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Thursday, September 26, 2013

North and South joined hands for Chickamauga monument project

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(Civil War Picket photos) This time, it's built to last. After years of slowly fading away at Chickamauga & Chattanooga Nat...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Chickamauga canister tree conveys horror

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"Bullets, fragments of shell, grape and canister sing over and around, louder than songs of Southern katydids ... canister are cuttin...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

1890s infographic mapped entire war

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The "History of the Civil War in the United States, 1860-1865" was published by The Comparative Synoptical Chart Company back in 1...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Veterinary care during the Civil War: Quacks and a few good men (part 2)

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Edwin Forbes sketch of a "played-out mule" (Library of Congress) Overworked. Underfed. Bad shoes. Unclean. Those attribute...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Horses and mules: These valuable weapons of the Civil War were considered expendable. At least one million died

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Union Lt. Col. Orson Hart at Brandy Station (LOC) You may recall a particularly harrowing scene in “Gone With the Wind.” Rhett, Scarlet...
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