Tag Archives: death

“He is the last of seven sons” – One Sanitary Agent Witnesses the Tragedy of War in St. Louis

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Kristen M. Trout

In her first assignment as an agent with the Chicago branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, Jane Hoge witnessed the true tragedy, devastation, and sacrifices that the Civil War brought upon Americans. At age 50 and the mother of two … Continue reading →

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American Battlefield Trust’s Former Teacher of the Year Collects Bottlecaps to Represent Civil War Death Toll 

Posted on February 21, 2019 by ECW Guest Post

[Editor’s Note: At the 2018 American Battlefield Trust Teacher Institute, ECW Editor in Chief Chris Mackowski met the Trust’s 2016 Teacher of the Year, Phil Caskey, who told him about a class project intended to capture the full scale of … Continue reading →

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A Conversation with Brian Steel Wills about Inglorious Passages (part two)

Posted on November 16, 2018 by Chris Mackowski

(part two of two) I’m talking with historian Brian Steel Wills, author of one of my favorite Civil War books from last year, Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil War. Inglorious Passages received the Harwell Award at the … Continue reading →

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A Conversation with Brian Steel Wills about Inglorious Passages (part one)

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Chris Mackowski

(part one of two) When I first read Brian Steel Wills’ book Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil War, I had to let it sit with me for a bit. By that, I mean that I’d had such … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Death, Disease, and Life at War”

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Ryan Quint

From the regimental camp of the 111th New York Infantry near Brandy Station, Virginia, Surgeon James Benton wrote to his parents, “The spring campaign will soon be upon us and in my opinion we have never seen any fighting which … Continue reading →

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The Question I Could Not Answer

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Sarah Kay Bierle

She stood there, staring at the minie ball in her tiny hand and feeling the weight of that original bullet. I was busy talking to the other children and adults at the medical display table and keeping an eye on … Continue reading →

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Alexander Gardner and the Good Death

Posted on May 19, 2017 by jamesjbroomall

Of the thousands of Civil War photographs, only several truly iconic images exist that specialists and non-specialists alike immediately recognize. One such image is the subject of today’s post: Timothy O’Sullivan’s “The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg.” The scene … Continue reading →

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