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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...The Saddest Christmas
On December 25, 1863, Sergeant Leonhard Schlumpf of the 45th New York sat in his camp below Lookout Mountain and recorded a single line in his diary: “The saddest Christmas.”[1] Those that have indulged in reading Civil War diaries know that they can sometimes be listless. Diary writers typically reported the weather and ordinary troop […]
Read more...Patrick Kelly-Fischer: Thankful For . . .
Civil War sites become harder and harder to come by as you travel west. By the time you get to the Trans-Mississippi, the few preserved locations are often several hours’ driving apart from each other, and pretty far removed from the amenities you might be used to near the battlefields along the I-95 corridor. That […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Commonwealth of Virginia Battlefield Protection Fund Grants Announced
In October, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR) awarded over 1.3 million dollars in grant funding through the Virginia Battlefield Protection Fund (VBPF) to 8 projects, protecting over 211 acres of battlefields across Virginia. The American Battlefield Trust (ABT) received 7 awards, preserving a total of 209 acres across multiple battlefields. ABT received 2 […]
Read more...“The Death of A Hero”: Lieutenant Wilhelm Roth at Gettysburg
On July 1, 1863, Lieutenant Wilhelm Roth must have had déjà vu. Nearly two months earlier, a Confederate flank attack swept his regiment and the entire Union Eleventh Corps from the field, forcing Roth and his men to flee. Now, he found himself in a similar position at Gettysburg—caught up in the Eleventh Corps retreat […]
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...BookChat: From the Wilderness to Appomattox by Edward Altemos
The 15th New York Heavy Artillery regiment saw its initial service in the Wilderness as part of Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign. Author Edward “Andy” Altemos has written a new history of the regiment, From the Wilderness to Appomattox: The Fifteenth New Your Heavy Artillery in the Civil War (Kent State, 2023). I recently had […]
Read more...Book Review: The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger
The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger. Edited by Terry L. Jones. El Dorado Hills: CA, Savas Beatie, 2023. Softcover, 180 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Michael C. Hardy Considering the number of Confederate staff officers who served various generals, there is a dearth of published accounts chronicling their […]
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