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“A Piece of Bone,” Bishop Polk, and the National Tribune
Editor’s note: Stephen Davis’ forthcoming book, The National Tribune Remembers the Atlanta Campaign, will be published next year by Savas Beatie. The National Tribune, a weekly newspaper published in Washington from 1877 to 1943, was arguably the most comprehensive repository … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Newspapers, Primary Sources
Tagged 15th Wisconsin, Albert Castel, Atlanta Campaign, Bishop Polk, Confederate Veteran, David Conyngham, David Stanley, George Thomas, Joseph Johnston, Leonidas Polk, National Tribune, New York Herald, Pine Mountain, Richard Sauers, Savas Beatie, Southern Historical Society Papers
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Favorite Soldier Memoirs
In his self-published book An Epic on “Old Abe,” The War Eagle (The War Eagle Book Association, 1894), S. C. Miles, a veteran of the 8th Wisconsin, extolled the virtue of first-person accounts of the war. Such accounts required “no … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Primary Sources
Tagged Civil War News, Daniel Holt, Jack Melton, John Haley, Live Eagle Brigade, Memoirs, National Tribune, Old Abe war eagle, Rice Bull, S. C. Miles, soldier memoirs, The Rebel Yell & The Yankee Hurrah, The Valiant Hours, Theodore Lyman, Thomas Francis Galwey, Wilbur Fisk, Wisconsin Historical Society
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Good Words from a Johnny
I’m working on a book for Savas Beatie tentatively titled “The National Tribune Remembers the Atlanta Campaign.” In the National Tribune of Jan. 27, 1898, I came came across this sad tale of a Union veteran. The “Good Words from … Continue reading
“Sublime but Dismal Grandeur”: The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi
“There are some slight errors in history in regard to the capture of Jackson, which I will take opportunity to correct,” declared Samuel C. Miles, a veteran of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry, in a 1893 letter to the National Tribune. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier, Memory, Newspapers
Tagged 8th Wisconsin, Battle of Jackson, Jackson Mississippi, James McPherson, James Tuttle, Joe Johnston, John Gregg, Joseph E. Johnston, Joseph Mower, Live Eagle Brigade, National Tribune, Old Abe war eagle, S. C. Miles, Samuel Miles, Vicksburg Campaign, William T. Sherman
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Who Was First at Gettysburg?
When one thinks of the red corps badge of the First Division, First Corps of the Army of the Potomac, the mind immediately jumps to everyone’s favorite black hat wearing westerners, the First Brigade, the Iron Brigade. However, another group … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Memory
Tagged 147th New York, 14th Brooklyn, 2nd Mississippi, 2nd Wisconsin, 42nd Mississippi, 55th North Carolina, 76th New York, 7th Indiana, 7th Wisconsin, 95th New York, Andrew Grover, Battle of Gettysburg, Iron Brigade, John Hofmann, Lysander Cutler, National Tribune
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Return to Burgess Mill
“I am now outside the main rebel line, moving southwesterly over the old Boydton Plank Road, which has ceased to have any vestige of a plank crossing it as long ago when the war was on. There is now nothing … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Fields: Where the 3rd Wisconsin’s Reconnaissance Fought at Cedar Mountain
ECW welcomes back guest author Chris Bryan As a four-hour artillery duel raged on the sweltering afternoon of August 9, 1862, Union and Confederate infantry under Major Generals Nathaniel Banks and Thomas J. Jackson arrived on the fields north of … Continue reading
C’mon, Cump!
In his recent, admiring biography of William Tecumseh Sherman, Brian Holden Reid terms him a “dazzling literary stylist.” Well, watch out for that razzle-dazzle, at least in Sherman’s Memoirs (1875). I am not the first to notice that in his … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Primary Sources
Tagged Albert Castel, Alpheus Williams, Atlanta Campaign, B. A. Dunn, Brian Holden Reid, Cump, Daniel Butterfield, Jefferson C. Davis, Kennesaw Mountain, National Tribune, New Hope Church, Oliver O. Howard, Patrick Cleburne, Pickett's Mill, Prevaricating Through Georgia, Resaca, sherman's memoirs, Thomas Wood, William T. Sherman
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The Many Deaths of A.P. Hill
I hope to share more about the story of A.P. Hill’s death at this year’s Symposium. Previous historians and two of the participants themselves have ironed out the well-known event, so I am basing my presentation on the sequence through … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Memory, Newspapers
Tagged A.P. Hill, Fort Gregg, Fort Mahone, National Tribune, Petersburg
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Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard in the National Tribune
I’m doing a lot of reading in the National Tribune, “the premier newspaper published for Union veterans” in Washington, 1877-1943. This is thanks to 1) its availability online and 2) Dr. Richard A. Sauers’ comprehensive index to all of its … Continue reading
