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Favorite Soldier Memoirs
In his self-published book An Epic on “Old Abe,” The War Eagle (The War Eagle Book Association, 1894), S. C. Miles, a veteran of the 8th Wisconsin, extolled the virtue of first-person accounts of the war. Such accounts required “no … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Primary Sources
Tagged Civil War News, Daniel Holt, Jack Melton, John Haley, Live Eagle Brigade, Memoirs, National Tribune, Old Abe war eagle, Rice Bull, S. C. Miles, soldier memoirs, The Rebel Yell & The Yankee Hurrah, The Valiant Hours, Theodore Lyman, Thomas Francis Galwey, Wilbur Fisk, Wisconsin Historical Society
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“Sublime but Dismal Grandeur”: The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi
“There are some slight errors in history in regard to the capture of Jackson, which I will take opportunity to correct,” declared Samuel C. Miles, a veteran of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry, in a 1893 letter to the National Tribune. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier, Memory, Newspapers
Tagged 8th Wisconsin, Battle of Jackson, Jackson Mississippi, James McPherson, James Tuttle, Joe Johnston, John Gregg, Joseph E. Johnston, Joseph Mower, Live Eagle Brigade, National Tribune, Old Abe war eagle, S. C. Miles, Samuel Miles, Vicksburg Campaign, William T. Sherman
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A Backstage Tour of the Atlanta Cyclorama (part three)
(part three of four) We continue today our behind-the-scenes tour of the Atlanta cyclorama at the Atlanta History Center’s Lloyd and Mary Ann Whitaker Cyclorama Building. Our guide is Dr. Gordon Jones, chief military historian and curator for the museum. … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War in Pop Culture, Material Culture, Memory, Western Theater
Tagged 101st Airborne, 8th Wisconsin, Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta-Cyclorama-Tour, Blackjack Logan, cycloramas, Degress's Battery, George Peter, Gettysburg Cyclorama, Gordon Jones, John "Blackjack" Logan, John Logan, Lost Cause, Old Abe war eagle, Stone Mountain, Troup Hurt House, Wilbur Kurtz
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