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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Question of the Day: Reenactments?
In reading Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields this week, I came across a passage where author Edward Tabor Linenthal referenced a speech made in 1962 by Civil War historian Bruce Catton. Speaking at Gettysburg College, Catton was previewing the … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War Events, Memory
Tagged Bruce Catton, centennial, reenacting, sacred ground
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“The Star-Spangled Banner Must and Shall Be Saved:” Union Men Enlist
The American Civil War engulfed the American continent from 1861 to 1865. The titanic contest was fought for a variety of reasons, differing depending on its participants’ viewpoints. Politically, it was a struggle to preserve the Union and tear it … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Common Soldier
Tagged 123rd New York Infantry, 16th Maine Infantry, 1st Colorado Infantry, 23rd Maine Infantry, 29th Massachusetts Infantry, 2nd Rhode Island Infantry, 5th Michigan Cavalry, Augustus Ayling, Civil War soldier motivation, common soldier, Elisha Hunt Rhodes, H.W. Bolton, James Henry Avery, Ovando J Hollister, rice c bull, soldier motivation, the star-spangled banner must and shall be saved, Union enlistments, why soldiers fought, William B. Lapham
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Service in Days Gone By
June 25th will mark the 136th Anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. However, this post is not meant to discuss the tactics, recent archeological findings and conclusions or to analyze the conduct of the senior officers of the … Continue reading
Monument Avenue: JEB Stuart
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Bloody Field, Peaceful Field
On a recent trip to the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania I was again struck by the beauty of the battlefields. Today, not a shadow of the violence, pain, and intensity remains on the fields where so many fell almost 150 … Continue reading
Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, In History and Memory…Part 8
Part eight in a series. Southern postwar writings were also particularly influential in how they helped to shape the nation’s collective understanding of the war and its meaning. In the south Confederate Veteran Magazine was very popular among historians and … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory
Tagged Alexander Stephens, Battle of Champion's Hill, Charles Dana, Clement Evans, Confederate Veteran, Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, Edwin Stanton, George G. Meade, In History and Memory, James Longstreet, John Brown Gordon, Jubal Early, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, William Swinton, William T. Sherman
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“Damn the Torpedoes…or the Birds”
The Farragut Statue sits in the apporpriately namedFarragut Park in Washington D.C. and was sponsored by Congress in 1872. The statue and memorial park is preserved and maintained by the National Park Service as part of the National Mall and … Continue reading
War Front and Home Front, Father and Son: A Family’s Contribution to the Civil War (Part II)
Dudley’s father, Thomas Worth Olcott, made his contributions on the homefront, in ways that are perhaps less recognizable, but hardly less important, than soldiers. Thomas Olcott was a prominent banker in the Albany area in the nineteenth-century. He was the … Continue reading
Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, In History and Memory…Part 7
Part seven in a series. In the post-war years many veterans wrote long and influential memoirs of the war. Some Western Theater veterans wrote of their experiences, but not to the extent that their eastern counterparts did. Why were post-war … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Books & Authors, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal
Tagged Battle of Chattanooga, Chancellorsville, Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, Gettysburg, In History and Memory, Jefferson Davis, John B. Jones, John Bell Hood, John Nicolay, Military Order of the Loyal Legions of the United States, Offical Records of the War of the Rebellion, Philip Sheridan, Robert E. Lee, Siege of Knoxville, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman
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War Front and Home Front, Father and Son: A Family’s Contribution to the Civil War (Part I)
Surrounded by the capitol city that has grown up around it, Ten Broeck Mansion was built in 1797-8 outside Albany, NY and remained a private home until it was presented to the Albany County Historical Association in 1948. Although its … Continue reading
