Published: 11/28/11Voice from the Past: “The Best Man and the Best General”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line “I am very glad to learn that my order changed Gen. Scott’s feelings entirely, and that he now says I am the best man and the best general that ever...
Published: 11/25/11Voice from the Past – Thanksgiving is OverBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Happy Black Friday! We hope you all had a wonderful (and delectable) Thanksgiving. Our final “Voice from the Past” comes from the November 1861 diary of Lucy Larcom of Nordom,...
Published: 11/24/11Voice from the Past – Thankfully Keeping Thanksgiving DayBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Our Thanksgiving tribute continues. Today’s “Voice from the Past” is Wilder Dwight of the Second Massachusettes Infantry Volunteers. “Camp near Seneca, November 16, 1861. …The virtue of this military life...
Published: 11/23/11HARROLD: Border War (2010)By: Bonnie Laughlin-SchultzCategory: Book Reviews Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War by Stanley Harrold. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807834319. $30.00. In this well-researched and convincing work,...
Published: 11/23/11Voice from the Past – “Fleshing our teeth in a secesh gobbler…”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good Morning! We continue our week long Civil War Thanksgiving celebration with an excerpt from William Wheeler’s November 11, 1861 letter to his mother: Camp Observation, Md., November 11, 1861....
Published: 11/22/11Voice from the Past – Thanksgiving SensationsBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Happy Thanksgiving! The following account of an 1861 Thanksgiving dinner amongst the Union army comes from a letter written by Wilder Dwight of the 2nd Massachusettes Infantry: Camp near Seneca,...
Published: 11/22/11Voice from the Past – A Thanksgiving Day ProclamationBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line While Americans had celebrated Thanksgiving since 1621, it was not until 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln issued the following Thanksgiving Day Proclamation. Only then, did the holiday became a national...
Published: 11/21/11Voice from the Past – The Customs of Our Puritan FathersBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! To celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, The Front Line will be posting different “Voices from the Past” about Civil War soldiers’ Thanksgiving experiences. Our first quote comes from the...
Published: 11/17/11Voice from the Past – “Am afloat, adrift”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line “Am afloat, adrift, abroad, motion uneasy, “Inner man” “stomach” becoming so. I think I’ll try full-length. A cotton-bale & the open air on the for’ard deck. “Very grand.” The sea—if...
Published: 11/16/11MORSMAN: The Big House After Slavery (2010)By: Felicity TurnerCategory: Book Reviews The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and their Postwar Domestic Experiment by Amy Feely Morsman. University of Virginia Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0813930030. $45.00. Amy Feely Morsman’s The Big House After...