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Soldier-Artists and the Battle Experience (Part II)
This is the second of two posts regarding soldier-artists and their depictions of the experience of battle. Part I may be found here. To appreciate the extent that images such as Adolph Metzner’s Cozy corner defied the conventions of mainstream art, it … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Civilian, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Material Culture, Memory, Mexican War, Photography, Primary Sources, Weapons
Tagged Armies, art, battlefields, Battles, Civil War, civilians, common soldiers, Material Culture, Newspapers, Officers, Photography, Primary Sources, Visual Culture, War art, Weapons
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Soldier-Artists and the Battle Experience (Part I)
This is the first of two posts regarding soldier-artists and their depictions of the experience of battle. “Pshaw. It’s no use, they can’t picture a battle,” exclaimed the young son of Reverend A. M. Stewart of the 102nd Pennsylvania Volunteers, a … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Civilian, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Material Culture, Memory, Newspapers, Photography, Primary Sources, Weapons
Tagged Armies, art, artists, battlefields, Battles, Civil War, civilians, common soldiers, Material Culture, Newspapers, Officers, Photography, Primary Sources, Visual Culture, War art, Weapons
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Question of the Week: 4/24/-4/30/17
In April 1917, the United States officially entered World War I. What Civil War era tactics, innovations, and ideas were used during World War I – successfully or unsuccessfully?
Posted in Armies, Question of the Week, Ties to the War
Tagged Civil War, Leadership, tactics, technology, trenches, World War I
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Penn Yan, NY, Cemetery Yields Old Acquaintance
While surveying the Lakeview Cemetery in Penn Yan, NY, recently, I stumbled upon an old acquaintance – John Morrison Oliver.
Posted in Emerging Civil War
Tagged Civil War, Fort McAllister, March to the Sea, Savannah, Sherman
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“Little Photography in Jeffdom:” The Decline of Photography in the Civil War South
In 1862 Humphrey’s Journal of the Daguerreotype and Photographic Arts boasted that “The Photographic Art down South has completely died out in consequence of the war.”[i] Though an obvious overstatement, considering that southern photographers operated throughout the war, the journal … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Civil War Events, Civilian, Common Soldier, Economics, Leadership--Confederate, Lincoln, Material Culture, Memory, Newspapers, Personalities, Photography, Politics
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Antebellum, art, Charleston, Civil War, common soldiers, George S. Cook, Illustrated News, North, Photography, presidential election, Richmond, South
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Another Mighty Scourge: Weather and the War
It seems there is no end to the snowy weather in the East. Several years ago (2013-14?) it was pretty snowy as well. ECW published the following article then, and it seems appropriate to shovel it out from beneath the drifts … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Memory
Tagged Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War, Civil War, Great Snowball Battle, Little Ice Age and the Civil War, National Park Service, NPS, Robert Krick, snowball fight, weather during the Civil War
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“With Great Steadiness and Courage:” The 22nd USCT and their Flag
The 22nd United States Colored Troops was organised at Camp William Penn between the 10th and 29th of January, 1864. The narrative of the regiment illustrates the desire of many black troops to shun the tedious manual labour that they often found thrust … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Slavery, USCT
Tagged African Americans, Civil War, Flags, USCT, Visual Culture
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ERW Weekender – Yorktown
Rev War Wednesday and Emerging Revolutionary War is pleased to welcome guest historian Kate Gruber. Let me guess– you are a Rev War Nerd who is the best friend of/dating/married to a Civil War Nut. I recognize the symptoms. … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, ECW Weekender, Emerging Civil War, Revolutionary War
Tagged American Revolution, Battle of Yorktown, Civil War, Colonial National Historical Park, Colonial Parkway, Colonial Williamsburg, Continental Army, Declaration of Independence, George McClellan, Jamestown, National Park Service, Nelson House, Revolutionary War, Williamsburg, Yorktown, Yorktown 1862, Yorktown National Cemetery, Yorktown Victory Center
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Review: “A Not So Happy Ending”
Review of Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, by Brian Matthew Jordan The devastation of the American Civil War is well known; casualties in that fraternal bloodbath exceeded 750,000 and the South was wrecked. Less known and … Continue reading
Carving Tonight On the Old Camp Ground: A Hallowe’en Experience
Everyone has his or her favorite memory of fall and of Hallowe’en. Perhaps it was a costume, or maybe the camaraderie of trick-or-treating. Maybe it was just the cooler air and the earlier, somehow darker … Continue reading
