Monday, August 2, 2021

Recent Acquisitions to My Libary

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An Irishman in Dixie: Thomas Conolly's Diary of the Fall of the Confederacy  edited by Nelson D. Lankford The Battle of Glendale: Robert...
Friday, July 30, 2021

"Union or Nothing"

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  One reason we know so much about Civil War soldiers is because they wrote so much about their experiences. One of the things that those fi...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Still More Praise for New Market Heights USCTs

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 Evansville, Indiana Daily Journal , October 13, 1864
Sunday, July 25, 2021

Col. William C. Oates Offers Reward for Enslaved Man

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Today, while working on some research about a different topic, I came across the above advertisement in the August 6, 1864, edition of the R...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

"To-day their praises have been on every tongue. . . ."

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This clipping is part of a larger article filed by correspondent H. J. W. for the Chicago Tribune and ran in the October 6, 1864 issue. 
Monday, July 19, 2021

Civil War Soldiers and Homesickness

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  An old saying goes, “there’s no place like home,” and for many Civil War soldiers that sentiment rang true. With so many young men in the ...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

Sgt. William Carney, Medal of Honor, July 18, 1863

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Today, I honor of Sgt. William Carney, Co. C, 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Born enslaved in 1840, in Norfolk, Virginia, Carney's family ...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Wanted--Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons for the Colored Troops

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 From September 29, 1864 edition of Portland, Maine, Daily Press .
Monday, July 12, 2021

Dying Far From Home – Pvt. Thomas Young, Co. A, 5th USCI

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  African Americans in mid-nineteenth century America experienced the road to freedom differently. Some found the course short and straight....
Friday, July 9, 2021

"A Sad Incident Occurred"

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Dutch Gap Canal (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) In September 1864, Capt. Samuel Vannuys (Co. E, 4th USCI) served as Acting Assistant A...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Recent Acquisitions to My Library

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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Martin Dugard The Civil War in the West: Victory and D...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

"Our Colored Soldiers"

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 As you can see from my recent posts, I've been digging into the newspaper archive again. There is so much rich stuff waiting to be foun...
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Monday, July 5, 2021

One Way to get a Reader's Attention

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The above advertisement appeared in the October 19, 1864, edition of the Lewistown   Gazette  (PA). I've happened across these type of a...
Saturday, July 3, 2021

"Put the Enemy to Confusion"

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  The above article ran in the Washington Evening Star on October 3, 1864, just four days after the Battle of New Market Heights. In the po...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

"It looked as though mortal could advance no further"

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Printed in the October 13, 1864, issue of the Cleveland Morning Leader , Capt. Ellery C. Ford, Co. F, 5th United States Colored Infantry wro...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Portrait of the Rebel General Early

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I happened upon a story from a Rome, Georgia, newspaper that was copied in the Cleveland (Ohio) Morning Leader in October 1, 1864. I found ...
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Sunday, June 27, 2021

Rufus Dawes on the Emancipation Proclamation

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When the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863, it was received with a mixture of emotion among the soldiers of the ...
Sunday, June 6, 2021

Recent Acquisitions to My Library

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With a steep increase in work responsibilities, which in turn impacted my level of physical and mental energy, my reading pace slowed signif...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Corp. James Gray, Co. E, 4th USCI

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Tomorrow is Memorial Day, so I thought I'd share some information I was able to locate on another USCT soldier who is buried in a local ...
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Monday, May 24, 2021

Sgt. Harrison Snead, Co. I, 36th USCI

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With Memorial Day approaching, over the next few days, I thought I'd share a few photographs of Civil War soldiers buried in national ce...