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The Crater Sent a Monster Home to Maine
ECW is pleased to welcome back Brian Swartz, author of the new Emerging Civil War Series book Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War. Brian adapted this post for us from...
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The Effects of the Wilson-Kautz Raid through Newspaper Advertisements (part...
ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott, director of education and interpretation at Pamplin Historical Park (part one of two) Slave trader E. H. Stokes placed an advertisement in the August 6,...
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The Effects of the Wilson-Kautz Raid through Newspaper Advertisements (part...
ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott (part two of two) Evidence of the amount of disorder the Union horsemen wreaked on the region’s citizens during the Wilson-Kautz Raid appears in numerous...
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The Key to Richmond
A New York private and two of his comrades carefully crept their way into Petersburg, Virginia on the morning of April 3, 1865. Separated from their regiment after the chaotic previous day, the trio...
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Under Fire: Battlefield Guide Map for the Charge of the First Maine Heavy...
The First Maine Heavy Artillery famously participated in the last desperate attempt in June 1864 to simply seize Petersburg by direct assault. Many incorrectly assume the battle was the first for these...
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Dying Far From Home: Pvt. Edward Williams, Co. C, 6th USCI
6th USCT Flag ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott, director of education and interpretation at Pamplin Historical Park During the Civil War, soldiers sometimes attempted to describe the nature...
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Fallen Leaders: The Grizzly sensed death
Hiram Burnham sensed he would not return home alive as he rejoined his command in late September 1864. He was correct — by six days. His neighbors in Cherryfield, Maine, nicknamed Hiram...
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Fallen Leaders: Did Daniel Chaplin commit death-by-sniper?
After seeing his 1st Maine Heavy Artillery destroyed at Petersburg, Col. Daniel Chaplin “seemed not to care to live after his regiment was gone,” thought Pvt. Joel Brown, Co. I. Two months later the...
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A Pennsylvania Family on Petersburg’s Front Line
A Pennsylvania family found themselves at the epicenter of the final six months of the Civil War. No primary evidence is available yet to date to share that plight in their own words, but in the time...
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Petersburg Latrine Management
Soldier Latrine among the Petersburg entrenchments (Library of Congress) While expanding my search for more source material on the VI Corps at Petersburg, I found an old auction listing for detailed...
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