Monday, April 15, 2013

Charleston 2013 Reunion: Day Four

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Fort Sumter, from Fort Moultrie Some of the big guns at Fort Moultrie Breech Inlet on Sullivan's Island, where the Hunley la...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

Charleston 2013 Reunion: Day Three

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Soldier graffiti, Secessionville Manor  Pat Brennan leading the troops, Secessionville Manor Pat Brennan, Battle of Secessionvil...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Charleston 2013 Reunion: Day Two

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Seeing the Hunley at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center Pat Brennan discussing his experience at the raising of the Hunley, and pre...

Charleston 2013 Reunion: Day One

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Major Steven Smith at the H.M.S. Seraph Memorial, Citadel Campus Clay pot by "Dave the Slave," Charleston Museum. See this ...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

And so it begins -- The Civil War Forum in Charleston

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Annual design, as always, by Stevan Meserve
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Photography and the American Civil War

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[Captain Charles A. and Sergeant John M. Hawkins, Company E, "Tom Cobb Infantry,"  Thirty-eigth Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Inf...
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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