Thursday, March 14, 2013

Luray Caverns

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Amazingly, the third-most visited cave in the United States, after Mammoth, and Carlsbad. An interesting Washington Post Magazine article c...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

7 Questions: Vicksburg Historian Terry Winschel

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Terry Winschel, long-time historian at Vicksburg National Military Park, recently retired from the National Park Service. His illustrious ca...
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Monday, January 21, 2013

Charleston in April: 2013 Civil War Forum Battlefield Conference

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Painting of the  H.L. Hunley  by Conrad Wise Chapman, dated circa. 1863-64. April 11-14: Civil War Charleston The 17th annual CompuS...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

3-D sonar provides new view of Civil War shipwreck

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This 2012 high-resolution 3-D sonar image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the remains of the USS Ha...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013

The Hunt for Abraham Lincoln’s Congressional Pay Records

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Lincoln pay and mileage account for the First Session of the 30th Congress, National Archives There's an utterly fascinating post,...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Reprising a favorite blog post (from 2006)

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Lately I have been mining the transcripts of various author Q and A sessions held in the Civil War Forum over the past ten years, featuring ...

Civil War Christmas gifts

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General Sherman to President Lincoln (Telegram offering Savannah, Georgia as a Christmas present) —transcription of above— December 22, 1...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Charity Snider's mole skin

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Letter from Charity Snider, with accompanying mole skin, from her Civil War Widow's Pension Application File. Discoloration on the pap...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

The President is taller than General Grant, and still growing. . .

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This just in. . . the General Grant tree in Sequoia National Park, once considered the 2 nd largest tree in the world (after the nearby...
Saturday, December 01, 2012

Carto-geeks are cool

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Looking at the Battle of Gettysburg Through Robert E. Lee's Eyes by Tony Horwitz Smithsonian Ingenuity Award Winner, Anne...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

Some Good Reading at Dead Confederates

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  Cobbler’s Frolic, November 5 at the Atheneum!
Monday, November 12, 2012

Construction Site Offers Fleeting Glimpse of the Civil War Past [Fredericksburg]

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Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times Archaeologists in Fredericksburg, Va., last week. On the site of a $35 million courthouse comple...

Better off without 'em

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These are certainly interesting times for political discourse in this country. Who could have foreseen that “legitimate rape” would be...
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Daniel Day-Lewis Does Lincoln

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"Lincoln  feels like a movie Steven Spielberg has always been fated to make. Of course these two figures were bound to collide at som...
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Monday, November 05, 2012

Louis C.K. as Abe Lincoln

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The Great Hanging at Gainesville

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Hanging of Union Men in Texas. Frank Leslie's Ilustrated Newspaper. Prints and Photographs Collection 1993/202-5-4.  Another fascin...
Friday, October 12, 2012

The Civil War at the Huntington (through January 7)

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The Huntington commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with a new exhibition   centered solely on its Civil War imagery, com...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Modoc War correction: not 3 generals' sons. Make that 2 generals' sons and a nephew

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About two years ago, I posed a question about something that three Civil War generals had in common. Later, I answered that question ...

First installment of Hartwig's Antietam study released

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I first heard that D. Scott Hartwig was working on a monumental campaign study of Antietam so many years ago, I had actually forgotten a...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

"Death and the Civil War" -- September 18th

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Tomorrow evening, September 18, 2012, will see the debut of a new documentary, Death and the Civil War, an installment of PBS’s outstandi...