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Saving History Saturday: Current American Battlefield Trust Projects
The American Battlefield Trust (ABT) is currently fundraising for a handful of preservation projects across multiple battlefields and states. At Bentonville, North Carolina, ABT and its partners are trying to preserve two tracts totaling 71 acres that were part of the fighting on the first day of the battle of Bentonville. This is where the […]
Read more...Facts and Figures of the Battle of Fort Stevens
ECW is pleased to welcome back guest author Bryan Cheeseboro. Bryan, who works as a ranger at Fort Stevens, part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington in Rock Creek Park, offers some tales and trivia about the action that took place there in July 1864. Item #1: The battle of Fort Stevens was fought […]
Read more...Book Review: Union General Daniel Butterfield: A Civil War Biography
Union General Daniel Butterfield: A Civil War Biography. By James S. Pula. El Dorado Hills, California: Savas-Beatie, 2024. Hardcover, 265 pp. $32.95. Reviewed by Donald C. Pfanz Daniel Butterfield was a remarkable character. Born into affluence, he received a fine education in New York before obtaining employment in his father’s American Express Company, where he […]
Read more...Saco Library Releases Previously Unpublished Photo of John Haley, 17th Maine
This post is appearing simultaneously in Emerging Civil War and Maine at War. In the photo published with this post, we are seeing John Haley as we’ve never seen him before — as an old man. Hailing from Biddeford in Maine’s York County, Haley joined the 17th Maine Infantry Regiment on August 6, 1862 and […]
Read more...Lee’s Best Battle According to Lee’s Old War Horse
In 1893, Washington Post correspondent Leslie J. Perry had an opportunity to do something that modern historians would kill to have: a sitdown interview with a Civil War soldier. In particular, this interview was with one of the Confederacy’s top soldiers, James Longstreet. The conversation varied on many war-related topics. Perry could not hold back from […]
Read more...Truth and Courage: The Seventeenth U.S. Infantry Regiment in the Civil War
ECW welcomes guest author Kyle R. Hallowell My first assignment as a young Army officer was to the 4th Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, garrisoned at Fort Bliss, Texas. This assignment gave me a tangible connection to the Civil War, since the 17th served in twelve of the war’s major campaigns in the Eastern Theater.[1] Throughout […]
Read more...“Battle of Jackson” Day
Being neck-deep among the eastern battlefields of May—and this year, in particular, being the 160th anniversary of the Overland Campaign—I have to be especially deliberate to take time out and cast my gaze to the west. My adopted battle of the Western Theater, the battle of Jackson, Mississippi, took place on this date in 1863. […]
Read more...Book Review: Yankee Commandos: How William P. Sanders Led a Cavalry Squadron Deep into Confederate Territory
Yankee Commandos: How William P. Sanders Led a Cavalry Squadron Deep into Confederate Territory. By Stuart D. Brandes. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2023. Hardcover, 318 pp. $50.00. Reviewed by Gregory A. Mertz During the spring of 1863, President Abraham Lincoln planned for all four of his largest Federal armies in the field to […]
Read more...April 2024 Maine at War blog posts
In April 2024 my Maine at War blog examined why a state’s adjutant general equated nine-month recruits with cash and reported on the 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment participating in Stoneman’s Raid. We also met a young Mainer “discovered” by Sarah Kay Bierle! April 3, 2024: Maine adjutant general mistakes recruits for dollar bills Possibly ticked […]
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