Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Civil War Pre-Enactors

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From The Onion's Historical Archives :
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Peanut: A Civil War DOGumentary

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

147 Years Ago: A Christmas Gift for the President

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                   Savannah, Ga December 22, 1864                  Via Ft. Monroe, Va Dec 25. His Excellency     Prest. Lincoln.          ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Rodgers favors Generals Lee & Jackson, Glad the North Won the War

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Thanks to Terry Arliskas for sending in this link . Starting at second 54 of the video , she is one of the three Soldiers Aid Society ladies...
Thursday, December 08, 2011

"Why do so few blacks study the Civil War?"

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More from The Atlantic's new Civil War issue. . . an article by Ta-Nehisi Coates Members of Company E, Fourth U.S. Colored Infan...
Monday, December 05, 2011

"How Newt's New Novel Plays Politics With the Past"

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Congratulations to Kevin Levin, whose book review of Newt Gingrich's latest novel appears in the new, Civil War-themed issue of The Atl...
Thursday, December 01, 2011

The generosity of Brian Pohanka

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Thanks to Eric Wittenberg over at Rantings of a Civil War Historian for bringing this interview with Civil War historian Brian Pohanka to ...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Civil War Lives, by The Huntington

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Huntington Botanical Japanese Garden The Huntington Library in San Marino (think Pasadena), besides being in a spectacular setting, is o...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Visit to Antietam Battlefield, 7 April 1963

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Silent motion picture footage of President John F. Kennedy's visit to the Antietam National Battlefield site, Sharpsburg, Maryland. Pre...
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

2012 Civil War Tours

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Click to Enlarge Ad coming out in the December issue of The Civil War Monitor (vol. 1, no. 2)
Saturday, October 15, 2011

"Army museum's morbid oddities resettled in Maryland" (from the Associated Press)

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read the full article here . This undated handout photo provided by the National Museum of Health and Medicine shows the bullet that kil...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

browsing the Civil War blogosphere

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    WORST CIVIL WAR BOOKS    Ted Savas, at A Publisher's Perspective has turned the table on the ubiquitous “favorite books” list by ...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Remembering some Civil War Forum Battlefield Tours

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Bob Krick at Chancellorsville stylishly sporting a SF Giants ballcap and a 49ers logo shirt (2003)  Bob Krick at Fredericksburg ...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Horace Porter and John Paul Jones

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John Paul Jones was one of my first heroes. I loved the very sound of his name. I loved the images it evoked — all of the excitement and ...
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