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In Memory of Harry Pfanz
The Civil War community lost a giant late last month. Harry Pfanz, former chief historian for Gettysburg National Military Park, passed away on January 27 after a long illness. He was 93. (Read his obituary in The Gettysburg Times.) Few of us at ECW knew Harry personally. He had retired from the public eye well […]
Read more...The Battle of Portland Harbor, Part Two
Part Two of a series on the Battle of Portland Harbor, which occurred on June 27, 1863. Part One can be read here. Charles W. Read’s 4,000 mile journey from the coast of Brazil culminated as he sailed the Archer, a captured fishing schooner, into Portland, Maine’s harbor after nightfall of June 26, 1863. The […]
Read more...Stonewall’s Birthday
I hear the sound of furniture sliding across the living room carpet, but it stops in time for my daughter to hear my footsteps coming down the hallway from the kitchen. “Don’t come in yet!” Steph pleads. “What are you doing?” I ask from around the corner. “Just a second,” she says. “I’m setting something […]
Read more...DATE CHANGE: Emerging Civil War Symposium 2015
Due to some unforeseen circumstances, Emerging Civil War has had to change the date of our 2015 symposium. Please mark your calendar: The Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge will be held August 7-9, 2015. Our keynote speaker has confirmed, and we’ve selected our line-up of speakers, so look for announcements on […]
Read more...Question of the Week—January 12, 2015
This week’s question of the week comes from ECW reader Dwight Hughes: I have a question for you experts: Everyone talks about Jackson’s brilliance at Chancellorsville. What about Second Manassas? The flanking movement at Chancellorsville was excellently conceived and executed, but wasn’t it after all reactive, ad hoc, almost a “hail Mary”? Hooker had taken […]
Read more...Searching for Frank Krug (part two)
Today, we’re pleased to offer the second of a two-part guest post by Tom Schobert. Tom is the president of the Buffalo (NY) Civil War Roundtable. A retired healthcare administrator, Tom is life-long student of the Civil War and has been a reenactor for more than 25 years. Since learning the story of my great-great-grand uncle, Pvt. Frank Krug, I have […]
Read more...“I feel that in parting from them I am severing the strongest ties of my military life”: Winfield Scott Hancock leaves the Second Corps
On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 1864, the Army of the Potomac lost one of its finest fighting commanders. Winfield Scott Hancock, tenacious leader of the Second Corps, was relieved by Andrew Humphreys and sent to Washington, D.C. to lead in the formation of the First Corps, Veteran Reserve. He was leaving because his health could […]
Read more...The Wind-Down of Photo Season
The view coming down Sterrett’s Gap catches me unaware. The panorama opens unexpectedly on my right: The Cumberland Valley laid out in a patchwork of browns and tans and auburns. In the distance, I can see Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and, it seems, all the way to forever—or at least the Mason Dixon line. I have come […]
Read more...The Western Federal
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Jim Taub. As Joseph Polley, a sergeant of the 4th Texas Infantry, moved through the dense Georgia underbrush, the sounds and smells of battle overwhelmed his senses. The cracking of musketry and thunder of the artillery could be heard to their front. As the Texans began passing […]
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