Civil War Haversack

2006-12-02T16:19:00.000-08:00

A Confederate 18 LA INF soldier's grave is subject of a minor dispute between the descendents and the landowner. It seems to me a compromise can easily be reached.

2006-12-02T15:16:00.000-08:00

Terrell Garren has counted every countable Western North Carolina soldier who had participated in the Civil War. Consequently, he has come up with the first estimate of Unionism in the region since Alexander Hamilton Jones threw out a figure in 1866. A figure, which by Garren's numbers, grossly overstated the number of Unionists in this area of North Carolina. More here.

2006-12-02T15:02:00.000-08:00

Arista Hoge, founder of the Thornrose Cemetery in Staunton, VA is remembered in this article. The cemetery has over 2000 confederate soldiers. Federal soldiers were relocated after the war to a nearby National cemetery.

2006-12-02T14:47:00.000-08:00

FRANKLIN, Tenn. After setting off a controversy by saying Confederate battle flags should not be part of a Civil War battle commemoration, Franklin Mayor Tom Miller said the ceremony was "perfect."

2006-12-02T14:28:00.000-08:00

Civil War Memory Blog. Writes the author, "I blog about subjects related to how Americans have chosen to remember and commemorate their Civil War." Another excellent blog related to the Civil War. I may need to create a listing of Civil War blogs. Also, I like the layout of this Typepad blog. Kevin's home page is here.

2006-12-02T04:27:00.000-08:00

Site in UK Added to Civil War Discovery Trail.
The Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT), America's largest nonprofit battlefield preservation group, today announced the addition of the Wirral Maritime Heritage Trail to the 600-site Civil War Discovery Trail. The Wirral Maritime Heritage Trail becomes the first Civil War Discovery Trail site in the United Kingdom and the second to be designated outside the United States.
Edwin C. Bearss, CWPT Trustee and Chief Historian Emeritus of the U.S. National Park Service, will be the keynote speaker at the designation ceremonies. According to Bearss, the area along the River Mersey in southwestern England played a crucial role in equipping the fledgling Confederate Navy. He noted that the most famous Confederate raider of the entire war, C.S.S. Alabama, was built at the Laird Brothers Shipyard at Birkenhead on the Wirral peninsula, across the Mersey River from Liverpool.

2006-12-02T04:24:00.000-08:00

Group of Japanese women tour Warrenton to learn about Civil War

2006-12-02T04:20:00.000-08:00

Book about a little known Confederate raid in Vermont published. Cathryn Prince’s new book recounts the 1864 raid in St. Albans, Vt., during the height of the Civil War.

2006-12-02T04:16:00.000-08:00

Forensic tool reveals Civil War secrets

A sophisticated tool reveals details of blood stains in Daniel Lady Farm, Gettysburg, PA.

2006-12-02T04:11:00.000-08:00

Mike's Civil War Musings
Another excellent blog. This blog is focused on Battlefield Preservation with an interest in Illinois.

2006-12-02T04:08:00.000-08:00

Civil War Women
An excellent site containing "Bios and stories about women of the Civil War era, how they lived, what they did to survive, how they fought for women's rights" by a civil war enthusiast in North Ft. Myers, Florida.

2006-12-02T03:41:00.000-08:00

Haversack Relaunched. This blog has been idle for too long. I'm still looking for the perfect automated blogging tool. I guess I'll write my own. For now, these posts will have to be done the old-fashioned way.

2006-07-18T18:54:00.000-07:00

Athens, OH: The Athens NEWS: Twice weekly alternative: "The trail taken by Morgan's Raiders through Athens County may soon be marked as part of a movement to mark the trail through several states"

2006-07-18T18:52:00.000-07:00

The Norman Transcript - Civil War battles brought suffering for natives: "the Battle of Honey Springs gave Union forces control of the Indian Territory for the rest of the Civil War."

2006-07-18T18:51:00.000-07:00

WAVY.COM - Preservationists buy land from Civil War battle: "The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation bought 100 acres in the Toms Brook area, about 25 miles southwest of Winchester."

2006-07-18T18:49:00.000-07:00

Democrat & Chronicle: Bob Marcotte: "(July 17, 2006) — By 1864 — three years into the Civil War — Rochesterians had become accustomed to the sight of troop trains entering and leaving their city. But the one that pulled into the station on June 7 was different. It discharged a stream of 375 wounded upstate soldiers, part of the overflow from Union military hospitals that could no longer keep up with the horrendous casualties from Gen. U.S. Grant's relentless campaign against Robert E. Lee's Confederate forces in Virginia. "

2006-07-18T18:42:00.000-07:00

History battles future - The Clarion-Ledger: "The urgency in preserving this historic Confederate camp, as well as others from Port Gibson to Corinth, grows each year as small towns see the potential to attract tourists and their wallets.
But housing booms around Jackson and in north Mississippi slowly threaten the scattered battlefields. "

2006-07-18T18:27:00.000-07:00

Columbia Missourian - Centralia couple donates Civil War battlefield: "The Battle of Centralia took place on Sept. 27, 1864, when a group of more than 155 Union soldiers commanded by Maj. A.V.E. Johnston met “Bloody” Bill Anderson and his band of Confederate guerrilla soldiers in battle on the field southeast of Centralia.
The Union soldiers were chasing Anderson’s troops because they had executed 22 unarmed Union soldiers on a train. The battle only lasted a few minutes, but it left 123 Union soldiers dead. There were three Confederate casualties."

2006-07-18T18:23:00.000-07:00

Northern Civil War Foundry studied: "During the Civil War, it made (m) millions of artillery shells and two-thousand cannons for the Union army.

Over five years of digging, the archaeologists have uncovered various artifacts and the foundry's old living quarters and blast furnace."

2006-07-18T18:16:00.000-07:00

NYS Military Museum opens exhibit on Civil War's big guns: "The exhibit is titled 'Worth a Thousand Muskets' -- taken from a quote by Union General William T. Sherman, who said a battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets."

Visit there website here:

http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/mil-hist.htm

2006-07-15T09:53:00.000-07:00

The National Cemetery Administration (NCA), a division of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, has been undertaking an extensive project to verify the burial records in their database.
National Cemetery Administration Records Verification Project

2006-07-13T22:01:00.000-07:00

VOA News - Proposal for Casino Near Historic Battlefield Creates Controversy: "“You have to have the entertainment value,” says local Bill Synnamon. “Gettysburg, after nine o'clock, if you don't go have a beer, you're done. There's absolutely nothing in town for those people.”"

2006-07-12T19:45:00.000-07:00

Tyrone, PA: First Colonel Crowther Day to honor Colonel James E. Crowther, PA Inf

2006-07-11T23:44:00.000-07:00

Article spells out rules for replacement headstones

2006-07-11T23:15:00.000-07:00

Tebbs Bend, KY: Battle where Morgan met Moore's 25th Michigan remembered.

2006-07-09T22:34:00.000-07:00

Article about Battle of Franklin, TN
Tours, Book Tell of Bloody War Battle theledger.com

2006-07-09T22:06:00.000-07:00

Baton Rouge, LA: Robert Barham, an LSU alumni & State Senator, is taking 'political heat' for proposing naming a LSU building after Gen. William T. Sherman. Sherman was briefly connected with the school now known as Louisiana State University.

Louisiana State University feeling heat after proposal to honor Sherman

2006-07-09T20:14:00.000-07:00

Civil War soldier's grave given care: "MECHANICSBURG — A village family wants to shine light on a Civil War veteran’s burial plot that over the years has been shadowed by overgrown shrubbery and tall trees in Union Township."

2006-07-09T09:42:00.000-07:00

New Graves List for the Barton/Stovall Georgia Brigade lists 1010 names

As an adjunct to the GBSHHA website, I started this page of gravesites for these soldiers. The final resting place tells a story of civil war disease, railroad accidents, Northern prison camps, battlefield deaths, hospital system, etc. The home of the page is here, or you can view the list in the inline frame below.

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2006-07-09T03:40:00.000-07:00

A MS Confederate soldier to be reburied with 200 in attendance.
djournal.com

2006-07-04T18:47:00.000-07:00

"It all started with one family trying to locate the grave of a specific relative, Israel Clark, and then expanded to honor all of the Civil War vets lying in area cemetaries.The family of Isreal Clark started with Steve Klante of Wausau. It spanned 10 years, 3 states, and a number of different relatives..."

WSAW | Thorp Honors Civil War Veterans on Independence Day: "http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/veterans/CivilWar_files/ThorpResidentSoldiers.htm."

News: Civil War Commemoration - Thorp, Wis. (2006): "Civil War Commemoration - Thorp, Wis. (2006) "

Thorp Area Civil War Soldiers Roster for Clark County, Wisconsin

2006-07-04T15:44:00.000-07:00

This newspaper story infers this 38 star flag to this man's Civil War ancestor, however, a civil war Union flag would have at most 35 stars. One from 1861 would have 33 stars. Old Glory days | LJWorld.com

2006-07-03T00:46:00.000-07:00

The Herald-Mail ONLINE: "Battle of Monterey Pass (PA) remembered"

2006-07-03T00:43:00.000-07:00

Michigan - Michigan Civil War Monument Rededicated: "FRANKLIN TWP. - In 1866, as the nation was still beginning to recover from the Civil War, the people of Franklin Township honored their neighbors and relatives who died while serving in the Union Army.

Using donated funds, they designed a sandstone monument, built it in the Franklin Township Cemetery and dedicated it on July 4, 1866. It was the first Civil War memorial in Michigan, and one of the first in the country."

2006-07-03T00:38:00.000-07:00

Remembering the civil war in Aberdeen,SD. American News 07/02/2006 Remembering those who struggled

2006-07-03T00:32:00.000-07:00

Using music to teach Civil War history. The Frederick News-Post

2006-07-03T00:26:00.000-07:00

Four Confederate monuments were dedicated 07/04/2006 in Kentucky

2006-07-03T00:21:00.000-07:00

Oshkosh Northwestern - Stew Rieckman Column: Confederate flag controversy is not simply a blue and gray issue