Published: 4/18/12BARNHART: Albert Taylor Bledsoe (2011)By: Benjamin CloydCategory: Book Reviews Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause by Terry A. Barnhart. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807137243. $42.50. Terry Barnhart’s intriguing biography...
Published: 4/15/12Did a C.S.S. Alabama Veteran Die in the Titanic Disaster?By: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line The December 1912 issue of The Confederate Veteran carries a list of eleven members of the Joe Johnston UCV Camp No. 94 of Mexia, Texas, who died between July 1911...
Published: 4/12/12Voice from the Past: “Another Bloodless Victory”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line In belated honor of the fall of Fort Pulaski (April 11, 1862), we bring you Miss Susan Walker’s account of the battle: Friday 11th April Heavy firing all morning yesterday...
Published: 4/11/12LOWRY: Drinking Patterns in the Civil War (2011)By: Sean VanattaCategory: Book Reviews Irish and German Whiskey and Beer: Drinking Patterns in the Civil War by Thomas P. Lowry. CreateSpace, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1463648987. $9.95. In his General Orders of February 4, 1862, General...
Published: 4/7/12Voice from the Past: “Victory is Sufficiently Complete…Victory is Lost”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Our sesquicentennial celebration of the Battle of Shiloh continues with an excerpt from Confederate Colonel S.H. Lockett’s account of the battle printed in Battles and Leaders. It recalls how quickly...
Published: 4/7/12Voice from the Past: “Those Savage Yells, And The Sight of Thousands of Racing Figures Coming Towards Them”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line We close our Shiloh sesquicentennial celebration with Henry Morton Stanley’s recollection of the battle and the effectiveness of the legendary rebel yell. After a steady exchange of musketry, which lasted...
Published: 4/6/12Voice from the Past: “Terrible Tales of the Scenes in Corinth”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line In honor of Shiloh’s sesquicentennial, we bring you the following voice from the past. Taken from the April 9, 1862 diary of Kate Cumming, it recounts the battle’s deadly aftermath....
Published: 4/6/12The Drummer Boy of ShilohBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Duke Library One of the legends of Shiloh was of a young drummer boy who died on the battlefield. Cast as a young lad who had run away from home...
Published: 4/5/12“Life Studies of the Great Army”By: Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays [A]t the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibit of 1876, Edwin Forbes, renowned for his work during the Civil War as a “special artist” for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, displayed a collection of copper...
Published: 4/4/12STOKER: The Grand Design (2010)By: Lorien FooteCategory: Book Reviews The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War by Donald Stoker. Oxford University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0195373057. $27.95. In The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War, Donald Stoker...