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Symposium Takeaway: Edward Alexander
We’ve asked our ECW historians to reflect on last weekend’s symposium and share with us one or two takeaways they came away with. Next up: Edward Alexander. “The highlight of the symposium for me was being able to sit back and enjoy Kris’s Chancellorsville tour on Sunday. It’s a battle I’m pretty comfortable with, having […]
Read more...The Man Behind the Last Confederate Flag – Captain Arthur L. Rogers
With all the focus lately on the flags of the Confederacy, I thought I would share the story of the man who designed the last Confederate flag. I first came across Captain Arthur Rogers on one of my walks around the Middleburg Cemetery. Most local history minded people knew of Rogers’ involvement in the locally […]
Read more...Scenes from the Symposium
If you missed out on the second annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge last weekend, you’re in luck: C-SPAN was able to catch a lot of the program for broadcast. We’ll keep you updated on that as news becomes available. In the meantime, we thought we’d share with you a few of our […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge
This weekend marks the Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge. “The upcoming events are a great way for our readers and authors to come together, face-to-face,” commented ECW co-founder Chris Mackowski. Kristopher White, who is the co-coordinator of this years event, spoke to the timeliness of the theme. “This years theme, ‘Civil […]
Read more...ECW panel at St. Bonaventure University looks back at the 150th and the war
Some of ECW’s historians traveled to western New York last weekend for a Civil War event at St. Bonaventure University. Descendants of the 154th New York Infantry gathered on campus for their 30th annual reunion. The day also marked the official unveiling of the new “Mark Dunkelman-Mike Winey Collection,” a major archive that consists of the […]
Read more...Reward for Service
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Jim Taub Firing had been growing in intensity all along the line. The skirmishers of Governeur Warren’s V Corps were hotly engaged with Richard Ewell’s Confederates. The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia were to encounter each other again in this new […]
Read more...Civil War Regiments Series—Open Submissions
We are happy to announce that we are accepting open submissions for the re-launch of the Civil War Regiments Series. Currently we are accepting submissions for the following issues: May 2nd at Chancellorsville May 3rd at Chancellorsville Please see our “Submission Guidelines and Criteria” page for more information.
Read more...On Writing Grant’s Last Battle
Part one of two In the fall of 2012, I had the opportunity to speak to the Rappahannock Valley Civil War Round Table in Fredericksburg, Virginia, about Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs. Grant’s work to write them was literally a race against death. Swindled by business partners and suffering from terminal throat cancer, he needed to […]
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