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...
Published: 2/6/12Aboard a Gun Deck During the Battle of Fort HenryBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Gun-Deck of one of the Mississippi Gun-Boats Engaged in the Attack on Fort Henry – sketched by Alexander Simplot – Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, February 22, 1862
Published: 2/6/12Voice from the Past: “We Had Held Out for Over Two”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line The following is Captain Jesse Taylor’s recollection of the Confederate defense of Fort Henry on February 6, 1862. …Arriving at the fort, I was convinced by a glance at its...
Published: 2/2/12Voice from the Past: Rallying with the Hearts of LionsBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line The following letter is from Samuel Cabble, a private in the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, to his wife. Cabble was a slave before he joined the army at twenty-one years of...
Published: 2/2/12Preparing to See the ElephantBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Preparing the Negro Soldiers to Use the Minie Rifle Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, March 14, 1863.
Published: 2/1/12Honoring African American Veterans for Black History MonthBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Happy Black History Month! Today—and throughout the month of February, we honor those African Americans who fought in the Civil War. Image Credit: “A Negro Regiment in Action,” Harper’s Weekly,...
Published: 1/30/12The Launching of a Legend…the USS MonitorBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Naval Historical Center’s Online Library of Selected Images 150 years ago today, the Union Navy launched the USS Monitor—its first ironclad—from the Continental Iron Works, at Greenpoint in Long Island,...
Published: 1/30/12Inboard the USS MonitorBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Naval Historical Center’s Online Library of Selected Images The above image is the USS Monitor‘s general plan featuring an inboard profile of the ironclad. First published in in 1862, the...
Published: 1/26/12The Mighty MississippiBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line General View of the Mississipii River from Cairo, Illinois to the mouth of the river. Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, January 11, 1862.