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“The Finest Cavalry Display Ever Witnessed”: Lincoln Reviews the Mounted Arm
The spring of 1863 brought about a season of change in the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac. On St. Patrick’s Day, Brig. Gen. William W. Averell’s division clashed with Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s brigade on the south bank of the Rappahannock near Kelly’s Ford.The battle marked the first time the horse soldiers […]
Read more...A Conversation with CVBT’s Elizabeth Heffernan (part one)
(part one of three) For Women’s History Month, we’ve been talking with several women who work in Civil War public history. This week, we’re pleased to chat with Elizabeth Heffernan, the new executive director of the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust (CVBT). Elizabeth joined CVBT back in December and has spent the last few months learning […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review 18-25 March
It was another busy week here at Emerging Civil War. We continued to highlight Women’s History Month along with a major preservation victory at Spotsylvania Court House. You may click on the links below to read each post.
Read more...The Furnace Has Gone Cold
Read more...A Conversation with Emma Murphy (part one)
(part one of five) As we continue our series of interviews for Women’s History Month, we spend time this week with Emma Murphy, a park guide at Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in Greenville, Tennessee. Emma has a bachelor’s degree in history/Civil War studies from Gettysburg College, and a master’s degree in public history from […]
Read more...Stephen Crane’s “Veteran”
Many Civil War buffs have read Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage, lauded as one of the best war novels of all time, of any war. The book “stands by itself in nineteenth-century English and American war fiction,” literary scholar Eric Solomon once said. “Indeed, it is still the masterwork in English among the abundance […]
Read more...A Conversation with Hallowed Ground‘s Mary Koik (part one)
(part one of a four-part series) For Women’s History Month this year, ECW Editor-in-Chief Chris Mackowski interviewed several women who work in the field of Civil War public history. This week, we share Chris’s conversation with Mary Koik, editor of Hallowed Ground, the member magazine for the Civil War Trust. She also does freelance work […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review Feb. 26-Mar. 4
It has been another busy week here at Emerging Civil War. We featured another post on one of our Symposium speakers (tickets are still available here), closed out Black History Month and welcomed in Women’s History Month. You may click on the links below to read each post.
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Chris Mackowski
For this year’s Sunday morning battlefield, Chris Mackowski will be leading us across the very ground where one of the biggest turning points in the Confederate war effort happened, Chancellorsville. In this week’s symposium spotlight, Chris previews his battlefield tour focusing on the death of Stonewall Jackson. Don’t forget you can still purchase your tickets for […]
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