Friday, April 19, 2024

Civil War: Black Sharecropper Finds Buried Treasure

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Many a Southerner family buried their jewels, silver, and gold coins in the ground. Some Confederate soldiers  died in battle, never to retu...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Returning Defeated Soldiers

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Mary Ann Harris Gay describes the family reunion with her returning Confederate soldier brother: "As we stood upon the plat...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Epidemics, Pandemics, Infectious Diseases of the American Civil War

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The deadliest thing that faced the Civil War were infectious diseases. For every soldier who died in battle, two died of  disease .    Durin...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Slaves Find a Pot of Gold - Civil War Stories

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The following is an Excerpt from the book " Unvanquished: How Confederate Women Survived the Civil War " by Pippa Pralen A Pot...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Thanksgiving Food for the Civil War Soldier

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From Civil War diaries we know what the troops ate on Holidays.  Food was scarce, especially for Confederate soldiers, but for holidays, var...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Slaves Who Stayed - Loyalty of Slaves Civil War

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Many slaves were loyal to their masters, having known no other life.  Slaves  heard descriptions of " savage Yankees"  from their ...

Painting Reflected the Last Days of the Confederacy

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In the last days of the Confederacy art reflected the lives of southerners, and the changing times.  This painting is entitled  The Burial o...