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Duel in Mobile Bay
Early in the morning of August 5, 1864 (150 years ago today), Union Admiral David G. Farragut’s fleet steamed north toward Mobile Bay, in an effort to run Confederate defenses and block the eastern Confederacy’s last major port on the Gulf of Mexico. What took place that morning became one of the iconic battles in […]
Read more...A Union Catastrophe by the Name of Red River
While the spring of 1864 marked the launch of a Union overland campaign in Virginia, it also signified a Federal disaster in the West. For three long months, the North had tried to take control of the Red River in an attempt that would go down in history books as the Red River Campaign. Although […]
Read more...The Road to Atlanta: Another Polk
While the fighting raged at the bend of Hardee’s Salent at the Latimar House, on the south end of Hardee’s line above Mud Creek, the men of Cleburne’s Division worked to construct fortifications in the driving rain. Their work was soon interrupted by artillery fire of Battery D, 1st Ohio Light Artillery. For more than […]
Read more...Emerging Civil War Symposium Lecture and Tour Schedule
First Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge August 15-17, 2014 “The Civil War in 1864” Presenters and Tour Guides Click here to register for the event. August 16—Morning Session 9 AM: Daniel T. Davis More Desperate Fighting Has Not Been Witness on This Continent: Ulysses S. Grant and the Overland Campaign The Overland […]
Read more...U.S. Grant and the Shadow of Cold Harbor
At 4:30 a.m. on the morning of June 3, 1864, the II, VI and XVIII Corps commenced their assault on the Confederate line at Cold Harbor. One New Yorker recalled, “as soon as the skirmishers were engaged, our artillery opened upon the rebel works, and the conflict now commenced in earnest. Amid the deafening volleys […]
Read more...Controversial Hood Biography Garners Plaudits
Last spring, ECW offered a series of guest posts by author Stephen M. “Sam” Hood, a descendent of Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood. Sam recently received some good news: his book, John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General, was selected as the 2014 winner of the Albert Castel Book Award. […]
Read more...Hood on Hood—Part IV
The conclusion of a four-part series. Today we welcome back guest author Stephen “Sam” Hood. Sam is the author of John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General. * * * Another example of Sword misrepresenting Hood’s words is illustrated in Sword’s portrayal of a December 11, 1864, dispatch Hood sent from […]
Read more...Hood on Hood—Part III
The third part of a four-part series. Today we welcome back guest author Stephen “Sam” Hood. Sam is the author of John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General. * * * Regarding the Spring Hill affair, Sword once again attacked Hood, ignoring the fact that Hood sent numerous orders to […]
Read more...Hood on Hood—Part I
The first in a four-part series. ECW Editors Note: Stephen “Sam” Hood is a descendant of Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood, one of the most controversial commanders in the Confederacy. His early service in the war as a brigade and division commander in the Army of Northern Virginia was exemplary; his later service, as commander […]
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