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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 […]
Read more...Chapter Three
CHAPTER THREE: “Defeated Victory: Albert Sidney Johnston’s Death at Shiloh” by Gregory A. Mertz Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series Sunday, April 6, 1862 found Cyrus Boyd six hundred fifty miles but a world away from Indianola, Iowa, […]
Read more...Baseball In The Blue And Gray (Part 2)
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author Michael Aubrecht for Part 2 of his article. (You can find Part 1 here.) It has been disputed for decades whether Union General Abner Doubleday was in fact the “father of the modern game.” Many baseball historians still reject the notion that Doubleday designed the first baseball diamond and […]
Read more...The Rebirth of the Army of the Potomac (part four)
Part four of a series. Desertion and “Demagogues” Desertion was also a disease in the army, though of a different kind. With Hooker assuming command the army officially went into winter camp. Morale was still dangerously low and homesickness was a real problem. The men of the Army of the Potomac had been through a great deal […]
Read more...Stonewall and the Chindit II: Unfinished Adventure Stories
In my last post, I compared and contrasted Generals Stonewall Jackson and Orde Wingate. I then closed with a question: Why are these men objects of such interest and fascination? There are two main reasons, and they seem to say as much about us today as about these two men.
Read more...Stonewall and the Chindit I: On Character and Generalship
Contemporaries of British Major General Orde Charles Wingate, famed leader of the Chindit special forces in Burma and a noted guerrilla commander in Africa and Palestine before that, often searched for someone with which to compare him. They usually hit upon Chinese Gordon, Lawrence of Arabia, and . . . Stonewall Jackson. Wingate himself largely […]
Read more...Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path: Hood’s Protest and Howe Avenue
Part of a series. The Confederate offensive at Gettysburg on July 2nd was supposed to start much closer to the now-famous Peach Orchard than it actually did. Prior to cresting Warfield Ridge, one of the future jumping-off points for the Confederate offensive, First Corps commander James Longstreet was very active. Riding up to division commander […]
Read more...Showing the White Feather”: The Civil War Ordeal of Col. William H. Christian
We are happy to welcome guest author Kristen M. Trout. Kristen is a life-long student of the Civil War, and holds a degree in History from Gettysburg College and is currently working towards her MA in Nonprofit Leadership from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. A native of Wildwood, Missouri, she has worked in the National […]
Read more...The Rebirth of the Army of the Potomac (part one)
Part one of a series. Introduction “By direction of the President of the United States, the commanding general this day transfers the command of this army to Maj. Gen Joseph Hooker…give to the brave and skillful general who has so long been identified with your organization, and who is now to command you, your full […]
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