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Category: Civil War on the Web

  • Civil War Site Review: Civil War Animated’s Petersburg and Appomattox Page

    Editor’s Note: This review has been cross-posted at The Siege of Petersburg Online. The vast majority of history web sites and blogs out there (including my own) are composed mainly of words and still images.  So imagine how interesting a site is when using different teaching methods while still delivering sound history.  CivilWarAnimated.com is just […]

  • Great Resource for New York Regiments

    My Siege of Petersburg web site research leads me to all kinds of interesting places online.  Because there were so many New York units at the Siege of Petersburg, one place I end up finding myself back at time after time is the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center web site, specifically […]

  • “Page Perfect” OR Available

    The Historical Archive has what they are calling a “page perfect” version of the Official Record, which comes on two DVDs. The gold standard reference series for Civil War enthusiasts is the 128 volume The War of the Rebellion a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. It is the most […]

  • Cherokees, Slavery, and Masters

    There’s a legal battle brewing in Oklahoma about the tribal status of the descendants of the former slaves of the Cherokee. As it stands now they are getting the boot and Great White Father is not happy about it. The dispute stems from the fact that some wealthy Cherokee owned black slaves who worked on […]

  • Great Antietam Sites on the Anniversary of the Battle

    Editor’s Note: I orginally wrote this article on the 147th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam.  I’ve repurposed the content today for the 149th anniversary.  If you know of other good Antietam resources on the web, be sure to leave a comment.  I particularly welcome comments from Antietam bloggers I’ve missed below.  I know there […]

  • Black Confederates at the Siege of Petersburg?

    A regimental history of the 36th Wisconsin by James M. Aubery, published in 1900, contains his observation of so-called “Black Confederates”, and whether or not they were soldiers.  I think Aubery’s statement1 speaks for itself on the matter, emphasis mine. The following from General Longstreet regarding Hatcher’s Run explains itself and shows that the slaves […]

  • Alabama Historical Quarterly Online

    While looking through the notes at the end of A Melancholy Affair at the Weldon Railroad: The Vermont Brigade, June 23, 1864 this weekend, I found what appears to be the entire run of Alabama Historical Quarterly online.  I was specifically interested in Colonel Hilary A. Herbert’s “History of the Eighth Alabama Volunteer Regiment, C.S.A.“, […]