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• Foreign 24-pdr Howitzers

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  The US Army adopted the 24-pdr caliber for howitzers in conformance with European conventions.   Therefore a look at how the class appeared on the other side of the pond is in order, in the first place to compare with contemporary US manufactured weapons in the class.  Furthermore, a few of these European weapons ...
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• The lure of living history … and John Brown’s body

  
  Sheryl Gwyther - author — Authority: 119
  When you were a kid did you sing that song, John Brown’s body lies a-moulder’n in the grave ? I remember wondering why people sang about a mouldy old corpse? Along the way somewhere as I became interested in history and other things, I got the message – this was an anti-slavery call to arms, a song about the ...
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• Review: Shock Troops of the Confederacy

  
  Life in the Past Lane — Authority: 112
  Everyone who studies the Civil War has different interests, and I am no exception. My favorite topics are civilians, spies/espionage, cavalry units, and independent commands - all facets I touch on in my historical fiction novel Shades of Gray . I promised myself I would buy no more books until I make some headway ...
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• Confederate 24-pdr Howitzers

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  As mentioned in the posts concerning the 24-pdr Field Howitzers and Flank Howitzers, the Confederate Army also employed these weapons.  Confederate howitzers in the 24-pdr caliber fit into three categories -  Federal types acquired from arsenals in the south at the start of the war or captured on the battlefield; ...
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• Unknown: A Local History Civil War Mystery

  
  Walking the Berkshires — Authority: 463
  I came upon this grave marker recently in Cornwall Hollow Cemetery.  It caught my eye as a government issued headstone of the "Civil War" type, authorized in the 1870s for the graves of Union soldiers (and also was used for unmarked graves of veterans of earlier wars).  Given its low status position over at the very ...
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• 24-pdr Flank Howitzers

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  The 24-pdr Siege and Garrison Howitzer was the caliber set companion to the 24-pdr Field Howitzer.  Cast of iron and weighing more, the Army used the siege and garrison weapon largely in the “garrison” part of that description.  Conceptually the weapon sprang from a need to cover blind approaches and moats ...
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• Dads Functional Ideas To Abide By When You Are Looking At Quality Plantation Shutters

  
  Atomsantics.com — Authority: 162
  One of the most romantic times of architecture and interior designs is referred to now as the antebellum period, which accurately interprets as ‘before the war’ - in this situation, the American Civil War. In particular, the antebellum design refers back to the old South, with classy plantation houses built in ...
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• National Geographic’s New Atlas of the Civil War

  
  Wig-Wags — Authority: 112
  Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: National Geographic (October 20, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1426203470 ISBN-13: 978-1426203473 Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 10.7 x 1.1 inches The good folks at National Geographic sent me a review copy of their new Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive ...
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• Examine The Reasons for The Extremely High Casualty Rate During The Civil War, Beyond The Fact That Americans Were Fighting Americans

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 596
  Introduction   The American Civil War had the highest death toll then any other American war. It has been estimated that about 1.988% of the population or 625,000 people died during the four year period of hostilities between the south and the north. Many things contributed to the excessively high casualty rate. ...
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• You cant trust anything these days: mixing up Kentucky and Tennessee

  
  Muhlberger's Early History — Authority: 130
  Patrick Neilsen Hayden at Making Light (thanks Brad DeLong): John Keegan, author of the excellent The Face of Battle (1976) and many other books, is possibly the most widely-respected military historian alive. James M. McPherson is an eminent historian of the American Civil War; his Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
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• HMDB Civil War Updates – Week of November 2

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  Large number of entries this week for the Civil War category.  Another forty-eight entries this week, representing sites in Connecticut, District 0f Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.  Here is the summary:- Naugatuck, Connecticut ...
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• Artillery and Horses

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  I brought up a point yesterday regarding the weight of the 24-pdr Field Howitzer compared to the 12-pdr Light Field Gun (Napoleon), and how those numbers factored into tactical mobility.  Because I like the “cold hard numbers,” I’ll offer up the planning factors here which back that conclusion.The US Army, ...
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• Big Brass Cannons – 24-pdr Field Howitzers

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  Prior to the Civil War, field artillery retained the type-classification and employment doctrine from the early 19th-century, leaning heavily on the European Napoleonic experience.  While emerging technologies would shift both the classifications and the doctrine during the Civil War, even in 1866, the Army ...
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• On the Hunt for Sources on David G. Farragut’s Leadership

  
  Wig-Wags — Authority: 112
  I’ve decided choose as topic for the research paper I’m writing for my current class, the leadership of David G. Farragut during the New Orleans Campaign and perhaps more extensively. I’m on the hunt for both primary and secondary sources.Let me know if you have recommendations. Portrait of Rear Adm. ...
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• Brutal Terrain

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  This military history of the Civil War emphasizes geography’s role in shaping strategy.
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• People back in the days of Lincoln were stupid

  
  Bent Corner — Authority: 133
  I’m currently reading Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, a history book chronicling the hunt for Abraham Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth. Whoever said that truth is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Historical fiction book review: The General

  
  Life in the Past Lane — Authority: 112
  The General and Monaville, Texas By Joe G. Bax 168 pages Emerald Book Company Touching on a piece of history that I think is too often overlooked, author Joe G. Bax successfully paints a vivid picture of a small Texas town during the tumultuous period that followed the Civil War. With a wide cast of characters, ...
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• *Honor The 150th Anniversary Of Harpers Ferry- Some People Still Dont Get It- A Guest Commentary From The Other Side

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 146
  Click on title to link to "The Boston Globe", Sunday October 25, 2009, "The Observer" article by Sam Allis concerning the manliness of the Boston supporters of John Brown in the aftermath of Harpers Ferry. Markin comment: The name and exploits of the heroic revolutionary abolitionist John Brown, late of Harpers ...
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• *Poet’s Corner-“Young America’s” Walt Whitman’s “Leaves Of Grass”

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 146
  Click on title to link to Wikipedias entry for poet Walt Whitman. DVD Review American Experience: Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman and various modern commentators, PBS Productions, 2008 Sure, it is always appropriate to thumb through the pages of the 19th century poet laureate of democracy Walt Whitman’s “Leaves Of ...
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• John Keegan’s ‘The American Civil War’ — Was the Refusal to Allow the Confederate States to Secede the First Overt Act of American Imperialism?

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 474
  I admire the work of John Keegan , perhaps the finest living military historian, and have mentioned his Winston Churchill (Viking, 2002) and his foreword to a recent edition of John Buchan’s classic spy thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin, 2008). But I may not be able to review his new The American ...
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