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Stacking Arms: Sherman Botches the Bennett Farm Surrender
The late April 1865 surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s Confederate forces to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman at the Bennett Farm is far less known than the earlier surrender at Appomattox Court House. Yet at the time, Sherman’s conduct while compelling the surrender of far more troops than Ulysses S. Grant took from Robert […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Clash at Canal Street: The 1874 Battle of Liberty Place
Welcome back to our spotlight series, highlighting speakers and topics for our upcoming symposium. Over the coming weeks, we will continue previewing of our speaker’s presentations for the 2025 Emerging Civil War Symposium. This week we feature Joe Ricci’s topic. Clash at Canal Street: The 1874 Battle of Liberty Place After the American Civil […]
Read more...Stacking Arms “What Ifs?” – Episode VI: “What If” the Army of Northern Virginia Had Opted for Guerrilla Warfare?
“Two thirds of us, I think would get away. We would scatter like rabbits & partridges in the woods, & they could not scatter so to catch us.” Confederate Brig. Gen. Edward Porter Alexander to Gen. Robert E. Lee, April 9, 1865, urging dispersal of the Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) for continued resistance.[1] Lee […]
Read more...Stacking Arms “What Ifs?” – Episode V: “What If” Robert E. Lee Had Died at Appomattox Court House?
“How easily I could be rid of this, and be at rest! I have only to ride along the line and all will be over!” Robert E. Lee, April 9, 1865, Appomattox Court House.[1] General Lee’s lament arose after receipt of a message from his subordinate Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon, who reported that it […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: A Civil War within a Civil War: the New York City Draft Riots of 1863
Welcome back to our spotlight series, highlighting speakers and topics for our upcoming symposium. Over the coming weeks, we will continue previewing of our speaker’s presentations for the 2025 Emerging Civil War Symposium. This week we feature Evan Portman’s topic. A Civil War within a Civil War: the New York City Draft Riots of 1863 […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Handshakes, Gambling, Gunpowder, and Augusta: How George W. Rains and Jefferson Davis Changed the Course of the American Civil War
Welcome back to our spotlight series, highlighting speakers and topics for our upcoming symposium. Over the coming weeks, we will continue previewing of our speaker’s presentations for the 2025 Emerging Civil War Symposium. This week we feature our keynote talk by Ted Savas: Handshakes, Gambling, Gunpowder, and Augusta: How George W. Rains and Jefferson Davis […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Shiloh Comes to New Orleans
Welcome back to our spotlight series, highlighting speakers and topics for our upcoming symposium. Over the coming weeks, we will continue previewing of our speaker’s presentations for the 2025 Emerging Civil War Symposium. This week we feature Sean Michael Chick’s topic. Shiloh Comes to New Orleans Albert Sidney Johnston’s death at Shiloh is one of […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Keynote Speaker Dr. Harold Holzer
We are pleased for the opportunity to host Dr. Harold Holzer as the keynote speaker for the 11th Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge. This year’s Symposium, August 1-3, 2025, will focus on “The Cities of War.” Dr. Holzer will speak on “Abraham Lincoln: The View from Washington.” When Abraham Lincoln arrived—secretly—in Washington, […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: How Many Union Soldiers Occupied the South During Reconstruction?
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Last year, I was talking about researching the Reconstruction Era at a Civil War Roundtable, and a man there said that he loves the Civil War, but he doesn’t read anything about Reconstruction. I told him that was similar to […]
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