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“I’m so glad I came:” an Arkansan at the 1938 Gettysburg Reunion
ECW welcomes guest author Jeff T. Giambrone From June 29 – July 6, 1938, Union and Confederate veterans met at Gettysburg for one last great reunion. These aged veterans, most of them over ninety, walked the fields of Gettysburg, serving … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier
Tagged 17th Arkansas, 1938 reunion, Arkansas, Confederate veterans, Gettysburg
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Arkansas’s Role in the Vicksburg Campaign (part two)
ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Carson Butler. Part two of two. Following victory at Port Gibson, Grant pushed his forces north-eastward, and ultimately marched his army towards Jackson, the capital of Mississippi. After defeating a Confederate force under … Continue reading
Arkansas’s Role in the Vicksburg Campaign (part one)
ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Carson Butler. Part one of two. The Mississippi River is one of the most defining features of the North American continent, and during the American Civil War, it proved to be vital in … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Sieges, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged 12th Arkansas Battaltion, Arkansans-at-Vicksburg, Arkansas, Big Black River, Carson Butler, Champion Hill, Franklin Gardner, John Pemberton, Magnolia Church, Martin Edwin Green, Port Gibson, Port Hudson, Siege of Vicksburg, Trans-Mississippi, Vicksburg Campaign
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CW & Pop Culture: Steve Earle’s “Ben McCulloch”
I’ve been a longtime Steve Earle fan and I’m here today to share something with you… Steve Earle is cooler than crap. Here’s a guy who cut his teeth in the music business under the tutelage of the great Townes … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War in Pop Culture, Engaging the Civil War Series, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Arkansas, Battle of Pea Ridge, Battle of Wilson's Creek, Ben McCulloch, Civil War in Pop Culture, ECW-Entertaining-History, Missouri, Nathaniel Lyon, pop culture, Sterling Price, Steve Earle, Texas
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Remember Poison Spring!
If you have seen the 2012 film Lincoln, you may remember the first two scenes: a gruesome hand-to-hand fight between white Confederate troops and African-American Federal soldiers, and two USCTs speaking with their commander-in-chief. Besides the overarching themes of race, … Continue reading
“Good Cheer Prevailed” – Celebration and Reflection for a Confederate Surgeon in 1863 Arkansas
Christmas of 1863 was one of relief for the five-thousand men of the Confederate District of Arkansas. They had been settled in their winter encampment just west of Camden, Arkansas after months of battlefield defeats at Prairie Grove, Helena, and … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Medical, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged 1863, Arkansas, Christmas, St. Louis, Sterling Price, William McPheeters
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“What Shall Be Done with the Slave?” The 9th Illinois Cavalry and Practical Emancipation
I am frequently sidetracked when scanning through historic newspapers on a quest for specific information. What can I say, the headlines are still doing their job. Such was the case while digitally flipping through August 1862 issues of the Chicago … Continue reading
