Owner: American Civil War Stories URL:http://civilwarstories.blogspot.com Join Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:23:37 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: The American Civil War was the bloodiest and largest amount of casualties that Americans have ever faced on there own soil. Lets not loose the stories of those brave and great men that fought for what they believed in! Site statistics:Click here
Civil War Letter home from Benjamin C. White 2008-05-27 22:30:39 Here is a letter that Benjamin
C. White
, Confederate, wrote home to his wife Sarah Elizabeth Mills White dated 1863. Sarah Elizabeth Mills was a distant cousin of mine.August the 10, 1863, dier wife it ise with best kinds and rarest of plesier to here from you once more in the land of the living, thus to relpy, I reseaved a letter from you yisterday that give me graite satisfaction to here from yo Read more:Civil
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HELP SAVE OUR BATTLEFIELDS! NOW! 2008-05-24 11:19:58 On my previous post-dated May 20th, I told you about a Civil War battlefield that has been put on our Nation’s 25 Most-Endangered List by the Civil War Preservation Trust.After I had posted this announcement I received a reply from Ann Brownlee, President of the Trading Ford Historic District Preservation Association asking me to help by getting the word out. So this is what I’m doing.PLEASE!
Owner disputes Civil War battle took place on his land 2008-05-20 15:54:47 At Citizens-Time.com I found this article that makes me upset. To me this man has no respect for American History. The race track he wants to build can be moved somewhere else. Please read this article, This just proves how we are loosing our Civil
War Battle fields to modern development! "The Civil War
Preservation Trust has placed a patch of land north of Charlotte on its list of the nation's 25 Read more:Owner
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Before the shot at Fort Sumter 2008-05-17 15:38:07 Since I’m from Kansas I thought I would tell you a little about Kansas in the Civil War. Do you know where the Civil War actually started, before the shot at Fort Sumter?Kansas was considered part of the Union. By 1863, it had long been the home of strife and warfare, from both sides of the slave state versus free state issues. In the summer of 1856, the first sacking of Lawrence, Kansas sparked
Civil War Screen Savers for Free 2008-05-14 20:30:59 While I was searching the Internet, looking for some new scream savers, I came across this site that you might want to check out. It's called Padtube and they offer free Civil
War screen savers.Just click on the screen saver ad in the right column then in the search box type in "civil war." In the list the third from the top, you will see Civil War
Screen Saver. Each Civil War image can be set as
Found Exciting News / Abraham Lincoln & the Civil War 2008-05-14 10:25:33 I'm back and my daughter is doing well. The majority of the pain is gone and so is the swelling for the most part. Now her knee mainly hurts when she's doing her therapy. It's going to be a long road but she'll be playing soccer again next spring.I did get sometime to work on the computer the other day and found some interesting and exciting information from Top News & Entertainment. It seems that Read more:Civil
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I'll Be Back Soon! 2008-05-07 16:11:59 Just wanted to let everyone know that I haven’t forgot all you good people that have subscribed and even you new readers that visit my blog. I haven’t let things go and will be back soon! My daughter tore her ACL at her high school soccer game. She had surgery last Thursday and is doing fine except for the pain and swelling. There’s lots of therapy starting so I won’t be posting as often.
The 4 Flags of the Confederacy 2008-04-29 11:26:48 As a proud member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, I would like to introduce you to the 4 flags of the Confederacy, when, where, why they were made and how to show proper respect for them. If you are a member of the UDC or have Confederate ancestors please be proud of your heritage! The flags of the Confederacy are perhaps the most recognizable and cherished symbols of America’s heri
Confederate Generals killed in battle – Valor more important than death 2008-04-24 12:31:58 No war ever fought had more officer causalities than the Civil War. Numerous high-ranking generals were killed on the battlefield and that was especially so for Confederate
chieftains. Valor
was arguably the most important character trait in nineteenth-century America, particularly in the South. Being labeled a coward was a stain worse than death
. For this reason, many generals took enormous risks Read more:Generals
Huck Finn Saves Family Finances. 2008-04-24 12:27:50 On May 5, 1884, Ulysses S. Grant walked into his plush Wall Street office. For the ex-president and indispensable general who had, more than any other soldier, won the Civil War, this day was not at all like a day twenty years earlier. On May 5, 1864, Grant first clashed with Robert E. Lee in the Wilderness in central Virginia. Unlike several other Union generals, who fell under Lee’s spell, of Read more:Saves
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Star of the West 2008-04-22 11:55:30 “Why did that green goose Anderson go into Fort Sumter? Then everything began to go wrong,” famous Charleston, South Carolina, diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut penned after the firing on Fort Sumter.Historians have long argued as to whether the South was goaded into war by a wily North. The answer is as murky as the morning was on April 12, 1861, when provoked Confederate-minded south Carolinians b
Little Phil 2008-04-16 13:32:23 Philip Henry Sheridan was born to Irish-immigrant parents on a wintry March 6, 1831. Growing up in Somerset, Ohio, he obtained an appointment to West Point through Congressman Thomas Ritchie, who knew the Sheridan family. In his third year at the academy, Phil was suspended after fighting with a fellow cadet, William Terrill, a future Confederate brigadier general. In fact, Sheridan chased Terrill
This Day in History - April 14: 1865 : Lincoln is shot 2008-04-14 15:16:53 On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederatesympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln
at a play atFord's Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five daysafter Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive armyat Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the AmericanCivil War.Booth, a Maryland native born in 1838, who remained in the Read more:History
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Every TEN Minutes our Country loses an Acre of Historical Ground 2008-04-10 14:18:15 I’m venturing off the subject of the stories of brave men for a moment to tell you something that just tears me up when every I read about the loss of our hallowed ground. Please read on.Saving Civil War battlegrounds has become a great task in recent times. Many preservationists are desperately fighting to win as many sites as possible before the development war is lost. Every ten minutes our c Read more:Country
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Best Deals on Cvil War Magazines 2008-04-09 11:31:12 Specialty magazines can be so expensive but I have found a website that can save you as much as 33% on your Civil War subscriptions plus they have hundreds of other magazines to choose from.Here's an example:American Civil War magazine - save 18% on 1 year or 32% on 2 yearsJust click on the banner above and check them out for yourself. I have used them many times for my subscriptions and I'm amaze Read more:Magazines
General George Pickett - The Bugles of Gettysburg 2008-04-09 10:14:28 Of all the hallowed places of the Civil War, few spots attract more eager visitors than the open fields south of Gettysburg where Confederate GeneralGeorge
Picket led his disastrous charge up Seminary Hill in 1863.George Pickett was born into a wealthy plantation life on a cold day January 28, 1825, not far from Richmond, Virginia. By the time he was an adolescent, his parents were worried that y
Visit the Casement Museum at Fort Monroe in Virginia 2007-10-23 14:15:14 In June of 2007 my family and I visited a fort that has 5 entrances and all 5 are over water; the fort is Fort Monroe
. Fort Monroe was built with a moat around the entire fort with entrances that were barley wide enough for our van to enter.Fort Monroe’s history goes back to Captain John Smith in 1608 when he recognized this area would be a good defense in protecting the colony at Jamestown. Thr Read more:Museum
, Virginia
The Civil War: More Troops Died Than All Other Wars Combined 2007-10-19 17:19:07 If you combine all the United States wars from the beginning of our great country up to the Civil
War, skipping over the Civil War, and adding all the rest of the wars to today; the number of killed and wounded wouldn’t total the number of killed and wounded during the Civil War. Bet you didn’t know that!There were a total of 360,000 Union soldiers killed, 282,000 that were wounded and 140,000 Read more:Troops
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My Own Civil War Family Story 2007-10-18 13:06:57 The story goes that William received a letter from his wife stating that they were out of sugar and that he was to come home. He arrived home for a couple days. Bushwhackers got wind of several Confederate soldiers so came knocking. As Williams father talked to the bushwhackers trying to convince them her didn't know where his son was, William escape on horse back. The bushwhackers shot and killed Read more:Civil
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True Meaning of Taps – July 1862 2007-10-18 13:06:12 Several years back I visited Berkeley Plantation in Charles City, Virginia. There on the grounds was a monument with a plaque about taps. You could also push a button and listen to the famous melody. But do you know the real story behind it? If you think you do, guess what, you have been hearing wrong!As a genealogist, I’m fascinated by history, not just family trees of names and dates but also Read more:Meaning
Benjamin C. White - What Happened to Him? 2008-05-31 13:54:40 I have had several people ask if Benjamin
made it home after the war. All that I know is that he was b. 1843 in Tennessee, married Sarah Elizabeth Mills, served in the Civil War. Then in 1868 Elizabeth Mills White
married her second husband. So Benjamin either died in the Civil War and never returned or returned home and died by 1868.ENJOY BEAUTIFUL PRINTS:THE BOMBARDMENT OF FREDERICKSBURG Decembe
Benjamin C. White taken Prisoner! 2008-05-31 13:45:36 Here is another letter to Elizabeth White
dated 1864.Memphis, Tennessee1,1864, SeptemberMrs. White:It is on account of the absence of your husband that I seat myself to write you a few lines to inform you this cause of absence. He was taken prisoner by the enemy the 24th of August as we was coming back to this place. He was taken about thirty-five miles from here. The cause that I take the privile Read more:Benjamin
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Bi-Centennial Birthday Celebration of President Jefferson Finis Davis 2008-06-02 11:36:44 On June 14, 2008 there will be a Celebration in Montgomery, AL. The Bi-CentennialBirthday
Celebration of PresidentJefferson
Finis Davis
at The Cradle of the Confederacy Alabama State Capital.Activities: Parade: starts at 9:00 a.m. at the Fountain on Dexter Avenue and proceeding up to the Capitol. Commemorative Program: Immediately following the parade the Commemorative Program will be held in th
Fort Morgan Surrenders 2008-06-10 21:53:59 On August 23, 1864, Fort Morgan
was forced to surrender. Fort Morgan is located at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama. Today Fort Morgan has fallen into disrepair, but the Alabama Historical Commission has a new plan to make repairs to the fort but will require state funding.The United States took control of the bay during the War of 1812 and in 1819 construction began on Fort Morgan.A great battle
Civil War Camp: Andersonville Prison, A Dark Fourteen Months 2008-06-12 15:22:20 What Andersonville Prison
was like when my 3rd Great Grandad was there. Upon reading my very first post you probably thought I had family that fought just for the Confederacy but Yes I had family members that fought for the North and the South! Here is a historical background of why it existed and the horrors that happened there.The darkest and most horrible element did not come from the battlefie Read more:Civil
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Worth a Voyage Across the Atlantic 2008-06-17 15:42:15 “The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature. You stand on a very high point of land…The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth has been created in time, that the mountains were formed first that the rivers began to flow afterwards…,” Virginian Thomas Jefferson wrote about Harpers Ferry in Read more:Worth
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, Across
Fort Butler – Donaldsonville, Louisiana The Forgotten Fort 2008-06-19 14:17:16 Many Civil War historical sites have disappeared over the years along with the history of the men that fought in that bloody war. It is the job of us descendents and as a UDC member, to carry on the history, of the battles, who fought in these battles, who the commanders were, how lives were lived, and lives that were lost. I would like to tell you about the brave and honorable men that died at th Read more:Butler
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No title 2008-07-03 15:26:09 I'm sorry I haven't been around lately so wanted to let you all know what has been going on that is keeping me so busy.First, I haven't forgot all you faithful readers and I do appreciate you taking the time to visit my civil war site. Civil War is just one of my passion along with Genealogy which bring me to family reunions. Yes, I'm working on a family reunion that will be held the 26 & 27 of Ju
The CWPT's New Digital Photo Contest 2008-06-26 20:56:06 This year The Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) is sponsoring a Civil War digital photo contest. The contest runs now until August 31, 2008. You don’t have to be a professional photographer anyone can enter. The photos need to be uploaded into the CWPT photo group on Flickr.You can click here to get the full information on the contest. There will be a Grand Prize, First Place Prize, Second and Read more:Digital
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Nest of Pirates 2008-07-14 22:34:41 I finally have the time to get another article up for your enjoyment. As in my previous post I've been busy getting ready for a family reunion. I hope you enjoy this article about one of the Confederates’ most notorious and best spies. So much attention is heaped upon the grand land battles of the Civil War that naval actions are often overlooked. On the seas, the Union war effort was a success Read more:Pirates
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