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The Supposed Enigma of Isidore Francois Turgis
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was not just a hit in America, but also in France. After its publication slavery was considered a blight on history, at least in France’s liberal circles. Among those affected was Isidore Francois Turgis, a Catholic chaplain in Napoleon III’s army. He was age fifty-five and had seen the […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Artillery Shell Discovered at Kennesaw Mountain
While metal detecting is not permitted in National Parks, sometimes professional archaeologists are summoned to do investigative work and surveys for public safety. That’s what led to the discovery of an unexploded Civil War bomb within the boundaries of Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park earlier this month. The team had been surveying the route for […]
Read more...Book Review: Day By Day through the Civil War in Georgia
Day By Day through the Civil War in Georgia By Michael K. Shaffer Mercer University Press 2022 $37 hardcover Reviewed by Stephen Davis For years—decades, really—the go-to source on Georgia in the war has been T. Conn Bryan’s Confederate Georgia (1953). Now comes Michael Shaffer’s Day By Day Through the Civil War in Georgia to […]
Read more...Missed Opportunity? The Confederates’ Lost Chance at Chattanooga
ECW welcomes back guest author Patrick Kelly-Fischer In September 1863, the Confederates executed one of the largest troop maneuvers of the entire war, setting themselves up to potentially destroy a major Union field army. They shifted Lieutenant General James Longstreet and approximately 15,000 troops of his First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia by […]
Read more...The Priest, the Colonel, and the Cowboy’s Cousin
ECW welcomes back guest author Evan Portman In the autumn of 1849, a bookish young Bavarian stepped down from a train in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, gazing at his new home: the newly established Saint Vincent Archabbey. The young man, 19-year-old Emmeran M. Bliemel, was so impressed by his teacher Rev. Boniface Wimmer at the Benedictine Gymnasium […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: A Long and Bloody Task and All the Fighting They Want
The Romans had a phrase: Brevitas aurea est, “shortness is golden.” (Well, they really didn’t, but amo Latinam, so I make these things up as I go along.) As an Atlanta Campaign guy, I join countless others in esteeming Albert Castel’s Decision in the West (1992) as the go-to source on the subject. Al was […]
Read more...A Grammar Lesson from a Veteran
I was scouring the digitized pages of The National Tribune, a popular newspaper aimed at US veterans where they could submit stories of their experiences, and came across an interesting debate about the grammatical status of “United States.” Nowadays, we say “the United States is” without thinking about it. However, in the early 1800s it […]
Read more...Good Words from a Johnny
I’m working on a book for Savas Beatie tentatively titled “The National Tribune Remembers the Atlanta Campaign.” In the National Tribune of Jan. 27, 1898, I came came across this sad tale of a Union veteran. The “Good Words from a Johnny” are presumably the expressions of sympathy sent in by the Confederate cavalryman.
Read more...George Disney Atop Rocky Face Ridge
“I don’t think I can do this.” My voice, tense with anxiety, barely reached my husband who had already set out on the trail, leaving me in the church parking lot at the bottom of the mountain. I looked back to the bulletin board, skimming over the sign regarding the George Disney Trail. Phrases like […]
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