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Tag Archives: Port Hudson
Maine at War: January 2020
Here’s what our friend Brian Swartz was up to in January at his blog, Maine at War: January 1, 2020: Help erect the first Maine monument in the Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation is raising funds to erect … Continue reading
Maine at War: November 2019
Here’s what our friend Brian Swartz was up to in November at his blog Maine at War: November 6, 2019: Teen-aged Maine patriot wrote a song predicting his death A corporal with the 21st Maine infantry Regiment, Charles Morgan Searles wrote an … Continue reading
Saving History Saturday: One Community’s Effort to Honor a USCT Hero
Tucked away in the historic village of Sandwich, Massachusetts, is a worn-down headstone. This is no ordinary gravesite, though. In fact, it is the resting place of a Civil War hero – Sandwich’s only known African American Union soldier. While … Continue reading
Posted in Preservation
Tagged 1st LA Native Guard, Headstone, Port Hudson, Saving History Saturday, USCT
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Captain Emile Locoul and the Defense of St. James Parrish
Emile Locoul was a third generation Louisiana plantation owner. He was considered a Creole, which in Louisiana meant a person’s whose ancestors came when Louisiana was a colony and who maintained the colonial traditions. Most Creoles were of French, Spanish, … Continue reading
An Unknown Soldier At Port Hudson
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author Dan Wambaugh Major Edward Bacon was under arrest. Formerly commander of the 6th Michigan infantry, he had openly criticized his division commander Brigadier General William Dwight too many times during the course of the … Continue reading
Turning Point: Assault on Battery Wagner by the 54th Massachusetts
Around a small hamlet in southern Pennsylvania, Robert E. Lee’s vaunted Army of Northern Virginia was stymied and driven back after three days, July 1st through the 3rd, of bloodletting at the Battle of Gettysburg. A turning point in the … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Monuments, Slavery, USCT
Tagged 1863, 54th Massachusetts, African-American, Battery Wagner, Chicago Tribune, Douglas Egerton, Douglas R. Egerton, Edwin Stanton, Gettysburg, Horace Greeley, John Andrews, Joseph Holt, July 18, Medal of Honor, North, Port Hudson, Robert E. Lee, Robert Gould Shaw, Siege of Vicksburg, slavery, South Carolina, Southern, Thunder at the Gates, Tullahoma Campaign, Ulysses S. Grant, USCT, Vicksburg Campaign, William Harvey Carney
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A Conversation with Dave Roth (part five)
(The final part of a five-part series) “I have a couple more favorite issues I can share if you’d like,” Dave Roth said when I wrapped up yesterday’s segment of my interview with the editor and publisher of Blue & … Continue reading
East Pascagoula Raid
On April 9, 1863, the residents of East Pascagoula, Mississippi, had a day like no other. Union warships lurked offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Their presence was nothing abnormal for Southern residents along the coast. The Union military had … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Emerging Civil War, USCT
Tagged Benjamin Butler, East Pascagoula Raid, Louisiana Native Guards, National Park Service, Port Hudson, USCT
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The Season of Battles: Perspectives on the 1863 Campaigns
This year marks the 150th Anniversaries of some of the Civil War’s most iconic engagements. The sesquicentennial of Chancellorsville and Stonewall Jackson’s death has just passed, while the Vicksburg and Gettysburg commemorations are in the future, followed by Chickamauga. Yet … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Memory, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Chris Kolakowski, George Washington, Gettysburg, Henry Slocum, Jefferson Davis, John Parke, Knoxville, Otto von Bismarck, Philip Sheridan, Port Hudson, Siege of Chattanooga, Siege of Knoxville, Siege of Vicksburg, Stonewall Jackson, Tullahoma, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg
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