Clik here to view.
Facebook LIVE from Vicksburg, Today through Thursday!
We’re hitting Facebook LIVE again this week, this time from the banks of the Father of All Rivers. Yep—ECW is heading to Vicksburg, Mississippi, to broadcast live! Emerging Civil War is pleased to once...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scenes from Vicksburg, Day 1 (part 2)
part of a series We landed in Jackson, Mississippi, yesterday to kick off our Facebook LIVE events from the Vicksburg campaign. Although we presented the campaign a little out of order, we wanted to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scenes from Vicksburg, Day 2 (part one)
part of a series On Wednesday, we started off our Facebook LIVE events at Bruinsburg, the site where Ulysses S. Grant landed his army on the east bank of the Mississippi April 30-May 1, 1863, to kick...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scenes from Vicksburg, Day 2 (part three)
part of a series We followed the route of Grant’s supply train from the Mississippi up toward the modern Raymond battlefield. One of the myth’s of the campaign is that Grant lived off the land, a la...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Civil War and General Jim Mattis: A Closer Look at Call Sign Chaos (Part 1)
The first time I heard Jim Mattis speak was in 2007. As an Education Director for the U.S. Marine Corps, I attended then Lieutenant General Mattis’ seminar on the 1st Marine Division at the First...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Question of the Week: 6/15-6/21/2020
Last week’s question featured the Gettysburg Campaign, and we’re also in the Vicksburg Campaign/Siege season, so… In your opinion, what’s the key event of the Vicksburg campaign before July 4th?
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Praise the Lord and Admiral Porter”: Running the Vicksburg Batteries
“We still live,” wrote Lieutenant Elias Smith of the USS Lafayette. “The whole gunboat fleet passed the Vicksburg batteries on Thursday night [April 16, 1863], without receiving material damage. All...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“You can do a great deal in eight days”: Ulysses S. Grant’s Forgotten Turning...
Grand Gulf Military Monument Park preserves the site of one of the most monumental–but overlooked–turning points of the Civil War. Part one of two Ulysses S. Grant had envisioned his arrival in Grand...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“You can do a great deal in eight days”: Ulysses S. Grant’s Forgotten Turning...
Rear Admiral David D. Porter, commander of the U.S. Navy’s Mississippi River Squadron, was a man Grant came to trust implicitly (LOC) Part two of two With an escort of twenty cavalrymen, Ulysses S....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sherman’s “Demon Spirit”
Sherman’s “Demon Spirit,” John McClernand In a letter written on April 29, 1863, to his wife Ellen, William T. Sherman privately expressed his misgivings about the Vicksburg campaign Ulysses S. Grant...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BookChat with Steven Woodworth and Charles Grear, editors of Vicksburg Besieged
I have been spending a lot of time lately with the latest volume in Southern Illinois University Press’s “Civil War Campaigns in the West” Series, Vicksburg Besieged, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Arkansas’s Role in the Vicksburg Campaign (part one)
ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Carson Butler. Part one of two. The Mississippi River is one of the most defining features of the North American continent, and during the American Civil War, it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Arkansas’s Role in the Vicksburg Campaign (part two)
Col. Thomas Dockery of the 19th Arkansas ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Carson Butler. Part two of two. Following victory at Port Gibson, Grant pushed his forces north-eastward, and ultimately...
View ArticleClik here to view.
That Other Cavalry Guy: Benjamin H. Grierson
Benjamin H. Grierson April is a significant month in Civil War history. Some argue that the war both began and ended in Aprils four years apart. Lincoln was assassinated in April. The war’s first...
View ArticleA Hoosier at Port Gibson
ECW is pleased to welcome back guest author Daniel A. Masters. The 8th Indiana Infantry was among the first troops from the Hoosier State to enlist in the Civil War, but it wasn’t until the battle of...
View ArticleThe Fearful Squadrons and the Decrees of Providence
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 the state capital, Jackson, attempted to bolster the flagging...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Sublime but Dismal Grandeur”: The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi
S.C. Miles as sketched for his biography of “Old Abe” the War Eagle “There are some slight errors in history in regard to the capture of Jackson, which I will take opportunity to correct,” declared...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Our Army Was Thoroughly Beaten”: An English Rebel Remembers Champion Hill
At the very top of Champion Hill, a sign marks the peak of the “hill of death.” ECW is pleased to welcome back Daniel A. Masters This extraordinary letter, written by former English army officer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Taking It Day By Day
Hindsight often obscures our understanding of how events unfolded and their results became apparent. Because we know how it went, we lose something of the immediate perspective that both sides had, not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Bold Scheme and a Mysterious Coincidence in the Final Days of the Vicksburg...
By July 15, 1863, Gen. Joe Johnston’s “Army of Relief” suddenly found itself in need of relief of its own. Johnston’s impotent posturing during most of the Vicksburg Campaign had done little to...
View Article