*Throughout 2024, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of the director’s favorite primary sources relevant to the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley published prior ... Continue Reading Publication Of Note | September…
Publication Of Note | June 2024 George T. Stevens. “Three Years in the Sixth Corps.” Albany, NY: S.R. Gray Publisher, 1866.
*Throughout 2024 the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of the director’s favorite primary sources relevant to the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley published prior ... Continue Reading Publication Of Note | June…
Publication of Note | March 2024 William S. Tyler, ed. “Recollections of the Civil War: With Many Original Diary Entries and Letters Written from the Seat of War, and with Annotated References by Mason Whiting Tyler” New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912.
*Throughout 2024, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of the director’s favorite primary sources relevant to the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley published prior ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | March…
Publication of Note | December 2023 Gary W. Gallagher, ed. “The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862” Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
*Throughout 2023, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will feature some of the director’s favorite collections of essays relevant to the Civil War era in the Shenandoah ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | December…
Publication of Note | March 2023 Gary W. Gallagher, ed. “The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864” Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Throughout 2023 the “Publication of Note” portion of the Picket Post newsletter will include some of the director’s favorite collections of essays relevant to the Civil War era in the Shenandoah ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | March…
Publication of Note | December 2022 Mark Edwin Paul, ed. “A Company of Boys in Blue: The Civil War Through the Eyes of a Soldier” Williamsburg, WV: Mark Edwin Paul, 2011.
*Throughout 2022 the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight important collections of letters and primary documents relevant to the Civil War era in the Shenandoah Valley ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | December…
Publication of Note | September 2022
Elizabeth Davis Swiger, ed. “Civil War Letters and Diary of Joshua Winters: A Private in the Union Army, Company G, First Western Virginia Volunteer Infantry” Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Co., ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | September…
Publication of Note | June 2022 Ann K. Gunnin, ed. “Letters to Virtue: A Civil War Journey of Courage, Faith, and Love” Alpharetta, VA: Book Logix, 2014.
Regarded as the Horace Greeley of the 12th Connecticut Infantry due to his staunch abolitionist beliefs, Private Richard Sherman, killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek on Oct. 19, 1864, and buried in ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | June…
Publication of Note | December 2021 Judith W. McGuire. “Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War.” Richmond, VA: J.W. Randolph & English, Publishers, 1889.
Originally published in 1867, Judith McGuire’s “Diary of a Southern Refugee” offers enormous insight into the experiences of civilians displaced by conflict. At the time of the Civil War’s outbreak, ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | December…
Publication of Note | September 2021 Tunstall Smith, ed. “Richard Snowden Andrews: Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding the First Maryland Artillery (Andrews’ Battalion) Confederate States Army.” Baltimore, MD: Press of Sun Job Printing Office, 1910.
*Throughout 2021, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of our director’s favorite histories and reminiscences published in the immediate decades following the Civil ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | September…
Artifact of the Quarter | September 2021 Carte-de-visite of John F. Colburn
Among the various images in MCWI’s growing collections is a carte-de-visite taken at the Addis Gallery in Washington, D.C. of John F. Colburn. A farmer prior to the conflict, he enlisted in the 9th ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter |…
Publication of Note | March 2021 James M. Dalzell, "Private Dalzell: His Autobiography, Poems and Comic War Papers" (Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke & Co., 1888).
*Throughout 2021 the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of our director’s favorite histories and reminiscences published in the immediate decades following the Civil ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | March…
Publication of Note | December 2020 William H. Runge, ed. “Four Years in the Confederate Artillery: The Diary of Private Henry Robinson Berkeley” (Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1991).
*Throughout 2020 the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of our director’s favorite regimental histories or collections of published primary sources. A native of ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | December…
Artifact of the Quarter | September 2020 Tintype of Private Harrison E. White
Among the artifacts recently donated to MCWI was a tintype of Private Harrison E. White. Born in Oneida County, New York, in either 1840 or 1841, White enlisted in Co. M, 2nd New York Heavy Artillery, ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter |…
Publication of Note | September 2020 Mary E. Johnson, ed. “From a ‘Whirlpool of Death’… to Victory.” (Charleston, WV: West Virginia History, 2002).
*Throughout 2020 the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of our director’s favorite regimental histories or collections of published primary sources. Forty years after ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | September…
Artifact of the Quarter | March 2020 Carte-de-visite (cdv) of Captain William Fosgate, 14th New Hampshire Infantry
Among the artifacts recently acquired by MCWI is a carte-de-visite (cdv) of Captain William Fosgate, 14th New Hampshire Infantry. The image was taken by Kimball, a photographer in Concord, New ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter |…
Artifact of the Quarter | December 2019 Carte de visite of Sergeant Martin Luther Skillman, 123rd Ohio Infantry
There is a power in historic photographs of Civil War soldiers. While artifacts of our nation’s most tumultuous moment, they provide a visual connection to soldiers who are otherwise merely names on ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter |…
Publication of Note | December 2019 Clifton Johnson, “Battleground Adventures in the Civil War” (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915).
*Note in our March newsletter we promised that 2019 would be devoted to highlighting important works related to the Shenandoah Valley’s Civil War era story published in the conflict’s immediate ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | December…
Publication of Note | September 2019 William Henry Locke, “The Story of the Regiment” (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1868).
The 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was one of the Union army’s most storied regiments. Organized in the spring of 1861, the regiment fought in many of conflict’s iconic battles in the war’s ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | September…
Artifact of the Quarter Merrill Carbine Bullet
As a result of a partnership between MCWI and the Clarke County Historical Association, MCWI is fortunate to display a number of artifacts in the Lodge, related to the Battle of Cool Spring. Among the ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter Merrill…
Publication Of Note | June 2019
Aldace F. Walker, “The Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864” (Burlington, VT: The Free Press Association, 1869). *Note in our March newsletter we promised that 2019 would be devoted to ... Continue Reading Publication Of Note | June…
Artifact of the Quarter | June 2019
William W. Layton Collection, receipt from 1863. Throughout the course of MCWI’s 27 years, various items, including letters and other ephemera, have been donated to MCWI and housed in Shenandoah ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter |…
Publication of Note | March 2019
John Quincy Adams, “Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman” (Harrisburg, PA: Sieg, Printer and Stationer, 1872). Available free via Google Books. In the ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | March…
Artifact of the Quarter | March 2019
Built in 1840 the Frederick County Courthouse in Winchester, Virginia (now the Shenandoah Valley Civil War Museum operated by the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation) is not only a place that ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter |…
Artifact of the Quarter | December 2018
One of the ways the Civil War became tangible for those who experienced it from the home front was through newspapers and illustrations that appeared in those papers. Among the items housed in the ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter |…
Publication of Note | December 2018
Angela M. Zombek, Ph.D., “Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons: Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War” (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2018). ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | December…
Publication of Note | September 2018
“Reconstruction: A Concise History” (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). $18.95 hardcover, www.oup.com. For decades Eric Foner’s “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution” stood as the ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | September…
Artifact of the Quarter | September 2018
18th Connecticut Ribbon Among the artifacts added to the exhibition in the Lodge at Cool Spring is a ribbon for the 18th Connecticut Infantry’s reunion at Mystic Island, Connecticut, on Aug. 20, ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter |…
Artifact of the Quarter | June 2018
Shortly after Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute was established, William W. Layton donated a number of documents to the university’s McCormick Civil War Institute. Layton, who died ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter |…
Publication of Note | June 2018
“To Emancipate the Mind and Soul: Storer College, 1867-1955” (Harpers Ferry, WV: Harpers Ferry Park Association, 2017). $14.95 softcover, www.harpersferryhistory.org While historians have penned ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | June…
McCormick Civil War Institute Conference Hosts Annual Spring Conference, April 7 “Another Era in Our War Life: When the Home Front Became the Battle Front”
Shenandoah University McCormick Civil War Institute will host its annual spring conference, “Another Era in Our War Life: When the Home Front Became the Battle Front” on Saturday, April 7, in Hester ... Continue Reading McCormick Civil War Institute Conference…
Artifact of the Quarter | March 2018 Phoenix Shot Tower
While driving on I-83 in Baltimore, Maryland, one massive, legendary eyewitness to the Civil War rises prominently into the sky and is visible from miles away—the Phoenix Shot Tower. Standing 234 ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter |…
Publication of Note | March 2018 Richard A. Sauers, “The National Tribune Civil War Index” 3 vols.
Richard A. Sauers, comp., “The National Tribune Civil War Index” 3 vols. (El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2017). $139.95 hardcover, www.savasbeatie.com. At the end of 2017, Savas Beatie, one of ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | March…
Artifact of the Quarter | December 2017 Horse’s Curb Chain at Cool Spring
Contributed by Shelby R. Shrader One of the greatest challenges for Union or Confederate forces during the Civil War was moving massive armies and all of the supplies necessary to keep those commands ... Continue Reading Artifact of the Quarter |…
Publication of Note | December 2017 Edward L. Ayers, “The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America”
Edward L. Ayers, “The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America” (New York: Norton, 2017). $35 hardcover, www.wwnorton.com. Fourteen years ago one of our nation’s ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | December…
Publication of Note | September 2017 “The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman”
Thomas P. Nanzig, ed., “The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman” (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016). $24.95 softcover, www.uapress.ua.edu First released in 2007, this paperback ... Continue Reading Publication of Note | September…