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Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome guest contributor Adam Burke… Hayward Shepherd Memorial in Harpers Ferry (author’s photos)...

Here is the OR report... it was a day boat trip... Page 393...

On this day in Civil War history Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag May 11 Birthdays 1821 - [Carlos] Charles John...

I saw this one. Pretty good movie.

Mrs. Gordon The wife of a certain gallant Confederate General compromised nothing of feminine dignity when she rushed through the...

I’ve had this photo sitting in the hopper for months, and then of course, I missed the date. The swell of end-of-the-semester grading...

Here’s Professor Laura June Davis giving a really good talk on confederate boat burners and naval guerrillas on the Mississippi River...

This is a gem a newspaper article about the events mention in the above paragraph... scroll through the articles more details.... picks...

I found this little Tidbit... https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/items/show/324#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-169%2C-20%2C583%2C388 snip...

On May 10, 1863, as Ulysses S. Grant moved his army into the Mississippi interior on his eventual way to Vicksburg, the the newspaper in...

"Continue reading..." uh, no. The problem with these white folks that prattle on and on about "white supremacy" and believe they are...

I saw this one. Pretty good movie.

On this day in Civil War history Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag May 10 Birthdays 1810 - James Shields, Irish-American...

In your opinion, what were the most famous last words? (Civil War era, of course) Continue reading...

Beginning our sojourn into this week’s progress in the nationwide retreat of confederate heritage and the racist backlash against it is...