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Commanding The Regiment: Colonel William S. Lincoln, 34th Massachusetts – Part 2
This blog post traces the life and command experiences Lieutenant Colonel Williams S. Lincoln of the 34th Massachusetts Infantry. For a biography of Colonel George D. Wells with the 34th Massachusetts, please refer to Part 1. While George D. Wells held the place of beloved colonel of the 34th Massachusetts, William S. Lincoln operated in […]
Read more...Commanding The Regiment: Colonel Richard Coulter, 11th Pennsylvania
Born in Greensburg in 1827, just east of Pittsburgh PA, Richard Coulter attended Jefferson College in the town of Washington, PA. Following that he worked in the law office of a relative. He became a lawyer, was active in the local militia, and married Emmy Welty. The couple had six children. Coulter was also a […]
Read more...Commanding the Regiment: William Sperry’s Creative Cannoneering
During the final assault on the Confederate entrenchments at Petersburg, April 2, 1865, the 6th Vermont Infantry’s acting commander found himself among an artillery battery abandoned by its crew. The major cleverly devised a way to wield the cannons against the defenders as they rallied to retake the position. Having worked his way up from […]
Read more...Book Review: Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865, Revised and Expanded Edition
Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865, Revised and Expanded Edition. Edited by J. Gregory Acken. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2023. 312 pp, hardcover, $55. Reviewed by Tim Talbott Few primary sources better inform us about the lives of Civil War soldiers than do their letters. […]
Read more...The Other Grand Reviews
It is well known that Union armies held Grand Reviews in Washington, D.C. at the end of the war, but did you know that they did so in Richmond as well? Richmond had been in Union hands since April 3, 1865 when Federal troops occupied the city. Following the surrenders at Appomattox and Bennet Place […]
Read more...“I’ll Take That Chance and Live, Too”: Pvt. Judson Spofford, 10th Vermont Infantry
During the summer of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln pleaded for 300,000 more volunteers to help put down the rebellion. Hundreds of thousands of men answered the call. Thousands of boys joined, too. One such youth, Judson Spofford, enlisted on July 22, 1862, in his hometown of Salem, Vermont. Although his regimental enlistment records claimed he […]
Read more...2022 Emerging Civil War Book Reviews
January Radical Relationships February Southern Strategies Voices of the Army of the Potomac The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War Port Hudson: The Most Significant Battlefield Photographs of the Civil War Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Department March Day by Day through the Civil War in Georgia Civil War Witnesses and […]
Read more...Book Review: Decisions of the Maryland Campaign
ECW welcomes guest author John Michael Priest. Over the past thirty years historians have increasingly begun to write about the Maryland Campaign of 1862. The studies range from publishing primary accounts of the campaign to overview books for the general public, to analytical studies of the generals’ tactics and plans of operation. Michael S. Lang’s […]
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