From "The Civil War In North Carolina: Visit Our Historic Sites" brochure.
ORIGIN OF THE NAME TAR HEELS
Many of you know that one of the nicknames of North Carolina is Tar Heel. Hey even the main state school, the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, is nicknamed the "Tar Heels."
But, where did the name come from?
Next Blog for Answer. --Old Tarsesh
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The Civil War Comes to the Kansas City Area
From the Visit KC 2011 Magazine.
When you think of Kansas City, most don't think of the Civil War, but this article says otherwise.
In observance of the 150th anniversary of the war, several observances are planned, plus several museums harken to it. You can take Civil War driving tours through several battlefields, including the largest one fought west of the Mississippi River where 12,000 Confederates battled in October 1864 into what became known as the Battle of Westport, also known as the Gettysburg of the West.
This site is also one of the most popular KC area, home to lively bars, shops and restaurants. This 32-mile-tour takes visitors through Westport, the historic Country Club Plaza and finally to Loose Memorial Park where much of the battle took place. There is also a Battle of Westport Visitor Center and Museum.
Jackson County has the Lone Jack Battlefield Museum and Soldier's Cemetery, one of the few battlefields where soldiers who died there are buried.
Back in September 2011, the Battle of Lexington was re-enacted in Lexington, Missouri. There was also a Battle of Blue Mills Landing (also known as the Battle of Liberty).
There were about 1,000 skirmishes and battles fought in Missouri, making it the third most fought state behind Virginia and Tennessee.
I Sure Didn't Know This. --Old Secesh
When you think of Kansas City, most don't think of the Civil War, but this article says otherwise.
In observance of the 150th anniversary of the war, several observances are planned, plus several museums harken to it. You can take Civil War driving tours through several battlefields, including the largest one fought west of the Mississippi River where 12,000 Confederates battled in October 1864 into what became known as the Battle of Westport, also known as the Gettysburg of the West.
This site is also one of the most popular KC area, home to lively bars, shops and restaurants. This 32-mile-tour takes visitors through Westport, the historic Country Club Plaza and finally to Loose Memorial Park where much of the battle took place. There is also a Battle of Westport Visitor Center and Museum.
Jackson County has the Lone Jack Battlefield Museum and Soldier's Cemetery, one of the few battlefields where soldiers who died there are buried.
Back in September 2011, the Battle of Lexington was re-enacted in Lexington, Missouri. There was also a Battle of Blue Mills Landing (also known as the Battle of Liberty).
There were about 1,000 skirmishes and battles fought in Missouri, making it the third most fought state behind Virginia and Tennessee.
I Sure Didn't Know This. --Old Secesh
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Fifty Ways the Civil War Changed American Life-- Part 3
CULTURAL LEGACY
The war influenced our holidays and play.
16. Juneteenth holiday
17. Memorial Day
18. Thomas Nast popularized our image of Santa Claus
19. Some 65,000 books have been written about the war
20. Films such as Gone With the Wind, Glory, Cold Mountain
21. More than 70 National Park Service Civil War Sites (not to mention all the state ones)
22. Centennial toys: Civil War Trading Cards and blue and gray toy soldiers (Oh Yeah!!)
And It Had a Little Bit of an Impact on Me. --Old B-R'er
The war influenced our holidays and play.
16. Juneteenth holiday
17. Memorial Day
18. Thomas Nast popularized our image of Santa Claus
19. Some 65,000 books have been written about the war
20. Films such as Gone With the Wind, Glory, Cold Mountain
21. More than 70 National Park Service Civil War Sites (not to mention all the state ones)
22. Centennial toys: Civil War Trading Cards and blue and gray toy soldiers (Oh Yeah!!)
And It Had a Little Bit of an Impact on Me. --Old B-R'er
Fifty Ways the Civil War Changed American Life-- Part 2
From the June 2011 AARP Magazine. Continued from June 23rd.
MEDICAL ADVANCES
The Civil War set the stage for modern medicine (and prices?) as it provided thousands of poorly-trained physicians a vast training ground.
11. Modern hospital organization
12. Embalming techniques
13. Safer surgical techniques
14. Improved anesthesia
15. Organized ambulance and nurses' corps
And That's Just Biting the Bullet. --Old B-Runner
MEDICAL ADVANCES
The Civil War set the stage for modern medicine (and prices?) as it provided thousands of poorly-trained physicians a vast training ground.
11. Modern hospital organization
12. Embalming techniques
13. Safer surgical techniques
14. Improved anesthesia
15. Organized ambulance and nurses' corps
And That's Just Biting the Bullet. --Old B-Runner
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Fifty Ways the Civil War Changed American Life-- Part 1
From theJune 2011 AARP Bulletin (Yea, I'm That Old.) by Betsy Towner.
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT
No other conflict has so profoundly changed our society:
1. 13th Amendment: slavery banned
2. 14th Amendment: citizenship for all born in the US
3. 15th Amendment: Voting rights for all male citizens regardless of race
4. Women's rights gains momentum
5. 1862 Homestead Act passed
6.. Censorship of battlefield photos
7. Reconstruction laws passed
8. Ku Klux Klan organized
9. Jim Crow laws passed
10. Federal law trumps states' rights
Forty More to Come. gets You to Thinking. --Old B-Runner
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT
No other conflict has so profoundly changed our society:
1. 13th Amendment: slavery banned
2. 14th Amendment: citizenship for all born in the US
3. 15th Amendment: Voting rights for all male citizens regardless of race
4. Women's rights gains momentum
5. 1862 Homestead Act passed
6.. Censorship of battlefield photos
7. Reconstruction laws passed
8. Ku Klux Klan organized
9. Jim Crow laws passed
10. Federal law trumps states' rights
Forty More to Come. gets You to Thinking. --Old B-Runner
Friday, April 29, 2011
Getting Ready to Get My Civil War On
In just a few hours, Liz and I leave for Springfield, Illinois, for the 2011 Illinois Division Conference of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. That's right, Confederates in Lincoln's home town.
From Dwight to Springfield, we'll be on Route 66, another big interest of mine.
While in Springfield, I will begin compiling a list of Civil War sites along Route 66 for a possible Route 66 Association of Illinois Motor Tour in the future. After all, it is the Sesquicentennial of the war.
Two that I know of right now are Camp Butler and the GAR Museum.
These sites will be in addition to the Lincoln ones that everyone knows about.
Route 66 and the Civil War. --RoadDog
From Dwight to Springfield, we'll be on Route 66, another big interest of mine.
While in Springfield, I will begin compiling a list of Civil War sites along Route 66 for a possible Route 66 Association of Illinois Motor Tour in the future. After all, it is the Sesquicentennial of the war.
Two that I know of right now are Camp Butler and the GAR Museum.
These sites will be in addition to the Lincoln ones that everyone knows about.
Route 66 and the Civil War. --RoadDog
Friday, December 31, 2010
My Introduction to the Civil War All Those Years Ago-- Part 2
Earlier this month, December 15th, I wrote about how Fort Fisher was the inspiration for my being such a Civil War nut. That is why this blog is so heavily into that fort and Wilmington during the war.
Just three years later, we entered the centennial of the war, and that became hook, line and sinker. I was hooked.
We still lived in North Carolina until sixth grade when we moved to Illinois. There was that great American Heritage Illustrated book with those neat maps with little soldiers all over them.
It wasn't too hard to use our Davey Crockett rifles in Civil War battles as firing them with the ramrod was till the way to do it.
Plus, I must have gotten at least three of those Blue and Gray toy soldiers sets. We had some great battles over Burnside Bridge. Of course, my brother and I always argued as to who would get the rebels. Being oldest, I usually got them.
What I Am So Civil Warred. --Old B-Runner
Just three years later, we entered the centennial of the war, and that became hook, line and sinker. I was hooked.
We still lived in North Carolina until sixth grade when we moved to Illinois. There was that great American Heritage Illustrated book with those neat maps with little soldiers all over them.
It wasn't too hard to use our Davey Crockett rifles in Civil War battles as firing them with the ramrod was till the way to do it.
Plus, I must have gotten at least three of those Blue and Gray toy soldiers sets. We had some great battles over Burnside Bridge. Of course, my brother and I always argued as to who would get the rebels. Being oldest, I usually got them.
What I Am So Civil Warred. --Old B-Runner
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
"Real Daughter" of the Confederacy Dies at Age 100
From the September 13th Daytona Beach (Fl) News-Journal.
Bushnell's Sadie Strickland died September 10th at age 100. She was a member of a prominent Flagler County family and was one of the 28 "Real Daughters" still living. With her death, Florida drops to 5 remaining and North Carolina has the most.
Her father, William Mitchell Stone, was 67 when Sadie was born October 27, 1909, in Pine Grove, Georgia. She remembers working behind him on the family's small farm.
She married Marcus Strickland while she was young and had her first child at age 15. She and her family moved from West Florida to Flagler County in 1927.
Her husband owned 30,000 acres and got wealthy harvesting turpentine to sell to the Army and Navy during World War II. They also had timber and cattle.
She donated land for numerous easements to widen US-1 and install telephone poles.
She was still young when her father was killed by poachers.
A Real real. --B-R'er
Bushnell's Sadie Strickland died September 10th at age 100. She was a member of a prominent Flagler County family and was one of the 28 "Real Daughters" still living. With her death, Florida drops to 5 remaining and North Carolina has the most.
Her father, William Mitchell Stone, was 67 when Sadie was born October 27, 1909, in Pine Grove, Georgia. She remembers working behind him on the family's small farm.
She married Marcus Strickland while she was young and had her first child at age 15. She and her family moved from West Florida to Flagler County in 1927.
Her husband owned 30,000 acres and got wealthy harvesting turpentine to sell to the Army and Navy during World War II. They also had timber and cattle.
She donated land for numerous easements to widen US-1 and install telephone poles.
She was still young when her father was killed by poachers.
A Real real. --B-R'er
Friday, October 8, 2010
One Really Fine Civil War Travel Blog
A big thanks to Civil War Interactive for tipping me off to one of the better Civil War travel blogs that I have read.
John Swansbury and three "conscripted friends are in the midst of a ten day trip across the US, visiting Civil War sites they find of interest from New Orleans to New York.
Some of their stops will be at Andersonville, the H.L. Hunley and Stone Mountain.
They are enlisting private tour guides at the battlefields which is probably the best, albeit expensive way to go.
You can view their progress at http://www.slate.com/id/2269604/entry/2269605/takingatrip
Well Worth a Look. --Old B-Runner
John Swansbury and three "conscripted friends are in the midst of a ten day trip across the US, visiting Civil War sites they find of interest from New Orleans to New York.
Some of their stops will be at Andersonville, the H.L. Hunley and Stone Mountain.
They are enlisting private tour guides at the battlefields which is probably the best, albeit expensive way to go.
You can view their progress at http://www.slate.com/id/2269604/entry/2269605/takingatrip
Well Worth a Look. --Old B-Runner
Thursday, July 29, 2010
How the North Won the Civil War
From the July 29th New Deal 2.0 Blog "How to Win Wars" by Wallace C. Turbeville.
During the Civil War, the Confederacy generally had the better military leaders (Bragg excluded) and Union soldiers had marginally better rifles, but these were not decisive.
The real advantage was the North's economy which produces overwhelming numbers of weapons. It's road and rail networks provided incomparable logistical capability.
Employment opportunities and prospects for freedom attracted hordes of emigrants and former slaves, swelling the Union Army ranks.
Northern shipyards provided the numbers of vessels needed to blockade the Southern ports and shoreline.
Grant and Sherman did not defeat the Confederate Armies with clever tactics, but rather headlong assaults, with no regard for casualties.
I definitely would have to agree with this short, but insightful list of reasons.
It Was the Economy, Stupid. --Old B-Runner
During the Civil War, the Confederacy generally had the better military leaders (Bragg excluded) and Union soldiers had marginally better rifles, but these were not decisive.
The real advantage was the North's economy which produces overwhelming numbers of weapons. It's road and rail networks provided incomparable logistical capability.
Employment opportunities and prospects for freedom attracted hordes of emigrants and former slaves, swelling the Union Army ranks.
Northern shipyards provided the numbers of vessels needed to blockade the Southern ports and shoreline.
Grant and Sherman did not defeat the Confederate Armies with clever tactics, but rather headlong assaults, with no regard for casualties.
I definitely would have to agree with this short, but insightful list of reasons.
It Was the Economy, Stupid. --Old B-Runner
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Seven Things Your Teacher Probably Didn't tell You About the Civil War
June 15th Mental Floss by Eric Johnson.
1. LINCOLN'S FIRST SOLUTION TO SLAVERY WAS A FIASCO-- he wanted to move them to Liberia in Africa.
2. HUNGRY LADIES EFFECTIVELY MUGGED JEFFERSON DAVIS-- In April 1863, women staged a protest in Richmond, Va., that became a mob and disorderly.
3. THE UNION USED HOT AIR BALLOONS AND SUBMARINES-- The Union Army Balloon Corps observed Confederate lines, and the north had a submarine called the Alligator that sank off Cape Hatteras.
4. "DIXIE" WAS ONLY A NORTHERN SONG-- Written by a northerner.
5. PAUL REVERE WAS AT GETTYSBURG-- Paul Revere's grandson, Paul Joseph Revere served as an officer and was mortally wounded July 3, 1863, at the battle.
6. MARK TWAIN FIRED ONE SHOT AND LEFT-- In his "Private History of a Campaign That Failed," he wrote of his short service in a Confederate militia unit. He soon left to head out west.
7. ARMIES WEREN'T ALL MALE-- hundreds of women served in the armies on boty sides, pulling a Mulan, assuming a male identity.
Stuff Most Folks Don't Know. --B-Runner
1. LINCOLN'S FIRST SOLUTION TO SLAVERY WAS A FIASCO-- he wanted to move them to Liberia in Africa.
2. HUNGRY LADIES EFFECTIVELY MUGGED JEFFERSON DAVIS-- In April 1863, women staged a protest in Richmond, Va., that became a mob and disorderly.
3. THE UNION USED HOT AIR BALLOONS AND SUBMARINES-- The Union Army Balloon Corps observed Confederate lines, and the north had a submarine called the Alligator that sank off Cape Hatteras.
4. "DIXIE" WAS ONLY A NORTHERN SONG-- Written by a northerner.
5. PAUL REVERE WAS AT GETTYSBURG-- Paul Revere's grandson, Paul Joseph Revere served as an officer and was mortally wounded July 3, 1863, at the battle.
6. MARK TWAIN FIRED ONE SHOT AND LEFT-- In his "Private History of a Campaign That Failed," he wrote of his short service in a Confederate militia unit. He soon left to head out west.
7. ARMIES WEREN'T ALL MALE-- hundreds of women served in the armies on boty sides, pulling a Mulan, assuming a male identity.
Stuff Most Folks Don't Know. --B-Runner
Thursday, June 4, 2009
So, What Do You Call the War?
A bunch of my friends in the SCV get all bent out of shape when I refer to the late unpleasantness as the Civil War. That is sure to bring about a quick rebuke.
In the Civil War Talk Forum, a great place for Civil War (excuse me) buffs to go, Scribe found a list of "Other Names for the Civil War (again, excuse me). He got it from the "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War" (excuse them), edited by Patricia L. Fans. He had some great comments. These are mine
1. THE WAR FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY-- Boring, just ask ant student studying state mandated US Consititution tests.
2. WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE-- If I had to pick another name besides you-know-what, this would be it.
3. SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION-- Didn't involve all of America
4. WAR FOR STATES' RIGHTS-- to an extent
5. MR. LINCOLN'S WAR-- Getting a bit personal now. The poor guy sort of inherited it.
6. THE SOUTHERN REBELLION-- Appropriate
7. WAR FOR SOUTHERN RIGHTS-- Repeat of #4
8. WAR OF THE SOUTHERN PLANTERS-- I once had Plantar's faschitis. That sure wasn't much fun.
9. WAR OF THE REBELLION-- Sure are a lot of books by that title in one series.
10. THE SECOND WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE-- A Possibility, but it failed.
Wait, There's 19 More. --Old B-Runner
In the Civil War Talk Forum, a great place for Civil War (excuse me) buffs to go, Scribe found a list of "Other Names for the Civil War (again, excuse me). He got it from the "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War" (excuse them), edited by Patricia L. Fans. He had some great comments. These are mine
1. THE WAR FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY-- Boring, just ask ant student studying state mandated US Consititution tests.
2. WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE-- If I had to pick another name besides you-know-what, this would be it.
3. SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION-- Didn't involve all of America
4. WAR FOR STATES' RIGHTS-- to an extent
5. MR. LINCOLN'S WAR-- Getting a bit personal now. The poor guy sort of inherited it.
6. THE SOUTHERN REBELLION-- Appropriate
7. WAR FOR SOUTHERN RIGHTS-- Repeat of #4
8. WAR OF THE SOUTHERN PLANTERS-- I once had Plantar's faschitis. That sure wasn't much fun.
9. WAR OF THE REBELLION-- Sure are a lot of books by that title in one series.
10. THE SECOND WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE-- A Possibility, but it failed.
Wait, There's 19 More. --Old B-Runner
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