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The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Calamity in Carolina
The last major battle in the war for the western theater was fought at Bentonville on March 19-21, 1865, in North Carolina. During the three-day battle, one of the last charges of the war was conducted by the Confederate Army of Tennessee. While co-writing the book, Calamity in Carolina, The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, […]
Read more...Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg
Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address by Bradley M. Gottfried and Linda I. Gottfried Savas Beatie, 2021 ISBN:978-1-61121-559-5 Specs:180 images, 10 maps, 192 pp. Click here to order * * * About the Book Almost 8,000 dead dotted the fields of Gettysburg after the […]
Read more...ECW Welcomes Neil P. Chatelain
ECW is pleased to welcome a new member Neil P. Chatelain is a historian specializing in naval aspects of the US Civil War. He is an adjunct professor of history at Lone Star College-North Harris and an educator at Carl Wunsche Sr. High School in Spring, Texas, where he teaches high school and dual credit […]
Read more...The Paradox of the Lost Cause: Part II
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest contributor Adam Burke…[see Part I here] Slavery’s effects on Southern industry and manufacturing devastated the Confederacy’s military manpower capacity. The antebellum North enjoyed dramatic economic and population expansion. From 1840 to 1850, population growth in Northern free states was twenty percent larger than in southern slave states.[1] Immigration accounts […]
Read more...My ECW Story: Paige Gibbons Backus
For the first installment of our new My ECW Story series we have Paige Gibbons Backus, or as we like to call her at ECW, “Notorious PGB.” Just kidding…we don’t really call her that. As you’ll see, Paige wears several hats for us at ECW. She’s also in good company at her day job, working […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: John Pelham
In this week’s Emerging Civil War Symposium Spotlight Sarah Bierle previews her presentation on fallen leader John Pelham. Continue reading to see what Sarah will be examining during her presentation in August.
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: John Pope
Over the past several weeks we have been introducing you to the individuals and topics of this year’s Symposium theme, Fallen Leaders. Next up, Dan Welch previews his presentation on John Pope.
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Fitz John Porter
Welcome back to another installment of our 2021 Emerging Civil War Spotlight series. Each week we have introduced you to another preview of our outstanding presentations that will be shared at the Eighth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium August 6-8, 2021. Today we look at Kevin Pawlak’s topic in our Fallen Leaders theme, Fitz John […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Elmer Ellsworth
This week’s Symposium Spotlight previews Meg Groeling’s presentation on Elmer Ellsworth. Find out how he is regarded as a fallen leader at the Seventh Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium this August 6-8, 2021.
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