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Coming Soon: A Grisly Night at the Museum
Shudder-inducing surgical instruments from the Civil War era? (Photograph by S.K. Bierle) You’ll want to hurry if you’re planning to attend a “ghoulish night” at the National Museum of Civil War...
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Question of the Week: 10/29-11/4/18
Halloween is coming up… What’s the strangest, scariest Civil War story you’ve heard or read? Does it have factual base or is it a good legend?
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Things That Go BUMP in the Parlor: Spiritualism, Lincoln, and a Happy Hallowe’en
Nettie Colburn The tall, thin man with the sad face folded himself into an uncomfortable Italianate armchair in the Red Room of the Executive Mansion. “So this is our ‘little Nettie’ is it, that we...
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Happy Halloween
All of us at Emerging Civil War wish you and your family a happy and safe Halloween. May it be filled with no tricks and lots of treats! ECW fan Jack Taber from Southern California in his Union...
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ECW Weekender: Madison Cemetery Tour (Virtual)
This year Wisconsin Veteran Museum presents its 22nd Talking Spirits Cemetery Tour. In past years, the way to experience these stories was through an in-person exploration of the Madison’s Forest Hill...
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Happy Halloween from Stonewall Steph
“Stephwall” Mackowski The year she was six (um, twenty-one years ago…), my daughter decided she wanted to dress up like her hero for Halloween. And so, Stephanie became Stonewall Jackson! Her mother...
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“Almost Scared Speechless”
Sergeant D. H. Hamilton battled with the First Texas in Hood’s Brigade, a unit known for its fierce courage. But in the autumn of 1863, he had a “creepy” experience that reads almost like a classic...
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Question of the Week: 10/31-11/6/22
It’s Halloween… So what battlefield do you most dread (or love) with fog at early dawn or late twilight? The post Question of the Week: 10/31-11/6/22 appeared first on Emerging Civil War.
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A Ghoulish Relic from a Horse’s Death along the Valley Pike
There are weird things in American Civil War history…and then there are weird things. It’s October 31st and time to retrieve something very strange or ghoulish for discussion, so how about the...
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Something Scary: The Stories Never Told
I was going to write “something scary” for a blog post for Halloween night. There was even a placeholder with that reminder title on the blog’s schedule, but as I sat down tonight with a mug of tea, my...
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