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Lee the “Schoolmaster” and A. P. Hill
ECW welcomes guest author Dan Walker It was mid-May in 1864, two weeks into General Robert E. Lee’s efforts to repel Union General Grant’s Overland Campaign, and Lee’s Third Corps commander, Lieutenant General A. P. Hill was unhappy. He was sick, too, though well enough to follow his troops in an ambulance. He was unhappy […]
Read more...The Power of Preservation
In the 1920’s Douglas Southall Freeman and some of his friends began riding the Richmond battlefields, taking with them aging veterans from the Confederate Soldiers’ Home in Richmond. In the hope of preserving some of these fields, they raised money and began the process of saving small parcels at Gaines’s Mill, Cold Harbor, Beaver Dam […]
Read more...What If…The Conclusion
It’s been a couple of weeks, and we’re wrapping up the “What If” Blog Series. Thanks for playing along (or tolerating) our explorations! If you loved the “what ifs,” rest assured this is not the last time ECW authors will ask these types of questions. If you’d like to view the entire series, here’s the […]
Read more...Reflections from the Mule Shoe
I had the privilege of speaking at the 2022 Emerging Civil War Symposium. It was a great experience to share my research with the larger community of both historians and the group’s supporters and fans. I made the trek from Texas to Virginia on Thursday, reaching the Fredericksburg area the afternoon before the symposium began. […]
Read more...Week In Review: July 11-17, 2022
From North Anna to symposium news to arm chair generaling and Monocacy battlefield (and more!), there’s plenty of new content this week on the ECW blog. Here’s the Week in Review: Monday, July 11: Question of the Week focused on summer reading. Chris Mackowski revisited North Anna, a fiction book, and a what if.
Read more...“Battlefield Season”
“Battlefield season,” as I refer to early May, is always an especially busy time of year for me. Of the five battlefields I live among, the battles of Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania all took place in early and mid-May, with North Anna (another of my favorites, and nearby) taking place immediately thereafter.[1] In the midst […]
Read more...What if Longstreet hadn’t been wounded in the Wilderness?
On May 7, 1864, Robert E. Lee made one of his most critical decisions of the entire Overland Campaign: who to promote to take the place of his wounded Old Warhorse, James Longstreet. Longstreet was caught in the middle of a friendly fire incident early on the afternoon of May 6 (see yesterday’s post for […]
Read more...“The Conflict’s Most Intriguing Possibilities”
I knew our new What If book would be popular, but Savas Beatie World Headquarters tells me orders have been pouring in online this past week. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many exclamation points from Ted Savas in a seven-day period: !!!!!!!!!!!! Last week, we offered an open-the-box preview of The Great “What […]
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