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ECW Week in Review September 25-October 1
September has come to a close and October is upon us. The leaves are beginning to change color and ECW remains busy. You may click on the links below to read each post.
Read more...ECW Week in Review Sept. 17-23
Things remain busy here at Emerging Civil War as we close in on October. This past week, our authors continued two of our ongoing series and we had a major announcement regarding next year’s Symposium. You may click on the links below to read each post.
Read more...ECW Week in Review Sept. 3-10
The first full week of September saw a lot of activity at Emerging Civil War. We had posts in two of our ongoing series along with a number of other pieces. You may read each post by clicking the link below.
Read more...Voices of the Maryland Campaign: September 3, 1862
Ninety days ago, George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac sat within earshot of Richmond’s tolling church bells. Now, by early September, Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia camped within a day’s march of Washington City’s defenses. Lee and his Confederates stood at the peak of an incredible military turnaround, fresh off defeating two […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review 20-27 August
This past week was primarily devoted to a continuation of a number of our series, including the discussion on Confederate monuments, as well as the beginning of a new one. We also posted a conversation with the recipient of the Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History. You may click on […]
Read more...The Civil War in Fairfax County
I mentioned on Thursday that I was going to be speaking that evening to the Bull Run Civil War Roundtable in Centreville, Virginia. I have a quick follow-up that I think will be of interest to hardcore Civil War buffs. On Thursday, as a gift, the Bull Run Civil War Roundtable presented to me a two-volume […]
Read more...Ryan Quint
A Maine native, Ryan Quint is a Park Guide at the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park. He formerly worked at the Richmond National Battlefield Park, Colonial Williamsburg, and the George Washington Foundation. Ryan has a history degree from the University of Mary Washington. * * * Ryan is also a member of the Emerging […]
Read more...Ball’s Bluff and the Fall of Charles Stone
Second in a series When Union forces tumbled into the Potomac River on the evening of October 21, 1861, following their rout at Ball’s Bluff, the disaster was just beginning. The ripples from that plunge would be felt all the way in Washington, dozens of miles downriver. One could argue, in fact, that those ripples would […]
Read more...Ball’s Bluff: A Conversation with Author James Morgan About His New Book, A Little Short of Boats
First in a series James Morgan didn’t set out to write a book. “It was accidental,” he says, “like the battle. I just ended up writing a book.” We’re walking across a small clearing, some three hundred yards or so of open ground that dips into a ravine and then rises back up before dropping […]
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