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A Chronology of the Confederacy’s 1862 Counterstrokes
Several months ago, I crossed an item off my Civil War bucket list: visiting the Perryville battlefield. While at the visitor center, I watched a video which put the Confederate invasion of Kentucky into the larger context of the war. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Baton Rouge, Battle of Chantilly, Battle of Charleston, Battle of Corinth, Battle of Harpers Ferry, Battle of Iuka, Battle of Munfordville, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Prairie Grove, Battle of Richmond, Battle of Second Bull Run, Battle of Second Manassas, Battle of South Mountain, Braxton Bragg, Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap, Don Carlos Buell, Earl Van Dorn, Edmund Kirby Smith, foreign intervention, France, Francis Herron, George B. McClellan, Great Britain, Great Britain and the Civil War, Henry Halleck, James Blunt, Jefferson Davis, John Breckinridge, John Pope, Kanawha Valley Campaign, Kentucky, Lord Palmerston, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Robert E. Lee, Russia, Sterling Price, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Hindman, William Loring, William S. Rosecrans, Winchester
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Braxton Bragg’s Beach Vacation – Pensacola in the Early Months of the Civil War
Even the most casual of Civil War buffs knows that the war began in Charleston, South Carolina – when Confederate batteries opened fire on the Union-occupied Fort Sumter and its 85 defenders. Many may also know that war had an … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate
Tagged Braxton Bragg, Confederate women, Florida, Fort Pickens, Jefferson Davis, nationalism, Pensacola
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Book Review: Kill Jeff Davis: The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864
Kill Jeff Davis: The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864 By Bruce M. Venter University of Oklahoma Press, 2016 $23.99 hardcover Reviewed by Doug Crenshaw Judson Kilpatrick’s 1864 raid on Richmond is often overlooked by those who study the war in … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Cavalry
Tagged Book Review, Jefferson Davis, Kill Jeff Davis, Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, Richmond, Union Cavalry
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The Stephen Mallory You May Not Have Known
Little did I know that when I took the job as a park ranger at Everglades National Park I would come into contact, via research, with a name more familiar and associated with Civil War history than the history of … Continue reading
Echoes of Reconstruction: Challenges for Frederick Douglass Post-War: Black Equality & the Memory of Lee
ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog I sometimes hear comedians joke that Black History Month, celebrated annually in February, is during the shortest month of the year. Rather than being emblematic of a slight, February was chosen … Continue reading
BookChat with Lucas Morel, author of Lincoln and the American Founding
I was pleased to spend some time with a recently released book by historian Lucas E. Morel, author of Lincoln and the American Founding, part of the Concise Lincoln Library from Southern Illinois University Press (find out more about it … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Stephens, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Concise Lincoln Library, Cornerstone Speech, Declaration of Independence, Founding Fathers, George Washington, Gettysburg Address, Invisible Man, Jefferson Davis, Ralph Ellison, Roger B. Taney, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, Stephen Douglas, Thomas Jefferson
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A Rope of Sand: Some thoughts on America after Confederate Independence
ECW welcomes guest author Jim Morgan “A Southern Republic will be worse than a rope of sand with South Carolina at its head – arrogant, self-willed and dictatorial as she is.” –Former North Carolina Attorney General, Bartholomew F. Moore, December, … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged Cuba, Gettysburg, Jefferson Davis, Joseph Brown, MacKinlay Kantor, New Orleans, Richmond, Russia, South Carolina, Texas
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A Gem from the Gilder Lehrman
A century and a half after the war, we’re still finding cool stuff. I’ll give an example from my new book, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer, 2019). In my research I was perusing Kirk … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Western Theater
Tagged A. P. Stewart, Alinda Borell, Atlanta Campaign, Gilder Lehrman Institute, James Chesnut, Jefferson Davis, John Bell Hood, Krik Denkler, Mary Chesnut, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood, Voices of the Civil War: Atlanta
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Invading the North and Protecting the Capital
On June 5, 1862, as he settled into his new command of the Confederate army outside Richmond, Robert E. Lee contemplated his next moves. For starters, he put his men to the shovel building defensive fortifications—a course of action that … Continue reading
