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  2. Foreign Observers | Civil War Potpourri - American Civil War...

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    I believe Wolseley traveled with London Illustrated News artist-correspondent Frank Vizetelly who likely introduced him to various personages and places while also making drawings and sketches that were subsequently published back in England. The time-lines of the two men seem to correspond, to judge by the illustrations.

  3. Hospital Steward Henry T. Bahnson of the 2nd North Carolina...

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    In 1895, he also wrote a letter to the Raleigh News and Observer describing a flag raising ceremony at Carlisle Barracks on June 28, 1863. Charles F. Bahnson to Dear Father, July 15, 1863, in Sarah Bahnson Chapman, Bright and Gloomy Days: The Civil War Correspondence of Charles Frederic Bahnson, a Moravian Confederate (Knoxville: University of ...

  4. Rainbow Heralds Good News to Defeated Federals on July 1

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    A rainbow is caused by light reflected/refracted by water droplets, with the sun to the observer's back at a low angle in the sky. Hence at the time, a scattered rain shower should have been found over Culp's Hill. We have confirmation of this fact from a post-war account, "The Farmer's Son," appearing in Battleground Adventures, by Clifton ...

  5. Dig continues at site of 19th-century Fayetteville Arsenal

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    The Fayetteville Observer reports the dig that began July 24th resumes Monday and continues through Friday. So far, they've found items such as a ceramic shard of a smoking pipe, melted glass, nails and screws, along with brick, mortar, sandstone and slate.

  6. Today's News: September 28, 1861 – Important from the Head of the...

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    The following dispatch, by the Balize Telegraph Line, from Fort Jackson to Major General Twiggs, was received yesterday : Fort Jackson, Sept. 2-0, 1861. Major General D. E. Twiggs: Mr. Fulda, the telegraphic operator at the head of the Passes, arrived here this morning from that point. He...

  7. Today's News: September 30, 1861 – The Mountains for the Union

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    A friend of ours who has just returned from a business trip through the counties of Mercer, Boyle, Lincoln, Pulaski and Wayne, brings the most cheering news. The Union cause is flourishing every-where. Even the Secessionists have declared for the The Union and have taken up arms against the Tennessee invaders.

  8. Knowledge of the Naval War | Naval War - American Civil War...

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    Charleston, S.C.: News and Courier Book Presses, 1882. 180 pp. de Kay, James Tertius. Monitor: The Story of the Revolutionary Ship and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History. New York: Walker & Company, 1997. 247 pp. de Kay, James Tertius. Rebel Raiders, The: The Astonishing History of the Confederacy's Secret Navy. New York ...

  9. Confederate Diaries from the Gettysburg Campaign | Gettysburg

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    33 VA/H, 2nd Lieutenant George D. Buswell. (The Painful News I Have to Write, Letters and Diaries of Four Hite Brothers of Page County in the Service of the Confederacy, comp. and ed. by Harlan R. Jessep, Baltimore: Butternut & Blue, 1998) Steuart’s Brigade 1 MD BN/A, Sergeant J. William Thomas.

  10. Today's News: September 16, 1861 – Big “Dan” - civilwartalk.com

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    The Daily Manchester American, Manchester, NH The big black dog, familiarly known as "Dan,'' owned by Frank B. Hutchinson, has been admitted to the Fourth Regiment, and will prove a valuable and efficient soldier. Should he be promoted to Corporal he will bear his honors nobly. He goes with the...

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    Camp of 9th Maine Infantry on Morris Island, South Carolina, September 7, 1863. Photographer: Jacob R. Foster (1834-1925)