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Book Review Decisions at Kennesaw Mountain: The Eleven Critical Decisions that Defined the Battle
Decisions at Kennesaw Mountain: The Eleven Critical Decisions that Defined the Battle. By Larry Peterson, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2023, Paperback, 200 pp, $25.58. Reviewed by Robin Friedman Larry Peterson’s study of the June 27, 1864, battle of Kennesaw Mountain is part of the “Command Decisions of the American Civil War” series published by […]
Read more...BookChat: The Cassville Affairs by Robert Jenkins
The events at Cassville, Georgia, remain some of the least understood aspects of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. I recently had the opportunity to chat with historian Robert Jenkins about his new book, The Cassville Affairs: Johnston, Hood, and the Failed Confederate Strategy in the Atlanta Campaign (Mercer University Press, Macon, GA: 2024). What attracted you […]
Read more...Only the Bare Necessities
ECW welcomes back guest author Brian D. Kowell In early July 1864 Major General William T. Sherman followed General Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee to the banks of the Chattahoochee River northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Johnston’s army was entrenched in formidable defenses that one modern historian likened to the Maginot Line.[1] Sherman was determined […]
Read more...Civil War Surprises: A Wisconsin Corporal’s Fateful Dare
ECW welcomes guest author Melissa A. Winn In 2019, an endearing set of photographs I purchased at the Washington, D.C., Antique Photo & Postcard Show took me on a little bit of a research adventure with surprises along the way. As a native of Wisconsin, the photo set immediately caught my eye. “Asa Bailey,” a […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: The Battle of Missionary Ridge
Welcome back to our spotlight series, highlighting speakers and topics for our upcoming symposium. Over the coming weeks, we will continue to feature previews of our speaker’s presentations for the 2023 Emerging Civil War Symposium. This week we feature Chris Kolakowski’s topic. In many ways, the capture of Missionary Ridge on November 25, 1863, was […]
Read more...Discovering Family Connections to the Centralia Massacre
ECW welcomes guest author Tonya McQuade Centralia is a small Missouri town of 4,200 people that straddles Boone and Audrain County, about 130 miles northwest of St. Louis. It is also the town where my great-great grandparents, Francis “Frank” Marion Traughber and Mariah “Marnie” Agnes Bryson Traughber, lived the latter part of their lives. They […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction & Civil War Historic Sites
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. As many of you know, I had a life-threatening medical issue last March that led to me taking A LOT of very long walks. I try to take many of those walks near Civil War memorials and Reconstruction historic sites! I […]
Read more...Civil War Echoes: The Hitless Wonders
Until this year, the largest mismatch between the records of the teams in the World Series was the 1906 Series, which pitted the Chicago Cubs against the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox won the title despite batting only .198; ever after, the team was known as the Hitless Wonders. The White Sox also […]
Read more...Civil War Medicine: Andersonville’s Medical Horrors
Historians are still getting their arms around the number of men who served in the Federal and Confederate armies. For a long time it was over 3 million: 2.75 for the North, .6 for the South.1 Recent scholarship, however, has shaken all of this up. Drew Gilpin Faust, for one, has placed the two opposing […]
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