Saturday, March 26, 2016

Ambrose Bierce on Cheat Mountain

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Trail at the site of the Cheat Summit Fort, atop Cheat Mountain in the Monongahela National Forest of Randolph County, West Virginia. Ph...
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Sunday, March 20, 2016

antidote to idiocy . . . Brooks Simpson and the neo-Confederates

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A handy go-to link to send to your friends and associates who are confused by the weed-like tenacity of neo-Confederate propaganda, which ha...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Two recent Civil War discoveries at the National Archives

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The National Archives in Washington holds unknown and uncountable little treasures, and it's always a thrill to hear of some new tidbi...
Monday, March 07, 2016

Election Results from California

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The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916.  Leland Stanford to Abraham Lincoln, Su...
Thursday, March 03, 2016

"Civil War 360" -- now available on Netflix

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I missed this when it aired on the Smithsonian Channel back in 2013, but am happy to have a look now at my leisure, thanks to Netflix . ...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Boy holding Union and Confederate bullets, Perryville Battlefield

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from the Library of Congress Title:  [Boy holding Union and Confederate bullets, Perryville Battlefield, Perryville, Boyle County, Kentuck...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Ike, Monty, Sack Gen. Lee

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Enhancing Your Family Tree with Civil War Maps

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excerpted from Prologue: Summer 2003, Vol. 35, No. 2 Enhancing Your Family Tree with Civil War Maps By Trevor K. Plante In the forew...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

The knoll where Custer fell

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Creator:   Gedney, C. D. , artist;  Date Created/Published:  [between 1881 and 1887 Medium:  1 drawing : pencil, ink wash and opaque whi...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

from the Civil War to Silicon Valley -- Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Abraham Lincoln

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Monday, December 28, 2015

Red Horse: Drawings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Stanford's Cantor Arts Center, January 16 to May 9, 2016)

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Exhibition Presents Rarely Seen Warrior’s Visual Account of Famous Battle and Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Stanford, Calif.—The Cantor...
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Saturday, December 26, 2015

Ken Burns: The Civil War was about 'slavery, slavery, slavery'

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

General, you go down there. . .

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When Douglas Scott, and others, conducted excavations at the Little Bighorn battlefield, strangely, they collected artifacts left behind by ...
Monday, December 07, 2015

CUSTER'S TRIALS, A Life on the Frontier of a New America

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Biographer T.J. Stiles Takes on the Mythology of General Custer Forum, with Michael Krasny (KQED, San Francisco)
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 ]