Tag Archives: Battle of New Market Heights Memorial and Education Association

A Visit to New Market Heights

Posted on June 9, 2022 by ECW Guest Post

ECW is pleased to welcome Shelly Liebler. Shelly is a photographer based in the Williamsport, Virginia, area. The American Battlefield Trust and Civil War Trails have teamed up to interpret this acquisition in Varina, Virginia: the New Market Heights Battlefield, … Continue reading →

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Fallen, but not Forgotten: Sgt. John Grinnell, Co. E, 38th USCI

Posted on April 21, 2022 by ECW Guest Post

ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott, founding member and President of the Battle of New Market Heights Memorial and Education Association. In the Border States of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri the process of emancipation and enlisting formerly … Continue reading →

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Fallen, but not Forgotten: Pvt. Henderson Taborn, Co. A, 5th USCI

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Emerging Civil War

ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott During the mid-nineteenth century, Oberlin, Ohio, known as a “hotbed of abolitionism,” and even referred to as “the town that started the Civil War,” became a magnet of relocation for both self-emancipated … Continue reading →

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Fallen, but not Forgotten: Pvt. James Chaney, Co. I, 1st USCI

Posted on February 2, 2022 by ECW Guest Post

ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott, director of education and interpretation at Pamplin Historical Park Historians estimate that perhaps as many as twenty percent of Civil War soldiers enlisted under the age of 18. While enlisting officials were … Continue reading →

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Dying Far From Home: Pvt. Edward Williams, Co. C, 6th USCI

Posted on January 3, 2022 by ECW Guest Post

ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott, director of education and interpretation at Pamplin Historical Park During the Civil War, soldiers sometimes attempted to describe the nature of combat to friends and loved ones unfamiliar with warfare. In the … Continue reading →

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Dying Far From Home: Pvt. Thomas Young, Co. A, 5th USCI

Posted on July 22, 2021 by ECW Guest Post

ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott African Americans in mid-nineteenth century America experienced the road to freedom differently. Some found the course short and straight. They claimed personal liberty as a right of birth by place or circumstance. … Continue reading →

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Battle of New Market Heights Memorial and Education Association

Posted on October 3, 2020 by ECW Guest Post

ECW is please to welcome Tim Talbott On September 29, 1864, during the fighting at the Battle of New Market Heights, as Corporal Miles James of Company B, 36th United States Colored Infantry maneuvered through abatis and approached the Confederate … Continue reading →

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