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Blog Post The Ultimate Nickname List by Sue
Nicknames are obviously not an invention of our day and age, and many of the generals in the civil war had nicknames too, nicknames  that were not always complimentary. Sometimes they were even ...
Blog Post Post Trauma Stress During the Civil War by Sue
I read a very interesting and thought evoking post in Civil War Medicine , which because I think is such and important subject, today as well as during the civil war, I will quote it extensively...
Blog Post Imagine Yourself Experiencing This by Sue
For me, the most interesting aspect of the civil war (and any other war, for that matter) are the people behind the battles, and the people behind the soldiers. Even during the times when fem...
Blog Post One Example of Religious Fanaticism During the Civil War by Sue
I always wonder what motivates people in a state of war, and am always surprised when the driving force turns out to be a women. In most of our perceptions, women are more earthy and caring, d...
Blog Post the civil war happened here part 2 by kakman
just back from vacation.i was able to visit three sites never been too before,1-morris island sc,by small boat -capt cresh took me and the wife to lower end of island only had 1 hour there took pictu...
Blog Post John Aquilla Wilson by Sue
Photo from York Town Square Blog who says: Two aging Civil War soldiers flank a Lincoln impersonator. The black veteran is thought to be John Aquilla Wilson, known as 'Quil,' of Fawn Town...
Blog Post th civil war happened here by kakman
last month took  a flight to texas ended up in brownsville,did you know the park service has a mexican war site there?palo alto -pristine, with a visitor center-check it out anyway rode down to ...
Blog Post Good Books to Read on the Civil War by kakman
in my opinion the following books i found to be well written and informative-on campaigns and battles,'to appomattox' by burke davis when i first read this many years ago it was all i could do not to...
Blog Post Atlanta in the wake of General William Sherman by Sue
I came across a great blog full of photographs of American Cities during the Civil War I was particularly Moved by the pictures of Atlanta - you could almost imagine being there Federal c...
Blog Post Blog? What an interesting name. by PeteHeron
Blog. Blaaaauuuhhhhhggg. I like it; it sort of connotes blah. Blaaauuuhhhh. A condition of running off of the mouth. One I have suffered from for, well, maybe my entire life. And Peter said, "blah...
Blog Post not about slavery by kakman
jeff davis 150 years ago put forth some resolutions to the us senate on the political and constitutional aspects of slavery-that slavery is legal in state and territories-fugitive slaves shall be ret...
Blog Post the trent affair 1861 by kakman
trent affair?sounds like infidelity but actually this just might be the closest great britain ever came to helping the confederacy win independence.  the csa hoped england would help in some way...
Blog Post Our Three Equally Important Union Armies by PeteHeron
I have driven throughout the southeast United States. Not just interstate, but many local routes. In doing so, it has helped me grasp some of the difficulties faced by both sides. Today's US95 pre...
Blog Post A Different Point of View of Jebb Stuart by Sue
I wish to say what I think of Stuart right now... He looks more like a clown and fool than a soldier, nor can you see him without a feeling of contempt for him; yet he is generous and brave - two...
Blog Post Centralia Massacre and Centralia Battle by PeteHeron
Paraphrasing someone: if we don't read history, we are doomed to repeat it. Hmmm, I worked for a few brief years as  a NYPD cop. The other day a jury in Brooklyn acquitted one of three men wh...
Blog Post jefferson davis is elected president of csa by kakman
for the next six years jeff davis will be the president of the confederacy-a former senator from mississippi he actually hoped for  a generals commission in the army-he was colonel of 1st ms reg...
Blog Post willoughby run july 1st 1863 by kakman
confederates under harry heth pushed aside union cavarly early morning on july 1st  1863 they advance towards the town of gettysburg.along willoughby run a small stream,union infantry under john...
Blog Post the civil war happened here by kakman
next week i go to two cw sites ive never visited-morris island sc and fort jefferson fla 70 miles west of key west besides nature sites and swimming which i will do,the dasterdly men who didnt hang w...
Blog Post The Guessing Game at Gettysburg by Sue
The 145th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg is no doubt worth commemorating. As Civil War Blog (the blog between the states) reminds us - Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle on American soi...
Blog Post Why I study the American Civil War by PeteHeron
I first saw a civil war battlefield about ten years ago while driving north on a two lane Georgia highway. Highway it said, but pretty like a country road. Trees swept out over it, making it shady en...
Blog Post civil war movies by kakman
i was thinking about cw movies.most are not factual silly and downright dumb.id like to list a few of my favorites in no particular order-"the tall target"dick powell's adetective named john kennedy ...
Blog Post the terrorist,the murderer,the hero,and the martyr by kakman
john brown was all those things- 150 years ago he's on trial for his life and his writings from jail tell us he was quite prepared to die for his cause,he will be convicted and the hanging will be de...
Blog Post Ulterior Motive At Its Best (Worst) by Sue
I read the most annoying article quoted by  Eric Wittenberg, And I will quote in full, FYI Drastic Expansion of Mining Operations Threatens Belle Grove Plantation and Cedar Creek Civil W...
Blog Post mr.smith,mr.brown by kakman
 if this was 1859 and say if  a man  wanted to free all slaves in the south,say arm them give them weapons but of course not to do any harm unless forced to where could someone go espe...
Blog Post Gettysburg Witness Tree Badly Damaged in Storm. by Sue
Apparently, one of the Witness trees in Gettysburg Was badly damaged in a storm last Thursday. From To the Sound of the Guns via Fox news GETTYSBURG, Pa. - Standing just 150 feet fro...
Blog Post The Lincoln Financial Sculpture Walk by Sue
A Welcome Conversation Jo hn Zito of Beij, Williams and Zito, Inc. comments on the height of a sculpture of a young Abe Lincoln that he was helping install at Great River Park in East Hartf...
Blog Post john browns hanging by kakman
last week i attended the naacp ceremony in charlestown wva marking the 150th anniversary of hanging john brown. i got there early enough to mingle with reenactors portraying citizens and soldiers-i h...
Blog Post Mr. Bill Shelton by kakman
About six years ago, I was giving a private tour of the Cold Harbor Campaign which took place in Hanover County, Virginia in June 1864.  One of my first stops was on the Studley Road just east...
Blog Post john latschar by kakman
wow someone email more on the ex-gettysburg park chief-they told me it was over 30,000 porn images on his work computer 3,400 just being really hard-core. plus he used funds from the gettysburg found...
Blog Post A Relaxing Way to Spend the Weekend. by Sue
I was thinking of going to visit Winchester, Virginia, because of it being drenched in civil war history. I happened to read Scott Mingus's post on Winchester, and now I am certaily going to ma...
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