Friday, May 27, 2011

Over 4,000 Civil War graves identified in a Brooklyn cemetery

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Using the cemetery's own burial records, plus government, military and privately owned documents available online, Green-Wood's pro...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Solarium: A novella

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I just finished reading a pretty amazing short work of fiction called, "Solarium: A novella," by Josh Weil. It was published in th...
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

the Wire, to Treme, to Lincoln Assassination?

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Steve Earle, May 20, 2001 at Kepler's in Menlo Park, CA Friday night I went to see Steve Earle promote his brand new first novel at a...
Friday, May 20, 2011

"I was wearing the name of Lewis Smith"

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Portrait of Dick Barnett and his wife, date unknown. (Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, RG 15) A fascinating article. . . ...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Five Myths About Why the South Seceded

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ALEXANDER GARDNER/ AP -  A photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken by Alexander Gardner in Washington in August of 1863. Lies Across America...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

"The Foolishness of Civil War Reenactors," by Glenn W. LaFantasie

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Though I'm a regular reader at Salon.com, I just learned of this article by visiting Andy Hall's excellent Dead Confederates blog....
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Monday, May 09, 2011

The Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina

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The people have spoken. Every year a dedicated contingent of long-time members of the Civil War Forum — along with a handful of welcome newc...
Friday, May 06, 2011

End of the line for Lincoln

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Paul Chinn / The Chronicle Dockworkers prepare to receive the Lincoln as it arrives at the Mare Island shipyard in Vallejo. ---------- ...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

How the "Lost Cause" poisoned our history books

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[from salon.com. . .] Ulysses S. Grant, the commanding general of the Union Army and the 18th president of the United States, would have be...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Was one of your ancestors lost on the U.S.S. Monitor?

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The skeleton to the left, victim “Monitor 2,” is shown by digital overlay where it was uncovered after the  photo of the first victim w...
Monday, April 25, 2011

The Civil War: 1861 (Forever)

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Get these nifty Civil War postage stamps (commemorating Ft. Sumter and First Bull Run) while they last. Avoid long lines and surly civil ser...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

"The Apostle of Liberty" and The Gipper

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Thomas Starr King Ronald Reagan under the rotunda For most of the 20th century, California was represented in the United States Capi...
Monday, April 18, 2011

1861: The Civil War Awakening

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Unidentified soldier in Union officer's uniform at Point Lookout, Tennessee. (Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress) ...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Seven Days Travelogue, part two

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History is all explained by geography. — Robert Penn Warren Dateline: Princeton-by-the-Sea, California So this is what a blog post from ...
Friday, April 01, 2011

Seven Days Travelogue, part one

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[ CONFERENCE ] Day One -- twenty or twenty-five of us met up with author and researcher Chris Ferguson at the South Cherry Street en...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Kunta Kinte's worst nightmare

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Thanks to Kevin Levin at Civil War Memory for bringing this series of  collectibles to our attention. Buy the courthouse and get the R. E. ...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

One of last 2 WWI veterans turns 110 in Australia

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By ROHAN SULLIVAN  The Associated Press Wednesday, March 2, 2011; 10:50 PM SYDNEY -- One of the last two known veterans of World War I c...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Tour of the Seven Days Battlefields

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The Seven Days Battles with Richmond National Battlefields Historian Robert E. L. Krick The 15th Civil War Forum Battlefield Conference ...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

This just in (from Civil War Preservation Trust)

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WALMART DROPS WILDERNESS PLAN In an unexpected development on the day that a trial was scheduled to begin in the case, Walmart announced ...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Tarnished Reputations

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Five years ago, I posted a blog entry entitled “Eagles, Scalpels, Reputations – all tarnished,” as a clever way to discuss three of Dr. Th...