Monday, February 28, 2011

A Kentucky Editor on the Emancipation Proclamation

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Kentucky, being a slave state that remained in the Union, found itself in a unique position when the Emancipation Proclamation took effect o...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

What a Great Idea...Sharing History!

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I received an email from the Virginia Sesquicentennial Commission yesterday advertising their upcoming third signature conference. This yea...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

What Alabama Traitors Think of Kentuckians

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While looking through some 1861 issues of the Frankfort Tri-Weekly Commonwealth for items for an upcoming teacher workshop on the Civil War...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Cities and Towns, a Strong Draw for Runaway Slaves

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This past weekend I finished reading S lavery in the Cities: The South 1820-1860 , which was written by Dr. Richard Wade in 1964. While I h...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Vandalizing a Slave Dealer's Charleston Office

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I recently finished reading Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life , by Steven Deyle and found it to be a fascinating book...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

150 Years Ago: Texas Says Why It Is Out of the Union

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Although Texas seceded from the Union on February 1, 1860, the following day they released a declaration of what "impelled" them t...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

A Complete Victory in the Wilderness

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I was so happy to receive the following press release today from the Civil War Trust. Many, many people had a hand in this being a successf...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Ubiquity of the Civil War

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It never ceases to amaze me the places that references to the Civil War turn up. I suppose that speaks volumes to how much that conflict tr...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

149th Anniversary of the Battle of Mill Springs

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Today is the 149th anniversary of one of those Civil War battles that has several names. This engagement in Pulaski County, Kentucky, near t...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

CWPT - New Name, New Logo, Same Mission

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As a member of the Civil War Preservation Trust, I received the following email message today from President Jim Lighthizer. The CWPT, now ...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Point of Contention

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I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity the write the following article which ran on Sunday, January 9, 2011 in the Frankfort Sta...
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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Next, Quickly Mississippi...?

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Songster Harry McCarthy stated in the third stanza of the "Bonnie Blue Flag" that, "First gallant South Carolina nobly made ...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Another John Brown Song You Might Not Know

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Courtesy: American Memory, Library of Congress
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The Colored Volunteers

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Courtesy: American Memory, Library of Congress
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Ran Away...A Negro Man Named Ben

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I ran across this runaway slave advertisement the other day while browsing through the Library of Congress' online primary sources. It ...
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Friday, December 24, 2010

Wishing Everyone A Very Merry Christmas

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

A Sample of Kentucky Runaway Slave Advertisements

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I mentioned in a recent post on slave quarters that understanding slavery is not an easy thing to do. Reading the slaves' own narrative...
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