The Bonds of War: Edward Murray’s Pension Application
by Diana Dretske * * * Copy of Edward Murray’s “Application for Increase of Invalid Pension.” The application dated March 5, 1867, gives an account of Murray’s disability due to wounds suffered at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863. On the form, Murray noted that he had been “shot between the […]
Read more...God and Generals: A Conversation with Jeff Shaara
by Chris Mackowski The opening of Gods and Generals had all the hype and excitement for my daughter Steph that the Super Bowl creates. This was The Big Event. Stonewall Jackson on screen, larger than life—as if he weren’t that big already. So on February 21, 2003, we bustle off to the movie theatre in […]
Read more...Driving Dixie Down
By Patrick Vecchio My most in-depth lesson in American Civil War history began on July 28, 1973, even though I didn’t realize it. That’s the day I heard a band called The Band perform along with the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band at the Summer Jam in Watkins Glen, NY. I was there […]
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by Constance Hall Jones Portrait photograph believed to be of Thomas Norcliff Jones (c. 1800 – Sept 3, 1864) This unidentified image is believed to be a late 19th century copy of an earlier-era photograph of Thomas Norcliffe Jones. The subject’s manner of dress suggests to some that the individual in the image is female, […]
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from Chris Mackowski, ECW editor-in-chief: The genesis of this project began with some research I did as part of my doctoral work on Civil War-related literature. Writer John Vernon—whose novel The Last Canyon I especially recommend—was kind enough to guide my studies and give me wide latitude with the texts I chose to explore. That […]
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CHAPTER ONE: Wartime Burials Photos Colonel John R. Brooke led the 1862 burial details that interred the Union dead at Marye’s Heights. * * * This map, drawn by George C. Anderson of the Fifty-Third Pennsylvania, shows the location of two long burial trenches created by Brooke’s burial on the plain in front of […]
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· CHAPTER ONE: “Confidence Renewed: Surviving Bull Run and the Birth of the Army of the Potomac” by Robert Orrison Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series On April 1, 1862, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner offered a resolution […]
Read more...Turning Points of the American Civil War
Turning Pointsof the American Civil WarChris Mackowski andKristopher D. White, editorsForeword by Thomas A. Desjardin “Engaging the Civil War” SeriesSouthern Illinois University Press, 2017Click here for ordering information Contributors to this collection, public historians with experience at Civil War battle sites, examine key shifts in the Civil War and the context surrounding them to show […]
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