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A Blog Remembering the Men and Women of the American Civil War, North & South, people, faces, and a unique culture we will never see again. Photos and stories about the people that lived it, including African American Photographs, Pre-Civil War history & the period in cultural history that began just after the Civil War. The historical info, photos and documents on this blog reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. This blog does not endorse the views expressed in some posts, which may contain materials offensive to some readers. You cannot compare the beliefs, values, politics, ethical values of today to the people of the 1800's.

Every effort is taken to remember the men and women of the Union and Confederacy equally with dignity and respect. The men and women who's photos are posted on this blog have living relatives today, please respect the families and their memory~

The events of the war, and the men of the war, are fast fading from the public attention. Its history is growing to be an “Old, Old Story.” Public interest is weakening day by day. The memory of march, and camp, and battle-field, of the long and manly endurance, of the superb and uncomplaining courage, of the mass of sacrifice that redeemed the Nation, is fast dying out. Those who rejoice in the liberty and peace secured by the soldier’s suffering and privation, accept the benefits, but deny or forget the benefactor-1877 National Tribune

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“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted."― D.H. Lawrence

Civil War Diary-Recounts the Murder of President Lincoln

 Excellent diary written by the father of Annie Bell, famous Civil War nurse who cared for wounded Union soldiers at the battle of Nashville and other famous Civil War battles. Her father, who was a minister, writes the following important passages in his 1865 diary. 

“Pres’t Lincoln having been shot last night in the back of the head… Left home this evening for Harrisburg to attend the Funeral obsequies of Pres’t Lincoln… He looks Natural…”  ”Have reason Great reason to thank God who has given us the victory over those traitors who would destroy us if they could as a nation, hope and pray that it may prove not only a victory but a braking up of the whole rebel army & restoration of peace.”

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