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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 […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: American Battlefield Trust Targets Three Civil War Battlefields for Preservation
The American Battlefield Trust (ABT) is targeting 52 acres on three battlefields for preservation. The battlefields are Chancellorsville in Virginia, Gilgal Church in Georgia, and Corinth in Mississippi. The first tract consists of three-acres on part of the Flank Attack part of the battlefield. This is the far end of the Union Army […]
Read more...A Civil War Hero’s Tennessee Ties
ECW welcomes back guest author Gregory L. Wade The career of General Douglas McArthur is well known, especially for those of the World War II generation. But few know of the amazing Civil War connections this iconic family has with Tennessee towns like Franklin, Chattanooga, and Murfreesboro. In late November 1863, Douglas’s father, Lt. Arthur […]
Read more...What If…George Thomas Had Marched Through Snake Creek Gap?
On May 7, 1864, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman set his three armies marching. At the time, they were stretched on a long front, from Red Clay on the Georgia-Tennessee line to Lee’s and Gordon’s Mills, more than a dozen miles to the southwest. Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield’s Army of the Ohio held the […]
Read more...Book Review: The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals
Reviewed by Stephen Davis The first thing that catches your eye about this impressively comprehensive volume is the number 426. Like most of you, I grew up on Ezra J. Warner’s number of 425 Confederate generals. But Mitcham alertly reminds us that at Richmond in the final days of the Confederacy, Admiral Raphael Semmes, his […]
Read more...Unpublished: What’s Not in the O.R.s?
As Walt Whitman famously said, “The real war will never get in the books.” When I think if “unpublished sources,” I start wondering broadly about what never made it into print. As this series has demonstrated, there’s a ton of unpublished gold available to researchers who take the time to dig for it. But as […]
Read more...Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War
A good reference book bears several elements, beginning with its title: The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War thus telegraphs its purpose. Another is heft: this one has 675 pages. Third is a big raft of contributors, and recognizable ones at that. Three dozen scholars are represented here, including Wilson Greene, Kenneth Noe, Michael […]
Read more...“A Piece of Bone,” Bishop Polk, and the National Tribune
Editor’s note: Stephen Davis’ forthcoming book, The National Tribune Remembers the Atlanta Campaign, will be published next year by Savas Beatie. The National Tribune, a weekly newspaper published in Washington from 1877 to 1943, was arguably the most comprehensive repository of Union soldiers’ reminiscences after the Civil War. It solicited and published long series of […]
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