[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1861-1865: Seminar and Discussion Forum
The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: May 2025.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

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[nwrep]

Should’ve picked our own cotton.

[higgmeister]

Rebel advance pickets are at Kingston, forty miles south of Dalton, probably to cover the retreat.

I grew up less than ten miles from Kingston just off the Kingston highway.   Kingston is a tiny bump in the road (population 722) but up the hill behind Kingston, there is an old Confederate Cemetery.

[higgmeister]

For all of the revisionists still in denial:

this is on the second page, on the right, half way down

FROM MISSISSIPPI,

Meriden, Saturday, Jan. 23

A fight has occurred at Booma, Warren County, between negroes and whites. The negroes killed a number of Yankees, when reinforcements arrived, who charged on the negroes, took their artillery and opened on them with grape and canister. Several hundred were killed.