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ECW Weekender: Gettysburg Sites (Off The Beaten Path)
Going to Gettysburg this weekend or at some other time this summer? We’ve got a list of sites you might want to explore. In 2016, Kristopher White wrote a series called Gettysburg: Off The Beaten Path, and these historic locations … Continue reading
A Conversation with Emma Murphy (part two)
(part two of five) As we continue our Women’s History Month commemoration, we’re talking his week with Emma Murphy, a park guide at Andrew Johnson National Historic Site. Prior to landing her full-time permanent position there, she’d been working most … Continue reading
A Conversation with Emma Murphy (part one)
(part one of five) As we continue our series of interviews for Women’s History Month, we spend time this week with Emma Murphy, a park guide at Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in Greenville, Tennessee. Emma has a bachelor’s degree … Continue reading
Gettysburg’s Famed Pickett’s Charge is Reimagined by Civil War Trust and Hirshhorn Museum
Check out this neat announcement from the Civil War Trust. In a different kind of preservation, preserving the memory of Pickett’s Charge, the Trust looks at a contemporary interpretation of the famed nineteenth-century Gettysburg cyclorama. Keep reading to find out … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Material Culture, Memory, National Park Service, Preservation
Tagged Civil War Trust, Cyclorama, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Cyclorama, Gettysburg National Military Park, National Park Service, Pickett's Charge, Preservation
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Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Gettysburg vs. Petersburg
A veteran Union general reflected on battlefield landscapes, markers, and monuments several decades after the war during a visit to Petersburg, Virginia. There is a peculiar impressiveness about the forsaken. Some deep places in us are moved by a forlorn … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Monuments, Preservation, Primary Sources
Tagged battlefield markers, battlefield monuments, Gettysburg, Gettysburg National Military Park, Joshua Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, markers-and-monuments-17, no monuments, Petersburg, Petersburg National Battlefield
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ECW Weekender: Gettysburg Field Hospital Sites
As the sun set on the Gettysburg battlefield on July 3, 1863, although the sound of combat faded into history, a new battle was just beginning. Over the course of the three day engagement, 51,000 men became casualties. That number … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civilian, Common Soldier, ECW Weekender, Material Culture, Medical, Monuments, National Park Service, Photography, Preservation, Primary Sources
Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, battlefield preservation, Civil War books, Civil War medicine, Field Hospital, Gettysburg National Military Park, Historic Preservation, Medical
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Preservation Opportunity at Gettysburg on the First Day Battlefield
The battle had been waging west of the small Pennsylvania town for several hours. Brig. Gen. John Buford’s Federal cavalry had slowly been falling back, eastward, from north-south ridge to north-south ridge. Buford’s men were not looking to win this … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, National Park Service, Preservation
Tagged Alfred Iverson, Battle of Gettysburg, battlefield preservation, Buford at Gettysburg, Cavalry at Gettysburg, Civil War Trust, Gettysburg, Gettysburg National Military Park, John Reynolds, McPherson Ridge, Oak Hill, Oak Ridge, Preservation, Robert Rodes
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Modern Photography: The Storm Was Already Here
The historiography of the American Civil War, particularly the numerous events that led to its outbreak and its opening scenes have been described in myriad ways over the past 150 years. A common description used time and again compared those … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged Gettysburg, Gettysburg National Military Park, modern-photography-17, storms
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Modern Photography: “On Great Fields, Something Stays” – My Time on Cemetery Ridge
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author (and photographer!) Kristen M. Trout On a warm, beautiful evening in September 2013, I stood on Cemetery Ridge, gazing at the glowing orange sunset over South Mountain. Seminary Ridge, the main position of the … Continue reading
A Visit to the Gettysburg Cyclorama
I’d seen the Gettysburg Cyclorama once before — while in high school and on my way to Washington, D.C.—but had virtually no appreciation for the events it displays. Suppressed by a senior trip agenda, my last stop in Gettysburg was … Continue reading
