Sunday, May 17, 2015

Last Union prisoners leave Texas (150 years ago)

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Friday, May 08, 2015

Helena, Arkansas -- you can't get there from here

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I passed through Helena, Arkansas last month, and the odds are good that I won't visit there again in this lifetime, or any other. It do...
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Friday, April 17, 2015

Elizabeth Brown Pryor, 1951-2015

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[from The Washington Post, By Matt Schudel April 16 at 7:53 PM -- family photo] “She could speak eloquently of complex matters to peopl...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Hannah Reynolds will never be remembered like Jennie Wade, but this is a start

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Jennie Wade, of course, is remembered and memorialized for being the only civilian casualty resulting directly from the Battle of Gettysburg...
Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Meanwhile, 150 years ago in a place other than Virginia. . .

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Visit the Fort Blakely page at the Civil War Trust for maps, articles, and other resources on the fighting at Blakely and Spanish Fort.  ...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

150 years ago -- The Battle of Bentonville, March 19-21, 1865

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Visit the Civil War Trust's Bentonville page for maps, articles, photo galleries, and interviews about  North Carolina's largest ...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Remembering the senseless slaughter of the War Between the Butterflies

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Monday, March 16, 2015

Lincoln comments on his 2nd inaugural speech

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from Lincoln Day by Day, Lincoln writing to Thurlow Weed: Lincoln taking the oath, March 4, 1865, Harper's Weekly "Thank you ...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Racing Presidents visit the National Archives

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Abraham Lincoln contemplates a facsimile copy of the Emancipation Proclamation You can see the full gallery of photos of the Racing Pres...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Battle of Monroe's Crossroads -- 150 years ago

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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, which intrepid members of the CompuServe Civil War Forum visite...
Thursday, March 05, 2015

Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address -- March 4, 1865

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One of three photos of the event by Alexander Gardner "In a print made about 1920 from an original photograph by Alexander Gardne...
Monday, February 23, 2015

The Cause of All Nations: an International History of the American Civil War

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Every now and then, certain Civil War devotees need a stinging slap across the face to pull us out of the narrow-focus trance of battle st...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

San Francisco National Cemetery

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The San Francisco National Cemetery in the old Presidio, the first West Coast burial ground in the national cemetery system, is a stunnin...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Abraham Lincoln, online and searchable

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Thanks to the Abraham Lincoln Association
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Harry Willcox Pfanz, 1922-2015, wrote the essential Gettysburg trilogy

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Historian Harry Pfanz made arguably the greatest contribution to the literature on the greatest battle of the American Civil War, and I was ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

American Civil War exhibit at the National Library of Scotland

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Deed of sale of slave-woman and child, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, 1829. [NLS shelfmark: H.S.632 (3)] Yankee cries and Rebel yell...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

the Rebel Yell

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Civil War Veterans Come Alive in Audio and Video Recordings Deep in the collections of the Library of Congress are ghostly images and ...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Largest mass execution in U.S. history — December 26

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December 26, 1862 — Mankato, Minnesota (Library of Congress) From This American Life. . . Growing up in Mankato, Minnesota, John Biewen...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Real Housewives of Gettysburg

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Hat tip to Dana Shoaf, and to The Gettysburg Compiler. Meg Sutter ’16  and  Megan McNish ’16  report from Gettysburg College’s Special C...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Hard times in the Cradle of Secession. . .

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The Keeping Room debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival three months ago. It is " a film that tells the story of 3 Sout...