Vanity: Civil War Research; Three simple questions

[bicpen]

Hi,

If you could please answer a few quick questions for me, I would be most appreciative. Thanks so much!

If you were looking for information online about President Lincoln what URL would

If you were looking for information online about the Civil War what URL would you type?

If you couldn't find either of these websites by typing in your best guess as the web address, what search terms would you key into an online search engine?

[Ingtar]

Did you say Military History ping list?? * perks up ears *

[Fiji Hill]

For information on President Lincoln, surf over to the Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum.

[benldguy]

Here are some Civil War URL’s I’ve found helpful:

American Civil War: History, Battles, Maps, Pictures

http://americancivilwar.com/

American Civil War Home Page

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html#crisis

Timeline of Events leading to the American Civil War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_leading_to_the_American_Civil_War

US Civil War FAQs, Parts 1 and 2

http://www.landfield.com/faqs/civil-war-usa/faq/part1/

Excerpts of the Southern Historicsl Society

http://www.gdg.org/Research/SHSP/shsp.html

The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ANU4519-0001

[Fiji Hill]

Rutgers University maintains a good website for Civil War resources on the Internet.

[Stonewall Jackson]

All of my ancestors who fought in the Civil War were on my mother's side (my dad's family was still in Europe at the time), and most fought for the South. A large portion came from Walkin County, Georgia and served either in the 2nd Georgia Cavalry under Forrest and Wheeler or in the 16th Georgia Infantry of Cobb's Legion, which served in McLaw's Division of Longstreet's Corps. Others were in Texas and served in McCord's Frontier Cavalry (46th Texas Cavalry), where they guarded the northwestern frontier for just over a year before heading down to Galveston to help prevent the Federals from recapturing the port (it had surrendered in October, 1862 but had been recovered on January 1, 1863).

My mom has been doing a lot of geneology research recently and has found at least five of my ancestors who died in the Civil War. One was killed during a cavalry skirmish in Tennessee in 1863; another was mortally wounded during the Battle of Crampton's Gap at South Mountain, Maryland; two others died of illness in Richmond hospitals; and a fifth was captured at Cold Harbor and was sent to a Union POW camp in Elmira, New York, where he died of diptheria just a few months later (he is buried in the National Cemetery there at Elmira and I plan on driving up there next year during my trip to Gettysburg and Antietam).

[wardaddy]

you need to sevice your vanity thread mr first day here...it’s considered good manners unless you tell folks upthread you are going to be out.

if you are trolling for stormfront style links to shame this forum for some fair and balanced clown then you are at the wrong address

if I’m wrong, I’m sorry

[Stonewall Jackson]

Oops, my mistake, the 16th Georgia was part of Cobb's Brigade. Cobb's Legion was also part of that brigade.

The brigade was commanded by the older Cobb brother (who was originally the 16th's regimental commander) and the Legion by the younger.

[Tennessee_Bob]

If you were looking for information online about President Lincoln what URL would

www.Google.Com

If you were looking for information online about the Civil War what URL would you type?

www.Google.Com

If you couldn't find either of these websites by typing in your best guess as the web address, what search terms would you key into an online search engine?

"President Lincoln" or "American Civil War."

[bcsco]

Don’t know if this thread will be zotted or not, but I’m going to print to PDF for preserving link references. My bookmarks are enormous now. :)

[mass55th]

You joined today to ask these questions? If you are serious about learning more about President Lincoln and the Civil War (War of Northern Agression, etc.), you should visit your local library and borrow books on the topics you are interested in. You'll need to read them thoroughly, not just gloss over specific sections.

In order to truly learn anything, you need to read a variety of historical and biographical books, that means more than one book on a specific individual, battle, causes of the war, etc., to garner opposing viewpoints. It's also important to visit a number of historical socieities, archives, library manuscript departments, etc., to read the actual words of the men who served on both sides. It's amazing what you can learn from correspondence/documents written during the war. It's important to remember that leg work is still the only true way of thoroughly researching a topic you are interested in. If you rely solely on the internet for your information, you are missing a great amount of significant historic facts.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Ken Burns seems about your speed.

[Non-Sequitur]

bump

[Joe 6-pack]

You might want to start a correspondence with Gabor Boritt As a native Hungarian who escaped the Russians in the '50s, he brings a pretty fresh perspective to the war without the North/South biases most native born Americans do, and is considered one of the premier scholars on the conflict and the personalities involved.

[kalee]

If you were looking for information online about the Civil War what URL would you type?

That’s rather a broad topic. Is this for a research paper for school or just personal curiosity?

[PAR35]

If you were looking for information online about the Civil War

The English Civil War? Start here: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CivilWar.htm

Or were you looking for the War of Northern Aggression?

[PAR35]

Appears we have a troll here, by the way.

[AnAmericanMother]

Walkin County? No such place. We have a Walker county, in the NW corner of the state, where Chickamauga and Lookout Mt. are located. There's also a Walton county southeast of Atlanta on I-20, Monroe is the county seat IIRC.

My mother's family were small tradesmen in Augusta GA who immigrated from Scotland around the time the war began. Some of her maternal relatives fought in the war, but most were too old or too young. My father's family made up for it. Of my direct ancestors, Grandpa Long was in the 51st AL Cavalry (Partisan Rangers) under Col. Morgan, Grandpa Glover was a lieutenant in the 55th Alabama Infantry, and Grandpa Dent commanded Dent's Battery, Hindman's Div., Deas's Brigade. Also had a passel of cousins, uncles and assorted kinfolk in various Georgia and Alabama regiments.

It's interesting to look at the orders of battle -- because at the company level I'm related to or know most of the folks in my relatives' units. And it makes ya go hmmm sometimes -- for example this entry: John T. Stewart. Elected Captain on December 12, 1861. Not reelected, May 8, 1862. John Stewart married Grandpa Glover's oldest sister. He wasn't re-elected because he was killed at Shiloh.

[carton253]

For Lincoln ping Non-Sequitur. He has so much info at his finger tips.

[RightWhale]

Why would a newbie end up at FR instead of Google for research on such generalities?

[Stonewall Jackson]

That's what I get for trying to post at 2 in the morning.

They were from Walton County. Company F of the 16th Georgia was composed entirely of men from this county.