Blogs about: American Civil War

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The lost world1 comment

snehreal wrote 13 hours ago: Cesar, Cleopatra, Alexander the great, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Michelangelo are just a … more »

Tags: Uncategorized

Fort Foote

caswain01 wrote 2 days ago: Finally got around to a belated trip report and marker entries for Fort Foote, Maryland. I visited t … more »

Tags: Artillery, Fortifications, Trip Reports, Washington Defenses

Manassas Landscape Restoration Projects1 comment

caswain01 wrote 2 days ago: The Park Service has posted informative signs at both Brawner Farm and on Matthews Hill detailing th … more »

Tags: Manassas, Trip Reports

The Known World by Edward P Jones4 comments

marygm wrote 3 days ago: The Known World opens in the years before the American Civil War with the death of Henry Townsend, … more »

Tags: Entries by Mary, Fiction: Historical, Fiction & Literary

And so...The American Civil War

Rene Tyree wrote 3 days ago: We have arrived in “Studies in U.S. Military History” (see course information here) at t … more »

Tags: Allan R. Millett, American Military History, American Military University, Antebellum America, Antebellum North, Antebellum South, Books, Civil War, Edward Hagerman

Buckland Mills

caswain01 wrote 4 days ago: This event must have slipped under my radar: The Battle of Buckland Mills Presentation, Monday May … more »

Tags: Preservation

Brawner Farm, Manassas1 comment

caswain01 wrote 4 days ago: With the majority of the markers related to Antietam now at least in the database, I turned today to … more »

Tags: Manassas, Trip Reports

Additional Page - "the milestones"2 comments

Rene Tyree wrote 5 days ago: I’m adding another new page called “the milestones” available here or on the navba … more »

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Fabian Strategy and the American Civil War2 comments

Rene Tyree wrote 6 days ago: One of the concepts Millett and Maslowski mention in their book For the Common Defense: A Military … more »

Tags: Allan R. Millett, American Military History, American Revolution, Ancient History, battle, Civil War, Colonial America, fabian strategy, George Washington

Sobering Numbers

Rene Tyree wrote 1 week ago: As I was finishing up my reading on the American Revolution this evening, I learned the following re … more »

Tags: American Military History, American Revolution, Civil War, Civil War dead, Mexican War, Military History, The American Civil War, U.S. Military History, World War I

Sultana Thoughts2 comments

caswain01 wrote 1 week ago: I’m two days late for posting, but Sunday was the anniversary of the Sultana tragedy.  While … more »

Killer Book2 comments

mendicus wrote 1 week ago: I have never been an American Civil War buff. I’ve never been able to keep Vicksburg and Frederi … more »

Tags: Fiction

April's Cruelties: The Steamboat Sultana Disaster

stitcher5407 wrote 1 week ago: Everyone knows about the sinking of the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in which 1,517 lost their lives. … more »

Tags: FAMILY STORIES, Graveyard Visits

The Wilderness - Gordon Flank Attack Trail

caswain01 wrote 1 week ago: Started turning back to some pre-Antietam project notes and site trips today. My marker entries and … more »

Tags: Historical Marker, Wilderness

Looking forward... and the thought of analyzing Southern Loyalist Claims1 comment

cenantua wrote 2 weeks ago: It might seem like I have laid aside my focus on Civil War “memory,” but I’ve actu … more »

Tags: "Shuffled" memory of the Civil War, Civil War Memory - General, Re-inventing memory of the Civil War

Trail Day at Monocacy

caswain01 wrote 2 weeks ago: Yesterday was a great hiking day. Moderate temperatures. Fair winds. And just enough cloud cover … more »

Tags: Trip Reports, Monocacy

Howe Wins 2008 Pulitizer Prize for History3 comments

Rene Tyree wrote 2 weeks ago: Daniel Walker Howe’s (right) 2007 book, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, … more »

Tags: Antebellum America, Antebellum North, Antebellum South, Books, Daniel Walker Howe

When saying "I am studying Web design" just isn't enough2 comments

cenantua wrote 2 weeks ago: It’s been quite a while since I posted on anything relating directly to digital history, but … more »

Tags: digital history

The Shenandoah Valley's Delegates to the 1861 Virginia Secession Convention

cenantua wrote 3 weeks ago: I realized that I should have included this with my earlier posts about the vote for secession in th … more »

Tags: Civil War Memory - General


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