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Category Archives: Slavery
Noah Trudeau Explains Lincoln’s Greatest Journey
Recently I chatted with award-winning author Noah Andre Trudeau, who has written several well-regarded books on the Civil War in 1864 and 1865. We discussed his next book, Lincoln’s Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days That Changed a Presidency, March 24 – … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Book Review, Books & Authors, Leadership--Federal, Lincoln, Personalities, Reconstruction, Sieges, Slavery
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Appomattox Campaign, Breakthrough at Petersburg, City Point, David Dixon Porter, Fall of Petersburg, Fall of Richmond, General William T. Sherman, Grant, Julia Grant, Lincoln in Richmond, Mary Todd Lincoln, Noah Andre Trudeau, Savas Beatie
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Fredericksburg, My Favorite City in Virginia (part two)
part two of five In Washington, D.C., I could go almost anywhere without too many problems with racism. However, whenever we were going south to Fredericksburg, my brothers and sisters and I were told to be on our best behavior. … Continue reading
Posted in Slavery
Tagged 23rd USCT, Carl's Ice Cream, Chancellorsville battlefield, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Hashmel Turner, John Washington, Marye's Heights, race, racism, segregation, Shiloh Baptist Church New Site, Shiloh Old Site, Steward Henderson, Steward-Henderson-Fredericksburg-Series, Trail to Freedom
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Fredericksburg, My Favorite City in Virginia (part one)
part one of five I have spent my entire retirement working at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields National Military Park. As a young kid standing on Marye’s Heights in 1958, fascinated by the battlefield and the view from high … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, National Park Service, Slavery, USCT
Tagged 23rd USCT, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, John Hennessy, National Park Service, slave auction block, slavery, Steward Henderson, Steward-Henderson-Fredericksburg-Series, USCT
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Civil War Trails: Connecting the Dots
by Drew Gruber A first glance, the iconic brick “Price, Birch & Co.” building in Alexandria, Virginia doesn’t seem to have much in common with the stately, Federal style “Spring Haven” plantation in Sumner County, Tennessee. Today, the “Price, Birch … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Slavery, Ties to the War
Tagged Andrew Jackson, Armfield and Franklin, Civil War Trails, Edward Sanders, Isaac Franklin, James Otey, John Armfield, Leonidis Polk, Michael and Cara Hogan, Price Birch & Co., Sewanee, Slave trade, slavery, Spring Haven, The UNiversity of the South
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On The Trail with Sterling Price and John Brown
Recently I was “dragged” on a family trip out to the far west….well, the Civil War far west, Kansas and Arkansas. My friends and family who live in the region promised me “there are some really cool Civil War sites … Continue reading
Posted in Arms & Armaments, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Monuments, Personalities, Politics, Slavery
Tagged Battle of Mine Creek, Battle of Pea Ridge, Battle of Prairie Grove, Battle of Wilson's Creek, Bleeding Kansas, Earl Van Dorn, John Brown, Nathaniel Lyon, Sterling Price
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Question of the Week: 6/20-6/26/16
Since the Emancipation Proclamation wasn’t announced until 1862, African American History and abolition are sometimes overlooked in studies of the Civil War’s first year. How did they respond to the 1861 conflict? How did abolitionists use the beginning of the war … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Question of the Week, Slavery
Tagged Abolition, African American History, Question of the Week
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Black Confederates: Laborers or Soldiers? (part five)
the final part in a series In 1969, in his book The Confederate Negro, Professor James H. Brewer wrote, “Today, in a lonely unmarked grave, forgotten and unknown, lies the Confederate Negro—a casualty of history.” What would he think about … Continue reading
Black Confederates: Laborers or Soldiers? (part four)
Part four of a series Some people suggested using slaves to fight from the very beginning of the war. However, the overwhelming fear was of slave insurrection. The John Brown raid was less than two years before the Civil War … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Common Soldier, Slavery, USCT
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Benjamin Quarles, Black Confederate soldiers, Black Confederates, Black-Confederates-Laborers-or-Soldiers, General Order 14, Jefferson Davis, John Brown, Louisiana Native Guards, Patrick Cleburne, Richard Ewell, slavery, The Negro in the Civil War, USCT
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Black Confederates: Laborers or Soldiers? (part three)
part three in a series At the beginning of the Civil War, blacks tried to enlist in both armies as soldiers but were denied by both. Enslaved men were taken to the Confederate army by their slaveowners. Free blacks were … Continue reading
Sailors Are Not Soldiers
Dwight Hughes Civil War deep-water sailors—North and South—were not like soldiers. They came from very different backgrounds and fought a much different war. “[They] looked, moved, and talked like typical sailors,” noted one study. “Ruddy cheeks worn by the sun … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Navies, Slavery
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