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Dranesville: A Troubled Town, Part 3
Part three in a series. Part One is here, and Part Two is here. War had come, and the people of Herkimer County, New York answered. Located towards the center of the state, the New Yorkers soon heard of Lincoln’s … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles
Tagged 34th New York Infantry, Battle of Ball's Bluff, Charles P. Stone, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Christian Zugg, Cyrus Kellogg, Dranesville, Dranesville Home Guard, Fairfax Court House, Herkimer County, Lowe's Island, Maryland, McCarthy Lowe, New York, Oliver Darling, Robert Gracey, Seneca Mills, Stephen Farr, Wells Sponable, William Bailey, William Day, William LaDue
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Voices of the Maryland Campaign: September 5, 1862
While Confederate soldiers under “Stonewall” Jackson’s command poured across the Potomac River, Federal forces inside Washington’s fortifications continued to sort themselves out. President Lincoln met Ambrose Burnside this morning, offering him command of the army tasked with marching into Maryland … Continue reading
“A Time For Prayer And Sacrifice” – An Unpublished Account of the Pratt Street Riot, April 19, 1861
Emerging Civil War welcomes Jon-Erik M. Gilot When Sister Marie Therese Rainey, VHM, Order of the Visitation, passed away in January 2000, in Wheeling, West Virginia, she left a secret under her bed. Sister Marie had been living at Mount … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Primary Sources
Tagged 6th Massachusetts Infantry, baltimore, baltimore monastery, baltimore riot, Catholic, civil war religion, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, Georgetown Visitation Monastery, Maryland, pratt street riot, sister marie therese, sisters of the baltimore visitation monastery
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ECW Weekender: National Cryptologic Museum
Want to look into the shadowy world of code-breaking and national security? Wondering what spies used for codes and code-breaking during the Civil War? A field trip to the National Cryptologic Museum near Fort Meade, Maryland, might be the perfect … Continue reading
Mourning a Friend
Peter Vredenburgh, Jr. died almost 130 years before I was born. And yet, as I read his letters from the Civil War, I found myself identifying with Vredenburgh and thinking of him as a close companion. Which perhaps explains why, … Continue reading
A Quiet Corner of the War
I recently had the chance to spend some time in Montgomery County, Maryland, just east of Washington, DC. I’m usually driving through on my way somewhere, so have never explored the area’s history very much. This particular day I was … Continue reading
The Blue and Gray
At last weekend’s symposium, several people asked me about my lapel pin, which is a Korean taeguk of blue and gray swirls chasing each other – the classic “yin and yang” shape. (It is pictured below.) I periodically wear the … Continue reading
James Monroe at War
Part Two With an excess of officers in the Continental Army and little prospect of getting a field command, James Monroe resigned his commission in 1779. He became a Lieutenant-Colonel of Virginia forces, but was unable to recruit enough … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Revolutionary War
Tagged baltimore, Battle of Bladensburg, Benedict, British Invasion 1814, Fort McHenry, Independence Day, James Madison, James Monroe, James Monroe Museum, Maryland, Monroe Doctrine, President James Monroe, Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War Wednesdays, Scott Harris, Society of Cincinnati, Thomas Jefferson, Treaty of Ghent, War of 1812, Washington D.C.
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“I Am Not Glad To See You By a Damned Sight.”
This is another post in the series “Tales From the Tombstone.“ James Jay Archer the lifelong bachelor born at Stafford near Havre de Grace in northeastern Maryland on December 19, 1817 came from a military family. The apple did not … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Monuments, Personalities
Tagged Abner Doubleday, Army of Northern Virginia, Battle of Gettysburg, Fort Delaware, James J. Archer, Johnson Island, Maryland, Robert E. Lee, Siege of Petersburg, Stonewall Jackson, Willoughby Run
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