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The Gettysburg Campaign Begins
By the time the Gettysburg campaign began 154 years ago tomorrow, Robert E. Lee, vaunted commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, had been preparing his army for weeks. Lee had much to do. Following the army’s victory at Chancellorsville a month prior, Lee had traveled to Richmond, Virginia, capital of the Confederacy, to meet […]
Read more...Andersonville Offers Wonderful Writing Amidst Horrific Suffering
Every so often as we read, we writers run into a sentence that is so spot-on perfect that we say, “Damn, I wish I’d written that.” Such writer-envy is not uncommon, and at its heart, it springs from a deep appreciation for fine craft. I recently came across just such as sentence as I was […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Ryan Quint
“Determined to Stand and Fight” sounds like a gritty defense if ever there was one. Ryan Quint’s new book, Determined to Stand and Fight: Lew Wallace and the Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864, will be the focus of his talk at the Fourth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge this summer. “Approximately […]
Read more...Steve Davis
Stephen Davis, Emerging Civil War’s book review editor, has been lauded for his writing as a recipient of the Fletcher Pratt Award, the Richard Barksdale Harwell Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award. He is author of seven books on the Atlanta Campaign: Into Tennessee and Failure: John Bell Hood (20120); From Texas Brigadier to the […]
Read more...Recollections of Confederate Officers for The News
Today we are pleased to welcome back guest author, Joe Owen. This post concludes Sergeant Val Giles’ newspaper account originally of published in the Galveston Daily News on May 16, 1897. You may read the first part here.
Read more...Ryan Quint’s Fascination with Lesser-Known Battles Leads to Book on Monocacy
By ECW Correspondent Emily Losito A young Ryan T. Quint sat at his high school desk entranced in a Civil War documentary. His teacher had No Retreat from Destiny playing on the screen, a 2006 film about the battle of Monocacy. Quint didn’t know that this would spark his curiosity into the history behind smaller […]
Read more...Noyalas Takes the Helm at Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute
Emerging Civil War extends our congratulations to our friend Jonathan A. Noyalas. Already regarded as one of the finest historians in the Shenandoah Valley, and lauded for his excellence in teaching, he started this semester with a new post: the director of Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute (CWI). “Jonathan Noyalas Returns ‘Home’ To Lead Institute […]
Read more...“Unparalleled Insult and Wrong to the State”: Unionism and the Camp Jackson Affair of May 1861 (Part 1)
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome guest author Kristen M. Trout On May 13, 1861, the headline “Fight Between Rioters and the Home Guard – Several Persons Killed” adorned the covers of the nation’s most popular newspapers.[1] St. Louis citizens recalled, “[T]he large, usually lively city had a troubled, depressed appearance. The streets and […]
Read more...Chapter Two
CHAPTER TWO: “Unintended Consequences: Ball’s Bluff and the Rise of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War” by James Morgan III Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series Perched above a snarl in the Potomac River not terribly far […]
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