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Horseshoes Win the Civil War
ECW welcomes back guest author Brian Kowell “For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost. For want of a rider, the battle was lost. For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost. All for the […]
Read more...Book Review: Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction. By Fergus M. Bordewich. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Press, 2023. Hardcover, 464 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Rich Condon Perhaps one of the most misunderstood, misinterpreted, and violent periods in American history are the years following the Civil War, known as Reconstruction, in which […]
Read more...“The Long Shadow of Lincoln” as portrayed in Norman Rockwell’s Painting and Carl Sandburg’s Poem in 1945
Tucked away in California’s Inland Empire stands the only memorial to Abraham Lincoln west of the Mississippi River. Built in 1932 in the city of Redlands, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is a hidden gem that is definitely worth a visit. Sarah Kay Bierle wrote an excellent post in 2016 providing some background on how this […]
Read more...Stones River Aftermath
Fought December 31, 1862 to January 2, 1863, the battle of Stones River was one of the largest and costliest of the war. Casualties over those three days were 13,500 Union and 10,500 Confederate. Like any major engagement, it has numerous events and segments which can be studied in detail. Yet I have always thought […]
Read more...2023 Year in Review: #2
We’ll nearly all the way to #1 in our countdown of ECW’s Top Ten of 2023! But first, coming in a #2 is the third part of a three-part extravaganza. All three parts actually fell among the most-read posts published this year, but because they reinforced each other, we’re counting them all together. The grand […]
Read more...Book Review: Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hood’s “Slight Demonstration” at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign
Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hood’s “Slight Demonstration” at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign. By Noel Carpenter. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2023 (reprint). Softcover, 206 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Lee White Have you ever heard of the Battle of Decatur, Alabama? Most readers probably have not, or if they […]
Read more...From the Ohio River to Stones River: Pennsylvanians at Stones River, Part I
Few eastern units served with the western Union armies in places like Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. In the Army of the Cumberland, which fought at Stones River, Tennessee, most of the troops were from Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa, along with smaller numbers from Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. There were even troops raised in Kentucky […]
Read more...ECW Podcast: John Schofield
On this date in 1864, Maj. Gen. John Schofield marched two Union corps past Gen. John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee at Spring Hill, Tennessee. Schofield’s escape set up the battle of Franklin the following day, Nov. 30, 1864. After severely bloodying Hood’s army there, Schofield slipped away and joined Maj. Gen. George Thomas’s forces […]
Read more...Reflections On Leader Trajectories
Thanks to several recent notable deaths, combined with some biographical writing projects I’ve been working on, I’ve been thinking a lot of late about life trajectories of leaders. Some seem to burn brightly but briefly, while others become enduring great leaders. Some have their careers ended prematurely by death. Others are held back by some […]
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