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Railroads – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad: Confederate Target, Crucial Union Lifeline
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (“B&O”) was chartered in 1828 as one of the first commercial railroads in the world. Construction began that year, connecting Annapolis, Maryland to Wheeling in the far northwestern corner of antebellum Virginia. The B&O eventually expanded into thirteen different states. By 1861, the B&O maintained 188 miles of track in […]
Read more...Week In Review: August 12-18, 2018
This week we featured some summer reading book reviews, interesting personal stories from the Civil War, an interview with author Don Pfanz, and reports from the Civil War Round Table Congress. And did you see the Symposium News and Speaker Bureau updates? There’s always lots of history to explore at Emerging Civil War…
Read more...Week In Review: July 9-15, 2018
Hope you are all staying cool! Several of the Emerging Civil War members have been leading tours and lecturing this week. Monday, July 9: Question of the Week offered a chance to share what you’re reading this summer. Guest author Kristen M. Pawlak shared about General John S. Bowen and the surrender at Vicksburg. Ryan […]
Read more...March-April Presentations
March: 1st: Chris Mackowski, “The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson,” Civil War Round Table of Cobb County (GA) 8th: Ryan Quint, Battle of Monocacy, Montgomery Maryland Civil War Round Table 9th: Sarah Kay Bierle, “Dark Shores: Civil War Blockade Runners,” Interfaith Senior Community, Oceanside, CA
Read more...Civil War Books For Your Wish List
Books are essential to Civil War studies. Many of us became interested in history because we read a well-written book. Last weekend I shared a 2017 Gift List for Civil War enthusiasts and one of the list’s bragging points was that it didn’t have any books. I don’t know about you, but my brothers tease […]
Read more...More C-SPAN3 Coverage of the Fourth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium
Over the last several weeks, our friends at CSPAN have aired and re-aired presentations from this past year’s Fourth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium. The coverage will continue this weekend. Ryan Quint’s presentation on Lew Wallace’s defense at Monocacy will re-air on Saturday at 7:25 p.m. Eastern. Our panel discussion, “Civil War Defenses” will also […]
Read more...Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 2: Mysterious Death and Elaborate Funeral
This is part two of a three-part series. Part one can be found here. Major William Ellis returned to the Army of the Potomac near Petersburg in mid-June. He knowingly cut short his recovery from a gruesome wound received from a Rebel who fired a ramrod at the 49th New York Infantry’s second-in-command at the […]
Read more...Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 1: Delayed Mortal Wounding at Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle
“This has been a Sabbath to me,” confessed Surgeon George T. Stevens to his wife, Harriet, in a letter written Thursday evening, August 4, 1864. “No day since the campaign commenced last May has seemed like Sabbath before, but this has been more than usually a day of rest and a day of solemnity with […]
Read more...Voices of the Maryland Campaign: September 12, 1862
George B. McClellan’s short marches stood in stark contrast to his plans for September 12. Armed with information of the Confederate abandonment of Frederick, he ordered his troops to converge closer to the hub city of central Maryland. Jesse Reno’s Ninth Corps in the lead sparred across the Monocacy River with Wade Hampton’s cavalry and […]
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