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Diversion, Battle and A Town Destroyed
Fort Brooke, 1900 c. Fort Brooke, an important military outpost during the Civil War, sits on the east bank of the Hillsborough River way down south in what we now call Tampa. The fort saw a short...
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New York Saves The Union
That is perhaps a hyperbolic title. But one brigade of all New York soldiers saved two Federal armies in the summer and fall of 1863, at Gettysburg and Chattanooga – thereby arguably doing more to...
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A Member of the 8th Missouri Infantry Reflects on Why He Enlisted
Sgt. Phillip A. Smith, Company H, 8th Missouri Infantry. Courtesy of the Peoria Historical Society. One of the most thorough and remarkable diaries I have come across from a Missouri soldier is from a...
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Picturing Union Victory – Early Images of the Surrender at Appomattox
Here’s a familiar story: On April 9, 1865, generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met in Wilmer McLean’s parlor at Appomattox Courthouse to sign the documents that would dictate the surrender of...
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What if . . .General R. E. Lee wore blue?
General Lee and the 35 Star Union flag President Abraham Lincoln would’ve replaced General R. E. Lee; or the Union would have lost the war. Don’t start throwing rotten tomatoes from your garden,...
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The Nashville Petition of 1865 and the Promise of Reconstruction: Part I
ECW welcomes guest author Heath Anderson “Whether freeman or slaves the colored race in this country have always looked upon the United States as the Promised Land of Universal freedom, and no earthly...
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