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Scenes from the Symposium

If you missed out on the second annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge last weekend, you’re in luck: C-SPAN was able to catch a lot of the program for broadcast. We’ll keep you updated on that as news becomes available. In the meantime, we thought we’d share with you a few of our […]

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ECW Weekender: Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge

This weekend marks the Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge. “The upcoming events are a great way for our readers and authors to come together, face-to-face,” commented ECW co-founder Chris Mackowski. Kristopher White, who is the co-coordinator of this years event, spoke to the timeliness of the theme.  “This years theme, ‘Civil […]

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ECW panel at St. Bonaventure University looks back at the 150th and the war

Some of ECW’s historians traveled to western New York last weekend for a Civil War event at St. Bonaventure University. Descendants of the 154th New York Infantry gathered on campus for their 30th annual reunion. The day also marked the official unveiling of the new “Mark Dunkelman-Mike Winey Collection,” a major archive that consists of the […]

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Reward for Service

Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Jim Taub Firing had been growing in intensity all along the line. The skirmishers of Governeur Warren’s V Corps were hotly engaged with Richard Ewell’s Confederates. The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia were to encounter each other again in this new […]

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Civil War Regiments Series—Open Submissions

We are happy to announce that we are accepting open submissions for the re-launch of the Civil War Regiments Series. Currently we are accepting submissions for the following issues: May 2nd at Chancellorsville May 3rd at Chancellorsville Please see our “Submission Guidelines and Criteria” page for more information.

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ECW Weekender: Barnes & Noble in Fredericksburg brings Civil War books to life

History books come to life at Barnes & Noble in Fredericksburg, Virginia, this Saturday. The bookstore, located in Central Park, Fredericksburg, is hosting a Civil War Living History Event on Saturday, July 25 from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. ECW’s Chris Mackowski and novelist Eileen Kerns Goodman will be on hand to sign copies of their […]

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On Writing Grant’s Last Battle

Part one of two In the fall of 2012, I had the opportunity to speak to the Rappahannock Valley Civil War Round Table in Fredericksburg, Virginia, about Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs. Grant’s work to write them was literally a race against death. Swindled by business partners and suffering from terminal throat cancer, he needed to […]

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Civil War Regiments Series

Savas Beatie LLC., in conjunction with Emerging Civil War, is excited to announce the re-launch of the highly regarded Civil War Regiments Series (CWRS). For those of you that are not familiar with original series, it ran from 1990-2000. Each issue included a variety of in-depth articles on a particular battle, campaign, military unit, etc…. The […]

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The Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium

There is still time left and seats available for the Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium. The symposium will take place from August 6-8 at Stevenson Ridge. Our speakers include Dana Shoaf (keynote), Eric Wittenberg, Chris Kolakowski, Phillip Greenwalt, Emmanuel Dabney, Dave Powell, Meg Thompson and Daniel T. Davis. This year’s theme is Civil War […]

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