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Category Archives: Civilian
Delity Powell Kelly: A Child in a Confederate Camp
ECW welcomes guest author Sheritta Bitikofer In January of 1930, a new soldier’s pension application was submitted in the state of Florida. While at first glance, this was nothing unusual for the time. Soldiers were growing older and desired compensation … Continue reading
Photographic Portraits: Cadets Identified, Girl Unknown
“Those are cadet uniforms,” I thought while sorting through thumbnail files of digitized Civil War images on Library of Congress’s website. It was not at all what I was looking for at the moment, but I bookmarked the page to … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Common Soldier, Photography
Tagged Battle of New Market, Civil War Civilians, civil war photography, photographs, VMI, VMI cadets
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The Apple Barrage
Private William McCarter of the 116th Pennsylvania Infantry (Irish Brigade) wrote a colorful memoir and included this autumnal story about soldier and civilian interactions near Charlestown (now West Virginia) in October 1862. Here’s the account in his own words, and … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Common Soldier
Tagged 116th Pennsylvania, Charlestown, Civil War Civilians, foraging, Irish Brigade, southern women
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“Where Death Began”: Tragedy and Memory at the Allegheny Arsenal
ECW welcomes guest author Rich Condon In the early afternoon hours of September 17, 1862, Joseph R. Frick, a local wagon driver, made his final rounds delivering three 100lb. barrels of gunpowder to the main laboratory of Allegheny Arsenal in … Continue reading
Enemy on the Georgia Home Front
Wesley Shropshire returned home from the secession convention in Milledgeville, Georgia dejected and distressed. Once final passage of the secession ordinance was certain, most Union delegates changed their votes to give the measure more force, but not Shropshire. He departed … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Civilian, Western Theater
Tagged Georgia, homefront, Rome Georgia, Secession Crisis, Unionist
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Mountain Memorials: The Shelton Graves on the Appalachian Trail
ECW welcomes back guest author Michael Singleton To a hiker on the Appalachian Trail, the cluster of headstones on Big Butt Mountain are a scene out of place to the famous footpath. Known as the “Shelton Graves”, this site along … Continue reading
A Baby Girl in the Crossfire of Fredericksburg
The official reports for the 21st Mississippi Infantry Regiment in Barksdale’s brigade speak highly the soldiers’ courage in the streets of Fredericksburg in the battle on December 11, 1862. However, neither report mentions a remarkable interaction between soldiers and civilians … Continue reading
Figures of the Civil War and the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Nearly 150 years ago, the 15th Amendment extended the franchise to African American men. A generation later the 19th Amendment gave the vote to both Black and White women. Both of these events occurred long after the end of the … Continue reading
Book Review: A Fool’s Errand. By One of the Fools: A Novel of the South During Reconstruction
For historians, reading is a full-time job. Nothing is too insignificant not to read, from cereal boxes to torn bits of paper with evidence of pencil scratches. Reading books popular during a specific period of the past is an excellent … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Books & Authors, Civilian, Politics, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged A Fool's Errand, Albion Tourbee
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