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A Celebration of Black History … When Missouri Voted to Emancipate Its Slaves Prior to the Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment
When President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, he took a significant step toward ending slavery in the United States. However, since the proclamation did not include slave-holding border states that were still part of the Union, it fell far short of that abolitionist goal. It took the passage of the […]
Read more...Girls & Hometown Gossip: A South Carolinian Marches North, Part 1
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been intrigued by romantic troubles in the South during the Civil War. There are multiple accounts that I’m still studying and analyzing about girls on the homefront starting rumors that they were engaged to absent soldiers and how those young soldiers responded with annoyance or outrage when they […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Reconstructing a Black Refugee Camp Destroyed by a Union Commander
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Last month I wrote about the mass expulsion of Black refugees from a Union camp and the horrible harm inflicted on the expelled families. This month, I wanted to discuss what happened after the Camp Nelson expulsions. The November 1864 expulsions […]
Read more...From Camp Servants to Soldiers – Part III
When part of the Army of the Potomac occupied Fredericksburg from April 1862, until the following September, and then when the full army arrived again that winter, many of the area’s enslaved used these opportunities to make their way into the lines and gain their freedom. Probably the best known Fredericksburg freedom seeker, due largely […]
Read more...From Camp Servants to Soldiers – Part I
On July 9, 1861, Lt. Col. Barham Bobo Foster, 3rd South Carolina Infantry, wrote to his daughter in Spartanburg District from Fairfax Court House, Virginia, about how good army life was: “If you all knew how we enjoyed ourselves here you would not be uneasy about us. we live rough but have plenty of it […]
Read more...Eggnog? You’ll LOVE It!—Drink Up #3
Eggnog has been part of our history since the colonies even had a history. Originally a “posset” in Europe (particularly England) was a hot drink made of milk curdled with wine or ale. It was beaten to smooth out its texture; spices and sugar were added, and by the 16th century, cream replaced milk. Once […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: Whitney Plantation
I’ve visited many plantations and historic homes in the south. They usually center their tours around the history of the home and the white families who lived in the “Big House”. There’s usually a cursory mention of the enslaved blacks, specifically how many were held in bondage to drive home the wealth and prestige of […]
Read more...Unpublished: Channing Price’s Pocket Diary, 1861-1862
If you know the historical name “Channing Price,” you probably associate him with the “glory days” of General J.E.B. Stuart and the Confederate cavalry in the East. This young officer served on Stuart’s staff from July 29, 1862, until he was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville on May 1, 1863. Over the past years, […]
Read more...A Pennsylvania Family on Petersburg’s Front Line
A Pennsylvania family found themselves at the epicenter of the final six months of the Civil War. No primary evidence is available yet to date to share that plight in their own words, but in the time since I researched the battle on their property and wrote Dawn of Victory: Breakthrough at Petersburg, I have […]
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