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Book Review: “Lincoln’s Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24—April 8, 1865”
The historiography of the United States’ 16th president is remarkable. For over 15,000 times, Abraham Lincoln has been the center of focus for historians and students of history. With such an overwhelming amount of research, one wonders if every stone … Continue reading
Fredericksburg, My Favorite City in Virginia (part three)
part three of five As a child in the D.C. public school system, I was in the honors track (there was an educational track system at that time). While in this program in Payne Elementary School and Eliot Junior High … Continue reading
The Ghosts of Crimea Before Richmond
When judging Civil War leaders, we sometimes look at them in isolation of a period or event, forgetting that they always act in accordance with the sum of their knowledge and experience to date. But remembering what has gone before … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Sieges
Tagged Army of the Potomac, British Army, cavalry, Crimea, Crimean War, Delafield Commission, French Army, George B. McClellan, George McClellan, Peninsula Campaign, Richmond, Sevastopol, Seven Days Battles, Yorktown
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“Little Photography in Jeffdom:” The Decline of Photography in the Civil War South
In 1862 Humphrey’s Journal of the Daguerreotype and Photographic Arts boasted that “The Photographic Art down South has completely died out in consequence of the war.”[i] Though an obvious overstatement, considering that southern photographers operated throughout the war, the journal … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Civil War Events, Civilian, Common Soldier, Economics, Leadership--Confederate, Lincoln, Material Culture, Memory, Newspapers, Personalities, Photography, Politics
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Antebellum, art, Charleston, Civil War, common soldiers, George S. Cook, Illustrated News, North, Photography, presidential election, Richmond, South
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ECW Weekender: Poe Museum
Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances in 1849—well before the Civil War. On a recent trip to Richmond, I nonetheless found a few surprising ancillary connections between the writer and the war. The connections all came through, … Continue reading
Posted in ECW Weekender, Monuments
Tagged Edgar Allan Poe, Edwin Booth, George Zolnay, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Poe Museum, Richmond
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Do You Know George Wythe?
Down the street from the Governor’s Palace in Colonial Williamsburg sits a two-story brick structure. Living historians, in first-person, debate the road to the American Revolution. But, who was George Wythe?
Richard Ewell’s Leg?
Confederate Major General Richard Stoddard Ewell was bending down, trying to see below the musket smoke and setting sun. The Battle of Groveton, one of the opening salvos in the Battle of Second Manassas had evolved into a stand-up, straight … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, National Park Service, Personalities
Tagged Auburn, Battle of Groveton, Battle of Second Bull Run, Battle of Second Manassas, Campbell Brown, Dr. Hunter McGuire, Gettysburg, Hunter Holmes McGuire, Lizinka Brown, Richard S. Ewell, Richmond, Robert E. Lee
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Question of the Week – 8/24-8/28
This week’s question comes from our own Ashley Webb. I recently visited Richmond for work, and as I was driving down Richmond’s Monument Avenue, I was struck, not by the ‘offensive’ nature of the Confederate statues lining the center of the … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, Preservation, Question of the Week, Ties to the War
Tagged monument avenue, Richmond
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What ESPN Classic Teaches Us About Civil War History
Hindsight is always 20/20. We look back at historic events possessing information not available to the participants. In hindsight, things that were important at the time have faded while others assume a larger importance. I suggest we need to try … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Politics, Ties to the War
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Stones River, Chattanooga, Emancipation Proclamation, Grant, Irvin McDowell, manassas, Richmond, Robert E. Lee, Wayne Gretzky
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