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The Men of Cattaraugus County: Why They Fought
Last week, I mentioned a rather sick-to-my-stomach turn of events in Cattaraugus County, New York (where I teach). County legislators want to demolish the Civil War memorial in order to put in a parking lot. In my open letter to the legislators, I made mention of some of the men from Cattaraugus County who’d enlisted […]
Read more...Registration is Now Open for the Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium
Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge July 24 – 26, 2015 $75/person early-bird rate for those who register by April 30. $95/person regular rate. Attendees who came last year qualify for a special registration rate of $55 if they sign up by December 1. Join Civil War historians and preservationists for the Second […]
Read more...Paving Over Civil War Memory in the Sesquicentennial Season
A recent decision by legislators in Cattaraugus Country, New York, has paved the way for the destruction of the county’s Civil War Memorial and Historical Building. Men from Cattaraugus County served in a number of regiments during the war, but arguably the best known was the 154th New York Infantry, better known as the Hardtack Regiment. Amos […]
Read more...That Furious Struggle
That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy, May 1-4, 1863 by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White Savas Beatie, 2014 192 pp.; maps ISBN: 978-1-61121-219-8 Click here to order Also available in Audiobook! Click here to order “Richly illustrated, including scores of maps and photographs, this book is part battle history […]
Read more...A Letter from William Childs
The following post by guest author Dan Welch is one of a series of posts that will chronicle a Union surgeon’s letters leading up to the end of the Civil War, 150 years later. One of the best sets of soldier letters from the Civil War, only recently published and largely ignored by scholars and […]
Read more...Wesley Merritt and the Battle of Tom’s Brook
Following the Battle of Fisher’s Hill, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan’s Federal army pursued Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early’s Rebel forces up the Shenandoah Valley. With the Yankees dogging his march, Early left the Valley, while Sheridan encamped around the town of Harrisonburg, Virginia. There, Sheridan carried out the orders of his superiors and destroyed anything in the surrounding vicinity […]
Read more...From the Wilderness, the Blue Ridge in the Distance
Just beyond its cross-the-T intersection with Brock Road, Route 3 west begins a gentle mile-long descent toward Wilderness Run. There, it crosses the creek and then jumps the border between Spotsylvania and Orange counties before pushing upward and westward again. On its downward slope, the road passes out of a stand of trees, past a […]
Read more...Sketches from the Shenandoah: The Death of Robert Rodes
One of James Taylor’s sketches was that of the death of Robert Rodes at the Battle of Third Winchester on September 19, 1864. Rodes was a native of Virginia and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. He would fight at First Manassas as Colonel of the 5th Alabama Infantry. Over the course of the next […]
Read more...What It’s All About
I was in Gettysburg this past weekend to take an all-day tour of the Union lines from Culp’s Hill down to Little Round Top. In total, the group walked about ten miles over the course of the day, and I got to see a lot of little nooks and crannies on the battlefield that I […]
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