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Tag Archives: John Mosby
“By His Aid was that Flag Preserved”: The Shenandoah Valley’s African Americans’ Support for the Union War Effort
ECW is pleased to welcome back our friend Jonathan A. Noyalas, director of the McCormick Civil War Institute at Shenandoah University. This article is adapted from portions of Noyalas’ recently released Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Slavery, USCT
Tagged 11th Pennsylvania Infantry, 13th Pennsylvania Infantry, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, African Americans, Darkesville, emancipation, George Crook, Henry K. Young, Henry Pancake, John Mosby, Jonathan Noyalas, Joseph Kershaw, Jubal Early, Kabletown, McCormick Civil War Institute, Mosby's Guerills, Nathaniel P. Banks, Phill Sheridan, Rebecca Wright, Richard Blazer, Robert Gould Shaw, Shenandoah University, Shenandoah Valley, Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era, Thomas Coles, Thomas Laws, United States Colored Troops, W.U. Saunders, Wilfred Cutshaw
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Manticores, Myths, and Memory (part two)
(Part two 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 yesterday’s opening … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Memory, Personalities
Tagged E. L. Doctorow, Ed Caudill, Engaging with the Civil War Series, Forrest Gump, Frederick Whittaker, George Armstrong Cuter, Gone with the Wind, Harry Turtledove, Inventing Custer, John Mosby, Little Bighorn, Manticore Quartet, manticores, manticores-myths-and-memory, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Paul Ashdown, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, The Gray Ghost, The March, Twilight Zone, William Faulkner, William T. Sherman, Winston Groom
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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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William McLain: On the Subject of Surrendering
ECW welcomes guest author Dan Masters. By August 1864, William Mosby McLain of Co. B, 32nd Ohio Infantry had become an expert on the ins and outs of surrendering. Having taken part in two of the largest mass surrenders of … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Primary Sources
Tagged Battle of Atlanta, Battle of Harpers Ferry, John Mosby, Siege of Vicksburg, Surrender
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Primary Sources: Slavery as the Cause of the Civil War
Last week, I had someone challenge me on Facebook about the cause of the Civil War. Because slavery wasn’t a cause of the war, he said, the point I was trying to make was moot. “It wasn’t *a* cause of … Continue reading
The Heroics of Capt. John Woodward, 1st Vermont Cavalry
On March 2, 1863, fifty-nine troopers of the 1st Vermont Cavalry trotted into Aldie and stopped at the village’s prominent mill to rest. Suddenly and unexpectedly, two Vermont scouts on the northwest end of town stumbled into an advancing force … Continue reading
“I Intend to Make the Yankees Pay”: Surprise at Verdiersville
Part two. You may read Part 1 here. Robert E. Lee had already decided on a course of action by the time Maj. Gen. Jeb Stuart arrived at his headquarters around noon on August 17 outside Orange Court House. Facing … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate
Tagged 1st Michigan Cavalry, 5th New York Cavalry, Fitzhugh Lee, Heros von Borcke, JEB Stuart, John Mosby, John Pope, Norman Fitzhugh, Robert E. Lee, Robert Toombs, Thornton Brodhead
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John Mosby & The Partisan Rangers
ECW is pleased to welcome back guest author Bill Backus In early March 1864, Lieutenant Charles White led a detachment of 40 troopers from the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry from their encampment near Bristoe Station. Their mission was to scour the … Continue reading
The Mosby Heritage Area Association
For Kevin Pawlak, history is a story. And much like tales of princesses and knights, he said historic accounts have the ability to impassion people, too. Pawlak, education specialist for the Mosby Heritage Area Association, said the organization focuses on … Continue reading
Captain John Hanson McNeill and the McNeill Rangers: Rebel Strike Force Supreme
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Richard Chapman When discussing great Confederate independent cavalry raiders in the Civil War, it seems that they have three parts to their name: General John Hunt Morgan, Colonel John Singleton Mosby, and … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Cavalry, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Benjamin Kelley, George Crook, Grumble Jones, Jessie McNeil, john hunt morgan, John Imboden, John McNeil, John Mosby, Libby Prison, McNeill's Rangers, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Richard S. Ewell, Robert E. Lee, Wilson's Creek
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