Tag Archives: Union veterans

A Yankee Officer’s Words: A Reflection For Veterans Day

Posted on November 11, 2018 by ECW Guest Post

ECW welcomes back guest author Rob Wilson A recent New Yorker story I read about the hundredth anniversary of Armistice Day –  November 11 – reminded me of the human cost of World War I: the lost lives of 9.7 … Continue reading →

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ECW Weekender: John Wesley Powell River History Museum

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Sarah Kay Bierle

If you’re ever traveling cross-country on Interstate 70 through Utah and Colorado, you’ll reach Green River, Utah, either just before or after crossing the “hundred miles of nothin’.” Here, in this little river town, you’ll find a local museum named … Continue reading →

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Review: “A Not So Happy Ending”

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Derek Maxfield

Review of Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, by Brian Matthew Jordan The devastation of the American Civil War is well known; casualties in that fraternal bloodbath exceeded 750,000 and the South was wrecked. Less known and … Continue reading →

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Hood Remembered: Meg Groeling

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Meg Groeling

It is not two years since the sight of a person who had lost one of his lower limbs was an infrequent occurrence. Now, Alas! there are few of us who have not a cripple among our friends if not … Continue reading →

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