The Free State of Southwest Virginia
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by Unknown
3y ago
Hattaway and Beringer mention The Free State of Southwest Virginia in their Jefferson Davis book but I can find no trace of it on the WWW or elsewhere. This site would have provided a natural home for it ... but no mention ..read more
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Civil War memes in Zamoyski's Napoleon, A Life
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by Unknown
3y ago
I was startled by the number of Civil War history memes found in Adam Zamoyski's Napoleon, A Life. Marches Recall a topic as trivial as the length and duration of a military march. Short marches infuriate Civil War authors, yet, The Austrian Army operated like a machine, observing tested routines such as only marching for six hours in twenty-four. Six hours in 24? In their marching, the ..read more
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The new revolutionary war
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by Unknown
3y ago
With the fall of Richmond, Jefferson Davis proposed to carry on the war in the style of the American revolution. This is as much as we get from those historians who write past Appomattox and it leaves much to the imagination. The clarifying explanations are in the record, however. As early as the fall of Vicksburg, Davis wrote to BG Reuben Davis (emphasis added): I hoped that the popular ..read more
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When history repeats itself
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by Unknown
3y ago
Mr. Lincoln's Army, Catton, 1951 Mr. Lincoln's Navy, West 1957 Life in Mr. Lincoln’s Navy, Ringle, 1998 Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy, Joiner 2007 "Mr. Lincoln's Navy," National Museum of the American Sailor 2019 ..read more
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Francis Preston Blair (Sr.) remains history-proof
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by Unknown
3y ago
At that time at which Fremont is relieved, and later when McClellan must be restored, there appears in Civil War military histories a shadowy advisor to the president named Francis Preston Blair, sometimes styled "senior." He is introduced, if at all, as a former confidant of  Andrew Jackson. To military historians, politics is so marginal, so irrelevant to their narratives of personal ..read more
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A new year revelation
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by Unknown
3y ago
The New York Times list of top Civil War books may be the saddest thing you ever read but this can make you sad as well. Pop history is an impersonator, roaming the room soused, boasting its history credentials, breathing its cheap sensibilities into your face, offering nothing but the drunk's stock-in-trade of nostalgia, stories, emotions, drama and "life lessons." You finish whatever show/book ..read more
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Happy New Year
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by Unknown
3y ago
Much to share in 2019. Humble request, however. If you are not subscribed to this blog, please stop accessing it. Thanks ..read more
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Quartermaster Meigs
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by Unknown
3y ago
Remember when one subtitle was enough? Here we have The [emphasis in original] Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs * Lincoln’s General * Master Builder of the Union Army. So, our problems start with the title. Really, Meigs reads out as Seward’s general, later becoming Stanton’s general (Lincoln appears disinterested from first to last). As for "Master Builder of the Union Army," as I have ..read more
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Publishing industry snapshots
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by Unknown
3y ago
I used to do more with this but for now enjoy this industry site, filled with data and analysis ..read more
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Private ACW portraiture made public
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by Unknown
3y ago
The Army and Navy club has put its private art collection online. Have a look here and browse the whole site for more Civil War history paintings ..read more
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