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Tag Archives: Bruce Catton
The Crater Sent a Monster Home to Maine
ECW is pleased to welcome back Brian Swartz, author of the new Emerging Civil War Series book Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War. Brian adapted this post for us from a series of posts published … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier
Tagged 32nd Maine, Battle of the Crater, Brian Swartz, Bruce Catton, Col. Mark Wentworth, James J. Chase, Maine at War, Petersburg
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Had Come Close to a Dazzling Victory
Posted in Battles, Photography
Tagged Battle of Shiloh, Bruce Catton, Joseph Hardin, Shiloh Battlefield, Shiloh National Military Park
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When President Kennedy–and Professor Wiley–Stepped In
In the final report of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, issued in 1968, Chairman Allan Nevins recalled “the great wave of popular interest in the Civil War” that led Congress to authorize the Commission in 1957. He also remembered … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Ties to the War
Tagged Allan Nevins, Bell Wiley, Bruce Catton, Charleston, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War Centennial, Civil War Centennial Commission, Everett Landers, JFK, Karl S. Betts, Madeline A. Williams, Robert J. Cook, Stuart H. Ingersoll, Troubled Commemoration, Ulysses S. Grant III, William M. Tuck
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How I Got Hooked on Franklin: The Story Behind Let Us Die Like Men
My story for Franklin began when I was around ten years old. The stories my grandparents told inspired my love of history, and my dad’s fateful purchase of Bruce Catton’s American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War sparked my … Continue reading
Antietam Eve: The Night of September 16, 1862
“The quiet that precedes a battle has something of the terrible in it,” wrote an Ohio soldier recalling the night of September 16, 1862. That night in the fields and woodlots surrounding Sharpsburg was an awful night for those who … Continue reading
September 16, 1862: The Night Of No Return
Civil War soldiers vividly remembered, and recalled, certain days of their military careers, both the highs and lows, the good ones and the bad ones. For those soldier participants in the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, the September 17, … Continue reading
Grant, the Wilderness, and the Loneliness of Command
On the evening of May 6, 1864, Lieutenant General U.S. Grant considered the day’s events. The Battle of the Wilderness had just ended its second day, and Grant’s forces had been beaten and battered in a way he’d never seen. … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Ties to the War
Tagged Army of the Potomac, Battle of the Wilderness, British Army, Bruce Catton, Burma, Dunkirk, France, Gerald Templer, India, Lord Gort, Orde Wingate, Overland Campaign, The War in 1864, U.S. Grant, William Slim, World War II
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Ed Bonekemper’s Lost Cause Fact-Check (part one)
Part one of two Historians debunked the myth of the Lost Cause decades ago, but it still defines the way many (if not most) Americans remember the narrative of the Civil War. Its influence on popular imagination holds sway over … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged Alan Nevins, Bruce Catton, civil rights, civil war memory, Ed Bonekemper, Edward Bonekemper, Jim Crow, Jubal Early, Lost Cause, Lost-Cause-Fact-Check, Memory, Shelby Foote, Slavery, William Nelson Pendleton
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Thoughts on Ken Burns: Chris Kolakowski
This series really brought the war to life in a human way for me. It still holds up all these years later, and will do so for a long time to come. In that sense it belongs in the category … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War in Pop Culture
Tagged Bruce Catton, Daniel Davis, Ken Burns, Ken Burns' The Civil War
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A Surfeit of Heroes: Custer At Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 Part I of a 2-part Series
In American history, it is doubtful if any battle has been studied more closely than the battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. Strategy, tactics, weather, politics, communications, personalities, and just plain luck have been written about ad nauseam. The historiography … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Politics, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, Bruce Catton, Custer, general custer, Gettysburg, Gettysburg National Battlefield, Pickett's Charge, Robert E. Lee
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