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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...Voices of the Maryland Campaign: September 2, 1862
Remnants of the crushed Army of Virginia, together with pieces of the Army of the Potomac, came reeling into the defenses of Washington following the stinging defeat they just received on the plains of Manassas on August 30. Fresh off another defeat, the morale of the soldiers sank low. Many of them left in Washington […]
Read more...Voices of the Maryland Campaign: Introduction
In my years of researching and writing about the Maryland Campaign, something about the campaign has always proved an enigma. As anyone interested in the Civil War knows, there are a lot of sources to sift through–just look at any of the compiled bibliography books that are out there. But it seems that every single time I […]
Read more...Campaign Season: Antietam
As the hints of autumn arrive in the air and mid-September approaches, it’s the anniversary season for the Antietam Campaign. We’ve got some new material coming over the weekend and early next week, but for this morning may we offer a solid series from the ECW Archives? In 2017, Kevin Pawlak wrote a series that […]
Read more...Podcast Additional Resources: “Talking About Primary Sources”
We’ve collected some additional resources related to the ECW Podcast episode that released last week. Did you have a chance to hear it on Patreon? Chris Mackowski and Kristopher White talked about some of their favorite primary sources and how important documents are used in research. Since we’ve just spent a whole blog series talking about […]
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...Miracle at the Three-Mile Marker, Now a Lake at Stones River
ECW welcomes back guest author Daniel A. Masters. About a mile northwest of the visitors’ center at Stones River National Battlefield along the Old Nashville Pike rests a simple marker denoting the location of Gen. William S. Rosecrans’ headquarters. What most visitors do not realize is that just behind the fence at this location is […]
Read more...Getting Punched by a Minie Ball
ECW welcomes back guest author Samuel Flowers. One important thing I learned from the work of historian Peter Carmichael is that we can learn a great deal about the Civil War from the letters of illiterate and semi-literate soldiers. Unlike soldiers who write with a formal education, these men spoke with a bluntness devoid of […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: A Look Back at “1864: The War in the Balance”
Our Tenth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge is in the bag, and we’re already looking forward to next year! Our 11th Annual Symposium will be August 1–3, 2025, at Stevenson Ridge in Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia. Our theme will be “The Cities of War,” with keynote speaker Harold Holzer and a Sunday […]
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