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Time to Talk (Civil War) Books: A Conversation with Marc Ramsey—part three
Part three of five My conversation continues with Marc Ramsey, owner of Owens & Ramsey Booksellers in suburban Richmond. Yesterday, Marc talked about falling in love with the Civil War through books and through battlefielding. Eventually, that led to a career … Continue reading
Hand-Drawing the “Art” in Cartography
“Military works are almost universally lacking in adequate maps,” Brig. Gen. Vincent Esposito wrote in his Introduction to The West Point Atlas of American Wars (1959). Boy, was he right. How many times have we thought, while reading an otherwise fine campaign … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War Series
Tagged A Long and Bloody Task, All the Fighting They Want, Allen Tate, Atlanta Will Fall, cartography, Chattahoochee, Douglas Southall Freeman, Gary Joiner, Hal Jespersen, maps, Sharpsburg, Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier, Vincent Esposito, West Point Atlas of American Wars, Wilbur Kurtz
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Happy 100th Birthday, Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote would have been 100 years old today. Born in Greenville, Mississippi, on November 17, 1916, he died on June 28, 2005 at the age of 88 from a heart attack following a pulmonary embolism. Foote was best known … Continue reading
North of the Tweed and South of the Potomac: A Tale of Two Roberts and Two Prayers That Changed the Course of History (part two)
In commemoration of Robert E. Lee’s birthday, ECW is pleased to present the second of a two-part piece by guest author Richard G. Williams, Jr. Robert E. Lee had given his whole life to the Union for which his father, … Continue reading
The Curmudgeon, The Eccentric, and the “Norse God”: How Three Men Impacted the Battle of Gettysburg: Part 1
Part One in a Series Introduction The argument over how and why the Army of Northern Virginia lost the Battle of Gettysburg has been debated since the southern army withdrew from the small Pennsylvania town. A blame game of sorts … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate
Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, Cemetery Hill, Culp's Hill, Douglas Southall Freeman, Isaac Trimble, JEB Stuart, John Buford, Jubal Early, Richard Ewell, Robert E. Lee, Robert Rodes, Stonewall Jackson, The Curmudgeon The Eccentric and the “Norse God” How Three Men Impacted the Battle of Gettysburg
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The Freeman Markers
If you have been to any of the battlefields around Richmond, Virginia or if you have ever just driven the non-interstate roads around the Virginia capital, you have seen a “Freeman Marker.”
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Monuments, National Park Service, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Appomattox Court House, Battlefield Markers Association, Battlefield Markers Association Western Division, Bull Run, Cold Harbor, Douglas Southall Freeman, Freeman Markers, Old Dominion, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Richmond Virginia, Shenandoah Valley
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ECW Weekender: Lynchburg, Virginia and The Marshall
Although Lynchburg, Virginia, was off the beaten path for most of the war, it certainly saw its fair share of action June 17-18, 1864 as part of the spring/summer Shenandoah Campaign. Jubal Early came to the rescue of his hometown, … Continue reading
Shaping Chancellorsville: The first reenactment and ‘The Last Meeting’
part five in a series In 1933, administration of the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park was turned over to the National Park Service, and shortly thereafter, the NPS invited the Civilian Conservation Corps to come in to the park … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Preservation
Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, CCC, Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, Civilian Conservation Corps, Crackerbox Meeting, Douglas Southall Freeman, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, FRSP, FSNMP, Jackson Shrine, James Power Smith, Lee-Jackson bivouac site, Lost Cause, Memory, National Park Service, NPS, Preservation, Ralph Happel, reenacting, Robert E. Lee, Shaping-Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson, Virginia Military Institute, VMI
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all the writers here at Emerging Civil War!
