Captain Semmes and the CSS Alabama

Manet and the ACW - 3: Captain Semmes and the CSS Alabama
By Rene Tyree
The authors adeptly set the scene by providing the the reasons why an American Civil War naval battle would take place in European waters and capture the imagination of artist Edouard Manet. They chronicle the debate that led to ...
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6th Iowa Infantry - Losses
By noreply@blogger.com (Jim Miller)
He afterwards made a national reputation by his gallant defense of Allatoona, where he received the historic dispatch signalled from Sherman, to " Hold the Fort, etc." SOURCE: Fox, William F., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War ...
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Graduate Student Has Questions for Reenactors
By feeds@yuku.com (amrankin27)
My name is Angela Rankin and I am a graduate student at the University of Southern Maine in the American and New England Studies program. My background is in social studies education, and I am focusing on history within my current ...
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African Americans of Gettysburg
By storyteller
Margaret Palm was a colorful character in Gettysburg’s African-American community during the mid-nineteenth century. Before the Civil War she served as a “conductor” along the local branch of the Underground Railroad, ...
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Artifacts from the Civil War Encampments
By Mark Trickett
The illustrated example, a Gardner bullet common to the Confederate forces, is one amongst many different types of bullet fired during the American Civil War. This bullet, approximately 0.58 caliber, is made of lead (the “white rust” is ...
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