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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 who had ...
I get the sense from my reading that conventional Civil War wisdom holds the war was the first "modern" war viz. the type of warfare seen in the First World War. I don't know how this theory gained ...
It says a lot that 150 years after the fact there is still a significant degree of debate on the role of slavery in causing the most momentous conflict in our country's history. I feel there is a ...
I post this as a seeker, not one who intends this in any way as a dogmatic assertion or conclusion based on volumes of historical analysis. As I am not a professional historian I do not have the ...
 
Approximately 50,000 Canadians fought in the American Civil War and of these, as many as 200 enlisted for the South. Also, about 400 Canadian women disguised themselves as men and fought ...
I recently made a comment in a post to the effect that if you didn't study American politics for the 40 or so years leading up to the secession of the Southern states, there was no way you could ...
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Ajhall issued the challenge, to prove whether or not the rifled musket really made that much difference in warfare, the conventional wisdom being that the greater accuracy of the ...
At many reenactments I hear comments and am asked about the fighting styles used in the Civil War. Many people view them as unintelligent for lining up and going at it at 100 yards. Horrificly, I've ...
This is mainly a response to AJhall's blog on secession but it would be too long for a comment, so here are my thoughts.
First off, it sounds more like an unsuccessful secession to me... intial ...
 
It was the evening of July 1st, 1863. The American Civil War had been raging on for over two years. Now a battle had begun on this very morning in a little town called Gettysburg in south central ...
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 ...
In a large city, a man is shot in the abdomen by someone with a handgun, puncturing one of his kidneys and piercing his bowel in two places, and in his leg, shattering his shin bone. Thus starts ...
The Artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry "The Wizard of the Saddle", John W. Morton, Nashville, TN, M.E. Church, 1909
Captain John Watson Morton was a battery commander under Lt General N.B. ...
We are in an age where it seems the free-market basis for this country's incredible prosperity and global prestige (and make no mistake, we are viewed around the globe with great admiration -- ...
In my last post, I said at the end that I'd cover my impressions of the telegraph's impact on the Civil War viz a "modern" war. Since then, Bob Redman has raised some issues that demand I go back and ...
I posted at length last night on the role of the rifled musket and the Minie ball on whether or not the Civil War was the last Napoleonic-type war, or the first "Modern" War, viz. WWI-style combat. ...
Abner Small's Haunting Memoir: A Stylistic Tour de Force
Author's note: Please take the following for what it's worth. I am not an English professor. My education in college English began and ...
"From Manassas to Appomatox" by James Longstreet, J.P. Lippencott Company, 1896. 795 pages.
It is one of those old books placed in the biography section of every library I have ever been in, big, ...
I have long held a thought thatresurfaced at my last reenactment. It is in fact one of the reasons why I am so passionate and interested in the Civil War. In the realm of major wars it was the last ...
Havingfound an ancestor that fought for the Union and havingread letters that were written that proclaimed his faith in the Union cause, I felt a bond-a closeness, that even a hundred years could not ...
In a recent blog, 1stTexReb alludes to some important details often overlooked by casual readers of Civil War history. His first, and perhaps most important reference is to the relative lack of true ...
With the 150th anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter fast approaches let us all stop and take a moment to consider exactly what sparked that momentous event.
It has been said many times that ...
Thinking about this topic more, I remembered a point that I failed to make in my first post. It requires a look at how battles were fought in both World War I and World War II and I believe I canvery ...
We've had some interesting discussions here on the Forum on the "truth" being taught in present day schools on American History. I think it's safe to say most of we active members feel the American ...
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