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CW & Pop Culture: The North & South Miniseries
John Jakes’s North and South Books I and II became one of my favorite Civil War miniseries. Although they are a romantic adaptation of historical fiction of the Civil War following two West Point cadets, it is a very good representation of the causes of the war. The two main characters—Orry Main from South Carolina […]
Read more...Notes on Artillery Organization
I’ve started reading John C. Tidball’s The Artillery Service in the War of the Rebellion which is a published collection of essays this Union officer wrote in the post-war era. Tidball offers a good perspective since he was there, on the ground with the artillery, but wrote these articles with hindsight and additional perspective toward […]
Read more...Artillery: Henry J. Hunt, Chief of Artillery for the Army of the Potomac
From Little Round Top, Henry J. Hunt – Chief of Artillery for the Army of the Potomac – observed the opening shots of the Confederate artillery barrage near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1863. From his vantage point gained during an inspection of the Union lines, this artillery officer peered out into the distance, spotting […]
Read more...Ann Hill Carter Lee
Even generals have mums. Robert E. Lee’s mother is perhaps the most well-known. Her name was Ann Hill Carter Lee. Unfortunately, if you remember anything about her, you remember she was a “great invalid,” as described in 19th-century literature. This is an unfortunate and outdated term. She was always valid whether healthy or sick. In […]
Read more...America’s Greatest Chess Player Was a Confederate?
Few names shine as brightly as Paul Morphy’s in the annals of chess history. Known during his time as the greatest living player of the game, Morphy stepped out upon the world stage by winning the American Chess Congress in 1857. Yet, amidst his meteoric rise to prominence in the mid-19th century, a lesser-known chapter […]
Read more...It Didn’t End with Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox: A Look at the Surrenders of Gen. Joseph Johnston and Gen. Kirby Smith on April 26 and May 26, 1865 – Part II
In Part I of this post, I shared an excerpt from my book A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Callaway Hale and Benjamin Petree of Andrew County, Missouri, describing the surrender of Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston to Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman on April 26, 1865. Here, I discuss another significant surrender […]
Read more...The Establishment of Arizona Territory: A Confederate Territory in the Southwest
ECW welcomes back guest author Katy Berman Amidst whoops and cheers, Lt. Col. John Baylor and his Texas regiment marched into the southwestern village of Mesilla on July 25, 1861. A week later, there was general rejoicing as Baylor established a provisional Confederate government in the Arizona Territory with Mesilla as its capital. An abundance […]
Read more...Book Review: Lincoln: Illuminated and Remembered
Lincoln: Illuminated and Remembered. By William C. Harris. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023. Paperback, 248 pp., $29.95. Reviewed by Jonathan Noyalas Each time I am in the nation’s capital and visit the Ford’s Theatre Society Center for Education and Leadership I am mesmerized by the massive tower of Lincoln books, thirty-four feet in height. […]
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