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Thursday, February 23, 2012
The Most Wretched and Abject People on the Face of the Earth
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This entry comes from A Gentleman and an Officer: A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War , Judith N. McArthur an...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The Great Lever That Moves This World
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This entry comes from David White English, Private, Company E, Fifty-First Illinois Infantry, and the letter can be found in its entirety at...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
What Lincoln Ought To Know
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This entry is from the Letters of Lydia Maria Child. In a letter to John Greenleaf Whittier, Child mentions Harriet Tubman, a slave who e...
Friday, January 6, 2012
In Sore Need of a Furlough
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This entry is from The Life of Johnny Reb, The Common Soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Irvin Wiley. This story originally comes from Fou...
Monday, January 2, 2012
A Matter of Perspective
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Today's entry comes from the Rebellion Record Volume III by Frank Moore, 1862. I meant to post this last month, but the holidays got...
Monday, December 26, 2011
70 or 80 Pairs of Mittens
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The entry is from Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune, The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw , edited by Russell Duncan. Later in the ...
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Christmas 1861 with the Kosciusko, Indiana Guards
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This entry is from the Journal of the Kosciusko Guards [Indiana] • Company E • 12th Regiment, written by William S. Hemphill, Transcri...
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