Published: 2/9/12Black Soldiers and Lady LibertyBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Our Black History Month celebration continues with this 1865 drawing of a wounded Union soldier by Thomas Nast. “Franchise. And not this man?” despite his service and sacrifice. Image Credit:...
Published: 2/8/12MARSHALL: Creating a Confederate Kentucky (2010)By: Anne Sarah RubinCategory: Book Reviews Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State by Anne E. Marshall. University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 080783436X. $35.00. Nowhere is...
Published: 2/8/12ABRUZZO: Polemical Pain (2011)By: James Hill Welborn IIICategory: Book Reviews Polemical Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism by Margaret Abruzzo. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0801898528. $55.00. Long before Americans, North and South, commenced to shooting...
Published: 2/8/12Roanoke Island…150 Years AgoBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Roanoke Island showing the position of Confederate Batteries Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, March 1, 1862.
Published: 2/7/12Camp Life for African American RegimentsBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line “Army of the Potomac—Scene in camp of Negro regiments—Method of punishment of Negro soldiers for various offences.” Image Credit: Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, December 10, 1864.
Published: 2/7/12Voice from the Past: “The Right to Citizenship”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line “Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in...
Published: 2/7/12The Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Roanoke IslandBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line February 7th and 8th mark the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Roanoke Island. A lesser known battle, Roanoke Island was part of Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside’s North Carolina Expedition...
Published: 2/6/12Honoring the 107th U.S. Colored Infantry BandBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Our Black History Month Celebration continues… 107th U.S. Colored Infantry Band at Fort Corcoran in Arlington, Virginia, November 1865. Freed blacks served in various capacities in the Union army, including...
Published: 2/6/12The Battle of Fort Henry SesquicentennialBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line The Union Gun-Boats Advancing Up the Tennessee River to the Attack of Fort Henry Today marks the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Fort Henry—a Confederate earthern fort on the Tennessee...
Published: 2/6/12Voice from the Past: “The 6th Dawned Mild and Cheering”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line The following is Rear Admiral Henry Walke’s recollection of the Battle of Fort Henry. …Heavy rains had been falling, and the river had risen rapidly to an unusual height; the...