Published: 11/7/11The Confederate Perspective: “Port Royal…has been taken by the enemy’s fleet”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line “Port Royal, on the coast of South Carolina, has been taken by the enemy’s fleet. We had no casemated batteries. Here the Yankees will intrench themselves, and cannot be dislodged....
Published: 11/7/11Voices from the Past: “Sagacious Military Conjecture”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Wilder Dwight was a Lieutenant Colonel inthe 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Prior to dying September 19, 1862 from wounds at the Battle of Antietam, Dwight wrote some conjectures about...
Published: 11/7/11Voices from the Past: “The Gratifying Duty”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Port Royal—one of the earliest amphibious operations of the American Civil War. The United States Navy fleet and the United States...
Published: 11/4/11Image of the Day: The Dogs of WarBy: Terry JohnstonCategory: The Front Line From Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, “An Incident of Battle — A Faithful Dog Watching the Dead Body of His Master”: Credit: Frank Leslie’s The Soldier in Our Civil War.
Published: 11/3/11Sarah Morgan’s Arrival in Yankee-Occupied New OrleansBy: Terry JohnstonCategory: The Front Line In April 1863, 21-year-old Sarah Morgan, along with her mother and sisters, found herself on a ship headed for the city of her birth, New Orleans. The Morgan family had...
Published: 11/2/11MARTIN: General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A. (2011)By: Jeffry D WertCategory: Book Reviews General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A. by Samuel J. Martin. McFarland, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0786459344. $55.00. A consensus among many Civil War historians is that the Confederacy lost the conflict in the West,...
Published: 10/31/11Mrs. (“Beast”) Butler’s Scary DreamBy: Terry JohnstonCategory: The Front Line Happy Halloween! To celebrate, we found a spooktacular letter from the archives… On April 4, 1862, Sarah Hildreth Butler, wife of Union general Benjamin F. (“Beast”) Butler, wrote a friend...
Published: 10/31/11“They See a Ghost or Something.”By: Terry JohnstonCategory: The Front Line On May 25, 1863, Union soldier David L. Day, of the 25th Massachusetts Volunteers, recorded a strange incident that occurred while his regiment was on a recent nighttime march: Sometime...
Published: 10/31/11Voices From the Past: “I am truly thankful for the institution of ghosts…”By: Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line “You perceive that my idea of ghosts is not limited to graveyards and tombs, or the tenants thereof; indeed, so far from it, the most troublesome I have ever known...
Published: 10/31/11Voices from the Past – Out of That Silence Rose New Sounds More Appalling StillBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line The Battle of Fredericksburg (December 11-15, 1862) was a decisive loss for the Union army, crippling northern morale. The chilling quote below derives from Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s description...