February 8, 2010 | Posted by javal
Just in time for Abraham Lincoln’s 201st birthday comes a new book by Norman F. Boas, M.D., “Abraham Lincoln: Illustrated Biographical Dictionary, Family and Associates. 1809-1861.”
Many volumes have been written about the rail-splitter president who piloted our country during the bloody years of the Civil War, including Michael Burlingame’s recent monumental life. But this book is different. A different Lincoln emerges from these pages.
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February 8, 2010 | Posted by javal
Putnam County has many historic connections to the Civil War. From Eli Lilly, the founder of the large pharmaceutical company who left his Greencastle drug store to form his own unit of solders to the many students from Indiana Asbury University (later DePauw) to a number of local county residents.
On Feb. 12, the Putnam County Museum will open a Civil War exhibit featuring four sections of exhibits.
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February 8, 2010 | Posted by javal
Union Army Capt. Thomas Espy has long lain in an unmarked grave. But a photograph of his determined face still casts a forceful presence in the Carnegie veterans post that bears his name.
If the souls of his men from the 62nd Regiment stir happily, perhaps it’s because this elegant room, where they and other local soldiers met regularly for three decades, has been beautifully restored with the help of four archival photographs.
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February 8, 2010 | Posted by javal
Next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, and the guardians of the remains of a Union fort on Hilton Head Island hope the site will get its moment in the historical spotlight.
Fort Mitchel was once a battery on the northwest end of the island. Hilton Head fell to Union forces in November 1861 in the largest amphibious assault by American forces ever recorded until World War II, according to the “Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.”
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February 8, 2010 | Posted by javal
With just one year to go until the Civil War’s 150th anniversary, history lovers across Tennessee have taken their battle for the past to a new front – cyberspace.
The Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission and the state Department of Tourist Development launched a new Web site this month to help promote events planned statewide for the war’s anniversary, which will stretch from 2011-2015.
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February 8, 2010 | Posted by javal
The Chattanooga Civil War Round Table will hold its February meeting on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 {note that this is a special meeting night, the second Tuesday instead of the normal third Tuesday).
The meeting is at 7 PM and will be held in the Millis-Evans Room of Caldwell Hall on the campus of the McCallie School. Enter the McCallie School campus on Dodds Avenue and follow the signs to the Academic Quadrangle.
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February 8, 2010 | Posted by javal
It was the Battle of Nashville, Dec. 16, 1864, and the U.S. Army’s front line in the assault of Overton’s Hill had faltered.
But the second line, made up of soldiers seeing their first real action of the war, pushed forward. They advanced so far that some of the soldiers mounted the Confederate parapet before being forced to pull back.
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February 8, 2010 | Posted by javal
This much is certain: There is no way 14-year-old Ham Wilson, hiding in a cave while being chased by a group of Yankee soldiers in North Carolina in the early years of the Civil War, could have imagined his youngest son would one day be watching ESPN and its coverage of the Super Bowl.
“No, probably not,” said Marion Wilson.
But Wilson, after listening to a bit about New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees Thursday morning, turned off the television in his Park Central apartment to answer the door with the aid of a walker.
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February 8, 2010 | Posted by javal
City native George Ashby lived to be more than 100 years old, fought in the Civil War and lived to see two world wars. When he died at 102, he had been the oldest living Civil War veteran in New Jersey.
The life of Ashby as one of the more obscure heroes of the Civil War is being highlighted in a Cape May Film Society project, “South Jersey Experience: Civil War Biographies.”
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February 8, 2010 | Posted by javal
Sharon Sandahl and her 4-year-old son, Charles, got an unexpected, surprise when they visited the Vicksburg National Military Park Saturday afternoon. When they rounded the corner to the Illinois Memorial, 52 men and boys dressed in Confederate uniforms sat with rifles stacked before them on the steps of the iconic momunment.
“This really makes it real,” said Sandahl, who lives in Franklin, Tenn., but grew up in Jackson in a family of Civil War enthusiasts. “The monuments and plaques are great, but to actually see the men in their uniforms really makes it real. We had no idea this was going on, but we’re going to follow them now to the cannon firing.”
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