Posted on 11/25/2009 1:07:30 PM PST by navysealdad
Too cool bump.
I am glad that the “Cassius Clay Battery” did not change their name to the “Mohammed Ali Battery”.
(all kidding aside) Thanks for posting these. I had seen many of them before, but some of them were truly shocking.
Those dead guys are the ones who have paid "reparations".
bttt
Yes, it’s absolutely imperative for understanding and for preservation of who we are as a nation.
But it’s amazing how many historians don’t do that. And don’t get me started on the “deconstructionists.” They have done us all a great disservice.
LOL!
I'm putting your book THROW AWAY THE SCABBARD: The Chancellorsville Chronicles - Volume One on my Christmas wish list, and asking my husband to tell a friend, who is a history buff, about it.
That is so great. Thank you very much. Have a happy Thanksgiving.
I used to jog through the Vicksburg Military Park....kinda creepy to run by the tree where Pemberton surrendered to Grant and to think how much horror and suffering was there...not so very long ago....not long enough, yet....I hope.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours too.
John Wilkes Booth and Dr. Mudd knew each other prior to the assasination of Lincoln. They were part of a group that had plotted an assasination of Lincoln, but that plot had failed to materialize. This was admitted to by co-conspirators in the 1890s.
Dr. Mudd was probably not an actual accomplice to Booth when he carried out the assasination, but he undoubtedly knew that Booth had done it at the time he treated the broken leg.
The clarity of these photos is incredible. Thank you for this. I love reading about the Civil War and Lincoln.
I think Nathan Bedford Forrest looks like Charles Manson!
He was about 33 yrs of age at the time the photo was taken.
Thank you for the link to those pictures. I have spent hours looking at them. I recognized the house at Appomattox where Lee surrendered. I’ve been in that house. Something that struck me about most of the pictures is the lack of trees. I kept wondering what happened to all the trees. Do we just have more trees now or did they cut them all down for miles and miles?
Yes - we have more trees now - mainly less agriculture. I forget what it is - but it is pretty astounding the increase.
Here is an excerpt from Iowa:
Nearly half the state’s forests and 90 percent of prairies were cleared for agricultural by 1900. By 1974, only 1.5 million acres of forest remained as more and more land was cleared to make Midwestern states the “Breadbasket of the World.”
Iowa’s forest cover has increased in the past 25 years. Current estimates range from 2.1 to 2.5 million acres. This increase is due in part to reduced livestock grazing and the use of expanded state and federal cost-share reforestation programs by private landowners.
The houses look so forlorn in the pictures, and the occasional lone tree gives the pictures such a sad feeling. I love trees. WV has more trees than any place this side of the rain forest. LOL.
I imagine there are many more, but from some of those generals (North & South) come several military bases: Fort Ord, Fort Bragg, Fort Hood to name three. Interesting stuff.
Here’s a link to another “general”. The Little General, a great silent movie with Buster Keaton in the Civil War (and a great train chase scene!). And interesting to me as it must have been made not too long (well - within 50 years??) since the war.
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