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Book Review: The Autobiography of Joshua Chamberlain: The Major Writings
The Autobiography of Joshua Chamberlain: The Major Writings, Edited by Thomas A. Desjardins. Essex, CT: Down East Books, 2024. Hardcover, 155 pp, $28.95. Reviewed by Brian Swartz Rather than hear his...
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Tales from a Monk in the Union Army: A Solitary Monk
Part of a series. By November 1864, the St. Vincent monks—once united under the banner of the 61st Pennsylvania—now found themselves separated. Brother Bonaventure Gaul was the only one that remained...
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Now Available from the Emerging Civil War Series: A Grand Opening Squandered:...
We’re kicking this year off with a bang! This time, we are digging into the trenches of Petersburg with Sean Michael Chick as he explores the intense four-day clash that marked a missed Union...
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Stacking Arms: The Cockade City Unravels
In the spring of 1865, U.S. Grant literally stretched the Army of Northern Virginia to its breaking point. His offensive movements in late March forced Robert E. Lee, entrenched around the city of...
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May 2025 Maine at War blog posts
In May 2025, Maine at War explained why a hero’s father calls 9-1-1 in 1864, introduces a ship’s captain who “meets” Raphael Semmes, and sorts out which McGlauflin gets shot during the Chancellorsville...
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ECW Podcast: A Grand Opening Squandered (with Sean Michael Chick)
Sean Michael Chick Sean Michael Chick, author of “A Grand Opening Squandered,” talks about the battle of Petersburg. The battle, one of the bloodiest of the war, often gets lumped in with the...
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One Final Newspaper Roll Call
Casualties during the Civil War were extreme. In some battles one-third or more of participating combatants became casualties. Hearing anecdotes about units suffering fifty percent casualties is not...
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Grant Tells the War, Part 07: City Point to Appomattox
part of a series As part of their preparation to co-author their book Unconditional Surrender: Ulysses S. Grant in the Civil War, Chris Mackowski and Curt Fields (as U.S. Grant) sat down to talk about...
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Remember Fort Pillow!: A Precedent and Retaliations – Part I
The “Remember!” battle cry has echoed across generations of American history. The Revolutionary War had its “Remember Fort Griswold!” In the Texas Revolution and Mexican-American War it was “Remember...
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Maine at War blog posts for March 2026
During March, Maine at War readers met the nurse whom 3rd Maine Infantry soldiers considered “an angel to all of us,” learned about the actual northernmost land action during the Civil War, looked on...
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