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

Jesse James, one of the most violent outlaws of the wild west, got his first taste for violence as a Civil War guerrilla fighting for the Confederates. Although he came to be known as one of the most dangerous bandits of the west, James started out his life as a…

Jacob C. Miller (August 4, 1840 - January 13, 1917) was a private in company K, 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment, and was wounded in the head near the Brock Field at the Battle of Chickamauga on the morning of September 19, 1863. The ball impacted in Miller's head during the Civil War, but luckily the buck didn't penetrate his skull. This extract is from a contemporary newspaper: «His name is Jacob Miller and since Sept. 19, 1863, he has lived with an open bullet wound in his forehead. For a number of years the bullet remained in his head but piece by piece it fell out till now. It is thought none of it remains in the wound. During the time it was in the head it at times would produce a stupor, which sometimes would last two weeks, it being usually when he caught cold and produced more of a pressure on the brain. At other times delirium would seize him and he would imagine himself again on picket duty and would tramp back and forth on his beat, a stick on his shoulder for a musket, a pitiful object of the sacrifice for freedom. As these pieces of lead gradually loosened and fell out he regained his usual health and is now at the age of 78 years, one of the most, if not the most, remarkable survivor of the Civil war.» #colored #colorized #colourised #colorization #colourisation #color #colour #history #ww1 #wwi #worldwarone #greatwar #thegreatwar #ww2 #wwii #worldwartwo #civilwar

The American Civil War, waged from 1861 to 1865, is remembered on this date. Before and during the Civil War, the North and South differed greatly on economic issues. The war was about slavery, but primarily about its economic consequences. The northern elite wanted economic expansion that would change the southern (slave-holding) way of life. The southern states saw Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans making enormous changes to their way of life using free slave labor. Southerners believed that Abraham Lincoln, if elected, would restrict their rights to own slaves.

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DARKER ARTS " Death , so called , is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep " Lord Byron

Cotton, slaves and arrogance just weren't going to be enough to overcome everything else the Confederates lacked during the Civil War.

In remembrance of the soldiers who served in the Civil War, the Liljenquist Family donated their rare collection of over 700 photographs to the Library of Congress

Two colorists have combined their skills with photographs and fascination for the American Civil War to create a remarkable series of color photographs from the era.

Cover image for Jerusalem Plank Road, a book of poetry focused on the Petersburg Campaign of the U.S. Civil War. Image source: Library of Congress. Johnson later served as Lt. Col. of the 115th New York, and was wounded three times, twice during the Petersburg Campaign and once in the assault on Fort Fisher. The 93rd's regimental history contains a brief bio: NATHAN J. JOHNSON. The subject of this sketch was born in Granville, Washington County, New York, on the 22d day of August, 1822. He was a lawyer by profession and practicing in his native town at the breaking out of the rebellion, and in the fall of 1861 he conceived the idea of raising a company to aid in the suppression of the rebellion. He at once relinquished his professional duties, and on Nov. 3, 1861, enlisted and entered the field ; recruiting in Granville and Hampton, Washington County, and on securing thirty-two men he reported at Albany barracks, where the 93d Regimen: was being formed. A complete company organization was formed by uniting with his men, those who had been enlisted in Argyle byWm. Randal, and James M. Crawford, and men enlisted by Robert S. Robertson, of Whitehall, with these Company "I" was formed, and Nathan J. Johnson was elected and commissioned captain, in which capacity he served until April 13, 1864, when he resigned to accept promotion as lieutenant-colonel of the 115th Regiment. New York Infantry, to which rank he mustered and served until the close of the war, and was mustered out with that regiment June 17, 1865. On the 29th day of April, 1865, he was promoted to colonel, but did not muster. He was also brevetted colonel of U. S. V. He was a good officer and genial companion, making friends wherever he went. On returning to civil life he resumed the practice of the law, and settled in Fulton County, where, in appreciation of his services as a soldier and ability as a lawyer, he was elected and served as county judge. He died on the 10th day of October, 1884, at Broadalbin, Fulton County, New York.

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TIME colorized some of the most iconic images of the Civil War

Two colorists have combined their skills with photographs and fascination for the American Civil War to create a remarkable series of color photographs from the era.

A number of Reddit users have taken it upon themselves to convert a slew of Civil War photos into beautiful color.

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The Confederate Army was unstoppable – within weeks of winning the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee had won the Second Battle of Bull Run and was marching 55,000 Confederate troops into Maryland on Sept. 3, 1862. The Confederate Army was welcomed into Maryland as anti-Union protests had been filling Baltimore's streets. On Sept. 13,…

This page provides a description of the demographics of the soldiers who fought on both sides of the Civil War.

Stark imagery of the clash between Union and Confederate Armies became a vivid document of warfare, and a tool for Abolitionists

The American Civil War, fought between 1861 and 1865, claimed 620,000 lives - nearly as many American casualties as every other war fought by the United States combined.

Billy Lundy with the pretty white girls at Eglin AFB. I would like tofind a young picture of him.

14th Connecticut Private Oliver Dart was grievously wounded at Fredericksburg on Dec. 13, 1862. (Image courtesy Alan Crane) A tattered CDV of Oliver Dart was found among papers in his pension file at the National Archives. Like this blog on Facebook | Follow me on Twitter Within a year of his regiment's ill-fated charge at Fredericksburg, Oliver Dart Jr. faced another great trial: a sitting for a photograph at a studio on Main Street in Hartford, Conn. The resulting carte-de-visite, found in the 14th Connecticut veteran's pension file in the National Archives, is difficult to view. Bundled in a heavy coat, the blue-eyed veteran with black hair and thick eyebrows stared at the Kellogg Brothers' photographer. A mangled lower jaw, mouth and nose — the awful effects of a shrapnel wound suffered during the attack on Marye's Heights — were obvious. We wonder how Dart summoned the fortitude to sit for the CDV, undoubtedly evidence for his pension claim. The CDV of Dart was taken by the Kellogg Brothers in Hartford. As he waited for his turn to be photographed that day, Dart's mind may have drifted to Dec. 13, 1862, and the Battle of Fredericksburg. Marching onto the battlefield via Princess Anne Street, the 14th Connecticut came under "a most galling fire" after crossing a causeway over a canal near the railroad depot. Then an artillery shell fired from high ground on the 14th Connecticut's right burst among prone soldiers in Company D. A 3 x 2-inch fragment smashed into the ground, firing sand into the eyes of Dart's brother-in-law, 14th Connecticut Corporal John Symonds, blinding him. A chunk of metal crashed into the arm and face of the 23-year-old Dart before striking a four-inch square, wooden post. Corporal Charles Lyman, lying next to Dart, recalled years later that the fragment surely would have ripped through his head and killed him had it not struck that obstacle. (In the charge on the well-defended stone wall at the foot of Marye's Heights, Oliver's cousin Charles, the 14th Connecticut's regimental color bearer, suffered a mortal wound.) Dart's wounds horrified another soldier in the regiment. "Poor Oliver Dart," he said. "As he rolled over he looked as though his whole face was shot away." In this enlargement of a war-time photo of Fredericksburg, Va., the Rowe House is shown. 14th Connecticut wounded, including Oliver Dart, were among Union soldiers cared for at the divisional hospital there. (Library of Congress). A circa-1940s image of the Rowe House at 607 Sophia Street in Fredericksburg. The house no longer stands. (Library of Congress) Frank Niederwerfer, descendant of Oliver Dart, holds an image of the 14th Connecticiut private at the site of the old Rowe house in Fredericksburg, Va. Dart was cared for at the divisional hospital there. May 1865 image of Stanton General Hospital in Washington, where Dart recovered from his wounds. (Library of Congress) Comrades carried Dart to a divisional hospital at the Rowe House on Sophia Street. The scene there stunned the 14th Connecticut regimental chaplain. "On the northern porch lay, among others, our Dart, his face torn off as though slashed away with a cleaver," Henry Stevens recalled, "and by his side lay Symonds, his eyes swollen with inflammation to the size of eggs, the sand grains showing through the tightly stretched and shining lids." On the day after Christmas, Dart was admitted to Stanton General Hospital in Washington, one of dozens of military hospitals in the capital. A doctor considered his chances of recovery slim — "wounded in battle," one wrote, "probably mortally." When his older brother George, a farmer, visited Oliver at the hospital, he found the conditions deplorable. A circa-1866 image of Oliver Dart with a bushy beard and mustache. (Image courtesy of Dart descendant Frank Niederwerfer) After five weeks in the Washington hospital, Dart was mercifully discharged from the U.S. Army and sent home to South Windsor, Conn. Miraculously recovering, he underwent an operation on his face at the home of his older brother, James. Oliver — the youngest of the six children of Amanda and Oliver Dart Sr. — underwent a second procedure on his face at the home of his father in South Windsor. "George Dart and his wife were almost constantly with their injured brother," a post-war account noted, "and gave him every care and attention." For three months in the summer of 1863, Oliver also spent time at a soldier's home in Hartford, where he received sustenance from a special cup because of his terrible face wound. In June 1863, Oliver filed for divorce from his second wife, Maria, claiming "a total neglect of all duties of marriage" Nearly three years later, the divorce was granted. Maria was the sister of John Symonds, the soldier who had suffered a wound next to Oliver at Fredericksburg. In December 1863, Dart filed for a government pension; the application was approved, and he initially received $8 a month. In 1869, Oliver married his third wife, Aurelia Barber, with whom he had his only three children. In an attempt to cover up his grievous war wounds, he grew a bushy beard and mustache. "In time he recovered," the post-war account noted, "though the wound was always visible and in later years his mind was somewhat affected, undoubtedly due to the shock and the suffering that ensued from the injury." Life remained an almost constant struggle for the Civil War veteran, and in the summer of 1879, consumption struck down Dart. Only 40 years old, he died on Aug. 11. He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Vernon, Conn., next to first wife Emily, who died in 1860, and Aurelia. Have something to add (or correct) in this post? E-mail me here. SOURCES: Dart family history Oliver Dart pension file, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. Page, Charles Davis, History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Meriden, Conn.: The Horton Printing Co., 1906. Stevens, H.S. Souvenir of Excursion to Battlefields by the Society of the Fourteenth Connecticut Regiment and Reunion at Antietam, September 1891, With History and Reminiscences of Battles and Campaigns of the Regiment on the Fields Revisited, Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers Printers, 1893. The Boys from Rockville, Civil War Narratives of Sgt. Benjamin Hirst, Co. D, 14th Connecticut Volunteers, edited, with commentary, by Robert L, Bee, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tenn., 1998.

Life magazine Illustrated by George Woodbridge February 1961

Photos show bloody bodies strewn across the ground and left to rot after battles against the Union fighters. One moving image shows a dead Confederate soldier lying next the grave of a federal soldier.