Thursday, May 30, 2013

Book Review: Shiloh, 1862, by Winston Groom

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Though Winston Groom’s latest contribution to the Civil War bookshelf is well written and engaging, I am hard-pressed to think of a reade...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Memorial Day -- some Indian scouts at Custer National Cemetery

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

"Rebel" -- the saga of Loreta Velazquez airing May 24 on your local Public Broadcasting Station

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The signature image for "REBEL" is a composite of two portraits of Loreta Velazquez passing as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, sol...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

150 years ago -- the May 22nd assaults at Vicksburg

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Assault on the Great Redoubt Ranger Will Wilson describes the Union position at Battery de Golyer on the morning on May 22, 1863 More pi...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Andersonville National Historic Site

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Bronze panel on the rear of the New York Monument. I made my first visit to Andersonville National Historic Site a couple weeks ago, onl...
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Sunday, May 05, 2013

Dave the Slave, up close and personal

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Back in November of 2009, I posted an interview with author Leonard Todd, discussing the subject of his book, Carolina Clay, the Life and ...
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,...