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Showing posts with label Confederate soldiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confederate soldiers. Show all posts
Thursday, January 16, 2014

The Missouri Civil War on classic television

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While searching through old movies on YouTube the other day, I saw the name of a familiar battle of the Missouri Civil War. Decision at W...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: Private Simeon J. Crews, 7th Texas Cavalry

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This fearsome fellow is Private Simeon J. Crews of Co. F, 7th Texas Cavalry Regiment. He's carrying a revolver and a cavalry saber th...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: John Wilson Vermillion, CSA

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This is John Wilson Vermillion of Virginia, long thought to be Texas Jack Vermillion, a supporter of Wyatt Earp during the Tombstone fight...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

When you take away a cavalryman's horse, he ain't happy

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In a previous post I talked about the 30th Arkansas Infantry , a Confederate unit. That name is a bit misleading because the regiment actu...
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Friday, August 9, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: Colonel Robert A. Hart, CSA

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This dapper gentleman is Colonel Robert A. Hart. He was born in Ireland and immigrated to Arkansas before the war. On August 1, 1862, Ha...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: Unidentified Confederate soldier from the 11th Virginia

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I love these old portraits. Most of the ones I've featured here have names. This one, however, has been lost to history. From the unif...
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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Speculating on Confederate land

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As I mentioned in my post about the Baldknobbers vigilante group in the Ozarks, when Confederate veterans returned home, many found their l...
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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Flintlocks in the American Civil War

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This is a sketch of a flintlock musket, the height of weapons technology in the late 18th century. When the trigger was pulled, the lock s...
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Friday, March 22, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: All Quiet on the Potomac

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OK, so it's an engraving and not a photo. Sue me. I like the image, though. It's an illustration from a book of war lyrics, this o...
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Friday, February 1, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: Taking the Oath of Loyalty

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This week's image shows a group of Confederate prisoners taking the Loyalty Oath in 1864. This was an option given to most rebel priso...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

"Cut your hair, soldier!"

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I'm reading The Civil War on the Border by Wiley Britton, a 1000-page magnum opus on the Trans-Mississippi Theater written by a Unio...
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Friday, January 4, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: William T. Biedler, 16 years old

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This young rebel is William T. Biedler, who had his picture taken at just sixteen years of age. He was in Company C of Mosby's Virgini...
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