Some New News About an Old War.
1. YOUNGEST ILLINOIS SOLDIER-- In The January 22nd Bloomington (Il) Pantagraph's "How Time Flies" column, it reported that 100 years earlier, Joseph Ingram of Colfax had died January 22, 1908, and that he was believed to have been Illinois' youngest soldier.
2. DEAD CONFEDERATE BAND-- I have been coming across this name a lot in my searches, and, yesterday, I got the chance to hear them for the first time. I just might have to go out and buy their new album Wrecking Ball based on some of their songs and especially one called "The Rat." They hail from Athens, Georgia, as did REM and the B-52s, and remind me a lot of Nirvana. The lead singer with his hair hanging down in front of his face even reminds me of Curt Cobain.
They were on the Conan OBryan show and you can check them out on youtube.
3. MOST AMAZING PHOTOS-- The November 12th blog entry on STL Essays was a subjective look at the "Most Amazing Surviving Photographs from the American Civil War." The author gave a history of it and you could click to see the photo.
Top three were
#3-- Confederate dead at Antietam
#2-- US Grant after Cold Harbor
#1-- Confederate troops on the march in Frederick, Maryland, 1862.
You can view them all at http://stlessays.blogspot.com
Now, You Know. --B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
