Capt. William Clarke Quantrill By the time a Confederate naval gun battery opened fire on Fort Sumter, the West was a …
Nowhere Was The Civil War More Brutal Or More Neighbor Vs. Neighbor Than In Missouri. Read More »
Abraham Lincoln at Antietam In 1864, once again the Shenandoah Valley was filled with the throaty echoes of cannon fire as a Confederate …
The Day Lincoln Was Almost Hit By A Sniper. Read More »
General “Fighting Joe” Joe Hooker There was plenty of pornography during the Civil War. As hard as it is to believe that well …
The Sexual State Of The Union During The American Civil War. Read More »
One of the memes about the Civil War that frequently circulates is that the South was dirt poor and the North was fairly affluent. …
Subjugating people is more difficult than it looks. We often forget that the slave owners have to feed and clothe the slave. The slave owner …
The Signal Corps almost didn’t happen. In 1859, United States Army surgeon A. J. Myer began experimenting with a system of long distance lineof sight …
There were a million ways to desert. When an army of say 75,000 men is marching somewhere, you could slip into the woods as …
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Salted Pork or Beef. More often than not, this was not just pork preserved in brine. It was skin, hair and God knows what other …
The Union Army had a post office near forts and camps, and a mail service that followed the armies for the men could purchase stamps …
Letters From American Civil War Soldiers Read More »
A Transcription By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our …
The Emancipation Proclamation, On This Day 1863. This Is It In Full. Read More »
Confederate States of America Major General Earl Van Dorn had cooked up a plan to launch a surprise attack on the Union river forces trying …
Ironclad Surprise. Read More »
Source: NYT “IN 1956, nearly a century after Fort Sumter, Robert Penn Warren went on assignment for Life magazine, traveling throughout the South after the …
Southern Discomfort, A Brilliant Essay By Jon Meacham Read More »
No numerical or tactical advantage was so great that “Burn” (as General Burnside was affectionately known) could not clinch defeat from the jaws of victory. …
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