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Engine Firefly on Orange and Alexandria RR ~ Civil War
Posted on 23 January 2013 | No CommentsThere is something about trains that draws the attention of men and boys. That is especially true when they cross deep gorges and canyons and seemingly float on rickety trellis... -
Baseball and the Civil War
Posted on 10 December 2012 | No CommentsPrisoners of war stay alive in very difficult circumstances. The stress of confinement, terrible conditions, little food and in many cases, severe wounds made life hell for prisoners during the... -
Family Deaths in Andersonville Prison
Posted on 22 August 2012 | No CommentsI had long read about the atrocities committed on the Union prisoners in the Confederate Andersonville Prison during the Civil War, but the impact of the words I’d read had... -
FamilySearch Wiki ~ Civil War Research
Posted on 18 April 2012 | No CommentsA large percentage of U. S. Citizens have ancestors or family members who fought in the U. S. Civil War. Families, homes and states were destroyed during that conflict. Genealogists... -
Sutlers Row ~ Chattanooga, Tennessee 1864
Posted on 6 April 2012 | No CommentsTowns emerge and disappear because of the economy, war or the failure of resources. Mathew Brady captured the image of one such community during the Civil War. Sutlers Row, Chattanooga,... -
The Burning of Columbia, South Carolina
Posted on 17 March 2012 | No CommentsWar is terrible. Witness the destruction of Columbia, South Carolina on 17 Feb 1865 as a result of the Civil War in America. -
Civil War ~ Mobile Pontoons ~ 1862
Posted on 8 March 2012 | No CommentsThere wasn’t time or materials on site during Civil War battles to make pontoon boats, so wagon frames were quickly purposed to haul premade boats to water crossings. -
Traveling With Your Soldier
Posted on 16 November 2011 | No CommentsBeing the wife and mother in a soldier’s family has always been hard. During the Civil War, it was grueling. -
Civil War ~ Union Troops at Petersburg, VA
Posted on 1 November 2011 | No CommentsUnion troops in the trenches at the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia in 1865. Movement by troops in the background makes them appear as ghosts. How many of these men soon... -
Confederate Prisoners ~ Shenandoah Valley
Posted on 30 October 2011 | No CommentsConfederate Prisoners in Shenandoah Valley - May 1862














