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Tag Archives: George Custer
“I Don’t Like to Engage in What-Ifs, But….”
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard someone say, “I don’t like to engage in ‘What-Ifs…’” and then launch themselves into a discussion about a “What If,” I could’ve funded the upcoming ECW Symposium on What Ifs … Continue reading
Forts: Fort Collier — “It Seems Strong and Well Built”
In the evening of September 19, 1864, after the Third Battle of Winchester, Union cavalry commanders jousted their egos and boasted of their exploits that day. In Wesley Merritt’s division, George Custer and Charles Russell Lowell, Jr. playfully jabbed at … Continue reading
Fort Abraham Lincoln – Symbol of Civil War Memory on the North Dakota Prairie
When Emerging Civil War asked us all to think about whether we might write something on this month’s theme of “Forts” my instinct was to write about Fort Union, New Mexico. In fact, I told our editorial maestro Sarah Kay … Continue reading
Posted in Memory
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, civil-war-forts, Elizabeth Custer, George Custer
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January 2022 Maine at War blog posts
In January 2022, my Maine at War blog examined topics ranging from soldiers and their pets to the infantry captain who suddenly discovered two recruits now listed on the company rolls. January 5, 2022: Soldier’s pet A young combat veteran … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Internet, Websites & Blogs, Navies
Tagged 10th Maine Infantry Regiment, 16th Maine Infantry Regiment, 26th Maine Infantry Regiment, Axel Hayford, Bald Hill Cove, Bangor, Belfast, Brewer, Brian Swartz, Caleb Cushing, Cape Fear River, Castine, Charles Baker, Charleston, Coast Guards Infantry, Cumberland County, Dare, E. H. Faucon, East Battery, East Belfast, Edmund J. Brookings, Ellsworth American, Farmingdale, Fort Knox, Fort O'Brien, Fort Point, Gardiner, George Custer, George H. Pendleton, George O. Hall, Georgetown, Gorham, Irish Bend, John L. Hodsdon, Kingstree, Libby Prison, Little River, Machias, Machiasport, Macon, Maine Coast Guards, Minister’s Point, Nathaniel K. Sawyer, Nicholas Picerno, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, North Carolina, North Inlet, Passagassawakeag River, Penobscot Bay, Penobscot Narrows, Penobscot River, Port Hudson, Portland, Portland Daily Press, Prospect, R. H. Stanley, Raphael Semmes, Republican Journal, Revenue Service, Richmond, Robert Wiley, Rockland, Royal Navy, South Carolina, Steele’s Ledge, Stockton Springs, USS Aries, USS Montgomery, Verona Island, Waldo County, West Battery, William H. Simpson, wilmington, Winterport
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The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry
by Daniel T. Davis I’ve always been fascinated with George A. Custer. As a second grader, I watched the film They Died With Their Boots On. While far from historical fact, it appealed to my imagination. When Kris White and … Continue reading
Manticores, Myths, and Memory (part one)
(Part one of four) Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill are co-authors of the latest book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory (Southern Illinois University Press). In this series, … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Engaging the Civil War Series, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Alan McGlashan, Ed Caudill, Engaging the Civil War Series, George Custer, Imaging Wild Bill, James Butler Hickok, John Mosby, Judson Kilpatrick, Lt. Col. George Ward Nichols, Manticore Quartet, manticores, manticores-myths-and-memory, mythology, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Paul Ashdown, pop culture, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, The Story of the Great March from the Diary of a Staff Officer, Wild Bill Hickok, William T. Sherman
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Book Review: Custer’s Gray Rival
Biographies abound of the Confederacy’s more well-known cavalry officers, especially J. E. B. Stuart and Nathan Bedford Forrest. But similar works detailing the lives of the next tier of Confederate cavaliers are less easy to find. Sheridan R. Barringer’s Custer’s Gray … Continue reading
Race Outta Richmond: Meadow Bridge Battle Map
This past weekend I tried following the path of the Union cavalry raid on Richmond during the Overland Campaign. I forgot that the Richmond Raceway was hosting the Toyota Owners 400 Nascar race and found myself stuck in traffic on … Continue reading
A Conversation with Dave Roth (part four)
(part four in a five-part series) I’ve been talking this week with Dave Roth of Blue & Gray Magazine. After a 34-year career as editor and publisher, Dave wrapped up the magazine’s run this past spring. Earlier this month, Emerging … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged Andie Custer, Blue & Gray, Chickasaw Bayou, Conversation-with-Dave-Roth, Crazy Horse, Dave Roth, Eric Wittenberg, Farnsworth's charge, Frank O'Reilly, Gary Kross, George Crook, George Custer, Grierson's Raid, Little Big Horn, Mike Kauffman, Rosebud, St. Albans, Terry Winschel, William Glenn Robertson
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In the “Hoofsteps” to Gettysburg: Touring the Loudoun Valley Campaign of June 1863
Of all the sites related to the Gettysburg Campaign, the sites to see in the Loudoun Valley are some of the best preserved and most beautiful places in Virginia. Though in June 1863, there was nothing pretty about thousands of … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Civil War Trails, ECW Weekender, Emerging Civil War, Personalities, Preservation
Tagged Aldie, Alfred Pleasonton, George Custer, Gettysburg Campaign, JEB Stuart, John S. Mosby, Loudoun Valley, Middleburg, Upperville
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