Monthly Archives: May 2023
National Park Service Announces Schedule for Gettysburg 160th Anniversary
The National Park Service announced the schedule of their programs for the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Daily Ranger Guided Programs & Events (July 1 – 3, 2023) David Wills House Museum (Open 1 p.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday – Monday)Explore the home of David and Catherine Wills and visit the place where Abraham […]
Gettysburg 1963
This book by Professor Jill Ogline Titus of Gettysburg College looks at the 100th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg through the context of the Civil Rights movement, Cold War politics, and the struggle over the memory of the Civil War. “Gettysburg’s 100th anniversary enlisted both the battle and Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address in the […]
I Saw Death Coming
Here’s Professor Kidada Williams discussing her work on white supremacist terrorism during Reconstruction. The video’s description reads, “Wayne State University professor Kidada Williams talked about the daily existence of formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction. This program was hosted by the Ann Arbor Public Library in Michigan.” https://www.c-span.org/video/?525877-1/i-death-coming
How the South’s European Spymaster Built a Formidable Fleet That Challenged Union Naval Power
This article is from the January, 2021 issue of American History magazine. “Georgia native James Dunwoody Bulloch was of average height and build, with a slightly receding hairline atop bushy sideburns. However, Bulloch walked big. At night, as he stalked the cobbled streets of Liverpool, England, during the American Civil War, Bulloch’s emphatic footfalls made […]
A New Kind of Firepower that Gave Union Soldiers a Fearsome Edge
This article comes from the Winter, 2020 issue of Military History Quarterly. “On August 18, 1863—a day that saw fighting in Virginia, Kentucky, and both Carolinas—President Abraham Lincoln stood in the Oval Office with Christopher Spencer, very carefully examining his guest’s repeating rifle. ‘Handling it as one familiar with firearms,’ Spencer would later recall, ‘he […]
Meet the U.S. Army’s First Black Surgeon: Alexander Augusta
This article is from the January, 2022 issue of Civil War Times magazine. “Just beyond the Old Post Chapel entrance gate at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., stands an obelisk headstone bearing a detailed yet spartan inscription: ‘Commissioned surgeon of colored volunteers, April 4, 1863, with rank of Major. Commissioned regimental surgeon of the 7, Regiment […]
2023 Fortenbaugh Lecture
The Robert Fortenbaugh Lecture is held each year on November 19 and sponsored by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. The CWI has announced the details for this year’s lecture. “The 2023 Fortenbaugh Lecture, The State of Civil War Military History, will be a roundtable discussion featuring Gary Gallagher (University of Virginia); Lorien Foote (Texas A&M University); […]
Union Troopers with a Southern Twang
This article by Dr. Clayton Butler comes to us from the July, 2021 issue of Civil War Times magazine. “When Major General William Tecumseh Sherman prepared to set out from Atlanta in the fall of 1864, he tapped the 1st Alabama Cavalry—a regiment of White volunteers recruited from within the heart of the Confederacy—for a […]
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