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Published: 10/10/11
Voices from the Past: A “Plucky” Young Soldier
Good morning! The Civil War Monitor has added a new section to The Front Line: Quotables. Each Monday, we will share a Voice from the Past to help you learn...
Published: 10/4/11
“It made us an ‘is’.”
It's one of the great quotes, from one of the great documentaries, that sums up the legacy of the American Civil War: Before the war, it was said 'the United States are'– grammatically it was spoken that way and thought of as a collection of independent states. And after the war it was always 'the [...]
Published: 9/29/11
A War of Words
There’s a lot that remains unsettled about the Civil War: “Manassas” or “Bull Run”? “Civil War” or “War Between the States”? Forget the big questions about what the war was...
Published: 9/27/11
Texas SCV Calls for a New Strategy
Recently Mark Vogl, Lieutenant Commander of the Texas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, called for a shift strategy in that organization’s approach to “heritage defense,” away from throwing...
Published: 9/21/11
These Sacred Fields: Union Commemorations at Gettysburg
For Union veterans of the Civil War, the battlefield at Gettysburg served as the epicenter for war remembrance. The modern landscape certainly attests to this. A forest of marble, granite,...
Published: 9/21/11
We Cannot Know Their Minds
Undoubtedly one of the reasons for the tremendous, abiding interest Americans have with the Civil War is that a great many of us have a personal connection to it. We...