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A Sentence About the Vicksburg Campaign as Winding as the Mississippi Delta
I’m getting ready to head to Vicksburg, Mississippi, this week to join Kris White and the American Battlefield Trust for a series of Facebook LIVE events beginning on Tuesday. (more details to come soon!) While I’ve been studying up with great books by Steve Ballard, Timothy B. Smith, Terry Winchel, Steven Woodworth and Charles Grear, […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review April 30-May 6
May has opened at ECW and what a week it has been! With our friends at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and the Civil War Trust, we participated in the Trust’s Facebook Live events for the 155th Anniversary of the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2 and May 3. Spots remain available for […]
Read more...Mission Accomplished: A Follow-Up to “Battlefield Travesty”
“Are you going out to pick up garbage?” my wife asked from the comfort of our bed as I finished tying my shoes. “Yes,” I said, trying to stay quiet enough that she could fall back to sleep. “Don’t pick up any condoms,” she warned. No, of course not, I thought. Who knows what else […]
Read more...Battlefield Travesty
As part of our Facebook LIVE broadcasts on Tuesday, we paid a visit to the Zoan Church ridge on the eastern edge of the Chancellorsville battlefield (parts one and two). It’s one of the out-of-the-way parts of the battlefield that many folks don’t get the chance to see. Home Depot, when it carved out space […]
Read more...Hello from Chancellorsville
I’m at the first day’s battlefield at Chancellorsville this morning. I’m getting prepped for our two-day line up of Facebook LIVE events with the Civil War Trust, which start tomorrow. You can follow along on ECW’s Facebook page or the Civil War Trust’s Facebook page, so don’t forget to join us. ECW co-founder Kris White, […]
Read more...ECW’s April 2018 Newsletter(s) Now Available
If you haven’t seen them yet, we’ve had TWO Emerging Civil War newsletters this month. We have a lot going on–more than could fit in one newsletter! We promise we won’t make a habit of it (after all, we don’t want to turn into spam), but with all the irons in the fire, we wanted […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review Dec. 11-17
This past week was a busy one for ECW with the observance of the 155th Anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg. In partnership with the Civil War Trust, the National Civil War Museum, and the National Park Service we participated in the Trust’s Facebook Live events. We also had a number of pieces related to […]
Read more...Last Photos from Fredericksburg’s 155th
Before we get too far away from the anniversary of the battle of Fredericksburg, I just want to pass along a few pictures I took along the way yesterday during ECW’s Facebook LIVE event with the Civil War Trust and the National Park Service. If you didn’t get the chance to follow along, you can […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review Dec. 4-10
The first full week of December moves on. We’ve had a number of great posts, including pieces on our recent release with Southern Illinois University Press, Turning Points of the Civil War. We also announced that ECW will join with the National Park Service, the Civil War Trust and other historians for the Trust’s Facebook Live events for the […]
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