it really? If you were to ask the general himself, he probably would not have thought so. Speaking to Confederate Secretary […]
Read more...Civil War Trust Leads Effort To Preserve Battlefield Land in 2016
Get updated on 2016’s preservation successes with the latest year-in-review from the Civil War Trust.
Read more...Stonewall’s Horses
Early in 1861, John Harman and Thomas J. Jackson inspected a small herd of horses which had been discovered in a captured railroad boxcar. Jackson turned the horses over to the Confederate government and purchased two for his military use.[i] In the following days, Jackson discovered the large horse had an uncomfortable gait and was […]
Read more...John Mosby & The Partisan Rangers
ECW is pleased to welcome back guest author Bill Backus In early March 1864, Lieutenant Charles White led a detachment of 40 troopers from the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry from their encampment near Bristoe Station. Their mission was to scour the Northern Virginia countryside and disrupt any Confederate guerilla bands they encountered. After riding only a […]
Read more...Longstreet Goes West: Conclusions
James Longstreet’s time in the Western Theater has by and large, not garnered accolades. The prevailing western-centric view casts him as a haughty eastern interloper, come to further his own ambitions at Bragg’s expense. Historians of a more eastern bent tend to regard this period as proof of his long-suspected lurking incompetence, very useful in […]
Read more...Chapter Seven
CHAPTER SEVEN: “’Oh, I Am Heartily Tired of Hearing about What Lee Is Going to Do’: Ulysses S. Grant in the Wilderness” by Ryan Longfellow Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series On Saturday, July 22, 2017, I stood at the intersection of […]
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