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Great Moments in Southern History
I sent Chris Mackowski a note on some stationery I got years ago–see below. As you’ll be able to tell, there’s a story behind it. It was sent to me by my good friend Ben Maryniak of Buffalo. Ben and I were writing book reviews for The Courier and became epistolary companions. He wrote me a letter […]
Read more...Grant Invades Tennessee Receives Inaugural Emerging Civil War Book Award
Emerging Civil War has announced the recipient of its inaugural book award: Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson by Timothy B. Smith, Ph.D., published by the University Press of Kansas. “Tim Smith continues to do ground-breaking work illuminating the Western Tennessee campaigns,” said ECW’s Chris Kolakowski, author of books on […]
Read more...Dave Roth, editor of Blue & Gray Magazine, Receives Emerging Civil War’s Award for Service in Civil War Public History
Emerging Civil War has chosen Dave Roth, editor of Blue & Gray Magazine, as the recipient of this year’s Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History. Emerging Civil War’s Award for Service in Civil War Public History recognizes the work of an individual or organization that has made a significant impact […]
Read more...New Research on Lincoln, Elmer Ellsworth, and the First Federal Militias
Within a week of taking the presidential oath, Mr. Lincoln wrote Secretary of War Simon Cameron regarding his young friend, Elmer Ellsworth: You will favor me by issuing an order detailing Lieut. Ephraim E Ellsworth, of the First Dragoons, for special duty as Adjutant and Inspector General of Militia for the United States, and in […]
Read more...All the Fighting They Want
“Let us give these southern fellows all the fighting they want and when they are tired we can tell them we are just warming to the work.” — Sherman to Grant, August 7, 1864 All the Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign from Peachtree Creek to the City’s Surrender, July 18-September 2, 1864 Savas Beatie, […]
Read more...Paying My Respects to George Gordon Meade
The paths and driveways through Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery remind me of an ant farm I had when I was a kid. The ways twist and scurry across the landscape unpredictably in three dimensions. The map makes it all seem fairly straightforward, but it doesn’t differentiate between the roads and the sidewalks, which throws me […]
Read more...Warrington G. Roberts: “Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men Are Created Equal”
Interred in grave 3287 at the Fredericksburg National Cemetery lays Warrington G. Roberts. This past Memorial Day I had the privilege of telling Roberts’s story during the annual Luminary program atop Marye’s Heights. Telling his story and digging even further into the records revealed a man who lived—and died—by the creed espoused by Abraham Lincoln […]
Read more...Chris Mackowski: Revisiting the North Anna River
So, I’m speaking at the Fourth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge in August, where we’re focusing on “Great Defenses of the Civil War,” and my topic is the Confederate defense along the North Anna River. I’m supposed to come up with a blog post that somehow relates to my talk as a […]
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