November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
A battle is brewing at the Gettysburg Military Park over money donated to repair more than 100 monuments.
The Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association raised over $1 million 10 years ago, which was enough to repair all 140 Pennsylvania monuments.
The group said that half of the monuments are still missing pieces. The Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association raised over $1 million 10 years ago, which was enough to repair all 140 Pennsylvania monuments.
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
An encampment in western Kentucky this weekend will offer visitors a glimpse of life during the Civil War.
The Paducah Sun reports that no Civil War battles were fought in Grand Rivers, where the encampment will be held, but many in the area had ties to soldiers on both sides.
The Grand Rivers’ encampment will focus on life outside the major battles, including campfire cooking demonstrations, military drills, and a period wedding.
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
A battle flag that traveled to Iowa with a Union soldier at the end of the Civil War will soon be taking a $75,000 trip home to South Carolina.
The red palmetto flag — believed to be the one that flew over Morris Island on Jan. 9, 1861, when a battery of Citadel cadets fired on the supply ship Star of the West — will require special and expensive care, said Ted Curtis, a 1964 Citadel graduate and chairman of an alumni committee that researched the flag’s authenticity.
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
Jim Getty bears a striking resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, even when he’s just in jeans and a T-shirt.
It must be the beard.
The Gettysburg, Pa., man has been impersonating Lincoln for the past 30 years. He’s played the 16th president in the Turner Network film “The Ironclads,” and he’s done voice work for numerous Lincoln specials and exhibits.
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
Gone With the Wind is scheduled for a Blu-ray release on Nov. 17, and next Tuesday brings Kino’s Blu-ray edition of Buster Keaton’s 1926 silent film, The General . If you must choose between the two, both set during the U.S. Civil War, heed the counsel of Orson Welles. When he introduced The General on television in 1971, Welles called it “100 times more stunning visually than Gone With the Wind .”
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
The United States Mint will release to the Federal Reserve Bank millions of one-cent coins bearing the fourth-and final-new reverse (tails side) design in the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One-Cent Program on November 12, 2009. The design is emblematic of Lincoln’s presidency in Washington, D.C. For a limited time only, the agency will offer the 2009 Lincoln Cent Two-Roll Set – “Presidency" at its online catalog, http://www.usmint.gov/catalog, beginning at noon Eastern Time (ET) on November 12. Orders are limited to five units per household.
Priced at $8.95, the set contains one roll of 50 coins from the United States Mint at Philadelphia with no mint mark and one roll of 50 coins from the United States Mint at Denver with the “D” mint mark. Each roll is packaged in specially designed paper coin wrap that displays the mint of origin, the year and the face value of its contents.
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
Water is again shooting from one of the fountains on Central Park Plaza’s Civil War monument, signaling the start of restoration work on the landmark.
City workers repaired the south fountain and turned on the water Wednesday, activating it for the first time in several years.
“After a yearlong fundraising effort, it feels really good to have taken the first step toward restoration of the monument,” Soldiers Monument Committee Chairman Erik Hack said.
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
The federal agency overseeing Fort Monroe’s transfer to the state of Virginia is seeking guidance on what visitors would like to experience when they visit.
The Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority plans to start working on devising an interpretive master plan and a business plan for the 570-acre historic waterfront post, which the Army plans to leave in 2011.
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
“Devil’s Dream” (Pantheon Books, 335 pages, $26), by Madison Smartt Bell: In “Devil’s Dream,” Madison Smartt Bell has chosen as his subject a Confederate general and slave trader who would go on to become one of the leaders of the early Ku Klux Klan.
By breaking up the story’s chronological order and injecting it with a dash of magical realism, Bell creates a multifaceted, largely sympathetic portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest — one of the Civil War’s most distinguished and reviled generals.
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
Wednesday Nov. 6 1861
DAVIS DOES DEMOCRATIC DEED
The first general national election for the government of the Confederate States of America took place on this day. The Constitution specified that a president and vice president should be elected, both to hold office for a term of six years and not to be eligible for the same office again. Terms and conditions and qualifications for most other offices, such as the House and Senate, were determined by the individual states. By and large they were the same as those of the US. The winner, Jefferson Davis, belonged to the Democratic Party, a rather unnecessary distinction since there weren’t any other parties. Eligible voters included most individuals who weren’t black, female, or excessively poor.
Thursday Nov. 6 1862
CONFEDERATE COMMAND CHANGES CONDUCTED
Yesterday had seen the biggest shakeup in the North since the formation of the Army of the Potomac, the firing of its creator and first and only leader, Gen. George McClellan. He had been replaced by Gen. Ambrose Burnside, who was having a very uncomfortable day moving into a new job. Meanwhile the South was not to be outdone in shuffling commands. The Army of Northern Virginia promoted James Longstreet from major general to lieutenant general and bestowed on him command of the First Corps of the Army. Likewise, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, known to press and peers as “Stonewall”, moved from and to the same ranks as Longstreet, the only difference being that he was given command of the Second Corps.
Friday Nov. 6 1863
DAHLGREN DEPLOYS DARING, DUBIOUS DEVICE
The Battle(s) for Charleston Harbor were often as much a combat against obstructions, intentional as well as natural, which had the effect or stopping or slowing the progress of ships long enough for firepower to be brought to bear on them. Admiral John Dahlgren had the task today of testing a peculiar new design of torpedo meant to remove these obstructions. A cast-iron cylinder 10 inches in diameter and 23 feet long, it hung underneath a raft which was pushed ahead of Dahlgren’s USS Patapsco by two long booms. This peculiar propulsion made the ship wildly hard to maneuver. When it was, painfully, pushed into the proper position and the 600 pounds of explosive in the torpedo were detonated, it threw a column of water 40 feet in the air, most of which dropped back down onto the deck of the Patapsco. Unimpressed as well as damp, Dahlgren recommended the device be sent back to the drawing board of its creator, John Ericsson.
Sunday Nov. 6 1864
CHICAGO CONFEDERATE CAMP CONSPIRATORS CHARGED
Not all of the fighting of this war was conducted on battlefields by any means. In fact, as the war dragged on and the South encountered more reverses in the conventional military sense, the more open their leaders were to what would today be called “fifth column”, or guerilla, or even urban-terrorist operations. With rumors flying that New York City was to be the target of arsonists set to burn the town to the ground on Election Day, municipal officials everywhere in the North were somewhat edgy. Today there were arrested a number of “Confederate ringleaders” in Chicago. The charge was that they were conspiring to take over the city, which would be followed by the liberation of prisoners of war being held in Camp Douglas nearby.
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