Published: 2/23/12Black Soldiers and the Bloody Battle of Milliken’s BendBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Part of the Vicksburg Campaign, the Battle at Milliken’s Bend occured on June 7, 1863 and included hand-to-hand combat between Confederate troops and a newly formed “African Brigade.” The following...
Published: 2/22/12MARTEN (ed.): Children and Youth During the Civil War Era (2012)By: Catherine M. WrightCategory: Book Reviews Children and Youth During the Civil War Era edited by James Marten. New York University Press, 2012. Paper, ISBN: 0814796087. $25.00. Despite the explosion of social history since the 1970s, few...
Published: 2/21/12BLIGHT: American Oracle (2011)By: David SilkenatCategory: Book Reviews American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era by David W. Blight. Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0674048555. $27.95. David Blight’s Race and Reunion (2001) established him as...
Published: 2/21/12Quarters for African American SoldiersBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Our Black History Month Celebration continues with this Harper’s Weekly depiction of “Negro Quarters, Army of the James.” Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, February 25, 1865.
Published: 2/20/12Rest in Peace Willie LincolnBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth. God has called him home. I know that he is much better off in heaven, but then we loved him...
Published: 2/20/12Special Field Orders No. 15By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Our Black History Month celebration continues with General Willaim Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Field Orders No. 15. Issued January 16, 1865, Sherman’s orders confiscated approximately 400,000 acres of Confederate coastal property,...
Published: 2/17/12Voice from the Past: “It Pleased Me Much More Than One Of Those Sentimental Things”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Our Valentine-themed series is coming to a close. We hope you have enjoyed reading some of these love letters from February 1862. Have a great weekend! Camp Porter, Virginia, Tuesday,...
Published: 2/16/12Voice from the Past: “Ask Us to Marry Him”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Alexandria, February, 1863. I must tell you about a little excursion we made on the 14th. Dr. S. gave us leave (Mrs. B. and me) to go down to Mt....
Published: 2/16/12After the BattleBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Our celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Fort Donelson concludes with this Harper’s Weekly image. Seeking for the Wounded, by Torch-Light, After the Battle Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly,...
Published: 2/15/12DAVIS & ROBERTSON (eds.): Virginia at War, 1865By: Michael B. ChessonCategory: Book Reviews Virgina at War, 1865 edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson. University of Kentucky Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0813134684. $40.00. The fifth and final volume of Virginia at War is the...