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Phill Greenwalt

Lead Editor at Emerging Revolutionary War Phill Greenwalt, full-time contributor to Emerging Civil War and co-founder of Emerging Revolutionary War (www.emergingrevolutionarywar.org) is currently a Supervisory National Park Ranger of the Shark Valley District of Interpretation and Visitor Services of Everglades National Park. Prior to his current position, Phill spent seven years a historian with the […]

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Not for Gain or Glory: The 1st Massachusetts Cavalry at Aldie

Anyone who resides or has visited Northern Virginia around Washington D.C. is familiar with Route 50. Of the many roads in the area, it is one of the most traveled and congested. In fact, many commuters go out of their way to avoid it both in the morning and in the afternoon. Traveling west on […]

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One of the Smallest–and Most Significant–Battles of the War

Once bodies started floating down the Potomac past Washington, it was tough for officials in the capital to overlook the battle at Ball’s Bluff. It was bad enough that the Union forces there had been soundly trounced. Of the 1,700 or so Federals engaged, more than a thousand ended up as casualties: 223 killed, 226 […]

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Daniel T. Davis

Daniel T. Davis graduated from Longwood University with a B.A. in Public History in 2005. He worked for five years as a historian at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and Appomattox Court House National Historic Site. He is the webmaster for Emerging Civil War. Dan currently resides in Fredericksburg, VA with his wife and […]

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