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Book Review: Marriage on the Border

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Meg Groeling

Marriage on the Border: Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War By Allison Dorothy Fredette University Press of Kentucky, 2020, $60 hardcover   Reviewed by Meg Groeling   Allison Dorothy Fredette’s Marriage on the Border: Love, … Continue reading →

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Civil War Cooking: Miss Caskie’s Cake at General Lee’s Headquarters

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Sarah Kay Bierle

“You must thank Miss Norvell for her nice cake. I . . . assembled all the young gentlemen around it & though I told them it was a present from a beautiful young lady, they did not leave a crumb.” … Continue reading →

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From The Doorstep: Winchester Women Record Evacuation & Occupation, Part 2

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

This is the final post for “From the Doorstep: Winchester Women.” Part 1 is available here.  Mary Greenhow Lee started a letter on March 11, intending to send it to a friend. Instead, she kept writing, writing, writing until November … Continue reading →

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From The Doorstep: Winchester Women Record Evacuation & Occupation, Part 1

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

It is a truth (mostly) universally acknowledged that if you want the long version of a story, ask a woman. I say this not as criticism, but rather as praise Civil War women and their primary sources. After recording the … Continue reading →

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Women’s Reflections on Christmas 1863

Posted on December 22, 2018 by Sarah Kay Bierle

This holiday season I came across two Christmas entries in two very different civilian journals. One, tinged with reflective sadness, offers the words of a Virginian girl who has seen war and lost a loved one in the conflict but … Continue reading →

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A Virginia Boy

Posted on April 25, 2017 by ECW Guest Post

Emerging Civil War welcomes back Doug Crenshaw In June 1862, George McCall’s Division of the Union V Corps was stationed east of Beaver Dam Creek near Mechanicsville, Virginia.  It was there to guard the route to the Pamunkey River supply … Continue reading →

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