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: 11/15/11“Soldiers of Fortune, Make Us Your Game!”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line William Howard Russell was a “special correspondent” for the London Times, who travelled the North and South during the early years of the war. The excerpted quote describes a luncheon...
Published: 11/15/11A Civil War Cattle DriveBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Beef for the Union Army Cross the Long Bridge at Washington. Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, 16 November 1861.
Published: 11/14/11Voices from the Past – The Integrity of the UnionBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line “You will please constantly to bear in mind the precise issue for which we are fighting; that issue is the preservation of the Union and the restoration of the full...
Published: 11/11/11Honoring our Veterans…Then & NowBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line The Civil War Monitor editors would like to extend a big THANK YOU to all of the veterans and active duty personnel of our armed services. We salute you! To...
Published: 11/10/11Who Will Be Worthy of Memorialization?By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line The following cartoon is from the 9 November 1861 issue of Harper’s Weekly. The caption reads: “BROTHER JONATHAN, who has been getting up a Military Statue, succeeds very well in...
Published: 11/10/11Happy Birthday Marines!By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line To celebrate the 236th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps, we found this image of Civil War marines. The caption reads, “The United States Marines and Marine Barracks at...
Published: 11/8/11A Regiment of InventorsBy: Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line “In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence,...