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Book Review: The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman By Brian Holden Reid Oxford University Press, 2020 $34.95 Reviewed by Derek D. Maxfield There is no shortage of biographies of William Tecumseh Sherman. Although Civil War studies are seemingly out of favor, works about the eccentric red head continue to flow from the presses. […]
Read more...Week In Review: June 20-27, 2021
We hope you’ve had a good summer week. It’s been busy as usual on the blog with lots of historical writing and thoughts… Sunday, June 20: In the evening, Sarah Kay Bierle posted excerpts from Henry L. Abbott’s letters to his “governor” for Father’s Day. Monday, June 21: Question of the Week asked about your […]
Read more...Idealistic Uncle and Cynical Nephew: Lucius Bierce, Ambrose Bierce, and the Civil War – Part 1
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Max Longley… Part One: 1859 – Lucius’ prewar influence on Ambrose? Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was a journalist, satirist and writer of short stories about war and the supernatural who acquired literary fame over several decades and then mysteriously disappeared. Ambrose was famous for his harsh wit, which he […]
Read more...Recruiting The Regiment: The 154th New York—A Regiment That Wasn’t Meant To Be
ECW welcomes Mark H. Dunkelman I’ve spent the past sixty years tracing a Civil War regiment that wasn’t in the plans. Had certain circumstances not occurred, the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry would not have been raised—and the lives of its 1,065 members (not to mention my life a century-plus later) would have been drastically […]
Read more...“At Liberty Gap . . . Every Man is a Hero”: The Story of an Ohio Soldier
While I have spent many years collecting Civil War artifacts and photographs, at some point I made a conscious decision to limit the scope of my collection to only those items from a specific geographic area, namely southeastern Ohio and the northern panhandle of West Virginia. I have managed to collect dozens of photographs, letters, […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: Tramping with Mr. Resaca
The sixty-three-year-old Union general ascended the parapet and gazed through his field glasses at the scene of a bloody stalemate. A Confederate sharpshooter a few hundred yards to the east took careful upward aim and fired. The ball pierced the target’s right arm, glanced off the shoulder bone, and exited near the spine, knocking the […]
Read more...A Doctor, His Enslaved Man, and North Georgia’s Union Circle (part one)
Dr. Berry Gideon, his wife, and seven daughters watched helplessly as flames devoured their home next to the Western and Atlantic Railroad, between the towns of Calhoun and Resaca, on June 18, 1864. Union soldiers allowed the family fifteen minutes to remove their most precious belongings before setting the dwelling ablaze. Locals had suggested that […]
Read more...Who Tended to the Dying Arthur MacArthur?
ECW welcomes guest author Charlie Knight In his last few moments of life, Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur recounted the Atlanta Campaign in front of dozens of veterans of his former regiment, the 24th Wisconsin Infantry. Just as he began to describe the action at Peachtree Creek fought on July 20, 1864, he was stricken by […]
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