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ECW Weekender: Gettysburg Off The Beaten Path
Heading to Gettysburg this weekend or in the near future? We’ve pulled Kris White’s series Gettysburg Off The Path from the archives for the weekender feature. If you’re looking for some unique stories and places to explore at Gettysburg, this is for you! And if you’ve visited some of these places, leave a comment and […]
Read more...The Persistence of the Mardi Gras Spirit in Civil War New Orleans
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Neil P. Chatelain… Nothing embodies New Orleans more than Mardi Gras. Crowds throng parades, balls, and costumed parties, marking final celebrations before the Catholic season of Lent. Organizations host parades, customizing throws of beads, metallic doubloons, and plastic cups, with all ages joining the revelry. Mardi Gras occurs […]
Read more...Before the Battlefield: The Suffering of “Camp Maggotty Hollow”
We Civil War enthusiasts have a fascination with casualties. We rapture over which regiments were bled white on the battlefield and which regiments had the highest casualty figures. We pore over the last, heroic words uttered by officers as they expired. Those are the stories we tell. We don’t often hear stories of the many, […]
Read more...Layers of History at Oak Ridge
ECW welcomes guest author Jon Tracey When modern visitors come to Gettysburg National Military Park they often imagine the landscape as an untouched image of exactly how the battlefield appeared in July 1863. However, despite this ideal, the landscape has indeed seen many changes over the last 157 years, many of which would shock the […]
Read more...Happy Antietam Anniversary to Kevin Pawlak
On August 30, our very own Kevin Pawlak celebrated his 8-year anniversary as a Licensed Battlefield Guide (LBG) at Antietam National Battlefield. With the anniversary of the battle coming up later this month, we decided to talk with Kevin a little bit about his work at Antietam and what it is about America’s bloodiest day […]
Read more...The State of A.P. Hill’s Physical Remains
Most of Richmond’s monuments no longer stand where Confederate organizations placed them in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Protesters pulled down several, including Jefferson Davis and Williams Wickham, and the city expedited the removal of the remainder in their control. One under its authority remains, the monument to Ambrose Powell Hill at the […]
Read more...Unintentional Reconciliation – Memorializing the Cavalry Fight at Gettysburg
Though not far from the Civil War’s memorial epicenter, the cavalry battlefield at Gettysburg National Military Park sits relatively undisturbed by the crowds of tourists who come to see the site of the largest ever battle in the Western Hemisphere. Nearly every automobile, bicycle tire, and hiking boot that sets foot on the present-day battlefield […]
Read more...BookChat with Zachery Fry, author of A Republic in the Ranks
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historian Zachery Fry, assistant professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Dr. Frey is the author of A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac, a new release from the […]
Read more...Hellmira: My First Book
Although I grew up only 30 miles from Elmira, NY, the first time I heard the term “Hellmira” was when I was an undergraduate at SUNY Cortland. I was shocked to learn that Elmira was home to a prisoner of war camp during the Civil War. Fairly attuned to local history, I could not fathom […]
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