From Anecdotes, Poetry and Incidents of the War: North and South comes a description of the results of what today is called “friendly fire:”
(from Before the Battle of Bethel.)… nine of Col. Townsend’s Albany regiment stretched on the floor of a house, where they had just been carried, and eight of them mortally wounded, by [...]
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I’ve been busy since we got home “loading” one of my blogs with articles from a book from the time of the American Civil War. The blog is Anecdotes & Images - Storys, Articles, Poetry, and Images @ Chronicles of the American Civil War and it generally has at least one post a day.
Today, [...]
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I received this narrative from a second cousin when I visited her several years ago trying to learn more about my ancestry.
Ambrose Pearse, Matilda Brady, John Brady, Clarrisa DuBois and others mentioned were my ancestors or otherwise related.
The story is from a letter from Walter R. Pearse to Wava Wineland Nelson in 1965.
I [...]
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Every month I spend two or three evenings working on material for my Daily Chronicles of the American Civil War, which I publish in the form of a blog.
Each post is a newspaper article or diary entry from the current day, except that it is from one of the civil war years. [...]
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I’ve been spending quite a bit of time assembling and publishing historical articles related to Yellowstone National Park. It’s interesting to read first hand accounts of a place I’ve been to quite a few times and will likely visit several times again in the future.
I had heard — or read — anecdotal stories about [...]
Yesterday, while stopped at an overlook on the Beartooth Highway in Montana, I saw some travelers that I was pretty sure were from the one of the southern states.
Their accents were what first got my attention. They were looking though binoculars and yucking it up over some of the scenery they saw far below. [...]
We did it! We managed to escape the heat.
Right now we are sitting outside at a campground next to Interstate 80 at North Platte, Nebraska. The weather is absolutely wonderful.
I started to title this “Home Again”, but the relief from the heat is just so wonderful that it only made sense for that [...]
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