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Book Review: On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. By Ronald C. White. New York: Random House, 2023. 445 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. Reviewed by Brian Swartz Resurrected from historical obscurity by Ken Burns and then the movie Gettysburg, Joshua L. Chamberlain seemingly dominates the Gettysburg battlefield (at least its southern heights). He […]
Read more...Upcoming Presentations: September–October 2023
The fall roundtable season is about to kick off, and ECW speakers are hitting the road in force. Here’s a look at the upcoming presentations in September and October. You can check out our full speakers’ schedule here. To request a speaker, check out our ECW speakers bureau. September: 5: Max Longley, “North Carolina’s Civil […]
Read more...Confederate Irish Soldier Who Fought at Gettysburg Sculpts the Irish Brigade Monument at Gettysburg
ECW welcomes guest author John B. Haltigan It is a remarkable irony of history that the most visited monument at Gettysburg that the monument to the New York regiments of the Irish Brigade was sculpted by a Confederate soldier who fought at Gettysburg. The monument, dedicated in 1888 and located on Sickles Avenue near where […]
Read more...“Old Pete” – A Confederate Apostle or Apostate?
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Evan Portman… In one of the final chapters of Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels, a dispirited General Robert E. Lee and a brooding General James Longstreet share a poignant moment after the bloody repulse of Pickett’s Charge. In a rare moment of vulnerability, Lee remarks to Longstreet, “Peter, […]
Read more...Three Tigers and a Cheer: Remembering the Megster
A friend from the university sent me a music video the other day. “Do you know the band Alpha Rev?” he asked. “Thought of you when I was spinning this one.” The song, “Lexington,” came from the band’s 2013 album Bloom. “Originally, I got the idea for this song when I found a letter from […]
Read more...July 2023 ECW Newsletter Now Available
The July ECW Newsletter went out earlier today. Did you get your copy? Inside: The trail from Appomattox Courthouse leads all the way to Grant Cottage—and beyond! The sold-out Symposium prepares to examine the Great Task before us. Baby news! (Who doesn’t love baby news?) Teachers from across the country descend on Baltimore for the […]
Read more...Upcoming Presentations: July–August 2023
July: 02: Kevin Pawlak, Jon-Erik Gilot, “John Brown’s Raid,” Gettysburg Heritage Gettysburg 20: Chris Mackowski, “Grant’s Last Battle,” American Civil War Museum at Appomattox, Appomattox Court House, VA 23: Chris Mackowski, Grant Cottage Remembrance Day Commemoration, Wilton, NY 27: Chris Mackowski, “The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi,” Chambersburg Civil War Seminars (via Zoom) August: 02: Jon-Erik […]
Read more...Lieutenant James W. Dixon: The Baby Before the Breakthrough
I recently found some unique biographical information on a Sixth Corps staff officer in the form of his mother’s journal from the first year of his life. With a twenty-month-old of my own at home right now, the entries certainly resonated more than they would have before… even if this was not quite what I […]
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