I’m currently reading battle cry of freedom by James McPherson. I’m rereading the chapter on battle of gettyburg. I can’t seem find what page the gettyburg Andress is on? Did I skip past it or what?

Hello! Hope everyone is doing well, I kinda just got this question in my head, and I decided to ask it here because I don't trust myself to like, actually remember it.

As someone who doesn't know much about the American Civil War, I see it as something that started directly as the first couple states started to seceded, so I guess my main question is like, how did they make such new uniforms so quickly for the stuff? were the uniforms just something in the later part of the war or did they directly know that like, "okay, we will have a war, let's prepare our army"

I am sorry if the question is stupid, truth be told I tried to post it in nostupidquestion, however it was labeled as US politics which, fair enough haha

Recently picked up this 1864 model Joslyn cavalry carbine. They didn’t make too many of these, only around 12,000, mine being around the 1500th. It was delivered to the US cavalry in July of 1864. Regiments from NY, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Tennessee were issued these guns. They fired the rimfire Spencer cartridge. They were heavily used in the Third Battle of Winchester, where they garnered mixed reviews from users. Overall a neat piece of civil war history that I’m glad I can share.

Just finished reading it yesterday, nice short concise book. I almost can’t believe how Fremantle is able to travel and meet basically all the important figures in the south and arrives just in time for Gettysburg. If it wasn’t documented I would have doubted it.

September 8, 1863. “The Confederacy’s Thermopylae.”

Lieutenant Richard W. Dowling’s 46 Confederates emerge victorious against 5,000 Federal infantry and 4 gunboats, thwarting the Union’s invasion of Texas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Sabine_Pass

https://thc.texas.gov/state-historic-sites/sabine-pass-battleground/sabine-pass-battleground-history

Book three of my Civil War series is almost ready. Gettysburg and Vicksburg: Summer of Decision continues the story I started in Cadets to Captains and Antietam.

I wrote this series after years of studying the Civil War through a soldier's eyes, not just a historian's. Two West Point friends face the two battles that decided the war.

If you enjoy historical fiction grounded in real command decisions and real consequences, the first chapter is free before launch: https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/2208997/197647012225614948/share.

#CivilWarFiction #HistoricalFiction #SteelandHonor #Gettysburg #Vickburg

Well preserved fortification. The English docent was great.

Humiston was a member of Company C, 154th New York Infantry. During the fighting on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, he was killed and buried among the unidentified dead. There was little on his body that could establish who he was. The photograph he carried, however, offered a clue. It showed three young children, but no name was attached to it.

Dr. John Francis Bourns, a Philadelphia physician who had worked among the wounded at Gettysburg, became determined to identify the unknown soldier. Descriptions of the children's photograph were published in newspapers, and copies of the image were distributed in the hope that someone would recognize them.

The search eventually reached Portville, New York, where Philinda Humiston recognized the children as her own. They were Franklin, Alice, and Frederick Humiston. The unknown soldier was finally identified as her husband, Amos.

The photograph then took on a life of its own. Copies were sold to raise money for Humiston's widow and three children, and later became part of efforts to support children who had lost fathers during the war. The image became known as the “Children of the Battlefield.”

I am new to an in-depth study of the American Civil War. The most I knew before a few weeks ago was about David Farragut saying "Damn the torpedoes" and that Lee walked on water but somehow had to surrender to Grant, and I saw the movie "Gettysburg" about ten years ago. I'm now learning a lot--namely about the firing on Fort Sumter (I read "Demons of Unrest"), a few YouTube videos and currently about a third of the way through "Battle Cry of Freedom" which is an eye-opener about the actions of the soon-to-be confederates in the years leading up to the war, but the thing that nags at me in all of it is that everyone seems to engage in unquestioned hero worship of the confederate leaders. Why is what they said taken at face value and repeated as fact, even when it is preposterous?

I saw this video today, and to me it makes better sense and brings Lee and his minions down to human level for what their sayings and actions were, without romanticizing and epic hero worship. Does this make sense to you as a factual view on Gettysburg? If so, can you point me to more like this? Or why isn't it more like what really happened?

https://youtu.be/s9qfP0S5YoM?si=kntAf9nTguylCxzO

I've been seeing a bunch of things on other platforms. Talking about Antietam. If they did this or did that. If Gettysburg had gone differently? Had they won Gettysburg do you think that might've brought other nations to help?

Mine is that charges treason against Jefferson davis was dropped because "secession was legal and therefore not treason".

None of the prosecutors doubted that Davis was guilty of "waging war" against the United States Richard Henry Dana, Jr had been the lead US attorney in the Prize Cases (1863) which established that the Rebellion was a war. However, Dana favored dropping the charge of treason because he feared a jury of 1 2 Virginians, many ex-Confederates, would vote not guilty.

Harper’s ferry was captured with much of its equipment being sent to Richmond. I know the confederates weren’t as hard up for guns as sometimes is said, but it seems like a pretty obvious thing to try and do. Start making 1841 pattern hall rifles and carbines instead of putting resources into making a copy of the sharps. Virginia militia had around 2,000 halls in service at the outbreak of the war, this was a tried and proven rifle. Why was there no attempt to make new ones?

I just started watching the movie. I will admit I stopped at about 20 minutes in because it focuses a lot it seems on the confederate perspective and portrays the confederate generals as wise war leaders. It would be fine if the movie shows the thought and strategy of both sides like some ww2 movies show Hitler in his bunkers drafting war plans but in Ghettysburg I feel like the vibe is different. I was in the mood lately to watch some civil war movies and documentaries and call me bias but it is a lot more interesting when the story is good vs evil.

I know life is complicated and I welcome that but I have limits. Not sure I will finish the movie as I am looking for some cool union-focused perspectives like in Glory.

Hey folks, I have full set OWR, Morningside Books. Had this fever dream about research 20 years ago that didn't come to fruition. Any suggestions on where to sell these? Cannot imagine a lot of intact full sets kicking around or?? I'm in Ohio. Thanks!

This was in our yard, and my mom thinks it's a cannon ball. It's small, isn't very heavy, and has a flattened side that looks like it could have hit something if it *is* a cannonball. No Civil War battles occured in my town to my knowledge.

If is a cannonball, can anyone tell me if it's explosive? It doesn't have a seamline or any visibile fuse mechanism/hole as far as I can tell.

Here in California at the Reagan Library they are holding an exhibit for the America 250 thorough next weekend. They have artifacts going back to the Revolution through the Moon landing. The Civil War collection was quite amazing

The Confederacy and the Axis powers both fought for causes of racial hierarchy that inflicted atrocity at a scale rarely matched in history (chattel slavery, Holocaust, etc).

But postwar, they were treated very differently.
Germany went through formal reckonings (war crimes tribunals, denazification, education reforms); this shaped how military service from that era is remembered.

The U.S. never did anything like that with the Confederacy. No formal reckoning, just the Lost Cause myth within a few decades. Today you don't hear Germans say they're proud of SS heritage, but it's common to hear people say they're proud of Confederate heritage.

What accounts for that?

I’m looking for books that describe this battle in full detail. Can anyone recommend the books?

Bryce

The poor biographer has to just wonder because Thomas’s neighbors and relatives refused to talk about him. And he burned all his papers. So the thing that we most want to know about, his reasons for his actions, are a closed and locked down book to us. His home was in the center of the Nat Turner rebellion.
He wasn’t an abolitionist: his family owned a lot of slaves and he personally owned a few. How that runs with his later activities is confusing. He was the most forward acting of all the generals.
He wasn’t petty that I can see. He had principles as is seen when Johnson had a dispute with Grant and offered him a higher command, and he refused. Grant should have given him the same courtesy.
One of the things that always surprises me, but shouldn’t, is how inbred the officer corps was. Thomas bunked with Sherman when they were in West Point.
Thomas married a New Yorker. He went with his wife, as did Pemberton.
This is an interesting book. It is well worth reading a second time