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Tag Archives: Fort Monroe
Dying Far From Home: Pvt. Edward Williams, Co. C, 6th USCI
ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott, director of education and interpretation at Pamplin Historical Park During the Civil War, soldiers sometimes attempted to describe the nature of combat to friends and loved ones unfamiliar with warfare. In the … Continue reading
Posted in USCT
Tagged 6th USCT, Army of the James, Battle of New Market Heights Memorial and Education Association, Ben Butler, Camp William Penn, City Point, Deep Bottom, Dutch Gap, First Battle of Petersburg, Fort Monroe, Hampton National Cemetery, New Market Heights, Petersburg, Quincy Gilmore, Rev. Jeremiah Asher, Tim Talbott, United States Colored Infantry, United States Colored Troops, XVIII Corps
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ECW Weekender: Exploring Fortress Monroe (Virtually)
For many enslaved men, women, and children, Fortress Monroe became their place to find and create freedom. Self-emancipation pressured Union military officers and Federal politicians to face the realities of slavery and question how freedom could cripple the local Southern … Continue reading
American Battlefield Trust Preserves the Heart of Williamsburg’s Civil War Battlefield
The American Battlefield Trust has had quite a December so far! First they announced a campaign to preserve an incredibly important tract at the heart of the Gaines’s Mill and Cold Harbor battlefields. Then they declared victory on a piece … Continue reading
Posted in Preservation, Revolutionary War
Tagged 2nd New Hampshire, 37th New York, 40th New York, 61st Pennsylvania, 70th New York, 72nd New York, American Battlefield Protection Program, American Battlefield Trust, Battle of Williamsburg, Bloody Ravine, Cliff Fleet, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, David Duncan, Fort Monroe, George B. McClellan, Joseph E. Johnston, Medal of Honor, Peninsula Campaign, Preservation, self-emancipation, Williamsburg Battlefield Association
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BookChat with Leon Reed, author of No Greater Calamity for the Country
I was pleased to spend some time recently with No Greater Calamity for the Country: North-South Conflict, Secession, and the Onset of Civil War, a new release by Leon Reed from Little Falls Books. Leon was kind enough to take a … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Books & Authors, Economics, Politics
Tagged Adam Goodheart, Ben Butler, Border States, contraband, David Detzer, Elizabeth Varon, Fort Monroe, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hiram Roosa, John Lockwood, Leon Reed, Lincoln, Little Falls Books, Memory, New York Military Association, No Greater Calamity for the Country, patriotic envelopes, politics, Rebellion Record, Robert Anderson, secession
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Yes, I Picked Benjamin Butler for My Fantasy Draft
ECW welcomes guest author Bryan Cheeseboro. Recently, I enjoyed “The Civil War Fantasy Draft” presented by The American Battlefield Trust on their Facebook page as part of their new Zoom Goes the History video series. As we are under social … Continue reading
ECW Weekender: View from the Ramparts – Fortress Monroe, Virginia
In the gathering dusk of Saturday, March 8, 1862, a young Union telegrapher, John Emmet O’Brien, stood on the ramparts of Fortress Monroe on Old Point Comfort dominating the entrance to Hampton Roads, Virginia. He looked to the right and … Continue reading
Fort Monroe: History & Personal Reflections
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author Michael Nelson. The Fort’s Story I spent nearly two years working at Fort Monroe National Monument as a communications assistant in the Casemate Museum. The museum covers over 400 years of history at Fort … Continue reading
Survival at Sea: A Terrifying Voyage to the Peninsula
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Rob Wilson When he volunteered for the U.S. Sharpshooters (U.S.S.S.) in 1861, George A. Marden knew well there were many ways he could perish while serving the Union cause. It’s unlikely, however, that … Continue reading
Williamsburg’s Dividing Line
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Drew Gruber. As Rockefeller’s team began the great restoration of Williamsburg to its appearance in the colonial era, most of the town’s newer structures were razed. However, 88 original 18th century … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Civilian, Common Soldier, Politics
Tagged 1st New York Mounted Rifles, Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Williamsburg, College of William and Mary, Drew Gruber, Duke of Gloucester Street, Emancipation Proclamation, Fort Magruder, Fort Monroe, Governor's Palace, Siege of Suffolk, United States Colored Troops, Williamsburg in the Civil War, Yorktown
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Review Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia
Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia J. Michael Cobb, Edward B. Hicks and Wythe Holt Savas Beatie, 2013 312 pages, 140 images, 5 maps In the spring of 1861, our Nation was ripped apart by … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Book Review, Books & Authors, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities
Tagged 5th New York Infantry, Battle of Big Bethel, Ben Butler, Fort Monroe, Gaines Mill, Henry Wyatt, John Grebel, John Magruder, Second Manassas, Theodore Winthrop
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