Emerging Civil War

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Week In Review: March 6-13, 2022

Book news, battle anniversaries for Hampton Roads and Pea Ridge, the beginnings of the 1862 Valley Campaign, and more this week on the ECW blog.

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I’ve been in North Carolina part of this last week for a very quick research trip, looking for missing pieces of a research puzzle. One of the

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Look what our colleague Steve Davis has on the horizon: a book co-authored with Bill Hendrick about one of the South’s most important war-time

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While metal detecting is not permitted in National Parks, sometimes professional archaeologists are summoned to do investigative work and surveys

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Sketch of Winchester, Virginia (1875) If Union entrepreneurs had been hawking tickets for best viewing places for the next battles to any

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In mid-February some work travels took me to the Carolinas, and I decided to take a stretch break at Bentonville Battlefield in North Carolina.

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ECW welcomes back guest author Max Longley George Gordon’s gravesite. Courtesy of Ellen McMurray, Morrow County Historical Society. “Who’s

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USS Richmond off Baton Rouge, 1863 – G. H. Suydam Collection, Mss. 1394, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton

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Col. John McLanePhoto Credit: https://taps150.org In 1859 John W. McLane formed and commanded a mostly ceremonial militia unit in Erie, Pennsylvania,

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Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers By Dillon J. Carroll Louisiana State University Press, 2021, $45 hardcover Reviewed by Meg

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The president and cabinet, July 1862. At left: Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Fourth from left: Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. (loc) One

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In the Fall of 1862, the threat of invasion loomed large for the citizens of southcentral Pennsylvania. With General Robert E. Lee’s Army of

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This week our Symposium Spotlight will get you excited about a winter and spring reading list. In part one of this series, our presenters have

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It was morning, Sunday, March 9, 1862. As executive officer and second in command of the revolutionary ironclad, USS Monitor, Greene supervised the

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Diorama from U.S. Naval Historical Center depicting the battle of Hampton Roads from the perspective of USS Minnesota. (U.S. Naval History and