Published: 2/15/12FARMER-KAISER: Freedwomen and the Freedmen’s Bureau (2010)By: Carolyn ChesarinoCategory: Book Reviews Freedwomen and the Freedmen’s Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation by Mary Farmer-Kaiser. Fordham University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0823232115. $80.00. “If women-whippers and negro shooters...
Published: 2/15/12Voice from the Past: “My Valentine to the Best Woman in the World”By: Laura June DaviceCategory: The Front Line Union Mills, Va., February 14th, 1863. Dear Wife: It has this minute struck me that this is St. Valentine’s day and this will be my valentine to ‘the best woman...
Published: 2/15/12Voice from the Past: “Absolute Naval Supremacy”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line We continue our Fort Donelson sesquicentennial celebration with the following diary entry by William Howard Russell, December, 1861: On my return to New York, at the end of February, the...
Published: 2/14/12Voice from the Past: Sending ValentinesBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Another Valentine’s Day 1862 “Voice from the Past” to mark the holiday. Friday, 14th — This is Valentine’s Day and some of the boys are having a great time sending...
Published: 2/14/12Voice from the Past: “To Be Your Valentine”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Happy Valentine’s Day from The Civil War Monitor. We hope you enjoy this letter from Valentine’s Day, 1862. Good morrow, ‘t is St. Valentine’s day All in the morning betime....
Published: 2/14/12Voice from the Past: “A Desperate Fight at Fort Donelson”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! Today’s Fort Donelson sesquicentennial post comes from a letter William Penn Lyon wrote to Adelia Caroline Duncotabe Lyon on February 17, 1862: Mound City, Monday noon, Feb. 17,...
Published: 2/13/12Voice from the Past: “St. Valentine’s Day, I believe”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line An early Valentine’s greeting from all of us at The Civil War Monitor. To celebrate, all this week, “The Front Line” blog will be publishing a “Voices from the Past”...
Published: 2/13/12Voice from the Past: “The Startling Intelligence from Fort Donelson”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! We have another contribution to our Fort Donelson sesquicentennial series. This excerpt is from Alfred Lewis Castleman’s diary: What a week of news, opening on us with intelligence...
Published: 2/13/12From The Struggle of Slavery to the Struggle for LibertyBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Uncut sheet of twelve illustrated cards presenting the journey of a slave from plantation life to the struggle for liberty, for which he gives his life, as a Union soldier...
Published: 2/12/12Happy 203rd Birthday Abraham LincolnBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln – Image Credit: “President elect, Abraham Lincoln Portrait...