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Dying Far From Home: Pvt. Edward Williams, Co. C, 6th USCI
ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott, director of education and interpretation at Pamplin Historical Park During the Civil War, soldiers sometimes attempted to describe the nature of combat to friends and loved ones unfamiliar with warfare. In the years since the conflict, scholars have also tried to give us an idea. Soldiers and […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale
When I began to write the story of the battle of Chickamauga in what became Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale, it presented a unique challenge as it was one that I had told a thousand times, either on battlefield tours or in presentations for Civil War Roundtables, etc. I decided the route I would take […]
Read more...Fallen, but Not Forgotten: Pvt. Emanuel Patterson, Co. D, 6th United States Colored Infantry
ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott, director of education and interpretation at Pamplin Historical Park On October 10, 1858, Emanuel Patterson stood beside Elizabeth Perrill in the home of William Fox, justice of the peace for Aleppo Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Emanuel and Elizabeth were there to be joined in marriage. At the […]
Read more...Sharpshooters at Chancellorsville
ECW welcome guest author T. J. Bradley…. “Sharpshooter” tends to be a word that grabs a Civil War enthusiast’s attention. Thoughts are conjured of green coats and leather gaiters, Whitworth rifles, and the ability to hit elephants at a given distance. Perhaps we even think of the movie Gettysburg and a Confederate soldier with a […]
Read more...Fallen Leaders: Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, Part II
Read Part I here. Following the fateful Planters’ House Hotel meeting in St. Louis on June 11, 1861, the newly-promoted Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon took action immediately to oust the Missouri State Guard and secessionists from the state. At that meeting, negotiations to maintain peace between the two sides over the state failed and sent […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: National Museum of the United States Army
Today’s ECW Weekender highlights a new museum that most of our readers have yet to see. Originally set to open in June 2020, COVID-19 delayed the National Museum of the United States Army’s plan. It opened on November 11 that year, only to close to the public as the pandemic worsened. Now, however, it is […]
Read more...Book Review: Soldier Parrott
Soldier Parrott: The Incredible Story of America’s First Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient By J. North Conway Lyons Press, 2021 $28.95 hardcover Reviewed by David T. Dixon The daring theft of a locomotive on the Western and Atlantic Railroad in northern Georgia by a party Union soldiers led by spy James J. Andrews is one […]
Read more...Dying Far From Home: Pvt. Thomas Young, Co. A, 5th USCI
ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott African Americans in mid-nineteenth century America experienced the road to freedom differently. Some found the course short and straight. They claimed personal liberty as a right of birth by place or circumstance. However, being a free person of color—regardless of residence in a free state or slave […]
Read more...Hispanic Service in the Civil War
ECW welcomes guest author Carlos Mutis My membership with Adams County Historical Society (ACHS) has created opportunities for historical research and professional development. A recent opportunity has given me the focus of researching the role of Hispanics at the Battle of Gettysburg. This is part of a broader topic of Hispanics and our contributions to […]
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