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Maine at War October 2022 blog posts
In October 2022 my Maine at War blog examined topics ranging from British subjects joining the Union military effort to a newspaper editor casting a jaundiced eye on an Associated Press article. Plus a review of the new book, Gettysburg … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Websites & Blogs
Tagged . Lubec, 14th Maine Infantry Regiment, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 17th Maine Infantry Regiment, 1st Maine Battery, 1st Maine Infantry Regiment, 20th Maine Infantry Regiment, 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Infantry Regiment, 27th Maine Infantry Regiment, 30th Maine Infantry Regiment, 3rd Maine Infantry Regiment, 5th Maine Battery, 7th Maine Infantry Regiment, Adelbert Jones, Alfred R. Wormwood, Anna Etheridge, Army of Northern Virginia, Aroostook County, Associated Press, Benjamin H. Butler, Bermuda, Berwick, Biddeford, Brian Swartz, British Columbia, British North American Boundary Commission, Canada, Chadbourne Warren, Charles Wheeler Billings, Charles Wilkes, Coast & Geodetic Survey, College Guards, Connecticut, Cornelius LaPrade, Culp's Hill, Cumberland Valley, Danforth Milton Maxcy, Devil's Den, Dover, Eastport, Elijah Boston, Everett LaPrade, Fort Fairfield, Frederic Wilson Klinefelter, Gardiner Home Journal, Garrison Players, George Boucher, George L. Carpenter, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Faces: Portraits and Personal Accounts, Hancock County, Harrisburg, Hattie Dada, Henry Wentworth, Hiram Kelley Morrell, Horace Hilton, Houlton, Idaho Territory, JEB Stuart, John B. Foote, John Chase, Larry Burden, Lige White, Little Round Top, Loyalists, Lutheran Seminary, Maine at War, Maritimes, Mars Hill, McPherson’s Farm, Michael Link, Military Images, Morton Park, Moyie River, New Brunswick, New England, New Gloucester, New Hampshire, New Haven, New Orleans, New York City, Newfoundland, North Berwick, North Goshen, Nova Scotia, Old Town Cemetery, Ontario, Orlo Jones, Ottawa, Passamaquoddy Bay, Piscataqua River, Portland, Portland Daily Press, Portsmouth, Prince Edward Island, Railroad Cut, RMS Trent, Rollinsford, Ronald S. Coddington, Royal Army, Schoodic Head, Shenandoah Valley, Sherman's bummers, South Berwick, St. Andrews, Tories, U.S, u.s. sanitary commission, Vancouver Island, War Democrats, Washington County, Wells, West Cornwall, Wheatfield, White Mountains, William Henry Morton, Williamsport, York County
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Repurposing Captured Enemy Vessels Part 4: Star of the West
In Part 1 of this four-part series, I examined how the United States was able to capture and repurpose three Confederate ironclad warships. In Part 2, I continued that examination, expanding it to examine wooden vessels of the Confederacy captured … Continue reading
Posted in Navies, Weapons
Tagged Captain George N. Hollins, Charleston Harbor, David Farragut, Earl Van Dorn, Fort Pemberton, Isaac N. Brown, James Buchanan, John McGowan, New Orleans, Repurposing Captured Enemy Vessels, Robert Anderson, Star of the West, Ulysses Grant, USS Brooklyn, Vicksburg, William Comstock, Yazoo River
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The Rocks at Second Manassas: A Postscript of Reconstruction
A little while ago, Sarah Bierle shared the story of Confederates, out of ammunition, resorting to throwing rocks at the Deep Cut during the battle of Second Manassas. It’s a fairly well-known account, held up as an example of the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Common Soldier, Immigrants, Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged 1st Louisiana Infantry, James Longstreet, James McEnery, Liberty Place, Metropolitan Police Department, Michael O'Keefe, New Orleans, Reconstruction, Rocks, Second Manassas, U.S. Grant, White Leagues, William P. Kellogg
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Loyalty in a Lighthouse on the Confederacy’s Fringe
Loyalty consistently emerges when studying the U.S. Civil War. Would someone remain loyal to the United States or support the Confederacy? Would they join their native state or family? Would they honor sworn oaths? For many, what side to support … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Personalities
Tagged civilian loyalty to the Confederacy, Confederate States Lighthouse Bureau, CSS Sumter, David D. Porter, Frank Hatch, Joseph Fry, Lighthouse Board, Manuel Moreno, New Orleans, Raphael Semmes, Southwest Pass Lighthouse, USS Niagara, USS Powhatan, William W. McKean
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Book Review: Benjamin Butler’s Noisy, Fearless Life
Andrew Jackson once said, “I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.” The same could have been said by one of Jackson’s admirers, Benjamin Butler. He was accused throughout his career of rank opportunism, incompetence, … Continue reading
“Blackest Man in New Orleans” – Captain Cailloux of the Louisiana Native Guards – Part 2
Find Part One Here The Native Guards on the extreme right of the Union flank at Port Hudson were positioned in front of some of the roughest terrain on the battlefield and ordered to attack the strongest portion of the … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Regiments, Sieges, USCT, Western Theater
Tagged 1st Regiment Native Guards, 33rd Mississippi, 3rd Regiment Native Guards, André Cailloux, Benjamin Butler, Black regiment, Black soldiers, civil war memory, Claude Paschal Maistre, Colonel John Nelson, Louisiana Native Guards, Major General Franklin Gardner, Nathaniel Banks, National Emancipation Monument, New Orleans, Port Hudson, St. Louis Cemetery, W.B. Shelby, William Dwight
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“Blackest Man in New Orleans” – Captain Cailloux of the Louisiana Native Guards – Part 1
The unit that would be later known as the Louisiana Native Guards found its start, astoundingly, in Confederate Louisiana in May of 1861. Accepted as a militia regiment by Governor Thomas Moore, 33 black officers and 731 privates – all … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Regiments, USCT, Western Theater
Tagged 1st Regiment Native Guards, 2nd Regiment Native Guards, 3rd Regiment Native Guards, Admiral David G. Farragut, André Cailloux, Benjamin Butler, civil war memory, Felicie Coulon, Institute Catholique, John W. Phelps, Louisiana Native Guards, Nathaniel Banks, New Orleans, Port Hudson
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Unpublished: Diary of a Louisiana Conscript
Extraordinary things can come bound in brown leather with tiny, cramped writing. In search of some family history, I took a trip to Tulane University’s Special Collections Archives in New Orleans. It was a trip for firsts. It was not … Continue reading
Posted in Cavalry, Common Soldier, Primary Sources, Regiments
Tagged 15th Confederate Cavalry, Captain John Marshall, common soldier, Halls Mills, Jacques Alfred Charbonnet, Louisiana, Marie Nathalie Loew Charbonnet, memoirs. Civil War soldier diaries, Mobile Alabama, New Orleans, Soldier Diaries, Tunica Mississippi
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Beast Butler in the Chamber Pot
You’ve heard the tales of Maj. Gen. Benjamin “Beast” Butler in New Orleans, so reviled that they put his likeness in chamber pot. I finally had the chance to see one for myself today: Beast Butler at the bottom of … Continue reading
May 2022 Maine at War posts
In May 2022 my Maine at War blog examined topics ranging from North America’s largest rodent altering the Gettysburg landscape to a smart lawyer recruiting for the wrong regiment. May 4, 2022: Gettysburg beavers create a new pond Industrious beavers … Continue reading
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