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  • Why Don't You Take It?Read More

    Category: Friday Funny Posted: 5/18/2012 Author: Laura June Davis | 
    <p>Good morning! Today's Friday Funny is an 1861 Currier & Ives sketch commenting on the Union's substantial advantage in terms war materiel. </p>
  • CARNEY: Ministers and Masters (2011)Read More

    Category: Book Reviews Posted: 5/16/2012 Author: John J. Langdale III | 

    In Ministers and Masters, Charity Carney furnishes a concise study of antebellum southern Methodist ministers and their often remarkable intersections with the culture of southern honor...

  • SCARBOROUGH: The Allstons of Chicora Wood (2011)Read More

    Category: Book Reviews Posted: 5/16/2012 Author: Alex Macaulay | 

    The Allstons of Chicora Wood is an interesting and frustrating book. What began as a standard biography of antebellum South Carolina governor and rice planter Robert F.W. Allston, evolved over the course of the author's research into a broader study of the Allston family...

  • John Mackie: The Man and the MemoryRead More

    Category: Iron Men Afloat Posted: 5/15/2012 Author: Laura June Davis | 

    One rarely thinks of the United States Marine Corps and the Civil War in the same thought. Given their small size and limited service, this is not surprising. And yet hidden away in a rarely visited section of the Richmond National Battlefield Park?Drewry?s Bluff?sits an interpretative marker honoring Corporal John F. Mackie

  • The Battle of Drury's BluffRead More

    Category: Iron Men Afloat Posted: 5/15/2012 Author: Dave Kummer | 

    The Monitor remained close to the Galena but the Confederates chose to concentrate their fire on a more vulnerable target after several direct hits merely caromed off the Monitor's heavy armor. That left the Galena alone to take the full brunt of the Rebel onslaught; their salvo ripped through her armored sides. On board the Galena, Corporal John F. Mackie commanded the ship’s...

  • The Week Ahead: May14th-May 20th Read More

    Category: News & Events Posted: 5/14/2012 Author: Laura June Davis | 
    <p>Good afternoon! Below are the Civil War-related events happening this week...This week's featured event is a Free Civil War Lecture on the Capture of New Orleans at the Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier.</p>
  • Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One NightRead More

    Category: From the Archives Posted: 5/14/2012 Author: Laura June Davis | 

    The following Walt Whitman poem??Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night??reminds us of the tangible, human costs of war. Whitman often found the wholesale anonymity of the war dead disturbing; therefore poems like "Virgil" were his way to ensure that the battlefield dead found individual recognition.

  • The "Light Guard"Read More

    Category: Friday Funny Posted: 5/11/2012 Author: Laura June Davis | 

    Today's Friday Funny is an 1861 Harper's Weekly cartoon. Entitled ?Costume Suggested for the Brave Stay-at-Home Light Guard," this sketch mockingly questions the masculinity of Union men who did not voluntarily enlist into military service.

  • LAUSE: A Secret Society History of the Civil War (2011)Read More

    Category: Book Reviews Posted: 5/9/2012 Author: Matt Gallman | 

    Reviewers are not supposed to take authors to task for "not writing a different book" (although we do it all the time), but it might be fair to critique a monograph for not having a different title. Reader beware. This is not a history of secret societies during the Civil War...

  • The Battle of McDowell Read More

    Category: Sesquicentennials Posted: 5/8/2012 Author: Laura June Davis | 

    Today marks the sesquicentennial of the Battle of McDowell (May 8, 1862)?the second full scale engagement of Major General Thomas ?Stonewall? Jackson?s Shenandoah Valley Campaign.

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