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Tag Archives: Western theater
My Bridge: Moving Beyond Virginia
No, it’s not literally my bridge, but this structure – which I’ve yet to see on location – has become a symbol and inspiration. I’ll try to explain…
Question of the Week: 3/18-3/24/19
Who is your favorite commander that fought in both eastern and western theaters of the Civil War? Why?
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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Question of the Week: 12/17-12/23/18
We’ve been talking about the Battle of Fredericksburg a lot recently…so let’s give the Western Theater and campaigns in the deep South some attention. In your opinion, which winter battle/campaign in those regions was most important? Why?
Posted in Question of the Week, Western Theater
Tagged Question of the Week, Western theater, winter
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ECW5: Dan Davis
If I had to choose one memory (although there are a bunch I could have gone with) it is the Western Tour that Chris Mackowski and I did last May/June.
Editing the Civil War in the Heartland
Since becoming co-editor of his own Civil War book series, Charles “Chuck” Grear seems like a kid in an 1860s-era candy store. Except, of course, Grear is 39 and it’s books, not candy, that has him so delighted. There are … Continue reading
“The Kind of Whom Heroes are Made”
150 years ago today, one of the rising stars of the Union army died along a lonely stretch of road west of Rome, Georgia. Twenty-nine-year-old Bvt. Maj. Gen. Thomas E.G. Ransom passed away from the effects of dysentery. It would … Continue reading
Review—Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
Today we are pleased to welcome guest author Derek D. Maxfield with a review of Robert L. O’Connell’s Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman (New York: Random House, 2014). He is perhaps the most eccentric general of the Civil … Continue reading
Jonesborough, Georgia: The Battle that Doomed Atlanta
Like Corinth, Mississippi or Petersburg, Virginia, the town of Jonesboro, Georgia was significant to military planners and general officers for one simple fact: two or more railroads came to a junction there. Running south from Atlanta was the Macon and Western … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Western Theater
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Battle of Atlanta, Battle of Jonesborough, John Bell Hood, Jonesborough, Patrick Cleburne, Stephen Dill Lee, Western theater, William Hardee, William Sherman
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To Georgia With Lee
When John Bell Hood assumed command of the Army of Tennessee on July 18, 1864 he quickly changed the tactics employed by the main Confederate army in the west. Under the leadership of Joseph E. Johnston, the Army of Tennessee … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged 1864, Army of Tennessee, Battle of Atlanta, Battle of Ezra Church, Confederate Joseph E. Johnston, General William T. Sherman, John Bell Hood, Stephen Dill Lee, Western theater, William Hardee
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