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Civil War Cooking: From History Books to A Modern Kitchen
It’s been a crazy year. I think we can all agree there. By early autumn, I started wondering how to revive the Civil War Cooking series for the week of Thanksgiving. (I missed last year due to moving.) In need of a creative project and needing to spice up my typical pandemic season, eat-at-home-all-the-time options, […]
Read more...Civil War Cooking: Harvesting a “Mess of Beans” During Battle
By July 2, 1863, Joseph Broadhead just wanted a good meal. In the past week, he had experienced more adventures than he ever wanted to and now had no way to stop or change the battle unfolding in his community. He was especially determined that the Confederates would not steal his provisions and headed out […]
Read more...Civil War Cooking’: Cornbread – All American
Cornbread is a uniquely American food and in the 19th it was a menu staple. Corn is a North American product, famously featured in the 1621 Pilgrim accounts as a hearty crop shared by the Native Americans. As the decades passed, corn remained a relatively easy crop to grow and a whole treasure trove of […]
Read more...“We Helped Them Escape Whenever We Could”: Southern Claims Commission Records Reveal a Free Black Petersburg Family’s Civil War Experience, Part II
You may read Part I here. It was not uncommon for the Confederate military to impress free men of color to serve as laborers on fortifications, in their hospitals as stewards and nurses, in their camps caring for horses and equipment and cooking, or serving as teamsters driving wagons hauling supplies. Free man Benjamin Dabney, […]
Read more...“We Helped Them Escape Whenever We Could”: Southern Claims Commission Records Reveal a Free Black Petersburg Family’s Civil War Experience, Part I
On July 11, 1866, Petersburg, Virginia’s Philip Sewell Sr. and his son, Philip Sewell Jr., filed a request with the Freedmen’s Bureau for the reimbursement of property taken from them by Pennsylvania cavalrymen in April 1865. The confiscated items included four horses, two mules, two wagons, two saddles, gear and harness, six blankets, and a […]
Read more...Book Review: The Boys of Diamond Hill: The Lives and Civil War Letters of the Boyd Family of Abbeville County, South Carolina (Second Edition)
The Boys of Diamond Hill: The Lives and Civil War Letters of the Boyd Family of Abbeville County, South Carolina (Second Edition). Edited by J. Keith Jones. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2024. Softcover, 253 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Tim Talbott The Second Edition of The Boys of Diamond Hill: The Lives and Civil War Letters of […]
Read more...Book Review: The Bone Ring: Civil War Journals of Colonel William James Leonard
The Bone Ring: Civil War Journals of Colonel William James Leonard. Edited by Gari Carter. Worcester, MA: Donella Press, 2023. Softcover, 100 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Tim Talbott Maryland’s role in the Civil War has received increased scholarly attention over the last dozen or so years. Works on a variety of Old Line State Civil […]
Read more...Book Review: No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame’s Civil War
No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame’s Civil War. By Mike Pride. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 280 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Tim Talbott When civil war erupted with the firing on Fort Sumter by South Carolina Confederates, President Abraham Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers brought men rushing, eager to be citizen-soldiers. […]
Read more...Ready and Able to Serve: The “Invalid Corps” in the Civil War
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Tonya McQuade… Recently, while researching my great-great-great grandfather James Calaway Hale’s experience during the Civil War, I discovered an interesting fact: after getting sick in Helena, Arkansas, during his service with the 33rd Missouri Infantry, then recovering for a month at the Benton Barracks General Hospital in St. […]
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