Month: October 2011
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Short Takes
They still probably won’t take your Confederate money, but Richmond seems to be on the rise again, this time as “Startup South” and perhaps the next silicon valley. In hearing from dozens of Richmond startups, two institutions stick out as important nodes in the local innovation system. The first is Virginia Commonwealth University. As Richard […]
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Civil War Book Review: The Battle of New Market Heights: Freedom Will Be Theirs by the Sword
Editor’s Note: This book review first appeared last Thursday at The Siege of Petersburg Online. Price, James S.. The Battle of New Market Heights: Freedom Will Be Theirs by the Sword (The History Press, 2011). 128 pages, photos, maps, notes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-1-60949-038-6 $19.99 (Paperback). When asked to name the most important fight in which […]
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Lincoln’s Bullet, Sickles’ Leg
And many other “morbid” things, are going to a new home. The $12 million relocation established a permanent home for an institution that has had 10 addresses since 1862. That’s when Surgeon General William Hammond directed medical officers in the field to collect “specimens of morbid anatomy” for study at the newly founded museum along […]
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Civil War Book Review: Harvest of Barren Regrets: The Army Career of Frederick William Benteen, 1834-1898
Harvest of Barren Regrets: The Army Career of Frederick William Benteen, 1834-1898 by Charles K. Mills, Introduction by James Donovan Product Details Paperback: 440 pages Publisher: Bison Books (October 1, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0803236840 ISBN-13: 978-0803236844 In 1861, as America stumbled into a civil war, a 27 year-old sign painter broke with his family […]
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Review: An Iowa Soldier Writes Home
An Iowa Soldier Writes Home: The Civil War Letters of Union Private Daniel J. Parvin Edited by: Phillip A. Hubbart Carolina Academic Press 2011 Paper 196 pages $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-978-7 • LCCN 2011002478 Phillip Hubbart, a retired Florida appellate judge, transcribed 117 letters of his great-great-grandfather Daniel J. Parvin, an infantryman who fought with the […]
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Are We In Rebellion Yet?
Anyone looking for a laugh today (or an example of hyperbole) should check Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s pronouncements today—that the Republicans are “in rebellion” for not supporting President Obama’s jobs bill, just like the Confederacy. President Obama tends to idealize — and rightfully so — Abraham Lincoln, who looked at states in rebellion and he […]
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October 2011 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! October 2011 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My “to read” list DAKOTA DAWN: The Decisive First Week of the Sioux Uprising, August 1862 by Gregory Michno is about one of the few true Civil War and Indian War incidents. The Notorious “Bull” Nelson Murdered Civil War General by Donald A. Clark […]