Published: 12/6/11Image of the Day: Hope That Thing Isn’t Loaded!By: Terry JohnstonCategory: The Front Line A Union volunteer strikes a (potentially tragic?) pose with a group of comrades. We hope those guys were friends! Image Credit: Library of Congress
Published: 12/5/11Voice from the Past – Christmasday!By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! To celebrate the holidays, all of the quotables this month will reference Christmas 1861. Our first voice from the past is Raphael Semmes, who wrote the following statement...
Published: 12/1/11Voice from the Past: 1861By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line ARM’D year! year of the struggle! No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year! Not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk, lisp- ing cadenzas...
Published: 11/29/11A Second Helping of Civil War ThanksgivingBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, ate lots of turkey/tofurkey, and survived the chaos of Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping. Since, we did not post our regular...
Published: 11/29/11Celebration or Riot?By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Upon hearing the news of General George McClellan’s appointment to chief commander of the Union Army, Washingtonians embarked upon a grand torch-light procession down Seventh Street. The “compliment” proceeded from...
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: 11/23/11Voice 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,...