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 Emerging Civil War in August 2026. The poem My Henry is from The Nameless and the Faceless Women of the Civil War. The unknown woman in the poem has heard that President Lincoln is coming to Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, to dedicate the new National Cemetery for the Union Civil War dead. The Battle of Gettysburg was just months before, July 1-3, and this woman’s husband, Henry, was one of the thousands who died during the battle. She is still sufferi

For many years, the story of the short life and death of John Wilkes Booth’s nephew, Edwin Booth Clarke, was only a passing note in the history of the Booth family. So little is known about him. He joined the British Merchant Navy and accidentally drowned at sea on December 10, 1881. Nothing more. However, this short epitaph on Edwin Booth Clarke sent me in search of more information. It was because of my research and writing on the life of his mother, Asia Booth Clarke, and

My presentation of poems at the Emerging Civil War Live Event.