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Podcast Additional Resources: “The Forgotten Fall, Part 2”

Did you catch last week’s podcast? Part 2 focusing on Autumn 1863, it delved into the history at Mine Run and discussed the “great battle never fought.” Today, we’ve rounded-up some sources from our archives to add to the conversation. Also – don’t miss Chris Mackowski’s presentation on the campaign at the 2019 ECW Symposium […]

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Podcast Additional Resources: “Decisions at Chickamauga”

Dave Powell has written volumes – literally – about the Battle of Chickamauga. Here are a few resources related to last week’s ECW Podcast episode that you won’t want to miss. Did you have a chance to hear the battle discussion on Patreon? Award-winning ECW Historian Dave Powell joined Chris Mackowski and Dan Welch to discussion […]

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2018 Year In Review: Working Together To Teach History

At ECW, we’re proud of the networking and opportunities to work closely with preservation and education groups in the history community. Whether it’s giving preservation efforts a spotlight, volunteering, or participating at special events, Emerging Civil War enjoys partnering to share and teach about America’s decisive conflict. In 2018 we regularly shared campaigns and victories […]

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2018 Year In Review: ECW Symposium

Of course one of the biggest highlights of our year was the fifth annual symposium at Stevenson Ridge in August! We had a great turn-out for the event and enjoyed welcoming many of you to the event. It was a privilege to present our awards for 2018 and host several of the recipients for the […]

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Podcast Additional Resources: “Levi Bowen & The 7th Pennsylvania Reserves”

Did you hear last week’s discussion with Chris Mackowski and Dan Davis searching for Civil War ancestors, Fredericksburg, Andersonville, and the 7th Pennsylvania Reserves? This week we’ve collected a few blog posts on the subjects, and we hope you’ll enjoy the extra resources… We even dug into American Battlefield Trust’s extensive video archives and found the original […]

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The Evening Smoke and Armchair Generalling After Mine Run

On the evening of December 2, the Army of the Potomac settled back into its camps around Brandy Station and Culpeper, exactly where they’d departed from just a week earlier. The baffling—and frigid—events of the campaign weighed fresh on their minds. “How well we sat and talked over the events of the last few days […]

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Week In Review: November 26 – December 2, 2018

This week was a little slower on the blog but busy in the field. Did you catch American Battlefield Trust’s Facebook Live and see who was helping with the special event? We hope you’ll enjoy the links to these articles and happenings in our week in review…

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Revisiting “Battlefield Travesty” in Advance of a Clean-Up

A few months ago, I shared the unfortunate story of a Civil War site on the edge of the Chancellorsville battlefield that had fallen victim to vandalism and neglect. I’m pleased to report that local students, in partnership with local preservationists, are stepping up to keep it clean! Anderson Ridge sits on the far eastern […]

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Week In Review: August 6-12, 2018

We hope all symposium attendees have returned safely home (or are enjoying an extended trip to visit other historical sites!). Here at Emerging Civil War, we’ve spent the week wrapping up the aftermath of the event…but that doesn’t mean it’s been a slow week on the blog. You’ll find a couple sets of two-part articles, […]

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