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Tag Archives: South Carolina
Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction
One of the things I love most about the Civil War community is that books are such a major part of our overall culture. I love a good book, and love the fact that so many people around me love … Continue reading
A Rope of Sand: Some thoughts on America after Confederate Independence
ECW welcomes guest author Jim Morgan “A Southern Republic will be worse than a rope of sand with South Carolina at its head – arrogant, self-willed and dictatorial as she is.” –Former North Carolina Attorney General, Bartholomew F. Moore, December, … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged Cuba, Gettysburg, Jefferson Davis, Joseph Brown, MacKinlay Kantor, New Orleans, Richmond, Russia, South Carolina, Texas
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Supporting the Cause: Union and Confederate Patriotic Envelopes
ECW welcomes guest author Leon Reed About three years ago, my cousin, Jim Reed asked if I’d like to see a scrapbook that had been kept by a civil war ancestor of his. What I got was an incredible collection … Continue reading
Saving History Saturday: Civil War Ordnance Found In South Carolina and Missouri
Occasionally, the news of discovered unexploded ordnance from the Civil War appears in the headlines, reminding Americans that Civil War history is still being uncovered. Remarkably, multiple pieces of ordnance were discovered in two states just recently. In Folly Beach, … Continue reading
The Battle of Aiken: “Why spend the effort to write a book on a battle that didn’t last very long or have many casualties?”
“Why would you spend the time and effort to write a book on a battle that only lasted a few minutes and which had minimal casualties?” I wish I had a dollar for every time that I’ve been asked that … Continue reading
SC’s Secession Convention @ Institute Hall
Over the weekend, I shared photos of some historical markers in Charleston that indicated the location of the building where the state’s postwar constitutional convention met. Ironically, the site of the state’s secession convention was just a block and a … Continue reading
SC’s Constitutional Convention @ the Charleston Club
Walking down Meeting Street in Charleston the other day, I passed the site of the former Charleston Club. The spot is marked with a historical sign that tells the story of South Carolina’s first postwar Constitutional Convention.
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged Charleston, Charleston Club, Constitution, South Carolina, St. Michael's Church
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January 10, 1861 in Florida
On this date in Tallahassee, Florida, the delegates to the state’s secession convention voted 62-7, in favor of secession. With that vote, after seven days of deliberation, Florida became the third state to formally declare itself out of the United … Continue reading
Turning Point: Assault on Battery Wagner by the 54th Massachusetts
Around a small hamlet in southern Pennsylvania, Robert E. Lee’s vaunted Army of Northern Virginia was stymied and driven back after three days, July 1st through the 3rd, of bloodletting at the Battle of Gettysburg. A turning point in the … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Monuments, Slavery, USCT
Tagged 1863, 54th Massachusetts, African-American, Battery Wagner, Chicago Tribune, Douglas Egerton, Douglas R. Egerton, Edwin Stanton, Gettysburg, Horace Greeley, John Andrews, Joseph Holt, July 18, Medal of Honor, North, Port Hudson, Robert E. Lee, Robert Gould Shaw, Siege of Vicksburg, Slavery, South Carolina, Southern, Thunder at the Gates, Tullahoma Campaign, Ulysses S. Grant, USCT, Vicksburg Campaign, William Harvey Carney
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