Tag Archives: Memory

Saving History Saturday: Fredericksburg, Virginia to Move Slave Auction Block

Posted on June 15, 2019 by Emerging Civil War

On Tuesday, June 11, the Fredericksburg City Council voted 6 to 1 to remove and relocate the city’s well-known slave auction block. Located at the corner of William and Charles Streets in downtown Fredericksburg, the block has been the source … Continue reading →

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Albert Sidney Johnston Stumped at Shiloh

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Chris Mackowski

Imagine your job is to go around an unmarked battlefield and mark the places where significant events happened. Yes, you were there at the time of the fight, but of course, things were a bit confusing at the time and … Continue reading →

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Fort Monroe: History & Personal Reflections

Posted on January 29, 2019 by ECW Guest Post

Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author Michael Nelson. The Fort’s Story I spent nearly two years working at Fort Monroe National Monument as a communications assistant in the Casemate Museum. The museum covers over 400 years of history at Fort … Continue reading →

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ECW Weekender: Wisconsin Veterans Museum

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Paige Gibbons Backus

While home for the holidays in Wisconsin, I always try to do something historic like visit a museum, explore a city, or go to a brewery. This year, with the World War I centennial and the newly released documentary, They … Continue reading →

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Grant In Egypt

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

The painted eyes stared back at me from the centuries old alabaster face. The face of a king, a human believed by his subjects to be a god on earth. The Civil War did not feel so far away when … Continue reading →

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Christmas in the Hospitals: Bringing Cheer to a Dreary Holidays

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Paige Gibbons Backus

It is never fun to spend the holidays in the hospital and it was no different during the Civil War. Soldiers in pain from battle wounds or suffering from diseases or infections, sometimes exasperated by wartime shortages, made the holiday … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on “Madame Castel’s Lodger”

Posted on October 8, 2018 by SeanMichaelChick

New Orleans has produced a fair number of notable authors, in particular George Washington Cable, John Kennedy Toole, and Anne Rice. However, it is more famous as the inspiration for writers of the first rank: Thomas “Tennessee” Williams III, William … Continue reading →

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Mistake or Cover Up? Seven Pines, May 31, 1862

Posted on October 3, 2018 by dcrenshawjr

In late May 1862 George McClellan’s massive army was at the outskirts of Richmond, trying to move a few miles closer to the city so it could employ its massive siege guns. Confederate commander Joseph E. Johnston was desperately searching … Continue reading →

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Foraging With The 1st West Virginia Artillery

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Sarah Kay Bierle

In August 1912, C.H. Senseney delivered an address on the fiftieth anniversary of the enlistment of Battery D of the 1st West Virginia Artillery. His reminiscence speech was later printed and bound in a booklet form, and I was lucky … 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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