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How John Brown’s wife Mary ended up living in California and buried at Madronia Cemetery in Saratoga, Part II
What’s a wife to do after her husband is hanged for treason? In Part I of this post, I provided some background information about Mary Day Brown, the widowed wife of famed abolitionist John Brown, and what prompted her move to California with her surviving family members in September 1864. Here, I pick up the […]
Read more...Fallen Leaders
The Emerging Civil War 10th Anniversary Series: Fallen Leaders: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War Savas Beatie, 2023 ISBN: 978-1-61121-631-8 eISBN: 978-1-61121-632-5 Specs: 5 maps, 85 images, 336 pp. Click here to order *** About the Book Fallen Leaders: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging […]
Read more...The West Point Effect: Duty, Honor, and Second Chances
ECW welcomes back guest author Dan Walker “American” from the start: West Point’s “Eggnog Riot” From its start, the United States Military Academy at West Point was something of a paradox: It was, and needed to be, a place of order, discipline, and obedience; but America’s founding principles emphasized individuality and, where compliance was necessary, […]
Read more...Books I Read in 2023
Last year I shared a post listing the books that I read during 2022. I thought I would do the same this year. As I mentioned last year, my reasoning for doing this is to hopefully bring a previously unknown or overlooked book to someone’s attention, or just maybe, a listed title will strike enough […]
Read more...2023 Year in Review: Book Reviews
After accepting the book review editor role here at Emerging Civil War in March, I set a personal goal of increasing the number of book reviews that we offer our readers. After all, most of us history enthusiasts consume our passion subject largely through reading books, so what better way to make ECW readers aware […]
Read more...An Emerging Image of General Lee at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville
Stately. That’s the word I probably would have picked ten, maybe even three years ago, to describe Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The visuals that would have come to mind would have been Mort Kunstler paintings. There are times in primary sources that people saw Lee in that type of gentlemanly grandeur, and that image […]
Read more...Book Review: July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta
July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta. By Earl J. Hess. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2023. Hardcover, 432 pp. $44.95. Reviewed by Patrick Kelly-Fischer In July of 1864, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman closed in around Atlanta, beginning the process of cutting the several railroad lines that supplied the city. Sherman’s largely uncontested […]
Read more...Civil War Art: Two 10th Maine Infantry officers drew wartime art
By Brian Swartz and Nicholas Picerno The military service of George H. Nye and Henry Martin Binney overlapped in the 10th Maine Infantry Regiment. Their wartime art survived the passage of time and, in Binney’s case, capture by a Confederate soldier. According to the 1860 Lewiston (Maine) census, the 32-year-old Nye was a factory “overseer,” […]
Read more...The Historian’s Process: Researching for Wreaths Across America
Sarah Bierle and I are busily at work researching Winchester National Cemetery and burials after the battle of New Market for our fundraiser in support of Wreaths Across America. While doing so, I uncovered a story that we won’t be using in the program but is still worth sharing. I want to use this blog […]
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