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Moving Memory: Virginia Military Institute’s Stonewall Jackson Statue
The boy who became the sculptor stood guard over the dead general’s casket. We don’t know if he ever saw him alive, though it is possible their paths may have crossed on a spring day in Richmond when the Civil War was just starting. However, the stories of Stonewall Jackson and all that he represented […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday is coming up next week, and we wanted to pass along word about a couple giving opportunities from some of ECW’s partners, the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust, the Civil War Roundtable Congress, and the American Battlefield Trust. (And while ECW isn’t doing a formal fund-raising “ask” this year, we are a 501(c)3 and […]
Read more...Maine at War: October 2020
Here’s what our friend Brian Swartz was up to in October at his blog, Maine at War: October 7, 2020: D-Day on the Rappahannock Fifth Maine Infantry soldiers haul their own landing craft to the Rappahannock River shore before participating in the first planned cross-river amphibious assault in American history.
Read more...Civil War Echoes: The Keystone Division
The Pennsylvania National Guard’s 28th Infantry Division is the oldest division in the United States Army. It’s formation was the result of Civil War veterans, and (like many National Guard units) it is an echo of the Civil War.
Read more...BookChat with Adam Petty, Author of The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historian Adam Petty, The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory (LSU Press, 2019). I reviewed the booked for the spring 2020 edition of Louisiana State University Press’s Civil War Book Review (read the review here). Chris Mackowski: What drew you […]
Read more...Joe and the Illini: The Unclear Origins of Two “Fighting” Nicknames
Every few years my alma mater, the University of Illinois, renews the discussion of renaming its sports teams and creating a new mascot. In 2007 the school retired Chief Illiniwek and the trademarked Chief logo in an attempt to distance itself from connections with Native American imagery. Several weeks ago, the student senate recommended retaining […]
Read more...A Short Diary from Elmira
ECW welcomes guest author Ray Stoll The 98th Regiment New York National Guard is known only to those specializing in the Elmira prisoner camp. It was a 100-day unit organized for prison guard duty. An 18-year old farm boy named Franklin Churchill mustered into that unit’s Company G in August 1864. His surviving diary covers […]
Read more...Maine at War: September 2020
Here’s what our friend Brian Swartz was up to in September at his blog, Maine at War: September 2, 2020: A hero emerges at Chancellorsville, part 1 Charles Clark leaves school in rural Piscataquis County to join the 6th Maine Infantry Regiment in spring 1861. Two years later, Confederates trap the regiment on the bluffs […]
Read more...A Stonewall Jackson “What If” I’d Never Heard Before
During a Q&A with the Franklin Civil War Roundtable last month, someone asked me a question about Stonewall Jackson that no one had ever asked me before. My presentation had been on “The Last days of Stonewall Jackson,” and someone had tossed me the underhand softball, “What if Jackson hadn’t been shot?” (I love that […]
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