Published: 4/4/12GALLMAN (ed.): A Tour of Reconstruction (2011)By: Amy Murrell TaylorCategory: Book Reviews A Tour of Reconstruction: Travel Letters of 1875 edited by J. Matthew Gallman. The University Press of Kentucky, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0813134242. $35.00. Anna Dickinson got right to the point during...
Published: 4/2/12Three Hundred Thousand MoreBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good afternoon! Today we bring you an 1862 song written by John S. Gibbons, to aid Lincoln’s call for 300,000 more Union troops. It first appeared in the New York...
Published: 3/30/12Song of a Southern Prisoner to the Ladies of BaltimoreBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Happy Friday! We close Women’s History Month with this song, entitled “Southern Prisoner. Gives His Thanks to the Baltimore Ladies.” I left Winchester Court-house, all in the month of May,...
Published: 3/28/12INSCOE (ed.): The Civil War in GeorgiaBy: Keith MuchowskiCategory: Book Reviews The Civil War in Georgia: A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion edited by John C. Inscoe. University of Georgia Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 0820339814. $22.95. In 1998 leaders of the Georgia Humanities...
Published: 3/27/12Song of the Southern WomenBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! Today’s Women’s History Month tribute is a poem written by Julia Mildred. Entitled, “Song of the Southern Women,” it is one example of how women struggled to help...
Published: 3/27/12Then and Now: Pope’s Canal to New MadridBy: Craig SwainCategory: The Front Line One-hundred and fifty years ago, Brigadier General John Pope faced a tactical dilemma on the Mississippi River. Confederate batteries at Island No. 10 blocked passage through a complex series of...
Published: 3/26/12Women’s WorkBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good afternoon! Today’s Women’s History Month tribute is a Harper’s Weekly image entitled “Filling Cartidges at the United States Arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts.” It is a reminder that the war...
Published: 3/23/12A Slave and A SpyBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good afternoon! Today’s Women’s History Month tribute is of Mary Touvestre. Touvestre, a former slave, worked for one of the Confederate engineers transforming the USS Merrimack into the CSS Virginia....
Published: 3/21/12FULTON: The Reconstruction of Mark Twain (2010)By: John C. InscoeCategory: Book Reviews The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature by Joe B. Fulton. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807136913. $34.95. As...
Published: 3/21/12“I will not attempt to hamper you with any minute instructions.”By: Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line On March 21, 1862, Major General Henry W. Halleck, commanding Federal forces in the Western Theater, sent this message to Major General John Pope, then commanding forces at New Madrid,...