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BookChat with Adam Petty, Author of The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historian Adam Petty, The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory (LSU Press, 2019). I reviewed the booked for the spring 2020 edition of Louisiana State … Continue reading
Getting Un-lost in the Wilderness
As I have gotten older, I have become a much more tactile person when it comes to understanding history. I still greatly enjoy a good book, and sometimes that’s the only way that you can experience it, but it has … Continue reading
The First Day at Chancellorsville Battlefield
Fighting at Chancellorsville opened on the morning of May 1, 1863, along the Orange Turnpike and the Orange Plank Road. Today, the property where fighting took place along the turnpike—now Route 3—is preserved thanks to the efforts of the Civil … Continue reading
Wilderness and Beauty
I’ve been in the Wilderness a lot lately, shooting photos for an upcoming book I’m working on for the Emerging Civil War Series. It seems like I’ve been writing about the Wilderness for so long that, almost by rote, I … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Photography
Tagged Emerging Civil War Series, the Wilderness, wilderness
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Registration is Open for the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium
All of us at Emerging Civil War are proud to announce that the registration for the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge is now open! Our Early Bird registration rate is just $75.00 per person, and ends … Continue reading
Posted in Speakers Bureau, Symposium, Upcoming Events
Tagged Chris Kolakowski, Chris Mackowski; Kristopher D. White, Edward Alexander, Eric Wittenberg, First Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, James Longstreet, Jim Ogden, Matt Atkinson, New Orleans, Second Battle of Fredericksburg, Second Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Stevenson Ridge, the Wilderness, Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge
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James Wilson and the Battle of Nashville, Part I
The weather was gradually changing, perhaps for the better. For several days, the Union troopers had been pelted with snow and sleet. It had been so harsh that only the woodcutters had been out in the precipitation. With a thaw … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Sesquicentennial, Western Theater
Tagged Battle of Franklin, Edgefield, Edward Hatch, George Thomas, James Harrison Wilson, John Bell Hood, John Croxton, John Schofield, Judson Kilpatrick, March to the Sea, Spring Hill, Tennessee, the Wilderness, Third Winchester, Vicksburg Campaign, William T. Sherman, Wilson-Kautz Raid, Yellow Tavern
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Death of a Hero
I wonder if I could ever convey to another–to you, for instance, Reader dear–the tender and terrible realities of such cases, (many, many happen’d,) as the one I am now going to mention……..Stewart C. Glover, Co. E., Fifth Wisconsin–was wounded, … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Books & Authors, Civil War Events, Civilian, Common Soldier, Medical, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Battle of the Wilderness, C. Glover, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, John Glover, Memory, Sesquicentennial, the Wilderness, Walt Whitman, Wisconsin
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Mystery in the Wilderness: Where is Stonewall’s Arm?
In case you haven’t seen it yet, check out the April 2013 issue of Civil War Times, which asks on its cover, “Where is Stonewall’s Arm?” ECW co-founder Chris Mackowski penned the article, titled “Mystery in the Wilderness,” which chronicles … Continue reading
