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Paying Respects to General Grant
On a visit with the wife to New York City over Thanksgiving, between Radio City Hall and the Rockettes, the Macy’s Day Parade, and the lights and glamour of Times Square, we snuck up to what is referred to as “Uptown.” There, resting on the banks of the Hudson River, sits a large granite mausoleum. […]
Read more...The Other Port Royal
When someone mentions Port Royal in the Civil War, most historians or scholars think of Port Royal, South Carolina and the Battle of Port Royal in November 1861. There is another Port Royal that was very important during the Civil War – Port Royal Virginia. Because of Port Royal’s strategic location on the Rappahannock River […]
Read more...A Soldier to the Last: The Exceptionally Sad Story of Private Jesse H. Hutchins
As I was condensing my large photo file of Civil War battlefields, I came across a picture I had taken at Appomattox Court House of the tombstone or Private Jesse H. Hutchins, of Company A, 5th Alabama Battalion. Hutchins joined the Confederate army five days after the bombardment of Fort Sumter and remained in service […]
Read more...Race and Reunion 10 Years Later: “Reconciliationist” Memory Trumps “Emancipationist” Memory
Part one in a series With a decade of perspective on which to draw, it’s clear that David Blight’s Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001) represented both a culmination of and shift within Civil War memory studies. Blight, primarily an intellectual historian, argues that reconciliation came at the cost racial inclusion […]
Read more...ECW Explores the Legacy of David Blight’s Race and Reunion
Prologue to a series Ten years ago, scholar David Blight published Race & Reunion, a game-changing book that challenged the way the Civil War has been remembered. Blight contended that competing memories warred with each other in the decades that followed Appomattox, and ultimately, the version of the war that survives today gives short shrift […]
Read more...The United States Colored Troops: Fighting for Freedom (part two)
Last week, I wrote about black soldiers who fought on both sides of the war, and I also offered a brief history of the United States Colored Troops. Now let me discuss a few of the battles where the USCT fought. Most famous is the Battle of Fort Wagner—depicted in the movie Glory—where the 54th […]
Read more...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 […]
Read more...The Road to Bennett Place
The road to Bennett Place started for me, as it did for William T. Sherman and Joe Johnston, in Manassas. Unlike the two army commanders, though, I’ve come here, to north-central North Carolina on the outskirts of Durham, with intent rather than through happenstance.
Read more...Some General Thoughts on Major General George A. Custer
It is strange how often the passage of time tends to seemingly obscure our view of certain events. Such as that took place in southeastern Montana in the early summer of 1876. June 25 of our Centennial Year was a Sunday. On that Sabbath afternoon, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led the 7th U.S. Cavalry […]
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