Tag Archives: Kristen Pawlak

2018 Year in Review: #8

Posted on December 27, 2018 by Emerging Civil War

As we continue to count down the ten most-read posts from 2018, we head to the Trans-Mississippi Theater: #8 Sherman’s Visit to the Wilson’s Creek Battlefield in 1885 by Kristen Pawlak (Sept. 5, 2018) In 1885, William T. Sherman “desired … Continue reading →

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ECW Welcomes Kristen M. Pawlak

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Emerging Civil War

Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome Kristen M. Pawlak as author and editor. She will be serving as our new preservation editor! As a historian of the Civil War in Missouri and the Trans-Mississippi West, as well as having … Continue reading →

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Railroads: Lyon’s Life Line

Posted on October 31, 2018 by ECW Guest Post

ECW welcomes back guest author Kristen M. Pawlak On July 7, 1861, Captain Chester Harding wrote to Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas in Washington, DC, laying out the movements of the Federal Army of the West en route to destroy Confederate General … Continue reading →

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Sherman’s Visit to the Wilson’s Creek Battlefield in 1885

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Kristen Pawlak

ECW welcomes back guest author Kristen M. Pawlak Ever since the guns were silenced in the spring of 1865, veterans and civilians alike trek the battlefields of the Civil War to inspire them and understand the carnage and sacrifice that … Continue reading →

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“To save the further effusion of blood”: Major General John S. Bowen and the Surrender of Vicksburg

Posted on July 9, 2018 by ECW Guest Post

Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Kristen M. Pawlak On July 3, 1863, Major General John S. Bowen and Lieutenant Colonel Louis Montgomery entered the Union siege lines surrounding Vicksburg to deliver a message from Army of Mississippi Lieutenant … Continue reading →

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Artillery: The Pulaski Light Artillery Battery’s Trial by Fire at Wilson’s Creek

Posted on June 23, 2018 by ECW Guest Post

ECW welcomes back Kristen Pawlak Before dawn on the morning of August 10, 1861, the men of Capt. William E. Woodruff’s Pulaski Light Artillery Battery prepared their breakfast of green corn foraged from the farm fields in the Wilson’s Creek … Continue reading →

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The Mississippi River Squadron and the “Great Artery of America” (Part 2)

Posted on April 5, 2018 by ECW Guest Post

Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Kristen M. Pawlak Part 1 can be found here. As the first of the major naval battles to secure the Mississippi River from 1862 until 1863, Fort Henry also marked a turning point … Continue reading →

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The Mississippi River Squadron and the “Great Artery of America” (Part 1)

Posted on April 4, 2018 by ECW Guest Post

Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Kristen M. Pawlak On June 10, 1862, mere months before the Army of the Tennessee launched its initial operations against the Confederate fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi, newly-promoted Major General William T. Sherman penned … Continue reading →

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They Fell On The Fields Of Antietam

Posted on September 28, 2017 by ECW Guest Post

Emerging Civil War welcomes back Kristen M. Pawlak (Trout) On the fields to the east of the small western-Maryland hamlet of Sharpsburg and interposed between the Potomac River and Antietam Creek, just under four thousand Federal and Rebel troops lay … Continue reading →

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