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ECW Week in Review Oct. 23-39
The last full week of October has come to a close and we’ve had a busy week in the lead up to Halloween. Our latest series, Battlefield Markers and Monuments, continues along with C-SPAN’s coverage of the Fourth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium. Don’t forget, Early Bird rates are still available for next year’s Fifth Annual Emerging […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review Oct. 15-22
October moves on at Emerging Civil War. This week saw the kickoff of a new series on the blog. You may click on the links below to read each post.
Read more...Chapter Four
CHAPTER FOUR: “’The Heavyest Blow Yet Given the Confederacy’: The Emancipation Proclamation Changes the Civil War” by Kevin Pawlak Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series Students will sometimes ask me, “If you could time travel and witness one […]
Read more...Dave Powell: Thankful For . . .
While I have a great deal to be thankful for, there is one organization I want to single out this year: the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park, a unit of the National Park Service. Over the years, I have come to know many of the staff—particularly Park Historian Jim Ogden and Interpretive Ranger Lee White—and value […]
Read more...The Unmarked Memorial at the Mouth of Mobile Bay
My ECW colleague Dwight Hughes once said there are no memorials at sea to those Civil War sailors who died in combat. “There are no monuments on the ocean, no crossroads in the great waters, no places echoing in heart and mind,” he wrote. Dwight’s comment came as part of a post that appeared as […]
Read more...Remembering the Battle of Fredericksburg
So often, I’m so caught up in “what’s next” that I’m not as good as I should be about appreciating the “right now.” Ironically, the “right now” often ties back to a historical moment in the past, so it’s more apt to be “back then.” This week marks the 160th anniversary of the battle of […]
Read more...What If…John Pelham Survived Kelly’s Ford?
He probably would’ve died somewhere else. The end. Okay, but really, let’s talk about this. I don’t mean to come across flippantly about the subject of the young artillery officer’s life and death. A couple weeks ago, a colleague and I were poking fun at the age-old question, “What if Stonewall was at Gettysburg?” and […]
Read more...Memorial Day: Remembering “The Private Soldier”
This Memorial Day is an excellent time to reflect on the common soldiers and make sure they are not forgotten. Some combat fallen soldiers or veterans have their names or initials inscribed in stone. Others are only represented by etched or inked numbers. Who are the fallen whose sacrifices are remembered by battlefield markers or […]
Read more...The Contested Origins of Gettysburg’s Virginia Monument
The Virginia Monument, one of the earliest and largest Confederate monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield, has a dramatic history. Ever since it was in the earliest phases of proposal, the monument has been a strong symbolic figure and elicited strong emotions. But what, exactly, does it symbolize? From its inception to its dedication to more […]
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