Posts Tagged ‘the american civil war’
Glorieta Pass Battlefield Landmark
Posted: January 31, 2018 in Civil War SitesTags: civil war history, civil war landmarks, civl war sites, confederate, glorieta pass battlefield, new mexico, the american civil war, the civil war, union
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Texas State History Museum
Posted: January 23, 2018 in Civil War MuseumsTags: civil war museums, confederate, texas state history museum, the american civil war, the civil war, union
Civil War displays in the Texas State History Museum
Abraham Lincoln
Posted: December 27, 2017 in Civil War QuotesTags: abraham lincoln, Civil War Quotes, confederate, emancipation proclamation, the american civil war, the civil war, union
“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free…”
From the Emancipation Proclamation, January 1st, 1863
Abraham Lincoln
(Photo Credit: Library of Congress)
Mary Chestnut
Posted: December 4, 2017 in Civil War QuotesTags: Civil War Quotes, confederate, the american civil war, the civil war, union
“Richmond has fallen-and I have no heart to write about it…they are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-Black is our horizon.”
Mary Chestnut
(Credit: https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/mary-boykin-chesnut)
U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis
Posted: November 29, 2017 in Civil War QuotesTags: Civil War Quotes, jefferson davis, the american civil war, the civil war
“Though the defense of African slavery (thus it is commonly called) is left to the South, the North are jointly benefited by it. Deduct from their trade and manufacturers all which is dependent upon the products of slave labor, their prosperity would fade.”
Jefferson Davis
(Photo Credit: Library of Congress)
The Civil War Book 