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Stars and Bearss
While searching for some Vicksburg-related images at the Naval History and Heritage Command website today, I came across this photo from salvage operations for the USS Cairo. The Cairo hit a mine in the Yazoo River on December 12, 1862, and went down in 12 minutes in 36 feet of water with no casualties. In […]
Read more...A State Divided: A New Book Featuring 50 Previously-Unpublished Civil War Letters Provides Insights on Why Many Believe the Civil War Started in Missouri
On February 1, 2022, I received an email that changed the trajectory of my life in significant ways. Someone named Jeremy reached out to me on Ancestry.com saying he had a box of old letters and other items belonging to my ancestors. Many of the letters were addressed to my great great grandparents, Bailis […]
Read more...The Death of Ira Petty, Company F, 13th New York Heavy Artillery
ECW welcomes back guest author Jeff T. Giambrone In February 1865, John Alcooke, superintendent of the United States Sanitary Commission’s Soldiers’ Lodge in Portsmouth, Virginia, related to a friend a particularly sad episode that he had witnessed: About ten days ago a poor woman, who had never been ten miles away from her home before, […]
Read more...2023 Year in Review: Symposium
At the 2023 Emerging Civil War Symposium, we ventured into “1863: The Great Task Before Us” and looked at historical happenings in the 160th anniversary year. Timothy B. Smith (of the West!) gave the keynote presentation, focusing on the Siege of Vicksburg. Other speakers through the weekend included Cecily Nelson Zander, Neil P. Chatelain, Sarah […]
Read more...How Civil War Cartoonist Thomas Nast Created Our Image of Santa Claus and Turned Santa into a Full-Fledged Union Supporter
Santa Claus may not be the image that first comes to mind when people think of the Civil War, but the image of Santa Claus as many people picture him today dates back to the Civil War when a man famous for his Civil War depictions first created that image: Thomas Nast. In the above […]
Read more...A View from Above the Clouds
The battle of Lookout Mountain occurred 160 years ago today, helping to eventually drive back Confederate forces out of Tennessee following their victory at Chickamauga. Major General Joseph Hooker commanded three division of United States soldiers in the attack, one from the XII Corps sent west from the Army of the Potomac in Virginia, one […]
Read more...Shrouded Veterans – Researching & Remembering
For Veterans’ Day, Sarah Kay Bierle and Frank Jastrzembski recorded a conversation about the work of researching, identifying, and marking the graves of 19th Century U.S. Soldiers. Frank’s mission, Shrouded Veterans, has marked hundreds of graves in the United States and internationally. Here’s a link to the video: If you’d prefer to listen to the […]
Read more...Civil War Art: Marine Artist of the Civil War—Julian O. Davidson
“American marine painting, as a specialized art form practiced by a rather select group of American painters, reached its golden age in the last half of the 19th century,” wrote curator Lynn S. Beman in her catalog for a 1986 exhibition of work by Julian Oliver Davidson (1853-1894).[1] Davidson was among the even more select […]
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