Thursday, November 26, 2015

Separated at birth?

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Publishing titan Ted Savas commented that Captain William Duley , the Mankato executioner, bore a resemblance to Confederate General Nathan...
Friday, November 20, 2015

"Horse thief statue" for sale, best offer

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From the Lebanon Enterprise Lebanon, Kentucky City puts Morgan statue up for bid Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan statue has been co...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Image found of man who hanged 38 Dakota men 153 years ago

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A formal glass-plate portrait of William Duley in his military jacket, probably taken between September 1862 and February 1865. From the...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015

The Counterfeiter Who Sank the Confederacy

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IMAGE:  WORTHPOINT  / CHLOE EFFRON "Upham had an idea. If it worked, he would not only undermine and upend the Confederate...
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Saturday, September 12, 2015

The Appeasement of 1850 -- rephrasing American history

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Food for thought from Smithsonian . . .
Friday, September 11, 2015

Steve Earle -- "Mississippi, It's Time"

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[first spotted at Civil War Memory ]
Monday, September 07, 2015

Restoring THE CIVIL WAR

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An interesting short film on the restoration of the Ken Burns classic. . . Aired: 09/06/201513:57 Rating: NR To reach a whole new au...
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Thursday, September 03, 2015

a shot of Shiloh, to steel the nerves

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"The source from the water used in making this batch of Battlefield Bourbon is taken from water sources on privately owned property ...
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Monday, August 31, 2015

700 University of California Press eBooks, and a lot more

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The  University of California Press e-books collection  holds books published by UCP (and a select few printed by other academic presses)...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Causes of the Civil War (James Epperson)

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An internet classic. For nearly 20 years, Jim Epperson's  Causes of the Civil War site has been a go-to resource for interested student...
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

James Loewen: "Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong."

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From today's Washington Post .
Friday, June 26, 2015

Gordon Rhea on the Confederacy's legacy. . .

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Gordon Rhea is an attorney based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and an author of books on the history of the Civil War. He has lectu...
Monday, June 08, 2015

Drought exposes Civil War veteran's grave

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The broken headstone recently secured to a concrete slab marks the burial site of Civil War veteran Corporal John McBride on the dry lak...
Sunday, June 07, 2015

Civil War Faces at the Library of Congress

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Online offerings from the Library of Congress continue to expand at a rapid clip. No one has to know that much of the research for your new ...
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 ...