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Fredericksburg, My Favorite City in Virginia (part five)
part five of five At our first Trail to Freedom symposium, I met my future wife, Malanna Carey, who stayed in touch with me after the event. She wanted me to speak about the USCT at her church, St. George’s Episcopal Church. I had been an Episcopalian for more than 45 years in Washington, D.C., […]
Read more...Fredericksburg, My Favorite City in Virginia (part four)
part four of five During some of these visits to the city with my mother, I would stop at my Aunt Hattie’s house and she would always have food for us, until she got too old to cook the way she used to cook. So, we would go to Kentucky Fried Chicken, Popeye’s, or a […]
Read more...Fredericksburg, My Favorite City in Virginia (part three)
part three of five As a child in the D.C. public school system, I was in the honors track (there was an educational track system at that time). While in this program in Payne Elementary School and Eliot Junior High School, I visited national and state parks and battlefields, museums, and government buildings. I also […]
Read more...Fredericksburg, My Favorite City in Virginia (part two)
part two of five In Washington, D.C., I could go almost anywhere without too many problems with racism. However, whenever we were going south to Fredericksburg, my brothers and sisters and I were told to be on our best behavior. We were going through the South where we could be locked up, beaten up, or […]
Read more...Symposium Roundtable Panel
Our Friday evening tradition at the Emerging Civil War Symposium is to have our roundtable discussion panel. This years panel discussion will revolve around “Great Attacks of the Civil War,” the legacy of these attacks, Lee, Grant, Jackson other personalities, and more. We are proud to announce the panelist’s for the roundtable will include: James […]
Read more...A Sharpshooter’s Postscript to Gettysburg Part 3: Two Armies March to Very Different Drummers
Today we are pleased to welcome back Rob Wilson Part of a series Following the Battle of Gettysburg, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac traveled on roughly parallel routes south to Williamsport, Maryland. Not only did the two opposing forces journey on different roads— the Confederates on the western side […]
Read more...Stonewall and the Chindit II: Unfinished Adventure Stories
In my last post, I compared and contrasted Generals Stonewall Jackson and Orde Wingate. I then closed with a question: Why are these men objects of such interest and fascination? There are two main reasons, and they seem to say as much about us today as about these two men.
Read more...Stonewall and the Chindit I: On Character and Generalship
Contemporaries of British Major General Orde Charles Wingate, famed leader of the Chindit special forces in Burma and a noted guerrilla commander in Africa and Palestine before that, often searched for someone with which to compare him. They usually hit upon Chinese Gordon, Lawrence of Arabia, and . . . Stonewall Jackson. Wingate himself largely […]
Read more...“History Hides the Lies of Our Civil War”: The Forgotten Battle of Pickett’s Mill
Today we are pleased to welcome guest author Angela M. Zombek, Ph.D. Angela is an Assistant Professor of History at St. Petersburg College, in Clearwater, Florida. Sh erecieved her an M.A. from the University of Akron, and her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. She is surrently working on her first book, Penitentiaries, Punishment, and […]
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