Dec 30, 2023 · Note that The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference tables "Selected Sickness and Mortality Statistics in the Union and Confederate Armies," while listing itch, nostalgia, inflammation of the brain, inflammation of membranes of the brain, gonorrhea, syphilis, scurvy, and insanity, do not list suicide. Other accounts indicate 13 ...

May 5, 2019 · Thank you that sounds correct. In addition to living with terrible physical disabilities that society could understand and accept, PTSD was unknown and not understood. The Civil War casualty count should probably be doubled in my opinion taking this into account. Imagine just the deafness from being around artillery without ear protection.

Jul 29, 2013 · I visited ZERO Civil War battlefields and sites in 2024, despite my interest being at a high level. I cherish the many such visits that I made in the past, but with my age in the late 70's and excessive tiredness due to cancer, I am lucky now to make it to family vacations each year (at which the family members' interests are Not history).

Mar 3, 2024 · For Civil War relics, I recently lost an auction for an excavated CSA wishbone buckle by just a few cents. Now I'm eyeing a French Revolution saber and 1810 pattern shako plate for my Napoleonic French collection, and I'm praying they don't go before I've got the funds to pick them up haha

Aug 13, 2023 · His bio: American polymath and acclaimed neo-Victorian Civil War scholar Lochlainn Seabrook, a descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens, John S. Mosby, Edmund W. Rucker, and William Giles Harding, is widely considered the most prolific and respected traditional Southern writer in the world today.

Jan 22, 2025 · The American Civil War. The American Civil War, arguably the most traumatic event in the history of the United States, was fought from 1861 to 1865, and was the culmination of sectional issues which deeply divided the country between a pro-Federal government North and a pro-states rights, in the pro-slavery South, whose eleven states formed a ...

Aug 25, 2012 · I have researched Michigan Civil War era newspapers and in most cases beer seemed associated with the local "Germans'. However it is probable that many others drank beer as well. I understand Birch beer is made from black Birch trees but have never tied it. I assume it has a peppermint type taste.

Jan 29, 2024 · As far as Lee was concerned, he was most at ease with the crop of officers that he relied on throughout much of the war, and in particular Longstreet. Despite the post-war animosity directed against Longstreet, he and Lee generally worked well …

May 5, 2012 · From Kautz´s "Customs of Service for NCOs and Soldiers": 114. Orderlies are soldiers selected on account of their intelligence, experience, and soldierly bearing, to attend on generals, commanding officers, officers of the day, and staff officers, to carry orders, mess &c.

Sep 10, 2024 · Newbie here so Hello to all in this community. This is an ambrotype photo which was taken circa 1860-1865 which was acquired uncased from Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It appears to be a Civil War era crossdressing female who is wearing some type of buttoned double-breasted clothing along with what...