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.
I once tried to retrace Henry David Thoreau's footsteps around New England and found myself spending a lot of time contemplating parking lots and 200,000-square-foot discount stores. Even recent history in America has a way of feeling not just long ago but far away, as if it took place somewhere else entirely. But I've been to a couple of places where the past was suddenly near, hauntingly palpable. The only other places where I've ever felt something similar in America haven't even had the eerie benefit of solitude or a romantic air of abandonment going for them. Others are just odd. 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. The nation’s return to peace marked the opening of an age that would raise the United States to new and undreamed of heights in wealth, productivity, and world influence. But few could sense that promising destiny then as Union and Confederate forces laid down their arms for good after four years of bloodshed.
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. 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. O the horrors of war. Truly it may be considered the most cruel and awful scourge which can befall a nation. A selection of original Civil War correspondence between soldiers from the battlefields and their family members and friends on the homefront.
"The battle has been raging all day in the distance and I am unable to ascertain whether any thing has been gained or not. The letters and original writings have been transcribed as written, with no attempt to change spelling. About the Database Selection, research and descriptive metadata for the Civil War Letters Collection was done by Sheri Boggs, Kristin Kinsey and Rose McLendon in 2006. National Museum of Civil War Medicine. Welcome To JohnBellHood.org. The Confederate In The Field. The American Civil War Home Page.