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The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: That Furious Struggle
Like The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson and Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness, That Furious Struggle: The Battle of Chancellorsville had a previous life as part of a book series Kris White and I worked on for Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. And, as with those other books, once the publisher of […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: A Season of Slaughter
Here is the crazy little secret about A Season of Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: we produced that book in a month. Soup to nuts. We wrote it, edited it, designed it, and proofed it in a month. It went like this:
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson
There’s an old saying about how the last shall be first. That’s kind of the story of how the Emerging Civil War Series (ECWS) got started. The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson wasn’t the first book in the ECWS, but it was the book that kicked all of this off. Flash all the way back […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Simply Murder
We had an “in,” so that was good. Ted Savas had already agreed to publish our full-length book Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, so we had a connection. Kris White picked up the phone and called. We’d been writing short books for Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and […]
Read more...Week In Review: October 25-31, 2021
Monday, October 25: Question of the Week followed the theme of “First Experience Under Fire.” Under Fire: Jon Tracey wrote about Mark Twain’s brief experience with the militia. Tuesday, October 26: Kevin Pawlak shared about the Army of the Potomac’s third campaign. Under Fire: Chris Mackowski posted about John Haley and the 17th Maine. Patrick […]
Read more...Walking in the Footsteps of The Red Badge of Courage
Earlier this month, Sarah Kay Bierle wrote a post in our “Under Fire” series about Henry Fleming from Stephen Crane’s monumental Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage. (Read Sarah’s post here.) That inspired Jon Tracey to write a follow-up piece earlier this week in which he talked about the story’s universality. (Read Jon’s […]
Read more...A Scene of “Horrible Barbarity”
In the spirit of the Halloween season, I present a curiously morbid story entitled “Horrible Barbarity” that circulated through a few newspapers in the spring of 1864. The article, published first by the Houston Daily Telegraph around April 30, 1864, was replicated in the Cincinnati Daily Commercial (May 4, 1864), The Liberator of Boston (May […]
Read more...What Happened to Henry Fleming? Exploring Details in The Red Badge of Courage
Sarah’s post about Henry Fleming in the “Under Fire” series inspired me to revisit my own thoughts on Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, and how he wrote it ambiguously enough to fit many experiences. He never quite explained just what battle Henry Fleming fought in, working to make it universal (though Sarah’s article […]
Read more...Week In Review: October 10-17, 2021
The “Under Fire” blog series continued, books were reviewed, Jackson and Gettysburg(?), and much more on the ECW blog this week… Sunday, October 10: In the evening, Chris Mackowski shared about Gordon Rhea’s new book Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Monday, October 11: Question of the Week highlighted […]
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