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A Virginia Soldier Reflects on Battle and Wishes to be Home for the Holidays
Date(s): November 30, 1862 Location: FREDERICK, Maryland Tag(s): Confederacy, Soldier, Civil War, Christmas, Virginia Infantry, Fredericksburg
On Sunday morning, November 30, 1862, Confederate soldier John French White wrote an intimate, yet dismal letter to his wife, Mat. White's letter began with an explanation of how grateful he was to have received mail from his wife: "[I] contented myself by reading your welcome letter which afforded me great pleasure." A few lines later, Mr. White proceeded to explain the horrors of the Battle...
The New York Times Commemorates Jefferson Davis' Death
Date(s): December 12, 1889 Location: NEW YORK, New York Tag(s): Jefferson Davis, Confederacy, Funeral, The New York Times
In an article describing the funeral of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, The New York Times wrote, "it [the funeral] was one of such magnificence and taste that the recollection of it will never vanish from the mind of any beholder." People from all over the South attended Davis' funeral, which was held in New Orleans on December 11, 1889. Describing the procession, The New York Times noted,...
Coming South: A Confederate Sympathizer in a Northern State
Date(s): December 14, 1860 Location: Mobile Alabama, Abbeville South Carolina Tag(s): trade, Confederacy, Slavery, Secession, Civil War
Just days before South Carolina seceded from the United States in December of 1860, an article titled "Coming South" was printed in a South Carolina newspaper, the Abbeville Press. The article included a letter written by a Northern Gentleman who wanted to support Southerner's interests in rebelling against the abolitionist North. He believed that the South had been tolerant of the North's...
Widows and Daughters of the South
Date(s): April 12, 1861 to May 9, 1865 Location: Savannah, Georgia Tag(s): Jefferson Davis, Civil War, Confederacy, Varina Davis, Widow, Savannah
While their husbands were away at war, the women of the South had to leave behind their lives of comfort to assume roles to benefit the Confederate war effort. Many wives whose husbands and sons went to battle were left without a breadwinner and funds. Although Jefferson Davis's wife, Varina, was not a widow at the time of his imprisonment, she faced similar challenges of widows. Women and daughters...
The Stone Wall
Date(s): April 16, 2017 to April 18, 2017 Location: Chancellorsville, Virginia, Virginia Tag(s): Virginia, Stonewall, Civil War, Confederacy, 1861, Thomas Jackson
Throughout the Civil War, there were some great commanders in both the Confederate and Union armies. One commander that stood out to me was Thomas Jackson. Jackson graduated from West Point, a U.S Military academy around 1846. Being that he graduated around that time he was able to fight in the Mexican War which lasted from 1846-1848. After fighting in the Mexican War, he went on to pursue a teaching...
Lincoln Removes General McClellan From Command
Date(s): January 1, 1862 to November 30, 1862 Location: RICHMOND, Virginia Tag(s): Seven Days, Burnside, McClellan, Antietam, Union, Confederacy, Lincoln
In November, 1862, a change occurred in Union power as President Abraham Lincoln removed General George McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac. The New York Times stated, during "the fifteen months…he has had virtual control of the war have been utterly barren of results...Few commanders in history have had such splendid opportunities, and fewer still have so ostentatiously thrown them...
Harper's Weekly Demands the US Disarm the Ku Klux Klan
Date(s): March 25, 1871 Location: NEW YORK, New York Tag(s): Ku Klux Klan, Harper's Weekly, Reconstruction Period, Confederacy
In a news brief on March 25, 1871, Harper's Weekly declared, "It is agreed upon all sides that the condition of the late rebel States is deplorable." This magazine did not mention, however, that the reason the conditions of the rebel States was deplorable was because of the presence of the Ku Klux Klan. In response to the violent acts that the Ku Klux Klan had committed, a special committee of...
James D. Bulloch's Secret Commissioning of the C.S.S. Florida
Date(s): June 4, 1861 to August 17, 1862 Location: RICHMOND, Virginia Tag(s): Confederacy, Navy, Undercover
The Confederate States of America never focused on its navy, but their secret operations to acquire one are often overlooked when learning about the navies of the Civil War. In discussing these covert naval operations, one name is paramount, James Dunwoody Bulloch. Bulloch had a naval background, and this was recognized by Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory. Mallory ordered Bulloch...
An Oath of Pretending
Date(s): August 14, 1865 Location: GREENVILLE, South Carolina Tag(s): Confederacy, Civil War
Four months after the end of the Civil War, Edwin Ware leaned down and signed an oath of loyalty to the United States government, swearing his support and protection of the constitution and union of the states, including the recently emancipated slaves. The former slave owner was the 2,560th person in Greenville, South Carolina to complete such an oath. Ware had effectively signed over all his beliefs...
William Gilmore Simms' Account of the 1865 Destruction of Columbia
Date(s): February 14, 1865 to February 20, 1865 Location: RICHLAND, South Carolina Tag(s): Catholicism, Columbia, Violence, Confederacy, Civil War, General Sherman
In 1865, William Gilmore Simms, famed Southern novelist, published a text recounting the capture and burning of Columbia, South Carolina, by the forces of General William Sherman. The text was highly anecdotal, creating a scene of violence, and disorder. He recounted looting, fires, and destruction. Simms argued that Sherman willing and knowingly allowed Columbia to burn, that soldiers prevented...
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