Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Spotsylvania Civil War Blog

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by John F. Cummings is one of the better Civil War blogs going, in my estimation. It's fresh, cleanly designed, beautifully illustrated...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

protophotoshopping: General Grant at City Point

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General Grant at City Point. 1902. Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Information: Reproduction Nos.: LC-DIG-ppmsca-15886 (di...

Clams and Steam Beer Since 1861

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In December of 1861, the Old Clam House (originally called the Oakdale Bar and Clam House) opened for business in San Francisco. One hundred...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Dred Scott rocks

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When I want some serious antebellum, prelude to the Civil War history, I turn to Don Fehrenbacher . When I want some serious, world class ro...

On this day in 1862, Unconditional Surrender . . .

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                         Hdqtrs, Army in the field                          Camp near Donelson, Feby 16, 1862 Gen. S.B. Buckner,  Confed....
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Mrs. Lincoln, I Presume? Well, as It Turns Out ...

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Left, the altered portrait depicting Mrs. Lincoln; right, the restored image, an unknown woman without a Lincoln brooch. Photographs ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012

The Atlantic's 150th anniversary Civil War issue is now online, with expanded content

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The Union Veteran's Son Who Fixed Lucille Ball's Appliances

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Hilbert J. Gramelspacher And not just Lucille Ball's. This son of a Hoosier infantryman also fixed appliances for Jerry Lewis and Jo...
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Thursday, February 02, 2012

How Egypt Won the American Civil War

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by  Matthew Osborn February 2, 2012 Al Arabiya News read the full article here Egypt, which previously accounted for only 3 percent of ...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

The last actual son of a Confederate veteran?

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Dinwiddie County native Lucas L. Meredith Jr. poses in 2008 with a portrait of his father, who fought for the South. "A former busi...

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Work in the Cameron Art Museum's exhibit “Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection” depicts scenes from the South during the war....
Monday, January 30, 2012

New eBook Series from UNC Press

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The University of North Carolina Press -- one of the premier publishers of Civil War titles -- has launched a new digital inititive involvi...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

“I must post myself in Canuck airs,” said John Wilkes Booth

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     John Wilkes Booth Lived Here. . .        How Montreal fell for the Confederacy        by Matt Herzfeld          The McGill Daily ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Huntington Library acquires trove of Lincoln, Civil War telegrams, codes

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( Arkasha Stevenson / Los Angeles Times ) Olga Tsap...
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iTunesU and the National Portrait Gallery

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It's been over four years since I wrote this blog entry on iTunesU, and the free lectures available there from a growing number of inst...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Castle Pinkney back in (Sons of) Confederate Hands

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Castle Pinkney, on Charleston Harbor, was the first U.S. fort to fall into Confederate hands, and after passing through federal and then sta...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

(the erstwhile) Castle Pinckney National Monument

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 from National Geographic Daily News : Pictures: America's "Lost" National Parks (view the entire slide show here ) Castle Pi...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Custer's Last Stand on American Experience tonight (January 17, 2012)

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Hunley Unveiled

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The full article can be read here .  Visit the MSNBC Photo Blog on the Hunley here . 
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Why did so many Civil War battles take place inside of national parks?

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Nice try citizen, but the moon only looks small.  Michael Lynch, in his Past in the Present blog, has a post reflecting on the confusion...
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