Tag Archives: Battle of Chickamauga

Confessions from Chickamauga: “Taking Chattanooga is as important as taking Richmond.”

Posted on July 25, 2016 by

Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome guest author Hunter S. Jones Although I’d visited the Chickamauga Park my entire life, I knew next to nothing about the actual battle. When I started this journey, I had no idea what … Continue reading →

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Symposium Spotlight: David A. Powell and an Introduction to Civil War Tactics

Posted on May 12, 2016 by

We are pleased to welcome back David (Dave) A. Powell to the Emerging Civil War Symposium. Dave is a leading expert on the Chickamauga Campaign, and has penned multiple volumes on the battle for Savas Beatie, LLC. He was also integral … Continue reading →

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Civil War Echoes: Philippine Scouts

Posted on October 15, 2015 by

As many of you know, I’ve been working on a book about Bataan and Corregidor (it went to the publisher today). I’ve blogged and spoken about several Civil War connections to those battles and their participants. Here’s one I just … Continue reading →

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“We were in fit shape for a rift with Meade” The Fall Campaign of 1863 Begins

Posted on October 6, 2015 by

By October 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac stared at one another on either side of the Rapidan River. Lee’s army held the land south of the Rapidan around Orange. North of the Rapidan, Meade’s … Continue reading →

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A Mad, Irregular Book: Dave Powell and the Battle of Chickamauga

Posted on May 4, 2015 by

By ECW Correspondent Patrick Tintle With his new book The Chickamauga Campaign: A Mad Irregular Battle: From the Crossing of the Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22-September 19, 1863, historian David Powell has gone from creating board games … Continue reading →

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The Dismissal of Bushrod Johnson, the Confederacy’s Luckless Ohioan

Posted on April 7, 2015 by

Ohio-born Confederate General Bushrod Johnson was not a man to know much luck. He had been forced to resign from the Old Army during the Mexican War to avoid scandal; he went on to teach at the Western Military Institute … Continue reading →

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On Victory

Posted on January 7, 2015 by

Douglas MacArthur famously said, “In war, there is no substitute for victory.” Yet as one looks at the Civil War, many battles seem not to offer a clear winner, or at the least, they offer a complicated definition of who … Continue reading →

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Pap Thomas to the Sledge of Nashville

Posted on December 18, 2014 by

The battle of Nashville had ended in a great victory for George Thomas. Congratulations flowed in, but Thomas did not rest on his laurels. Pressing ahead through bitter weather, Thomas drove his infantry and cavalry against Hood’s defeated forces, in a … Continue reading →

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Franklin 150th: “I never saw the dead lay near so thick.”

Posted on November 30, 2014 by

It was a near-run thing—John M. Schofield’s Federals steadily marching down the Columbia Pike towards Franklin through the night of Nov. 29 while sitting close to their camp fires were the Confederates of John B. Hood. The two former West … Continue reading →

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The Western Federal

Posted on November 12, 2014 by

Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Jim Taub. As Joseph Polley, a sergeant of the 4th Texas Infantry, moved through the dense Georgia underbrush, the sounds and smells of battle overwhelmed his senses. The cracking of musketry and … Continue reading →

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