What does the Civil War timeline really look like, down to the details? Dive deeper into America's infamous war by following this series of events.
If the Civil War’s on your to-study list, these books will help you dig into the complicated, bloody conflict that continues to inform American consciousness today.
It is estimated that anywhere between 620,000 to 850,000 soldiers died in America’s Civil War from 1861 to 1865. while the war between North and South is often romanticized or sterilized for the public, the true realities of the war were far more brutal than any of us can fully imagine today. Pay With Wood
The staple ration was hardtack, a rock-hard biscuit. But other Civil War recipes could be made with any ingredients the soldiers had on hand.
Cotton, slaves and arrogance just weren't going to be enough to overcome everything else the Confederates lacked during the Civil War.
In 1864, 16th Connecticut Private Henry Adams recorded entries in this small pocket diary. (Connecticut Historical Society collection) The battles in which the 16th Connecticut participated are noted in the diary. The regiment played only a small role at Fredericksburg. At Antietam, its first battle of the war, the 16th Connecticut was routed. Like this blog on Facebook By happenstance in early September 2015, I discovered a memorial stone for 16th Connecticut Private Henry H. Adams among gravestones at a small, out-of-the-way cemetery in rural Eastford, Conn. An old, cast-iron Grand Army of the Republic marker and a fresh U.S. flag adorned Adams' marker. "Thy memory will be cherished," read the words at the bottom of the slate-gray memorial. Like thousands of other Civil War dead, Henry's body was not recovered for burial on his native soil. He probably was haphazardly buried with other Union POWs in a trench in Florence (S.C.) National Cemetery. A memorial honors 16th Connecticut Private Henry H. Adams in General Lyon Cemetery in Eastford, Conn. Adams enlisted in the Union army in the summer of 1862, mustering in at Camp Williams in Hartford as a private in Company G on Aug. 24. Less than a month later, on Sept. 17, he was among the 204 casualties in the 16th Connecticut, which was routed at Antietam. (For more on the 16th Connecticut, read Lesley Gordon's excellent book, A Broken Regiment.) Henry recovered from his wound, but was captured with most of the rest of the 16th Connecticut at Plymouth, N.C. on April 20, 1864. "Taken prisoner in the morning," Adams wrote in his diary that day. Like others in his regiment, including this soldier, Henry recorded his experiences as a POW. In short entries in a 4 1/2 x 3 1/2-inch, leather-covered pocket diary, he noted his arrival at the notorious Andersonville prison camp in southwestern Georgia in early May ("15,000 prisoners inside"), deaths among his comrades ("two men died in Co. K") and his own health, which gradually deteriorated while in captivity. In many entries, he also noted the weather. In mid-September 1864, Adams recorded that he was "getting very weak." Nearly two weeks later, he couldn't walk. As Sherman's army marched through Georgia, Confederates transferred Andersonville prisoners to other camps throughout the South. On Oct. 8, Adams was sent to Florence, S.C., where initially he did well. At the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford, I read Henry's diary, which somehow survived the war. Opposite the title page of the journal, someone — probably Henry himself — recorded 16th Connecticut battles. But the most compelling, and haunting, entry in the fragile diary are the 10 words written in someone else's hand on Oct. 20, 1864. Here are selections from Henry Adams' 1864 pocket diary: April 18, 1864: Battle of Plymouth "Fort Wessels captured. Heavy fireing in the morning between fort Gray and Reb batteries. Tuscany & Gunboat Bombshell sank. The Rebs charged on the works but were repulsed. April 19, 1864 "Heavy fireing in the morning. The Rebel ram came down and sank the gunboat Smithfield. Pleasant. April 20, 1864: Captured "Taken prisoner in the morning. Lines out on the Washington Road all night." May 4, 1864: Arrives at Andersonville "Went inside of the stockade. Our company in the 44th Mess, 30th mess Drawed 1 days rations. There is 15,000 prisoners inside. Pleasant." August 16, 1864: Deaths "Drew (?) cooked beans and beef. Cool and pleasant. Had a small shower just at night. Another man died from our company." August 17, 1864 "Had our roll call. Cool and pleasant. Had to help draw rations from our team. Two men died from Co. K." October 13, 1864: Florence, S.C. "We are in a very pleasant place but have no shelter. The women are very kind and bring in some nice things but the sickest get more." October 16, 1864: Florence, S.C. "Another cool and pleasant day. We are getting along very well only we do not get enough to eat." October 19, 1864: Exchange? "Cool and pleasant. We heard a sermon preached in our ward. There is talk of an exchange of the sick but can't tell." October 20, 1864: The end "The writer of the foregoing died at 9 o'clock pm." Hundreds of Union prisoners of war from the Florence, S.C., stockade are buried in trenches at the national cemetery nearby. The body of Henry Adams probably is among them. Have something to add (or correct) in this post? E-mail me here.
In this post, I’ll cover fifty household tips from 1863. Some of these are difficult to decipher and others are a bit bizarre. Others are still useful today.
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Also called General Robert E. Lee Cake. One of the most famous Southern American cakes of all times. Making this cake is definitely a labor of love because it is
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From wives tending to their homes to slaves escaping to freedom.
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