History Forum / War History / US Civil War / December 2005

I'd like to point out some facts in defense of the Confederacy:
1. By the latter part of 1864 the Confederate States of
America (CSA) was clearly moving toward ending slavery.
In fact, there are indications that the Confederacy would

The Washington Times
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Perilous escape of 'wagon train of woe'
By Jack Trammell

Brad Meyer <bradm...@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, ...

I was watching  advd of _Glory_ and distinctly noticed a scene where Shaw's
Coloured troops were on the march somewhere or other, and in the background
aband was playing, quite unmistakeably, _The Bonnie Blue Flag_.
Did the North have a marching song to that tune? Or did the ...

I'm sorry to ask such a naive question, but I'd love an answer.
I've read that the American civil war was one of the worst ever
(responsible, inter alia, for the madness of the Surgeon of Crowthorne
who provided so many entries for the OED) because it occurred after the

did it have to do with southern identity linked to slavery?

    A guard was sent to arrest a county magistrate named Price, charged
with being a zealous administrator of Confederate laws and oaths of
fealty to the so-called Government. When arraigned the magistrate
firmly asserted his opinions, and was detained under guard. His son,

When Ohio was admitted, no when it became a state, there was not a set
procedure for admission: it, after all, was the seventh state, and the
first totally brand new state; its predecessors had all been created
form land ceded by other states. In 1802, Congress passed an enabling

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Stonewall ministers to save souls
By Richard G. Williams Jr.

The Neo-Confederates have a take on C.S. Lewis, I did a blog based on an
article from "Southern Partisan." I think you will find it off beat, but
curious. Basically it is the idea that the Civil War was a Holy War idea
that is gaining currency amongst Neo-Confederates.

William Gilmore Simms published an eyewitness account of the destruction
and burning of Columbia, South Carolina, by federal troops in February,
1865 in a series of newspaper articles  and later in a pamphlet of his
collected reports.  The pamphlet edition of 1865 with some ...

Here's an article on a memorial and the still divide nature of Ky. from
my hometown paper - the Louisville Courier Journal -
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051128/NEWS0104/5112
80400/1008/NEWS01