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Gettysburg Magazine Subscription Drive: Win Three Free Days in Gettysburg!

Brett Schulte — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:00:08 +0000

Gettysburg Magazine Publisher Andy Turner pointed me in the direction of a fantastic new plan to raise 1,000 new subscriptions to Gettysburg Magazine by December 31, 2011. Best of all, if you help, you’ll be eligible to win some fantastic prizes!

Since Gettysburg Magazine relies on subscribers and does not contain ads, I commend Andy’s efforts to keep that the case for the foreseeable future. If you are interested in the Civil War and Gettysburg, I can tell you from first hand experience that Gettysburg Magazine offers some of the best new scholarship on the battle and campaign anywhere. Many professional historians as well as extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable amateurs have graced its pages. Detailed tactical discussions with amazing maps are the norm. Please read all about the offer below and head on to the Subscription Drive page to lend your support to this worthy cause.

Here are the details in full:

The Gettysburg Magazine Subscription Drive

Now through the end of the year we are having a subscription drive at The Gettysburg Magazine. For the past 22 years, The Gettysburg Magazine has brought its readers the best in scholarship on the Gettysburg Campaign. We have always done this without accepting paid advertising. For the magazine to be able to continue, we need to keep growing.

That’s where you can help, and win a great prize in the process. We are working to add new subscribers. From now until December 31, 2011, every time a person gets a new subscription, their name will be entered in our Subscription Drive Drawing. For those of you who are already subscribers, you can join in too. If you know anyone who would be interested in the magazine, let them know about us and encourage them to subscribe. If you refer them and they subscribe, you’ll get your name entered in the drawing as well. Another way to get entered is to purchase a gift subscription for someone. They make great donations to your local high school or library. This will get your name entered as well.

As you can see, there are several ways to get entered in our drawing. You can get your name in there more than once, and that can lead to gifts for you as well. If you bring in five new subscriptions through a new subscription, gift subscriptions, or referrals that subscribe, you get your choice of one of the following:

any six back issues of the magazine (not including out of print issues)

E. P. Alexander, Military Memoirs of a Confederate (hardcover)

Confederate Ordnance Manual (hardcover)

John N. Opie, A Rebel Cavalryman with Lee, Stuart, and Jackson (hardcover)

Capt. Charles A. Stevens, Berdan’s United States Sharpshooters (hardcover)

Glenn Tucker, High Tide at Gettysburg (hardcover)

John M. Vanderslice, Gettysburg Then And Now (hardcover)

Our goal in the drive is to get 1,000 new subscriptions by December 31st. With the great number of people interested in the Civil War in general and Gettysburg in particular (3 million people visit Gettysburg every year), this should be easy. So spread the word. Tell everyone you know. Tell all your Facebook friends about it and tell them to visit the Gettysburg Magazine Facebook page. With a little bit of word of mouth, with a touch of technology thrown in, we can spread the word about this quality magazine and ensure its continued publication for many years to come.

Now for what you’ve been waiting for: the prizes. The first week of January we’ll be drawing ten names from the entries. If we reach our goal of 1,000 new subscriptions, we will give out the following prizes:

4th through 10th names drawn: Each person gets a $50 gift certificate to Gatehouse Press, publisher of The Gettysburg Magazine. You can use this on Gettysburg Magazine purchases, Morningside book purchases, Civil War books by other publishers, used and rare books, and more. See our website www.gatehousepress.net for all that’s available.

3rd name drawn: This person will receive a $125 gift certificate to Gatehouse Press.

2nd name drawn: This person will receive a $250 gift certificate to Gatehouse Press

1st name drawn: The first name drawn will receive the Grand Prize: a three day stay in Gettysburg for two. The prize includes a two night stay in the Historic Gettysburg Hotel on the square plus $200 cash to be used as you wish. The dates of the stay are subject to availability at the hotel.

By receiving, giving, or recommending the best material being published on the Gettysburg Campaign, you can experience all Gettysburg has to offer for yourself. If you’ve never been to Gettysburg you have to go. If you’ve been there before, you want to go back.

If we should fall short of our goal of 1,000 new subscribers by December 31st, we will still draw ten names with the prizes being gift certificates to Gatehouse Press as follows: 1st: $250 gift certificate, 2nd: $125 gift certificate, 3rd $75 gift certificate, 4th through 10th: $30 gift certificate.

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Citadel Cadets Fire on Star of the West

Fred Ray — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:46:48 +0000

Not really, although they did 150 years ago.

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Gray-clad cadets from South Carolina’s historic military college fired cannons Saturday on a barren, wind-swept island on Charleston Harbor to re-enact the 150th anniversary of a key episode leading up to the Civil War.

The event recalled what some consider the first shots of the war – the 1861 firing on the steamship Star of the West that was trying to reach Fort Sumter with supplies and 200 federal troops. Cadets manning a battery on Morris Island hit the ship and forced it to turn back.

Sumter was never resupplied and the Union garrison surrendered after a Confederate bombardment the following April, the episode considered by most the first engagement of the war.

They were not quite the first shots of the war. A few hours earlier the guards at the Pensacola Navy Yard had fired at “lurking figures” nearby. So far as we know, nobody was hit, but a round shot fired by the cadets did hit the Star of the West, causing it to turn back.

One of the cadets on the guns was a young man named Samuel Pickens, a nephew of the state’s governor. When the war began Pickens got a commission as a lieutenant in the Confederate regular army. Assigned to the Twelfth Alabama as adjutant, he eventually won election to major and eventually became colonel after the death of his predecessors.

As mentioned in the article, the flag of the Citadel has several battle streamers, which are awarded for participation in a battle or campaign. The Virginia Military Institute also has one for the battle of New Market.

There is one other college whose ROTC detachment has a battle streamer. Trivia points for identifying the school and the battle.

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My Whitworth Article in Civil War Times

Fred Ray — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 03:06:05 +0000

My article on Sir Joseph Whitworth is out in the new issue of Civil War Times. It’s a very much expanded version of a post I did a couple of years ago and delves more into the man’s prickly personality as well as his rifles and other accomplishments.

I mention but do not really get into labor (or labour, if you’re across the pond) conditions in the nineteenth century. I did mention them here in a review of Deborah Petite’s Women Will Howl where I looked a the preference for more easily exploited free labor over slaves.

Slavery was certainly evil but conditions for the working man, woman, and child were not exactly idyllic either. As I pointed out in the above review, child labor was common. The Daily Mail has a review of Childhood And Child Labour In The British Industrial Revolution, by Professor Jane Humphries. It makes for harrowing reading.

The tunnel was narrow, and a mere 16in high in places. The workers could barely kneel in it, let alone stand. Thick,choking coal dust filled their lungs as they crawled through the darkness, their knees scraping on the rough surface and their muscles contracting with pain.

A single ‘hurrier’ pulled the heavy cart of coal, weighing as much as 500lb, attached by a chain to a belt worn around the waist, while one or more ‘thrusters’ pushed from behind. Acrid water dripped from the tunnel ceiling, soaking their ragged clothes.

Many would die from lung cancer and other diseases before they reached 25. For, shockingly, these human beasts of burden were children, some only five years old.

It only gets worse from there. Clearly the Industrial Revolution, which enriched all of mankind, had a price, and Charles Dickens didn’t tell the half of it.

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Complete Online Index of Civil War Times (Illustrated)

Brett Schulte — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:00:29 +0000

I learned this morning via a tweet from Andrew Ferguson that a complete index of Civil War Times, something I had slowly been working on with little progress, is now online! I’m a little busy today, but I plan to spend some time with this over the next few weeks. It appears to be an incredible resource for researchers and should save me some serious time when looking for Petersburg Campaign articles for Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online.

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Buy Some Civil War Magazines For a Good Cause

Brett Schulte — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:00:56 +0000

I recently received an email from Anita Collins, whose daughter is in a New Jersey Girl Scout Troup. The girls received a large collection of Civil War magazines that they had planned to donate to a local nursing home, but the nursing home already had plenty of magazines. At that point, Anita contacted TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog asking how best to sell these items. The girls plan to use the money raised to visit a historical site, a very worthy cause. Luckily for you, I asked Anita to give TOCWOC readers first shot at purchasing the magazines. Anita’s email and magazine listings follow. If you’re interested in purchasing one, some, or even all of these, leave a comment below and I’ll get you into contact with her.

Dear Brett,

Thank you for this opportunity to connect with TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog.

Two Girl Scout Cadettes in NJ are trying to achieve their Silver Award (similar to steps toward a Boy Scout Eagle Award). Their community service project is to help improve the lives of residents in a Morris County nursing home.

A local history teacher donated his collection of civil war magazines to the girls, but the nursing home said they have enough magazines. The girls decided to use this opportunity to raise money for the troop to go on a historic site field trip by selling the magazines to Civil War history enthusiasts.

Can TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers help?

The magazines are in excellent condition and were well cared for. If there was a page crease noticed, we said the condition was very good.

Attached are the list of magazines we have for sale including Blue and Gray, America’s Civil War, and Civil War Times Illustrated.

Thanks for your help!

Anita

Click more to see the full list. Indicate your interest in the comments. First come, first served! Let’s help these Girl Scouts learn more about our nation’s history!

Blue & Gray Magazine

Note: Excellent condition = like new with clean smooth pages; Very Good = a few page creases

Vol. Issue Date Cond. Headlines

IV 4 3/87 EX Special Issue, Johnson’s Island Prison

IV 5 5/87 EX Stonewall Strikes at Pope’s Flank, The Battle of Chantilly

IV 6 7/87 EX The Great Locomotive Chase

VI 2 12/88 VG Morgan’s Last Raid

VI 3 2/89 EX The Battle of Stones River

VI 5 6/89 EX Atlanta Campaign, The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Actions from 6/10-7/9/1864

VII 6 8/90 VG The Sultana Disaster

VIII 1 10/90 VG Battle of Brandy Station

VIII 2 12/90 EX Rebels Raid Vermont, Urgent! Brandy Station Bulletin

VIII 4 4/91 EX Tenting Tonight On the Old Campground, The General’s Tour

VIII 5 6/91 EX Missouri! One Last Time, Bloody Bill Anderson

VIII 6 8/91 EX Was It a Massacre in Southwest Virginia? E.P. Alexander and his Rebel Aircraft Carrier

IX 2 12/91 EX The Civil War Years at West Point

IX 3 2/92 EX Forts Henry & Donelson, 7^th New Jersey – Winter Camp Wedding

IX 4 4/92 EX Hold Five Forks At All Hazards!

IX 6 8/92 EX Special Issue – The Second Battle of Manassas

IX 4 4/92 EX Hold Five Forks At All Hazards!

X 1 10/92 EX Blue & Gray Begins Its 10^th Year!, The Deception of Braxton Bragg

X 3 2/93 EX South Mountain Cavalry Clash, The Battle of Mill Springs

X 4 4/93 EX North Anna Battlefield Now Open to the Public, Lee vs. Grant on the North Anna

X 5 6/93 EX Special Horse Soldier Issue, Grierson’s Raid

X 6 8/93 EX Rich Mountain Saved!, Northwestern Virginia Campaign 1861, True Story of TAPS

XI 2 12/93 EX Special Issue, Nashville!, Behind the Scenes at Gettysburg

XI 3 2/94 EX Battle of Port Gibson, Grant’s Beachhead for the Vicksburg Campaign

XI 4 4/94 EX Special Issue, Grant & Lee, 1864, Brandy Station

XI 5 6/94 EX Disney’s America Is It a Preservation Battle?, The New Mexico Campaign 1862

XII 1 10/94 EX Arnold vs. Arnold, Escape from Hell! Gen. John Hunt Morgan

XII 2 12/94 VG Total War in Georgia, Campaign for Wilmington and Fort Fisher

XII 3 2/95 EX Special Issue, Gettysburg, John Buford at Gettysburg

XII 4 4/95 EX Grant vs. Lee, No Turning Back! The First Day of the Wilderness

XII 6 8/95 EX What Lee Saw at Gettysburg, Sultana Disaster, Vicksburg Campaign

XIII 1 10/95 EX The Demise of Fletcher Webster, Massacre in the West Woods

XIII 2 12/95 EX Holiday Book Buyers Extended Edition, Bentonville! Last Stand in the Carolinas

XIII 5 6/96 EX Butterfield’s Twins at Little Round Top, Grant’s March

XIII 6 8/96 EX Lost Victories, On the Road to Atlanta, Hood’s Texas Brigade in the Maryland Campaign

XIV 1 10/96 EX Special Issue, Wilson’s Creek, Gen. Beverly Robertson at Brandy Station

XIV 2 12/96 EX Special Issue, Wilson’s Creek, Gen. Beverly Robertson at Brandy Station

XIV 3 2/97 EX Special Holiday Book Buyers Edition, New York City during the Civil War

XIV 4 6/97 EX Special Anniversary Issue, Shiloh -The 2^nd Day!

XIV 5 6/97 EX Gettysburg, More Gary Kross’ Vignettes

XIV 6 8/97 VG Cape Fear, Commando Operations in No. Carolina

XV 1 10/97 VG Haunted Places of the Civil War, Things That Go Bump in the Night

XV 2 12/97 EX Holiday Book Buyers Edition, Winchester, Virginia in the Civil War

XV 4 4/98 EX Morgan’s Luck Runs Out in Ohio, Special Presentation Alert – Battle at Buffington Island

XV 5 6/98 EX More Gettysburg Vignettes, Retreat From Sickles’ Front

XV 6 8/98 EX Stuart’s Ride Around McClellan, Robin P. Roth Memoriam

XV 3 2/99 EX Fire on the Mountain! Georgia Brigade at Crampton’s Gap

XVI 2 12/98 EX Special Artillery Issue! Artillery Hell! The Guns of Antietem

XVI 1 10/98 EX Baptism of Fire at Sheperdstown!, The Battle of Averasboro, first-ever thorough treatment

XVI 4 4/99 EX Special Issue! The Battle of New Market

XVI 5 6/99 EX Pickett’s Charge! Gettysburg Vignettes

XVI 6 8/99 VG Brice’s Cross Roads, Forrest Puts the Skeer on the Yankees

XVI 3 2/99 EX Yankee Debacle at Charleston!, The Battle of Secessionville

XVII 1 10/99 EX Surrender in No. Carolina

XVII 2 12/99 EX McClellan’s Last Stand

XVII 3 2/00 EX Interview with Ed Bearss, Porter in North Missouri, The Palmyra Massacre!

XVII 4 4/00 EX Mosby & Bearss This is One Special Issue!, Mosby’s Confederacy

XVII 5 6/00 EX Gettysburg: The 1^st Day

XVII 6 8/00 VG Mosby Rides Again!, Mosby in the Shanandoah Valley

XVIII 1 10/00 EX Special Issue!, The Vicksburg Campaign, Grant Strikes Inland

XVIII 2 12/00 EX Battle Above the Clouds!, The Battle of Lookout Mountain

XVIII 3 2/01 EX Special Issue!, Lee & Grant-1865, Breakthrough at Petersburg!

XVIII 4 4/01 VG Retreat to Appomattox

XVIII 5 6/01 EX Special Issue!, The Vicksburg Campaign, Disaster at Champion Hill & Big Black Bridge!

XVIII 6 8/01 VG Upton’s Attack! Hand-to-Hand at Doles’ Salient!

XIX 1 10/01 EX The Gray Ghost Rides Again! To the End of the War with Mosby’s Rangers

XIX 2 12/01 VG XI Corps at Gettsburg, Gettysburg Vignettes #7

*****

America’s Civil War

Condition notes:

EX= like new condition

VG = clean smooth pages with subscriber’s address box cut from cover

GD = pages cut or bent

Date Cond. Cover Headline

1/2002 VG Irish Brigade, Holding the Line at Chancellorsville

3/2002 EX Firsthand Account, Black Troops: From Slaves to Soldiers

5/2002 VG Shiloh, Crucible of Fire in the Hornet’s Nest

7/2002 GD Gettysburg, Futile Federal Cavalry Charges on Day 3

9/2002 GD Second Bull Run, New York Zouaves in the ‘Vortex of Hell’

1/2001 EX Battle of Franklin, Hood’s Fateful Assault

5/2001 VG Appomatox, Lee’s Last Campaign

7/2001 VG Gettysburg Campaign, Eyewitness Accounts

9/2001 VG First Manassas, Confusion and Carnage on Henry Hill

11/2001 VG Fredericksburg, Lee’s Incomplete Triumph

1/2000 VG Front Royal, Stonewall’s Key to the Valley

3/2000 VG Valiant Charge Up Missionary Ridge

5/2000 VG Joe Johnston’s Failure to Save Vicksburg

7/2000 VG Point-Blank Regimental Duel at Gettysburg

9/2000 VG Lee’s Desperate Decisions in the Wilderness

11/2000 VG Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Controversial Capture of Fort Pillow

1/1999 VG Second Front at Chancellorsville

3/1999 VG Last Bloody Rite for Quantrill’s Raiders

5/1999 VG First Manassas, Wheat’s Tiger’s Hold the Line

7/1999 VG Rebel Night Attack on Cemetary Hill

9/1999 VG The Little Round Top Regiments

11/1999 VG Forrest’s Triumph at Thompson’s Station

1/1998 VG Custer at Hanover, J.E.B Stuart’s Nasty Surprise

3/1998 VG The Boy General of Spotsylvania

5/1998 EX J.E.B Stuart’s Gettysburg Campaign Raid

7/1998 VG 135^th Anniversary, Gettsburg

9/1998 VG Peachtree Creek, Desperate Assault to Save Atlanta

1/1997 VG Sheridan’s Fighting Retreat at Stones River

3/1997 VG John Taylor Wood, Rebel Naval Raider

5/1997 VG Last Rebel Stand at Petersburg

9/1997 VG 135^th Anniversary, Antietnam

11/1997 EX Stonewall Jackson & A.P.Hill, Confederates in Conflict

1/1996 VG Bloody Blunder at Pickett’s Mill

3/1996 VG Chancellorsville, The First Day

5/1996 VG Showdown at Shiloh

7/1996 GD English Diarist at Gettysburg

9/1996 VG Rebel Rout of Streight’s Raiders

11/1999 EX Opening Moves at Chickamauga

1/1995 VG Southern Stand in the Battle for Atlanta

3/1995 VG Fredericksburg: Union’s Brief Breakthrough

5/1995 VG Driving Dixie Down, The Fall of Richmond

9/1995 VG Irish Brigade’s Man of the Sword

11/1995 EX Fighting with Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee

3/1994 VG How Battle Hymn of the Republic Became a Weapon

9/1994 VG Lee’s Early Trial by Fire

11/1994 EX Forging a General: Grant’s Early War Days

1/1993 VG Battle of Galveston

3/1993 VG Big Bethel

5/1993 VG Union Feud

11/1993 EX Cleburne’s Rally

1/1992 VG Little Round Top

3/1992 VG Fremont’s Army

7/1992 VG Antietam Cornfield

9/1992 VG Yankee Rebels

11/1992 EX Ewell’s Assault

1/1991 VG Bloody Shiloh

3/1991 VG Shelby Foote Interview

5/1991 VG Rebel Raider, Battle of Winchester

9/1991 VG Andrew’s Raiders, Assault on Fort Wagner

11/1991 EX Kelly’s Ford, Confederate Torpedoes

11/1990 EX Bristoe Station, Union’s War Eagle

1/1989 VG Stonewall’s Lost Battle

3/1989 VG Sheridan’s Ride

7/1989 VG Shenandoah in Flames

9/1989 VG Sherman at Resaca

*****

Civil War Times Illustrated

Condition notes:

EX= excellent condition

VG = address label cut from cover

GD = other wear

FR = no cover

Date Cond. Headline story

Feb 1979 EX The Peninsula Campaign, Part I

May 1979 EX The Peninsula Campaign, Part III

Jul 1979 VG Confederate Generals, a view from below

Aug 1979 EX First Fair Chance

Jan 1980 EX The Petersburg Follies

Feb 1980 EX The War Album of Henry Dwight, Part I

Apr 1980 EX The War Album of Henry Dwight, Part II

Jun 1980 VG A Pack of Indians and Cowards

July 1980 VG First Manassas, a special issue

Aug 1980 VG The Prince and the Confederates

Feb 1981 VG The Battle of Batton Rouge

Apr 1981 VG Uncle Dan and Dixie

May 1981 VG Stonewall Jackson’s Wagonmaker

June 1981 EX Secession in the West

Dec 1981 EX Dissent: Fire in the Rear

Jan 1982 VG Pirates! Rebel sea raiders in Maine

May 1982 VG The children’s crusade

Mar 1982 VG Mobile surrenderers

April 1982 VG 20^th Anniversary Issue, special art & photo edition

June 1982 VG Yorktown’s second siege

Sep 1982 FR Inside a beleagured city

Oct 1982 FR War on the river

Nov 1982 VG Cavalry march by night

Dec 1982 VG Money, Money, Money

Jan 1983 VG March to the sea!

Feb 1983 GD Lincoln takes Norfolk

Mar 1983 VG The Other Civil War

Apr 1983 VG How men die in battle

Sep 1983 VG When I marched to Vicksburg

Nov 1983 VG Secret orders – murder the rebel president

Feb 1984 VG Lincoln, Anniversary of the birth of a president, 175 years

Mar 1984 VG Sonewall Jackson, the wrath of God

May 1984 GD Lust for love and battle

Jun 1984 GD Burn the town arson on order

Oct 1984 VG Outrage! Bigotry shames two nations

Mar 1985 EX Damn the Torpedoes! Infernal rebel machines

Apr 1985 VG Mutiny in the Union Army

Sep 1985 VG Ungodly ammo, the explosive bullet

Oct 1985 VG Unfit commander? Old Rosy’s war

Jan 1986 VG Death of a regiment

Oct 1986 VG Mourning at Chickamauga

Feb 1987 VG Plotting Mr. Lincoln’s Murder

Mar 1987 EX 25^th Anniversary Year. Is time travel for you?

Apr 1987 VG Antietem, special expanded issue, 125 years after the battle

May 1987 VG Send in the Marines

Oct 1988 EX Rebel Yell! The story of the South’s battle cry

Dec 1988 VG General Grant drunk on duty

Jan 1989 EX Could you survive in a civil war prison camp?

Feb 1989 EX Who can solve the mystery of the lost confederates?

Apr 1989 EX Who’s responsible for defeat? A rebel scapegoat’s story

May 1989 EX Soldiers face death on top of a cliff in Virginia

Summer 1989 VG General Sherman Takes Atlanta – A Special Issue

Sept/Oct 1990 VG Way out west: Indians kill rebels on a secret mission

Nov/Dec 1990 EX Do you have the nerve to buy a real civil war cannon?

Jan/Feb 1991 VG Yanks cheer Lincoln in Richmond

May/Jun 1991 VG Exclusive: historic photos seen here for the first time

Sept/Oct 1991 VG After Gettysburg, General Meade abused by critics

Nov/Dec 1991 FR How to capture a general

Mar/Apr 1991 VG Grant’s secret strategy

Jan/Feb 1992 VG Confederates rally again

May/Jun 1992 VG Bugler, sound the charge!

Sep/Oct 1992 VG Killing on Horsehoe Ridge

Nov/Dec 1992 EX Cannons Roar in Georgia, After the riots: troops run loose in New York City

Jan/Feb 1993 VG Rebels Attack Washington

May/Jun 1993 VG Bad Ben Butler the “Beast” of New Orleans

Jul/Aug 1993 VG Who died at Gettysburg leading the Civil War’s most famous charge? It wasn’t Pickett

Sep/Oct 1993 VG Rare Confederate battle report rediscovered

Nov/Dec 1993 EX Gettysburg, the giant battle becomes the giant movie

Jan/Feb 1993 VG Do you want to buy a battlefield? US History on the block

Mar/Apr 1993 VG Stonewall Jackson’s first great victory

May/Jun 1993 VG A bayonet charge saves an army, a medal of honor is lost and Southern women take up arms

Sep/Oct 1993 VG What if the South won the war

Dec 1994 EX In Big Trouble with the Boss, US Grant Refuses to Answer His Superior

Jan/Feb 1995 VG Mystery general, new light on the South’s shadowiest figure

Jun 1995 VG J.E.B. Stuart’s Revenge

Apr 1995 VG Faithful Friends, Army Dogs in the War

Oct 1995 EX Dixie in Flames, What Yankees Really Did to the South

Dec 1995 EX Collector’s Issue: Lincoln, President of a Broken Republic

Apr 1996 EX Generals who got their start in the Mexican War

May 1996 EX Exclusive! Lost photos of Antietem Hospital

Jun 1996 EX Custer, from class clown to battlefield hero

Aug 1996 EX Forrest, the devil hijacks a gunboat

Oct 1996 VG Flags of the Confederacy, Rebel stars and stripes

Dec 1996 EX New York’s Fighting Scotsmen, Yankees in Kilts

Feb 1997 VG Special Issue: Indians in Blue and Gray

May 1997 VG Heroism and death at the Battle of Corinth

Aug 1997 VG At the front without a gun, a Quaker tells his story

Oct 1997 VG Old men fight for Virginia at Cloyd’s Mountain

Dec 1997 EX Fredericksburg, the high price of valor

Feb 1998 VG The Other Stonewall

Mar 1998 VG No Mercy, Lincoln Condemns a Man to Die

May 1998 VG California Cavalry

Jun 1998 VG Lee in the Wilderness

Aug 1998 VG Gettysburg, who’s really to blame fro the rebel loss?

Oct 1998 VG The Wrath of Sherman

Nov 1998 VG Controversial Union Commander, Devil Dan Sickles

Dec 1998 EX The Fighting Irish Brigade

Feb 1999 VG Custer faces his first bullets at first Bull Run

Mar 1999 VG Chasing Lincoln’s Killer

Jun 1999 VG Escape from America’s Devil’s Island

Oct 1999 VG The Deadliest Weapons: You’d be Surprised What They Are

Dec 1999 VG Battlefield Debut, Forrest’s First Fight

Feb 2000 VG Rare prison artifact: secret newspaper

Mar 2000 VG Jefferson Davis and the Jews

May 2000 VG The End of the War

Jun 2000 VG The Union Regulars

Aug 2000 VG Patton’s Honor

Oct 2000 VG Praire Grove

Dec 2000 VG C.S.S. Alabama in Peril!

Mar 2001 VG Forgotten fighter, Lucius Polk

May 2001 VG Warrior president, Rutherford Hayes

Jun 2001 VG Did Booth work for the South?

Aug 2001 VG Stonewall’s Close Call

Oct 2001 VG Morgan’s Kentucky Feud

Dec 2001 VG The Grim Reaper

Feb 2002 GD When Lincoln lived by the sword

*****

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Short Takes

Fred Ray — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:09:56 +0000

I came across this representation of a target shot a 500 yards by a .577 Enfield and a .451 Whitworth, which shows pretty clearly why the Whitworth made a better sharpshooter’s rifle.

Source: W.W. Greener, The Gun and Its Development (1910)

Google Books now has Life magazine in their collection, and among the issues is a reunion of aged Confederate veterans in 1947, who got a considerably more respectful treatment than they’d get now.

Speaking of old Confederates, here’s a look at the survivors at the turn of the century, including “Old Pete” Longstreet (above), William Bate, Joe Wheeler, Dabney Maury, Fitz Lee, and many more.

UPDATE: Flags seem to be much in the news lately, the latest is supposed to be the “Big Red” flag of the Citadel cadets that flew over their battery as they fired at the Star of the West. Found in Iowa, of all places.

The red palmetto flag, a symbol of victory in that battle, became a powerful symbol for the state’s military college. The school adopted a replica of the red palmetto flag as its “spirit flag” in 1992 and called it “Big Red.” But nobody knew, until now, what happened to the original flag.

The school has found what almost certainly is the original, Civil War-era “Big Red” in a museum in Iowa. The flag was donated to the museum by a Civil War veteran from Iowa in 1919, and has been sitting in a storage closet for nearly a century.

The State Historical Society of Iowa, which owns the flag, and a history committee from The Citadel Alumni Association have determined through forensic and historical research that the flag in Iowa is very likely the one that flew on Morris Island on Jan. 9, 1861.

The Citadel battery fired four shots at the Star of the West, which was attempting to reinforce Fort Sumter. The second shot struck the boat, and although it did little damage convinced it to turn around. One of the cadets on #2 gun was young Sam Pickens, a cousin of the governor, who shortly afterward got a commission in the Confederate regular army. Second Lieutenant Pickens joined the Twelfth Alabama as adjutant, was elected major in the 1862 reorganization, and as the regiment’s leaders fell in battle ended up as colonel and commander the next year, becoming one of the war’s many “boy colonels.”

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