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ECW Weekender – Drewry’s Bluff
Drewry’s Bluff is the most unique and iconic location among Richmond National Battlefield Park’s thirteen units. The last stop on the Park Service’s recommended seventy-mile see-it-all driving tour, the site is certainly worth an extended visit on its own merits.
Reams Station Trail Map
Tomorrow marks the 154th anniversary of the Battle of Reams Station. The Union Fifth Corps cut the Petersburg & Weldon Railroad on August 18, 1864, and Confederate counteroffensives failed to drive them off the position. While Gouverneur Warren’s men built … Continue reading
Nelson Miles and the Bayonet in 1865
Prevailing opinion today suggests that a war that began in 1861 as one of bayonets and bravado on open battlefields transformed into trenches, firepower, and raids on supply by 1865. Frontal attacks had become a thing of the past and … Continue reading
Tracking Down the Wounding of Joe Johnston
We are pleased to welcome back guest author Doug Crenshaw, who shares with us today a bit of original research. It’s something that has puzzled me for years. The wounding of Joe Johnston was an event that changed the course … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Books & Authors, Engaging the Civil War Series, National Park Service
Tagged 4th Alabama, Doug Crenshaw, Drury Armistead, Fair Oaks, Joe Johnston, Joseph Johnston, maps, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, R. T. Coles, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Seven Pines, Stephen Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, Turning Points of the American Civil War
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Hand-Drawing the “Art” in Cartography
“Military works are almost universally lacking in adequate maps,” Brig. Gen. Vincent Esposito wrote in his Introduction to The West Point Atlas of American Wars (1959). Boy, was he right. How many times have we thought, while reading an otherwise fine campaign … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War Series
Tagged A Long and Bloody Task, All the Fighting They Want, Allen Tate, Atlanta Will Fall, cartography, Chattahoochee, Douglas Southall Freeman, Gary Joiner, Hal Jespersen, maps, Sharpsburg, Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier, Vincent Esposito, West Point Atlas of American Wars, Wilbur Kurtz
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McElfresh Maps the Civil War in Watercolor
by ECW Correspondent Amelia Kibbe Along the east side of North Union Street, one of the busiest streets in the small city of Olean, New York, in the back part of the first floor of an old, six-story building sits … Continue reading
Mapping the Petersburg Campaign: Sutherland Station
I have come to believe that the primary reason why Petersburg is an often overlooked campaign in the scope of the Civil War is the challenge of understanding its nine and a half month progression. There is no shortage of … Continue reading
The Wedge to Split the Confederacy
Sneak preview of my presentation at the Emerging Civil War Symposium later this summer. Click on the map for a larger version.
Review: The Maps of the Wilderness
The Wilderness Battlefield exhibit shelter sits in the middle of Saunders Field like a tiny oasis as the roar of Route 20 zooms by. The Wilderness is no longer wild these days, with vast gated communities hidden behind the trees. … Continue reading
A Conversation with Cartographer Hal Jespersen
By ECW Correspondent Jason Klaiber In 2003, Hal Jespersen stumbled upon Michael Shaara’s novel The Killer Angels. The book, which had won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975, tells a tale from the viewpoints of men belonging to the … Continue reading
