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Chapter Five
CHAPTER FIVE: “The Cresting Tide: Robert E. Lee and the Road to Chancellorsville” by Kristopher D. White Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series Noah Brooks remembered that May afternoon in vivid detail. “Never as long as I […]
Read more...Welles and Fox: Dynamic Duo of the Deep (and Shallow)
Lee and Jackson, Grant and Sherman—celebrated partnerships of the Civil War. But there was another highly successful team, which receives less credit than is due: Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles and Assistant Secretary Gustavus Vasa Fox. Almost nothing in the history and traditions of the United States Navy prepared it for the challenges of […]
Read more...Advance of the Ironclads (part one)
Today we are pleased to welcome Eric Sterner. Eric is a national security and aerospace consultant in the Washington, DC area. He held senior staff positions for the Committees on Armed Services and Science in the House of Representatives and served in the Department of Defense and as NASA. He earned a BA at American University […]
Read more...In Memory of Al Conner, Jr.
The shady glen look like something out of Middle-Earth: ferns cluster in small patches on the sun-dappled forest floor and piles of lichen-covered rocks sit half-submerged in the ground. A lightly mulched path winds among the trees and among the dips and small hillocks. Old pits the size of mattresses pock the landscape everywhere. The […]
Read more...The Cosmopolitanism of the Union Army: What Did It Mean?
I was recently assessing the demographic makeup of Union and Confederate armies in my Civil War and Reconstruction class when one of my students asked a thought-provoking question: “What percentage of the Union Army was northern, white, English-speaking, and native-born?” My impromptu response was to say about half, given that the Union ranks included at […]
Read more...Gone For A Soldier: Journeys of Irish American Music & Patriotism
The journey of Irish songs now woven into the collections of traditional American music represents the journeys of the Irish people and how music and a war intertwined to bring the Irish immigrants into a more positive light in 19th Century America. The war-song Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier is a hallmark of folk […]
Read more...An Honorable Beginning
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Dwight Hughes April 13, 1861—the broad, brown Mississippi flood tugged at United States mail steamer Bienville as she lay alongside a New Orleans levee preparing to sail the next morning with passengers, mail, and cargo for New York. Rumors were flying that fighting had begun somewhere, […]
Read more...The Valley Forge Winter for the Army of the Potomac
To commemorate Washington’s Birthday today, Emerging Civil War is pleased to present an excerpt from the forthcoming book Seizing Destiny: The Army of the Potomac’s ‘Valley Forge’ and the Civil War Winter that Saved the Union by Albert Conner, Jr., with Chris Mackowski, published by Savas Beatie. The book contends that the AoP’s resurgence during […]
Read more...One of America’s First Christmas Trees
ECW is pleased to welcome guest contributor Richard G. Williams, Jr. Earlier this month, I, along with a number of some of my children and grandchildren, embarked on an annual pilgrimage. We made our way down a narrow dirt road here in the Shenandoah Valley to a Christmas tree farm. There, we scattered to scout […]
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