Published: 3/16/12The Wild Rose of the SouthBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good afternoon! Today’s Women’s History Month tribute is of Rose O’Neal Greenhow—also known as “Wild Rose”—the famed Confederate spy. Born in Maryland in 1817, little is known of her early...
Published: 3/16/12The Monitor, The Merrimack, and MeBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Last week, I packed up my husband and my dog and headed north to Norfolk and Newport News, Virginia. We were bound for the Civil War Navy Conference at the...
Published: 3/15/12A Lady and A Diary from DixieBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! Our Women’s History Month celebration continues with this tribute to Mary Boykin Chesnut. Mary Boykin Chesnut is perhaps the best known female diarist of the Civil War. Born...
Published: 3/15/12How I tried and failed to escape the Civil WarBy: Cole GrinnellCategory: The Front Line My interest in the Civil War should have been a wonderful accident of birth and geography. I was born, raised, studied, and worked around key sites in that event’s history—quite...
Published: 3/14/12HIRSCH & VAN HAFTEN: Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason (2010)By: Brian DirckCategory: Book Reviews Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason by David Hirsch & Dan Van Haften. Savas Beatie, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 1932714898. $34.95. Original ideas about Abraham Lincoln are uncommon. Given the ever-growing...
Published: 3/14/12HARRIS: Lincoln and the Border States (2011)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union by William C. Harris. University of Kansas Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 070061804X. $34.95. Hard as it might be to imagine, William C. Harris’s...
Published: 3/12/12The Women in BlackBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Last fall, J. David Hacker revealed that the number of Civil War dead is closer to 750,000 than the previously accepted number of 618,222. While not all of them were...
Published: 3/9/12Voice from the Past: “How These Powerful Machines Are To Be Stopped Is A Problem I Can Not Solve”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! We continue our celebration of the Battle of Hampton Roads with another “Voice from the Past.” The following is Confederate Major General Benjamin Hunger’s report on the famed...
Published: 3/9/12The Rebel Lady’s BoudoirBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Happy Friday and Happy Women’s History Month! We continue our homage to Civil War women with this provokative—and morbid—drawing from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper: The corresponding commentary and caption read:...
Published: 3/9/12Voice from the Past: “In the Monitor Turret”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good afternoon. In honor of the Battle of Hampton Roads, we bring you another Voice from the Past—this time from the Union perspective. The following is Commander S. Dana Greene’s...
Published: 3/9/12Voice from the Past: “It revolutionized the navies of the world”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line We close our Hampton Roads sesquicentennial celebration with this one final quote about the famed clash of the ironclads: THE engagement in Hampton Roads on the 8th of March, 1862,...
Published: 3/8/12Voice from the Past: “Great God What a Scene is Presented”By: Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Good Afternoon! We conclude our sesquicentennial tribute of the Battle of Pea Ridge with another Voice from the Past. Good Afternoon! We conclude our sesquicentennial tribute of the Battle of...
Published: 3/8/12The Women Who Went to the FieldBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line In honor of Women’s History Month, we are celebrating the work and poetry of famed Civil War nurse Clara Barton. Born Clarissa Harlowe Barton, Barton was a true patriot and...
Published: 3/8/12Voice from the Past: “Nothing to Remind me of The Treacherous Days in March of ’62”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good Morning! The sesquicentennial of the Battle of Pea Ridge continues today. As such, we bring you a special Voice from the Past: Asa Payne’s—of Company E, 3rd Missouri Infantry,...
Published: 3/8/12Do You Know These Men?By: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line They died in the sinking of U.S.S. Monitor off Cape Hatteras on December 31, 1862. Their remains were found in the turret of that ship, which was recovered from the...
Published: 3/7/12MAGNESS & PAGE: Colonization After Emancipation (2011)By: Earl J. HessCategory: Book Reviews Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement by Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page. University of Missouri Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0826219098. $34.95. Abraham Lincoln’s persistent interest...
Published: 3/7/12LUBRECHT: New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War (2011)By: Scott ManningCategory: Book Reviews New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War: The Hussars of the Union Army by Peter T. Lubrecht. The History Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 1609491327. $19.99. In New Jersey Butterfly Boys, Peter...
Published: 3/6/12The Girl Soldiers of Nancy Harts MilitiaBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! Today’s Women’s History Month themed post honors Nancy Harts militia—an oft-ignored group of brave women from LaGrange, Georgia. Formed early in the war, Nancy Harts militia was actually...
Published: 3/5/12A Poetic Tribute to Civil War WomenBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good Morning! Our Women’s History Month celebration continues with Mary E. Nealy’s 1864 poem written for the Indiana State Sanitary Fair: And our noble women, the soldier cries, As he...
Published: 3/2/12“One Side of the War is Theirs” – The U.S. Sanitary CommissionBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Founded on June 18, 1861 via federal legislation, the United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency that supported sick and wounded soldiers of the U.S. Army during...