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Tag Archives: Antietam
McClellan’s Brother
The official reports from the Sixth Corps are woefully incomplete for the 1864 Overland Campaign. Many officers waited until the fall to write and by then the entire organization had seen significant change, eliminating any chance for full reports. After … Continue reading
Commemorating the Anniversary of Antietam
“America will never forget what your loved ones did for all of us,” President Trump told audience members attending a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at Flight 93 National Memorial last week. The official White House video of the event ended with … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, National Park Service, Ties to the War
Tagged 9/11, Antietam, Donald Trump, Flight 93
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Antietam and the Emerging Civil War Series
While there are, of course, plenty of good books out there about Antietam, we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out that the Emerging Civil War Series added two great Antietam books to the line-up this year, including one that’s … Continue reading
From The ECW Archives: Voices of the Maryland Campaign
Last year ECW author Kevin Pawlak shared an impressive series which highlighted primary sources from the Maryland Campaign of 1862. Running from September 1-20, the collections gives a “boots on the ground” perspective into the campaign and Battle of Antietam. Want … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns
Tagged Antietam, ECW archives, from the archives, Kevin Pawlak, Maryland Campaign, maryland-62
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Review: Texans at Antietam
Fewer stories of the Civil War are more renowned than that of the fight for Miller’s cornfield at Antietam. It’s one of those locations that has been forever endowed with capital letters because of the intensity of combat there: The … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged A Terrible Clash of Arms, Antietam, Fonthill Media, Joe Owen, Ted Alexander, Texans at Antietam
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“Six Days in September”: Author Alexander Rossino Adds His Voice
I interviewed Ted Savas, publisher of Alexander Rossino’s fiction work Six Days in September. At that time Alex Rossino graciously offered the opportunity for an interview. Time is a slippery fish, and sometimes it gets away from me, but finally, I … Continue reading
That Field of Blood Now Available
It’s been a quiet spring for ECW on the publishing front, but we’re delighted to finally have another book to share from our Emerging Civil War Series: the highly anticipated volume on Antietam! That Field of Blood: The Battle of … Continue reading
Was Lee’s “Lost Order” a Turning Point? (part three)
(part three of three) What exactly the Lost Order told McClellan has been the subject of much heated debate and controversy almost from the moment he glanced its contents. From an intelligence standpoint, the Lost Order was important to McClellan, … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Engaging the Civil War Series
Tagged Alfred Pleasonton, Antietam, Battle of South Mountain, Catoctin Mountain, D.H. Hill, George B. McClellan, Lee's Lost Order, lost-order-turning-point-series, Maryland Campaign 1862, Randolph B. Marcy, Robert E. Lee, Special Order 191, Turning Points of the American Civil War
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Was Lee’s “Lost Order” a Turning Point? (part two)
(part two of three) On September 10, 1862, as he advanced deeper into Maryland, Robert E. Lee began splintering his forces, as outlined in Special Orders No. 191. That day, all of his forces, mustered into five separate columns, started … Continue reading
Was Lee’s “Lost Order” a Turning Point? (part one)
(part one of three) Civil War campaigns could often turn on a dime in favor of one army or the other. A sudden change in initiative marked the turning points of the war that scholars love to toss around the … Continue reading
