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The Pageantry of the Advance…Army of Tennessee at Bentonville
Starting yesterday, the 152nd Anniversary of the Battle of Bentonville began. Fought over three days in late March, 1865, the battle was the last-ditch effort by Gen. Joseph Johnston to stop Union General William T. Sherman’s army group as it moved through the Carolinas. I had the chance to work on a publication, as part […]
Read more...Wade Hampton and Judson Kilpatrick
Beginning in the spring of 1863, Wade Hampton and Judson Kilpatrick tangled on many a cavalry battlefield. By 1865, Hampton was a lieutenant general—THE highest-ranking cavalry officer in the history of the Confederacy—and Kilpatrick was Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s chief of cavalry for his Carolinas Campaign. These two old adversaries clashed on many a […]
Read more...Campaign Through the Carolinas: An Ohio Cavalryman’s Recollections in the National Tribune
Recently, while researching the events at Bennett Place, near Durham, North Carolina, where a series of truly remarkable events led to the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s army, as well as the remaining Confederate armies in the field, I stumbled across an article that appeared in the May 12, 1892 edition of the National […]
Read more...Lunsford Lindsay Lomax or Lindsay Lunsford Lomax?
Another installment from the “Tales from the Tombstone series.” On one of my last driving trips in Virginia before relocating, I passed through the town of Warrenton, Virginia. Rich in Civil War history, the Warrenton City Cemetery has a Confederate section, complete with a Virginia Civil War trails marker at the entrance. One of the […]
Read more...Book Review: “A Confederate Biography: The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah”
On October 19, 1864 as Confederate hopes in the Shenandoah Valley were dashed to pieces at Cedar Creek, across the Atlantic Ocean a quite different set of circumstances for the Confederacy were also taking place. These circumstances also involved a Shenandoah, but they came in the form of a ship, the Sea King, which […]
Read more...Year in Review 2015: ECW in Print
Beyond the content we’ve offered here on the blog, Emerging Civil War had a great year in print.
Read more...Year in Review 2015: The Sesquicentennial
2015 saw the closing act of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. For four years, Civil War buffs, students, and aficionados tromped battlefields, attended ceremonies, and commemorated sacrifices, and the closing months of the war provided some of the most memorable opportunities yet. To see the full array of ECW’s Sesquicentennial coverage, search the “Sesquicentennial” category on the drop-down […]
Read more...Forrest’s Farewell
Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest issued a farewell message to his cavalrymen, concentrated in Gainesville, Alabama, 150 years ago today: By an agreement made between Liet.-Gen. Taylor, commanding the Department of Alabama. Mississippi, and East Louisiana, and Major-Gen. Canby, commanding United States forces, the troops of this department have been surrendered. I do not think […]
Read more...240th Anniversary of the “Shot Heard Around the World”
As we remember the events around Bennett Place this weekend, keep in mind our friends near Boston are commemorating another important anniversary. Today marks the 240th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. To read more about the events taking place at Minuteman National Park, the Lexington Historical Society and the Concord Historical Society our […]
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