http://ift.tt/2wL2WFa As we mark the 150th anniversary of secession, it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on the factors that led to the Union’s collapse. One site offers a wonderful opportunity to do this: “The Secession Era Editorials Project,” hosted by Furman University. The creation of Furman professor T. Lloyd Benson, this site provides excerpted …
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Imported Confederate Uniforms of Peter Tait & Co., Limerick Ireland by Frederick R. Adolphus, self-published For those of us who love to study uniforms, weapons and equipment, Frederick Adolphus’ new volume is just the kind of reading we enjoy. Adolphus evaluates surviving Confederate jackets, all made out of blue-gray cloth and similar in appearance, along …
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Trailing Clouds of Glory: Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders by Felice Flanery Lewis, University of Alabama Press As Felice Flanery Lewis makes clear in the notion that the Mexican War Trailing Clouds of Glory, served as a training ground for future Civil War commanders needs to be reevaluated. The …
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Antietam Farmsteads: A Guide to the Battlefield Landscape by Keven M. Walker and K.C. Kirkman, Western Maryland Interpretive Association It’s no secret that you can’t truly understand an engagement until you walk the ground. But beyond strategy and tactics, Civil War battlefields also preserve the priceless natural and built landscapes of the 19th century. Antietam …
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One of Morgan’s Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry edited by Kent Masterson Brown, University Press of Kentucky Few Civil War units enjoy the high profile and popularity that John Hunt Morgan’s “Thunderbolt of the Confederacy” cavalry commands with modern audiences. Respected historian Kent Masterson Brown has edited an …
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An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia Virginia Historical Society through December 30, 2011 You are a slave escaping on the Underground Railroad. You approach two African-American men fishing in a stream. You ask for boat passage, but they demand something in return. Do you offer your food or your money? You choose …
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Accurate Rebel ‘shot and shell’ terrified Fort Sumter’s garrison. Charleston Harbor, April 1861: Three hours before dawn, a single shell announced the war’s beginning. Suddenly something flashed and boomed ashore. In Fort Sumter men keeping watch saw the projectile coming toward them, arcing clean and high, like a small comet tracing its course among the …
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