Month: November 2013
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Chickasaw Bayou – A Retrospective (1)
Introduction As the 150th anniversary of the 1862 battles of the Civil War passes into history there are some that have received little or no attention. In my recent reading of Edwin C. Bearrs three volume history of the Vicksburg Campaign I found just such an example in the fight for Chickasaw Bayou. The excellent […]
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ADAH Digital Collections On Line
Rob Wynstra sends along a tip that the Alabama Department of Archives and History now has a lot of its collections available on the web, including quite a lot of Civil War info. This includes period photos and textual materials, and is well worth a look. The Confederate soldiers section, for example, has a wealth […]