September 22, 1862 – 2012

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That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;  and the executive [...]

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Celebrating or Desecrating the Confederate Flag

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Since we are once again preoccupied with the display of the Confederate flag I thought I would post this video, which just came across my YouTube feed.  The video is of a high school event in South Carolina.  Well, I will let the student who posted the video take it from here: So it’s Home [...]

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Who Knew Lynyrd Skynyrd Was Still Around?

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I thought this band stopped playing after a plane crash took the lives of most of the band members in the 1970s.  All I can say is that if you think the band’s decision to remove the Confederate flag as a stage backdrop makes them any more or less southern then you, my friend, are [...]

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Union vs. Confederate in Death and the Civil War

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A number of people have pointed out at various places that Death and the Civil War spends an inordinate amount of time focusing on northern soldiers and their communities.  A few people have argued that this was done intentionally and to the detriment of the Confederacy and to those who are dedicated to keep its [...]

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A Worthy Death: A Review of Death and the Civil War

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After writing two short posts about American Experience’s Death and the Civil War I decided to write up something a bit more comprehensive for the Atlantic.  You can read it here in its entirety. In his interview with Harvard president and historian Drew G. Faust about American Experience‘s new documentary Death and the Civil War, [...]

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Looking Beyond Glory With Hari Jones

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I like the idea behind this short film.  Young African-American woman gets an A on an essay she wrote about the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry after having viewed the movie, Glory.  Her adviser suggests that she visit the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. to talk with curator Hari Jones.  The two walk [...]

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SHPG Reviews My Crater Book

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I knew it was just a matter of time before the good folks at the Southern Heritage Preservation Group got around to commenting on my new book on the battle of the Crater.  They don’t disappoint. Now you would think that the confidence with which Gary Adams asserts that the quote in question is not [...]

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Remembering Antietam’s Dead

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One of the features of American Experience’s documentary Death and the Civil War that I really like is its emphasis on the lingering bitterness over how to commemorate the Civil War dead.  Although the film says nothing about the significance of Lincoln’s death it does explore the decision by the federal government to re-inter only [...]

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