Tag Archives: Western theater

The Trust’s 2019 Teacher Institute: East vs. West

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Chris Mackowski

During his session yesterday discussing the eastern theater versus the western theater, Kris White took a few minutes to define the theaters of war. The eastern theater included Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. “It was essentially concentrated in a 200-mile corridor … Continue reading →

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My Bridge: Moving Beyond Virginia

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

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…

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Question of the Week: 3/18-3/24/19

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Emerging Civil War

Who is your favorite commander that fought in both eastern and western theaters of the Civil War? Why?

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Podcast Additional Resources: “Forgotten? The Tullahoma Campaign”

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Emerging Civil War

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 →

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Question of the Week: 12/17-12/23/18

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Emerging Civil War

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?

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ECW5: Dan Davis

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Daniel 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.

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Editing the Civil War in the Heartland

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Chris Mackowski

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 →

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“The Kind of Whom Heroes are Made”

Posted on October 29, 2014 by lwhite1864

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 →

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Review—Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Derek Maxfield

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 →

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Jonesborough, Georgia: The Battle that Doomed Atlanta

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Phill Greenwalt

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 →

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