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November beauty at the Mule Shoe
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Internet, Websites & Blogs
Tagged Landram House, Mule Shoe, Spotsylvania
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Accompanying Sedgwick’s Remains
A sharpshooter’s bullet struck and immediately killed Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick around 9:30 a.m. on May 9, 1864. Throughout the rest of the day, grieving members of the VI Corps paid their respects to their fallen general as his body … Continue reading
Alfred Waud’s Sketchy Spotsylvania (part one)
(part one in a series) In my capacity as historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge on the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield, I recently did some work to pin down the approximate location where IX Corps division commander Brig. Gen. Thomas Greely Stevenson … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Newspapers, Primary Sources
Tagged Advance on Spotsylvania, Alexander Webb, alfred waud, Battle of Todd's Tavern, Bloody Angle, Brown House, Fredericksburg Road, Harper's Weekly, Library of Congress, Mule Shoe Salient, Ny River, Spotsylvania, Todd's Tavern, Upton's Assault, Waud's-Sketchy-Spotsy
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Upton’s Attack at Spotsylvania: Modern Trail Map
I can safely speak for the Virginia cabal of Emerging Civil War that we are big fans of Emory Upton. An influential military tactician, he is probably best known for his assault on the western face of the mule shoe … Continue reading
With Sedgwick at Spotsylvania
Nothing like a monument dedication to spark some controversy. Subscribers to the National Tribune veterans’ newspaper or the Southern Historical Society Papers could expect a flurry of related articles immediately after a new monument appeared. John Watson Mauk, the Pennsylvania … Continue reading
At the Utterance of “Spottsylvania”
From The Thirty-Second Maine Regiment of Infantry Volunteers: An Historical Sketch by Henry C. Houston of Co. C (Portland, ME: Press of Southworth Brothers, 1903), pp. 144-145: The utterance of the single word “Spottsylvania” [sic] is enough to bring most … Continue reading
Book Review: “Emory Upton: Misunderstood Reformer”
Book Review by Emerging Civil War’s Derek Maxfield In the small Upstate New York city of Batavia, there are no historic heroes bigger than Emory Upton. You need look no farther than the larger than life statue honoring him … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Emory Upton, Harper Perennial, Misunderstood Reformer, Russell Weigley, Spotsylvania, Stephen E. Ambrose
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Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 3: Who Shot Major Ellis?
This is part three of a three-part series. Part one. Part two. For decades after William Ellis’s death, his story concluded for all but his mother. Later that month, August 1864, the already widowed Catharine Ellis began the process of … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Medical, Monuments, Newspapers
Tagged 16th Mississippi Infantry, 49th New York Infantry, 95th Pennsylvania Infantry, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Bloody Angle, G. Norton Galloway, John G. Darrah, Monuments, Pensions, ramrod, Richard T. Owen, Spotsylvania, Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Thomas T. Roche, Wiley Sword, William Ellis
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Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 1: Delayed Mortal Wounding at Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle
“This has been a Sabbath to me,” confessed Surgeon George T. Stevens to his wife, Harriet, in a letter written Thursday evening, August 4, 1864. “No day since the campaign commenced last May has seemed like Sabbath before, but this … Continue reading
ECW Symposium Traffic Alert
For all of you traveling to this weeks symposium: The Fourth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium is being held in Northern Virginia. Traffic in this area of the I-95 corridor can be EXTREMELY heavy on Friday afternoons/evenings, especially if you … Continue reading
