January 12, 2026 | Emerging Civil War Blog Published article A Brother's Death, A Poet's Muse: The Oates Brothers at Gettysburg.  https://emergingcivilwar.com/ January 14, 2026 - 6:30PM | Civil War RoundTable of Washington D.C The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil War April 12, 2026 | Tudor Hall Bel Air, MD John Wilkes Booth's sister, Asia and her children April 16, 2026 | Virtual event hosted by the American Civil War Museum The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil W

This piece featured on the Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia website in January 2026 shares my poem about a soldier's final moments beneath a dogwood tree in the Wilderness, a poem from my upcoming book. On January 14, 2026, the CWRTDC had the pleasure of hosting a reading of a poem by our member Lisa Samia entitled "Under the Dogwood Tree." For more information about Ms. Samia and her poetry, visit https://www.lisasamia.com/ Ms. Samia also gave us permission

This piece featured on Emerging Civil War in October 2025 shares my poem about two soldiers finding shared humanity beneath a Virginia dogwood. The poem Under the Dogwood Tree is about two friends and soldiers who fought together during the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, in May 1864. In this instance, neither side, North nor South, is identified. This poem was inspired by Drew Gilpin Faust’s book This Republic of Suffering[1] and the accompanying PBS documentary Death an

This article featured on Emerging Civil War in July 2024 tells the story of Asia Booth Clarke, John Wilkes Booth's sister and lifelong confidante. “So runs the world away”[1] It was these five words placed at the very end of the memoir of John Wilkes Booth by his sister, Asia Booth Clarke, that captured the heartache and heartbreak of a woman, who because of her brother’s crime, became a woman of the Civil War. Not from a direct action of a Civil War battlefield, but from a s