Archive for 'Civil War'
The USS Alligator
You’ve heard of the Confederacy’s prototype submarine CSS Hunley. But did you know that the Union had a similar one called USS Alligator?
“Consider their Civil War service:
The Confederate Hunley was credited with sinking a Union ship.
The Union Alligator aborted its first mission because it couldn’t dive in shallow river water.
“The Hunley was believed to [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Civil War.
Tags: Civil War submarines, CSS Hunley, USS Alligator
Comments: 2
The Angel of Marye’s Heights: fact or myth?
Speaking of the Civil War…
Just in time for a new movie on Richard Rowland Kirkland (the “Angel of Marye’s Heights”) comes a blogger’s debunking that, quite reasonably, thoroughly, and without rancor, burns the Angel’s wings to ashes.
I suppose it’s not surprising that Confederate Gen. J.B. Kershaw apparently created the whole thing, as the debunker suggests, [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Civil War, Library.
Tags: Civil War Memory, Michael Schaffner, Richard Rowland Kirkland, The Angel of Marye's Heights
Comments: 7
Civil War randoms
Writing two Civil War blogs, here and here, even though I have ample material for both, means I spend a fair amount of time reading about the war and wandering the various sites/blogs available. While some people have a tendency to see the war in simplistic good vs evil terms, its actual complexities can be [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Civil War, Library, Scribbles.
Tags: Flames Beyond Gettysburg, One More Shot, Slavery In The North
Comments: 2
Equal time for the Union
By all means. This is a Brady photo. Appears to be a regiment. But which one? One thing’s for sure, it’s not only today’s reenactors who are porky. There are several here, among the officers, including the fellow on the right with the star on his top hat (and his belly preceding him) and also [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2010 under Civil War, Library.
Tags: Mathew Brady, reenactors, Union troops
Comments: 2
Instalanch for Knoxville 1863
Good old Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, acknowledged the review copy I sent him of the historical novel and he posted its title and Amazon link this morning. Thanks, Glenn.
Only problem for me is that he posted the link to the Lulu-distributed edition, for which I get pennies on the dollar, instead of the CreateSpace-distributed one, [...]
Posted: August 3rd, 2010 under Blogosphere, Civil War, Library.
Tags: Instalanch, Instapundit, Knoxville 1863
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The Unknown Confederate Soldier
You probably didn’t know there was one. I didn’t, until I found this photo at the site for Beauvoir, CSA President Jefferson Davis’s last home, at Biloxi, on the Mississippi coast. It took a big hit from Katrina, but it’s now restored and still owned and run as a memorial by the Sons of Confederate [...]
Posted: August 3rd, 2010 under Civil War, Texana.
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Fixes
Still working on Knoxville 1863, the Kindle ebook version. The current one is unindented, which doesn’t bother some people, people used to intertube text, which is rarely indented. But it bothered me. I bought a book by a local fellow to try to learn how to fix it myself. Finally gave up and engaged his [...]
Posted: August 2nd, 2010 under Blogosphere, Civil War, Library, Scribbles.
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U.S.S. Monitor
Lovely old (very old) photo of the Monitor taken sometime after its fight with the Merrimack/Virginia in Hampton Roads in 1862. Latest photo at my new book blog, Knoxville 1863, which is coming along slowly. Moving a bit faster is my other new blog 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, focused on the historical artifacts and new [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Civil War, Library, Site building.
Tags: 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, CSA Virginia, Hampton Roads 1862, Knoxville 1863, USS Monitor
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The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails
The title of this fascinating work is a phony, as journalist/author Eric Calonius makes clear in his text. The truth seems to have been too much for his New York publisher to bear. That is the author’s sidebar unveiling of the little known late 1850s business offices of slave traders in New York City and [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2010 under Civil War, Library, Scribbles.
Tags: "The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and The Conspiracy That Set Its Sails", New York slavers, the middle passage
Comments: 2
Knoxville 1863 review
My Israeli friend “Snoopy the Goon” (he prefers anonymity on the Web) has written a nice review of my Civil War historical battle novel and posted it on his blog with links to the Amazon sales page and the book’s new blog, “Knoxville 1863, the novel.”
Thanks, Snoop. Considering that you don’t normally like military history [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Civil War, Israel, Library.
Tags: American Civil War, Knoxville 1863, Simply Jews, Snoopy the Goon
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