Published: 3/20/12Southern Belle or Female Rebel?By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! In honor of Women’s History Month we thought we would share this Harper’s Weekly image (shown to the left). Along with the front page illustration the authors of...
Published: 3/20/12The Infamous “Woman Order” of Occupied New OrleansBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good afternoon! Earlier today, we shared an image of a Baltimore woman flaunting her Confederate sympathies which drew parallels to the actions of the women of Union-occupied New Orleans. Therefore,...
Published: 3/19/12Patriotic MailBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good afternoon! Our Women’s History Month celebration continues with an image of one of the era’s patriotic envelopes. Used to both boost morale and support the war effort, envelopes like...
Published: 3/16/12The Wild Rose of the SouthBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good afternoon! Today’s Women’s History Month tribute is of Rose O’Neal Greenhow—also known as “Wild Rose”—the famed Confederate spy. Born in Maryland in 1817, little is known of her early...
Published: 3/16/12The Monitor, The Merrimack, and MeBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Last week, I packed up my husband and my dog and headed north to Norfolk and Newport News, Virginia. We were bound for the Civil War Navy Conference at the...
Published: 3/15/12A Lady and A Diary from DixieBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! Our Women’s History Month celebration continues with this tribute to Mary Boykin Chesnut. Mary Boykin Chesnut is perhaps the best known female diarist of the Civil War. Born...
Published: 3/15/12How I tried and failed to escape the Civil WarBy: Cole GrinnellCategory: The Front Line My interest in the Civil War should have been a wonderful accident of birth and geography. I was born, raised, studied, and worked around key sites in that event’s history—quite...
Published: 3/14/12HIRSCH & VAN HAFTEN: Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason (2010)By: Brian DirckCategory: Book Reviews Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason by David Hirsch & Dan Van Haften. Savas Beatie, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 1932714898. $34.95. Original ideas about Abraham Lincoln are uncommon. Given the ever-growing...
Published: 3/14/12HARRIS: Lincoln and the Border States (2011)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union by William C. Harris. University of Kansas Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 070061804X. $34.95. Hard as it might be to imagine, William C. Harris’s...
Published: 3/12/12The Women in BlackBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Last fall, J. David Hacker revealed that the number of Civil War dead is closer to 750,000 than the previously accepted number of 618,222. While not all of them were...