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Original Civil War photographs. CivilWarPhotos.net - StumbleUpon. REVISITING THE HAUNTED HISTORY OF GETTYSBURG. AMERICAN GHOSTS | October 17th 2008 Gettysburg was the blood-drenched turning point of the American civil war. And as soon as it was over, another battle began--over how it would be remembered and mythologised. Stephen Budiansky keeps going back to the battlefield... From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008 America's restless reinvention, even more than its newness, leaves little room for ghosts.

Appomattox Introduction. He surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ended the Civil War. Civil War Letters Collection. Home » Civil War Letters Collection Tis hard to see the mighty prancing war horse, trampling the dying and dead beneath their merciless feet.

Civil War Letters Collection

No dear wife, near to speak a word of comfort. No living sister or Mother to administer relief in that hour the most sad in the history of humanity. O the humanity. National Museum of Civil War Medicine. Welcome To JohnBellHood.org. The Confederate In The Field. The American Civil War Home Page.