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Tag Archives: Jubal Early
Robert E. Lee as a “Fallen Leader”?
I’m working on a volume for the Emerging Civil War 10th Anniversary Series on “Fallen Leaders.” As we did with last year’s symposium, the book considers leaders who not only fell, dead or wounded, on the battlefield but those who … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Memory
Tagged Allen Guelzo, Frederick Douglass, Jubal Early, Robert E. Lee, treason, Ty Seidule, W.E.B. DuBois
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Flag for a Fallen Florida Colonel
On May 5, 1862, during the fierce fighting that erupted around Williamsburg, Virginia, the first regimental commander of the 2nd Florida was shot and killed. Colonel George Taliaferro Ward, who as a representative to Florida’s secession convention, and who was … Continue reading
“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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The Confederate Army Never Invaded the U. S. Capitol. On January 6, 2021, Their Battle Flag Was There.
On January 6, 2021, I was appalled to see that the United States Capitol was invaded and trashed, with people killed. Americans did this to their own Capitol because of lies told by the President and his supporters. On top of … Continue reading
Posted in Slavery, Ties to the War
Tagged assault on the capitol, Battle of Fort Stevens, Confederate Flag, insurrection, Jubal Early, racism
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Jubal Early’s Charmed Existence in the Summer of 1862
ECW welcomes guest author Chris Bryan Brigadier General Jubal Early, and his brigade, faced tight spots on numerous battlefields in August and September 1862. These events occurred during a period when the brigade also fought at Kettle Run, Groveton, and … Continue reading
The Second Seminole War as a Civil War Training Ground
In the popular narrative of the coming of the Civil War, the U.S.-Mexico War is often identified as the military crucible through which many of the war’s most famous battlefield leaders first passed—gaining lessons in leadership and combat operations under … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Ties to the War
Tagged Braxton Bragg, C. S. Monaco, Cecily Nelson Zander, Cecily Zander, Col. Duncan L. Clinch, Everglades, Florida, George G. Meade, George H. Thomas, John K. Mahon, John Sherman, Joseph E. Johnston, Joseph Hooker, Jubal Early, Mexican-American War, Robert Anderson, Rock of Chickamauga, Second Seminole War, Seminole Nation, U.S.-Mexico War, Vera Cruz, William T. Sherman, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor
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