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General A.P. Hill’s Remains Exhumed
On December 13, 2022, construction workers using shovels and other equipment dismantled three heavy stone blocks concealing General A.P. Hill’s remains, exposing them for the first time in over a century. The construction workers uncovered the bone fragments gathered by Hollywood Cemetery workers in 1892. The construction workers, mortician, and Hill’s descendant covered the general’s […]
Read more...A Tale of Two Tombstones
ECW welcomes guest author Kevin C. Donovan During a recent first-time visit to Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, I found a solitary grave situated in a far corner of the cemetery. The curious grave has two tombstones. One lies flat on the ground; the second stands upright. The flat stone, weather-beaten and clearly older of the two, […]
Read more...Things I have learned on the way to Atlanta – A Blunder at Resaca.
From my forthcoming Volume One of the Atlanta Campaign, to be published by Savas Beatie. On May 14, the Federals made repeated assaults against entrenched Confederates at Resaca. Among the troops caught up in these attacks were some old friends-regiments I have written of before, especially at Chickamauga. Here I thought I would share the […]
Read more...Civil War Medicine: Dr. Abner O. Shaw and the hard-on-surgeons 20th Maine
A replacement assistant surgeon for the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment, Dr. Abner Ormiel Shaw is best known for helping save the life of Joshua L. Chamberlain at Petersburg. There is much more to Shaw’s story, however, and had the 20th Maine kept wearing out its medical staff, Shaw might not have been at Petersburg at […]
Read more...Book Review: Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War’s Final Campaign in North Carolina
On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered what remained of the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. But Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee—a much larger rebel force—remained in the field in North Carolina. Johnston would not capitulate until April 26, when he met his nemesis William Tecumseh […]
Read more...Cadet Thomas G. Jefferson: Saving a Life on New Market Battlefield
Seventeen-year-old Thomas Garland Jefferson died of a wound suffered at the battle of New Market. Shot in the lungs on May 15, 1864, the Virginia Military Institute cadet lingered for hours, dying a couple of days later. Jefferson’s story has been told and retold many times in primary source letters, secondary source books, fiction stories, […]
Read more...Civil War Fallen Leaders: Major General Henry Halleck
Some of you might be bumfuzzled as to why General Halleck is included in this series. After all, he did not die in the war–but his reputation certainly did! I have done the same things many of you have done–seen Halleck as a sort of military joke. Then I read Walter Stahr’s Stanton and soon revised […]
Read more...FREE ECW Podcast: Ending The War
We’re excited to share another ECW Podcast recording for free, and this one includes visual resources attached to the post on Patreon! And guess what? We figured out how to link directly to the new post on Patreon for you. (Ah, technology…historians will win someday.) Enjoy this new look at Appomattox and Bennett’s Place.
Read more...William McLain: On the Subject of Surrendering
ECW welcomes guest author Dan Masters. By August 1864, William Mosby McLain of Co. B, 32nd Ohio Infantry had become an expert on the ins and outs of surrendering. Having taken part in two of the largest mass surrenders of the Civil War and narrowly escaping individual capture in battle, he experienced the “art” of […]
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