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Handwritten Account of Lincoln assassination donated to museum
A handwritten account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination is being given to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. The account of the 1865 shooting was penned by Ohio Congressman John R. Morris, who was inside Ford's Theatre when John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box and shot Lincoln as he was watching a play. The dramatic description was written by Morris 30 years later.
by cbs2chicago :: 2008-04-29 :: Abraham Lincoln

Religion in the Civil War - A new study by Bill Anderson
"Last night I slept very little... because I had great anxiety about the battle which the morning would bring with it. I prayed much of the night... Did he hear?' Wrote General Marsena Patrick on Sept. 19, 1862 in a Union Army camp near the Potomac River. To Bill Anderson they are the clearest path to understanding the Civil War soldier. "You like to work with the primary sources. ... The soldiers are writing privately - there was no censorship during the Civil War - and they are telling exactly how they feel." Over his career, Anderson has read over 25,000 letters, extracting material.
by ludingtondailynews :: 2008-04-29 :: Facts: Strange and Rare - American Civil War

High-tech equipment helps build Civil War cannons
The Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI) has worked with all types of manufacturers, but we never guessed we'd be helping build Civil War cannons. The Steen Cannon & Ordnance Works of Ashland is RCBI's most unusual client, leasing time on some of the world's most sophisticated manufacturing equipment to produce antique weapons. Steen's grandest task is a 30-pounder Parrott cannon, the largest fully functional Civil War reproduction cannon. The average price for iron cannons, including carriage, is $16,000-$18,000. Bronze versions are up to $45,000.
by herald-dispatch :: 2008-04-29 :: Weapons: Rifles, Muskets - Civil War

Lookout Mountain Battlefield expansion costs $4.8M
Wearing Union blue and leaning on a musket in the 3,000 acre Lookout Mountain Battlefield, Civil War Re-enactor Preston Brown said the government's $4.8M outlay to make the park bigger is fine with him. He switched from his Confederate gray for a demonstration at the dedication of a 382-acre park expansion. Standing near monuments dedicated to troops who fought in the 1863 "Battle Above the Clouds," Brown said that the added acreage to the mountaintop will keep getting more expensive than $12,600 an acre as time passes. "We need to preserve the history now. It will be gone if we wait too long."
by cnn :: 2008-04-29 :: Battlefields Today - American Civil War

Looting spurs U.S. to exhume Civil War-era bodies
Federal archaeologists have secretly dug up the remains of soldiers near a Civil War-era fort after tipped off about grave-looting. The exhumations removed 67 skeletons from the desert soil near Fort Craig. They also discovered empty graves and determined 20 had been looted. The government kept its exhumation of the unmarked cemetery near the historic New Mexico fort out of the public's eye to prevent more thefts. The probe began with a tip about amateur historian Dee Brecheisen who had displayed the mummified remains of a black soldier, draped in a Civil War-era uniform, in his house.
by chron :: 2008-04-14 :: Facts: Strange and Rare - American Civil War

Slavery by another name: The re-enslavement of black americans
In "Slavery By Another Name The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II" Douglas A. Blackmon eviscerates the basic assumption that slavery in America ended with the Civil War. He brings out shocking evidence that the practice remained well into the 20th century. And he is not referring to the virtual bondage of black sharecroppers not able to extricate themselves economically from farming. He describes free men forced into industrial servitude, bound by chains, faced with subhuman living conditions and subject to torture. The book reveals what has been a mostly unexplored aspect of American history.
by iht :: 2008-04-14 :: Slavery: American History - American Civil War

American history 1861-1865: U.S. Civil War was a conflict between the Abraham Lincoln led Union and 11 southern states that formed CSA - the Confederate States of America, led by Jefferson Davis. In the first year the Union got control of the border states and established a naval blockade as both sides raised large armies. In 1862 the bloody battles began. Robert E. Lee get a series of Confederate victories, but his best general, Stonewall Jackson, was killed at the Chancellorsville in May 1863. Lee's invasion of the North was repulsed at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. In July 1863 Ulysses Grant seized control of Mississippi by capturing Vicksburg, thus splitting the Confederacy. The war ended after the Confederacy collapsed following General Robert E. Lee's surrender at the Battle of Appomattox.

Also called: 'War of the Rebellion', 'War of Southern Independence', 'War of Northern Aggression' and 'War Between the States'.

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