I’m just an amateur when it comes to history, but I have a long-standing interest in the Civil War. In this blog I comment on daily events of interest 150 years after they happened. As much as possible, I’m providing quotes from and links to original accounts.
This is not a scholarly article, so I’m not attempting to footnote every statement. If I quote directly, I indicate it and provide the source. If I have relied on a particular source for information, I at least mention the source in the post.
Your site came to my attention from a Google Alert I have for the term “Antislavery”. Your blog is marvelous and I thought I’d introduce myself.
I am a singer and actress and have performed programs of 19th C popular songs for years. I’m especially concentrating on ante-bellum and Civil War material for the upcoming sesquicentennial.
Perhaps you’d be interested to know of my CD ‘Songs of the Abolitionists’. Details can be found at http://cdbaby.com/cd/deborahannegoss
Also, I am based in Boston but am open to travelling a bit as I’ve done over the years – often with my singing partner as ‘The Proper Ladies’, but with my solo programs as well. If you know of paid performance opportunities during events of the next 5 years I’d be happy to hear of them.
So glad to find your site. My very best to you.
I must say I am impressed with the work you have been doing with this blog, and that I have been reading it somewhat regularly now for several weeks. I would like to ask that you provide a link to my website listed above, as well as a link to the website for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (http://scdah.sc.gov/). Perhaps you could add the SCDAH website under your “Research Materials” section. The SCDAH has a blog as well (http://scdah.blogspot.com/), and I think we’ll have several posts in the coming weeks relating to key events in the secession crisis and on up to the firing on Fort Sumter (based off the items in our collection). Please add our blog as well as a link, if you don’t mind.
I will return the favor by placing a link to this blog on my TAH website and encourage some of our other key websites in the Palmetto State to take notice of your blog. Please also consider adding a link to South Carolina’s Sesquicentennial website (http://sc150civilwar.palmettohistory.org/).
I very much appreciate your work and hope you can continue it for many years to come.
Dn
I regularly cite your articles in my daily report from the Civil War done for my friends, as it helps broaden what I can show about the Civil War in the West. I appreciate your observations and point of view, along with the primary sources you cite. Thanks and keep it up!
Glad to hear you’re finding it useful. Living in the West as I do, I’m really enjoying finding out about all that was going on in my back yard.
Just wanted to say I’m enjoying this blog immensely. I love the sense of the personalities one gets from the primary sources you use.
I ran across your place in the course of my own daily sesquicentennial blog, Up and Down California, which follows the travels of the California Geological Survey from 1860 – 1864 (via the letters of Wiliam Brewer, field leader of the survey). It’s not a Civil War blog as such, but of course the war is never very far from Brewer’s mind–as, for example, in today’s entry, in which he goes to a picnic/rally of Breckinridge Democrats (CA’s gubernatorial elections were in September 1861).
Anyway, thanks for doing this, and keep up the good work!
Thanks, and I’ll add a link to your blog — war or no, it’s the same time.
As a Tennessean who will soon arrive in St. Louis to live there full-time, I am very glad to be kept up to date on the happenings 150 years ago in that Southern City by the River. It is very sad that so very few know of the history there or even the beautiful monument in Forest Park. Deo Vindice!
Great job! I’m also an amatuer, interested primarily in the service of my great-grandfather. His experience was a well-kept family secret as he was apparently disinherrited as a reward for his enlistment. I am also doing a day-by-day blog and trying to limit it to the experiences of the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.
I appreciate the ammount of work you are putting into this epic. Thank you.
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