Category: Civil War Memory
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Echoing Bad History
The other day Dimitri Rotov had a blog post comparing a quote from James M. McPherson’s new book with similar quotes from other books. What bothers Dimitri is that McPherson isn’t original; what also ticks me off is that McPherson mimics bad history. The quotes in question link the Red River Campaign of 1864 to […]
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Confederate Veteran Magazine Available Online
It looks like many volumes of Confederate Veteran are online in their entirety at the Internet Archives. I periodically go back to both Google Books and the Internet Archive from time to time to see what has been newly posted, but I’ve been lax lately in that regard. It looks like most of these were […]
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Short Takes
What did the fabled Rebel Yell actually sound like? Smithsonian magazine digs up an old reunion tape to find out. The proposed slavery museum at Fredericksburg is on hold and is looking more doubtful by the day. It’s been dogged by controversy and poor financial management since its inception. Fold3 (formerly Footnote.com) looks at the […]
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What were they doing over there?: Walker’s Div. at Chattanooga
The selection of Confederate reports for the battle of Chattanooga that made it into the Official Records is skimpy. There is a report from Bragg, the army commander, but not from either of his corps commanders, Hardee or Breckenridge, and there are no reports from several of the division commanders or their subordinates. Consider the […]
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Take Your Damn Quote Back To Ohio!
We recently passed the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh which prompts me to discuss a quotation which bothers me. Anyone who has read a modern book on Shiloh has probably seen some variation on “Take your damned regiment back to Ohio. There is no enemy closer than Corinth.” Allegedly this statement was the […]