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Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost:...
Part three in a series. This series was put together from one of my extended graduate school research papers. The sources used were the current research between 2007-2008, obviously the historiography...
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Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost:...
Part five in a series. This series was put together from one of my extended graduate school research papers. The sources used were the current research between 2007-2008, obviously the historiography...
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Bennett Place
Bennett Place On April 26, 1865 the surrender finally happened. On a 325-acre farm owned by the Bennitt (or Bennett as it is more commonly written and referred to) family. Confederate General Joseph...
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“Littlepage’s Big Contributions to the Confederacy”
This is another installment of “Tales From the Tombstone.” Major General Carter Littlepage Stevenson Littlepage was the middle name of Carter L. Stevenson, a Confederate major general that saw...
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The Flag of the 10th S.C.
When their charge went too deep, the men of Coltart’s Division found themselves almost surrounded. In the ensuing chaos, the remaining men of the 10th South Carolina found themselves in great peril....
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Events Larger Than One Person: The Surrenders at Bennett Place, Durham, North...
Part One. William T. Sherman Gen. Joseph E. Johnston learned of the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia in Wilmer McLean’s parlor in the hamlet of Appomattox Court House on...
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From the ECW Archives: Bennett Place Redux
ECW contributors Chris Mackowski and Phill Greenwalt have both made visits to Bennett Place that they’ve written about for the Emerging Civil War. In fact, Chris’s post, “The Road to Bennett Place,”...
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Events Larger Than One Person: The Surrenders at Bennett Place, Durham, North...
Conclusion. Joseph Johnston Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, ever the good soldier, obeyed Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s order. He informed his adversary, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, that the civil authorities...
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Appomattox and Bennett Place: A Remarkable Contrast
A modern painting of Sherman and Johnston meeting at Bennett Place by Dan Nance. Wade Hampton accompanies Johnston and Judson Kilpatrick is with Sherman. I had the honor and privilege of attending and...
View ArticleCampaign Through the Carolinas: An Ohio Cavalryman’s Recollections in the...
This is the fourth part of the 1892 discussion of the events that led to the surrender of the forces under command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston by an unidentified captain of the 10th Ohio Cavalry. I...
View ArticleOn Location: Bennett Place
While the surrender at Appomattox Court House represented a neat and tidy ending to the Civil War narrative—and is thus the best-known surrender of the war—the largest surrender actually place more...
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ECW Podcast “Reaping The Whirlwind at Bennett Place” Is Now Available
We’re releasing our podcasts on Tuesdays! Our second podcast for September appeared this morning on Patreon. It’s taking a closer look at the 1865 events at Bennett Place, the site of the Confederate...
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A Conversation with Philip Gerard on The Last Battleground (part three)
Part three of six We’re talking this week with author Philip Gerard about his new book The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina (UNC Press, 2019). Chris Mackowski: You mention in...
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BookChat with David Silkenat, author of Raising the White Flag
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historian David Silkenat, senior lecturer of American history at the University of Edinburgh. Silkenat is the author of Raising the White...
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