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Tag Archives: Trans-Mississippi
Question of the Week: 2/25-3/3/19
The Trans-Mississippi theater of the war encompasses the region and military actions west of the Mississippi River. Who is your favorite commander in that area? Why? And if you need a reminder for some of the major campaigns and actions, … Continue reading
Posted in Question of the Week, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged Question of the Week, Trans-Mississippi
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A Father’s Legacy: Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. and Jr.
On January 8, 1914, Simon Bolivar Buckner died. He was the last surviving Confederate lieutenant general, and was buried in Frankfort, Kentucky’s cemetery with considerable ceremony. Born in 1823, in Munfordville, Kentucky, he was named in honor of Simon Bolivar, … Continue reading
The Grinch of St. Joseph, Missouri
Nearly 100 years before the 1957 classic Dr. Seuss book appeared on the shelves, there was another Grinch who lived in the frontier town of St. Joseph, Missouri during the Civil War. Typically, we think of Christmas during the Civil … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Newspapers, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged Civil War Christmas, Missouri, St. Joseph, Trans-Mississippi
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Question of the Week: 10/2-10/8/17
Do you have a favorite Civil War battle to study in the Trans-Mississippi Region? Or favorite battlefield to visit in that region?
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Question of the Week
Tagged battlefields, Trans-Mississippi
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A Monumental Discussion: Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Matthew Christopher Hulbert, PhD, a colleague of Emerging Civil War’s through our “Engaging the Civil War” series, teaches history at Texas A&M-Kingsville. He has produced two books on guerrilla warfare in the Civil War, and his essays have appeared in … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged 39th Missouri Mounted Infantry, Centralia, Confederate monuments, Dave Poole, George Todd, guerrilla warfare, Lone Chimney, Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Missouri, monumental-discussion, National Park Service, Thomas Ewing, Trans-Mississippi, William "Bloody Bill" Anderson
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WHM Profile: Kristen Trout
by ECW Correspondent Emily Losito Although the Missouri Civil War Museum in St. Louis has only been open for four years, Kristen Trout has been working there a lot longer. When she was younger, Trout helped her father out at … Continue reading
Kit Carson’s Civil War: Learning to Command, Administration and Training
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Ray Shortridge. Part one in a series. In early July, 1861, Henry Hopkins Sibley met with Jefferson Davis in Richmond. He had resigned from the United States Army while serving as a … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities
Tagged 1s New Mexico Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Edward Canby, Fort Craig, Fort Union, Henry Sibley, Jefferson Davis, John Fremont, Kit Carson, Kit-Carson's-Civil-War, Stephen Kearny, Trans-Mississippi
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Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost: The Conclusion to a Series
The conclusion of a series. This series was put together from one of my extended graduate school research papers. The sources used were the current research between 2007-2008, obviously the historiography of the Civil War expands on a monthly basis, … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Western Theater
Tagged Antietam, Battle of Chickamauga, Blue and Gray Magazine, Bruce Catton, Dave Roth, Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, Fredericksburg, George Thomas, Gettysburg, Gettysburg the Movie, John Badger Bachelder, Joseph Glatthaar, Joseph Johnston, Ken Burns, manassas, Robert E. Lee, Shelby Foote, Trans-Mississippi
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