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Fort Pocahontas
The remains of Fort Pocahontas When I stopped at Jamestown, Virginia over the weekend, I expected to find Pocahontas—but to my surprise, I found Fort Pocahontas, too. Just outside the Jamestown...
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George Washington Remembers
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Bert Dunkerly. General George Washington looks back at us from marble statues or stiff paintings with a grim-faced and determined look. Known for his...
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Williamsburg’s Dividing Line
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Drew Gruber. As Rockefeller’s team began the great restoration of Williamsburg to its appearance in the colonial era, most of the town’s newer...
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Fashion in the Historic Triangle
When one heads to the Historic Triangle of Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown, Virginia becoming immersed in early American History is almost a given. At the same time, when one is looking for fashion in...
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“Our clocks are slow” L’Hermione, Lafayette and the Franco-American Alliance
Marquis de Lafayette With the visit of the L’Hermione to the east coast of the United States this summer, there has been a heightened interest in the Franco-American alliance that won the American...
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ERW Weekender – Yorktown
Rev War Wednesday and Emerging Revolutionary War is pleased to welcome guest historian Kate Gruber. Let me guess– you are a Rev War Nerd who is the best friend of/dating/married to a Civil War Nut....
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Mercer’s Grenadier Militia
Emerging Revolutionary War and Revolutionary War Wednesday is pleased to welcome back guest historian Drew Gruber. Part 1 When we think about American militia during the Revolutionary War, the image...
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The Ghosts of Crimea Before Richmond
When judging Civil War leaders, we sometimes look at them in isolation of a period or event, forgetting that they always act in accordance with the sum of their knowledge and experience to date. But...
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Lost Opportunities in the Army of the Potomac—A Pair of Examples
General Darious Couch Army management is a complicated skill in which the personality and temperament of commanders influence the inner workings and culture of the organization. The Union had no army...
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Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Yorktown Monument – A Victim of Another War
It was early in the war, in the spring of 1862 when the armies converged on Yorktown, Virginia. The fact that many had not yet seen combat and been hardened to the realities of war, combined with the...
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Preservation News: Opportunity at Yorktown
Land encompasses many stories and much history, and one of American Battlefield Trust’s latest preservation opportunities is no exception. Yorktown, Virginia: battleground during the Revolutionary War...
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A Geneseo Gunner on the Virginia Peninsula
I have had difficulty connecting my hometown to the Virginia battlefields I primarily research. Geneseo, Illinois sent its fair share of soldiers to the western theater but had no formal units in the...
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On The Eve of War: Yorktown, Virginia
Yorktown, Virginia, the scene of the culminating engagement of the Revolutionary War, was a quiet village perched on the sandy bluffs above the York River when war came again to the Virginia...
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ECW Weekender: Hiking at Newport News Park
3rd Vermont monument At the beginning of March while the weather was still chilly enough to keep the bugs and snakes at bay, I spent a day on the Virginia Peninsula around Yorktown, exploring Civil...
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“The air was blue all around him”
A young Maine officer forever remembered the profanity-spewing Winfield Scott Hancock ordering a charge early in the Peninsula Campaign. A student from Bath on Maine’s Midcoast, Maj Thomas W. Hyde...
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America’s First Air Force: Union Aeronauts and McClellan’s Peninsula...
ECW welcomes back guest author Jeff Ballard Read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. “Prof. T.S.C. Lowe, Civil War balloonist,” [Between 1861 and 1865] Photograph, Library of Congress.Serving as an...
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Mercer’s Grenadier Militia
Emerging Revolutionary War and Revolutionary War Wednesday is pleased to welcome back guest historian Drew Gruber. Part 1 When we think about American militia during the Revolutionary War, the image...
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The Ghosts of Crimea Before Richmond
When judging Civil War leaders, we sometimes look at them in isolation of a period or event, forgetting that they always act in accordance with the sum of their knowledge and experience to date. But...
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Lost Opportunities in the Army of the Potomac—A Pair of Examples
General Darious Couch Army management is a complicated skill in which the personality and temperament of commanders influence the inner workings and culture of the organization. The Union had no army...
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Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Yorktown Monument – A Victim of Another War
It was early in the war, in the spring of 1862 when the armies converged on Yorktown, Virginia. The fact that many had not yet seen combat and been hardened to the realities of war, combined with the...
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