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“At Liberty Gap . . . Every Man is a Hero”: The Story of an Ohio Soldier
While I have spent many years collecting Civil War artifacts and photographs, at some point I made a conscious decision to limit the scope of my collection to only those items from a specific geographic area, namely southeastern Ohio and … Continue reading
Maine at War: February 2021
Here’s what our friend Brian Swartz was up to in February at his blog, Maine at War: February 3, 2021: The 4th Maine’s Johnnies come marching home, part 2 A local band plays an appropriate tune as the 4th Maine … Continue reading
Not Written in Letters of Blood: Tullahoma
On July 7, 1863, William Rosecrans, in reply to a telegram from Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, wrote: “I beg in [sic] behalf of this army that the War Department may not overlook so great an event because it is … Continue reading
Mapping the Tullahoma Campaign
As the presentations from this year’s Emerging Civil War Symposium air on C-Span3 I will publish the map I made to accompany each talk. Because our theme this year was “Forgotten Battles” I knew that some of the topics might … Continue reading
ECW on C-SPAN 3
The first of our segments from the Sixth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge airs this weekend on C-SPAN 3. Our theme was Forgotten Battles, and this week’s forgotten battle comes from central Tennessee. The Tullahoma Campaign, presented … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Symposium
Tagged C-SPAN, Chris Kolakowski, Symposium 2019, Tullahoma, Tullahoma Campaign
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Podcast Additional Resources: “Forgotten? The Tullahoma Campaign”
Let’s giveaway some information and links for the additional resources related to our newest podcast! (Yeah, we know the additional resources usually appear on the blog on the following week after the new podcast’s release, but as we checked the … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Podcast
Tagged ECW Podcast, podcast resources, Tennessee, Tullahoma, Tullahoma Campaign, Western theater
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ECW Podcast “Forgotten? The Tullahoma Campaign” Is Now Available
It’s the last ECW Podcast of 2018 and a conversation you won’t want to miss! (Don’t worry we’ve got more episodes in the works for 2019!) While everyone remembers Gettysburg and Vicksburg, a lot of people forget Tullahoma, which took … Continue reading
Posted in Podcast
Tagged Chris Kolakowski, ECW Podcast, Emerging Civil War Podcast, Podcast, Tullahoma, Tullahoma Campaign
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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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The Battle of Shelbyville
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Sean Michael Chick One of the most dramatic and decisive cavalry clashes of the American Civil War occurred at Shelbyville on Sunday, June 27, 1863. John A. Wyeth of 4th Alabama … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal
Tagged 18th Ohio Artillery, 2nd Michigan Cavalry, 3rd Alabama Cavalry, 3rd Indiana Cavalry, 4th Michigan Cavalry, 4th U.S. Cavalry, 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Army of Tennessee, Army of the Cumberland, Battle of Shelbyville, Braxton Bragg, David Stanley, Gilley's Gap, Gordon Granger, Hoover's Gap, Joseph Wheeler, Liberty Gap, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Robert Minty, Robert Mitchell, Tullahoma Campaign, William Martin, William Rosecrans
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Seward’s Folly at 150
150 years ago yesterday, the United States concluded the treaty transferring Alaska from Russia to the United States. On April 9 (the second anniversary of Appomattox), the Senate ratified the deal.
