Published: 3/9/12Voice from the Past: “How These Powerful Machines Are To Be Stopped Is A Problem I Can Not Solve”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! We continue our celebration of the Battle of Hampton Roads with another “Voice from the Past.” The following is Confederate Major General Benjamin Hunger’s report on the famed...
Published: 3/9/12The Rebel Lady’s BoudoirBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Happy Friday and Happy Women’s History Month! We continue our homage to Civil War women with this provokative—and morbid—drawing from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper: The corresponding commentary and caption read:...
Published: 3/9/12Voice from the Past: “In the Monitor Turret”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good afternoon. In honor of the Battle of Hampton Roads, we bring you another Voice from the Past—this time from the Union perspective. The following is Commander S. Dana Greene’s...
Published: 3/9/12Voice from the Past: “It revolutionized the navies of the world”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line We close our Hampton Roads sesquicentennial celebration with this one final quote about the famed clash of the ironclads: THE engagement in Hampton Roads on the 8th of March, 1862,...
Published: 3/8/12Voice from the Past: “Great God What a Scene is Presented”By: Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Good Afternoon! We conclude our sesquicentennial tribute of the Battle of Pea Ridge with another Voice from the Past. Good Afternoon! We conclude our sesquicentennial tribute of the Battle of...
Published: 3/8/12The Women Who Went to the FieldBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line In honor of Women’s History Month, we are celebrating the work and poetry of famed Civil War nurse Clara Barton. Born Clarissa Harlowe Barton, Barton was a true patriot and...
Published: 3/8/12Voice from the Past: “Nothing to Remind me of The Treacherous Days in March of ’62”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good Morning! The sesquicentennial of the Battle of Pea Ridge continues today. As such, we bring you a special Voice from the Past: Asa Payne’s—of Company E, 3rd Missouri Infantry,...
Published: 3/8/12Do You Know These Men?By: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line They died in the sinking of U.S.S. Monitor off Cape Hatteras on December 31, 1862. Their remains were found in the turret of that ship, which was recovered from the...
Published: 3/7/12MAGNESS & PAGE: Colonization After Emancipation (2011)By: Earl J. HessCategory: Book Reviews Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement by Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page. University of Missouri Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0826219098. $34.95. Abraham Lincoln’s persistent interest...
Published: 3/7/12LUBRECHT: New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War (2011)By: Scott ManningCategory: Book Reviews New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War: The Hussars of the Union Army by Peter T. Lubrecht. The History Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 1609491327. $19.99. In New Jersey Butterfly Boys, Peter...