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Tag Archives: Albert Sidney Johnston
Shiloh Video Recap
We’ve had a lot of video content lately on both the ECW YouTube and Facebook pages. On Facebook, we’ve been reposting videos from the western video swing ECW took with the American Battlefield Trust, which was a total blast (check … Continue reading
Kentucky’s Governor Fought and Fell at Shiloh
On February 8, 1862, Confederate generals Albert Sidney Johnston, P.G.T. Beauregard, and William Hardee conferred on the most recent turn of events in the Western Theater at Beauregard’s Bowling Green, Kentucky, headquarters. Fort Henry fell to Union forces two days … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Battles, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged 4th Kentucky Infantry (CSA), Albert Sidney Johnston, Alexander McCook, Battle of Shiloh, Fort Donelson, Fort Henry, George W. Johnson, John C. Breckinridge, Kentucky, P.G.T. Beauregard, Robert P. Trabue, William Hardee
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Western Swing: Day 02 (part two!)
When I spent the day at Shiloh last week with Kris White, Garry Adelman, Parker Hills, and Tim Smith, we shot so much material that we had to divide it into two days. You can see part one from Shiloh … Continue reading
Henry Adams on Rooney Lee
As the grandson and great-grandson of American presidents, Henry Brooks Adams came from one of the most distinguished of all New England families. Yet, as a student at Harvard University from 1854-8, this scion of the Yankee-est of all Yankee … Continue reading
Thinking Big on a Battlefield
After the bloody fighting ended around Pittsburg Landing on April 6, 1862, Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, recently appointed commander of the Army of the Mississippi following Albert Sidney Johnston’s death earlier that day, took stock of his army’s hard … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Leadership--Confederate, Western Theater
Tagged Albert Sidney Johnston, Army of the Mississippi, Athens Tennessee, Battle of Shiloh, Don Carlos Buell, P. G. T. Beauregard, P.G.T. Beauregard, PGT Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Pittsburg Landing, Timothy B. Smith, Ulysses S. Grant
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Free ECW Podcast: Johnston & Johnston in the Western Theater
Albert Sidney Johnston and Joseph E. Johnston were both sent to command the Confederacy’s western theatre. ECW historians Greg Mertz, Angela Riotto, and Kris White join host Chris Mackowski to talk about the very different circumstances the Johnstons faced. Listen … Continue reading
Space, “Western Theater” not the Final Frontier
(Editor’s Note: The ECW YouTube page will feature videos from Phill’s trip over the next few weeks, kicked off by this discussion, which is also available as an ECW Podcast.) Recently, I had the opportunity to visit a few battlefields … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Civil War Trails, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Photography, Preservation, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged Alabama, Albert Sidney Johnston, Battle of Fort Donelson, Battle of Shiloh, Confederacy, Emerging Civil War, Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Friends of Vicksburg National Military Park, Kentucky, Mississippi, National Park Service, Phillip S. Greenwalt, Shiloh National Military Park, Siege of Vicksburg, Tennessee, Ulysse S. Grant, Western theater
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Rock Star Egos and the Army of Tennessee’s Most Important Inferiority Complex
I’ve been listening this week to the audiobook version of Greg Mertz’s Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh (one of my jobs, as series editor, is to listen to and approve all the books before they’re … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged Albert Sidney Johnston, Army of Tennessee, Attack at Daylight and Whip Them, Braxton Bragg, Chris Kolakowski, Earl Hess, Greg Mertz, John C. Brekenridge, Leonidas Polk, P.G.T. Beauregard, Timothy B. Smith, William Hardee
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Eliza Griffin Johnston: To Bravely Meet Danger and Tragedy
News traveled slowly, likely a frustrating fact for Eliza Griffin Johnston. However, one spring day in 1862 news arrived in California that changed her life. A battle thousands of miles away and weeks in the past had altered her plans, … Continue reading
