Civil War Markers

11/29/2017

Update:

Monocacy National Battlefield

The Battle that Saved Washington D.C.

http://Battles.civilwarmarkers.net/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=4830633

https://www.nps.gov/mono/index.htm

11/28/2017

Update:

Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park

Bristow, Virginia. Prince William County's newest Civil War Battlefield Park opened to the public in October 2007. The 127-acre park features interpretive signs, a pond and nearly three-miles of walking and equestrian trails through scenic woods, leading up to 203 mostly unmarked gravesites of Confederate soldiers.

http://Battles.civilwarmarkers.net/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=4830487

http://www.pwcgov.org/government/dept/publicworks/hp/pages/bristoe-station-battlefield.aspx

11/27/2017

Update:
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery in Frederick, Maryland.
275 identified soldiers lay beside 29 unknowns in Mount Olivet's famed “Confederate Row.”
http://Cemeteries.civilwarmarkers.info/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=4830433

10/05/2017

The Civil War in Washington, MO.

08/25/2016

Lebanon National Cemetery posted.

http://Cemeteries.civilwarmarkers.info/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=4773969

First established in 1862 as a cemetery for nearby Camp Crittenden, the Union supply depot in Lebanon, and the military hospitals in the area. It was designated a National Cemetery in 1867. Two donations of land in the 1980s expanded the cemetery to its current size.

08/25/2016

Perryville Battlefield posted.

http://Battles.civilwarmarkers.net/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=4773945

Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site is a 745-acre (3.01 km2) park near Perryville, Kentucky, in Boyle County, Kentucky.

08/24/2016

Knoxville National Cemetery posted.
http://Cemeteries.civilwarmarkers.info/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=4773915

Knoxville National Cemetery was established by Major General Ambrose Burnside, whose Union forces had liberated Knoxville in September 1863 at the height of the Civil War.

08/23/2016

Fort Dickerson & Knoxville posted.
http://Battles.civilwarmarkers.net/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=4773688

Fort Dickerson was built by the Federal army in 1863-64 across the Holston (now Tennessee) River from Knoxville. The forts along this ridge were constructed to prevent the Confederates from bombarding Knoxville to drive out the Federals. Confederate cavalry attempted an attack on 15 & 16 November 1863 but retreated when they decided they could not take the fort due to the steep terrain and strength of the defending troops.

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Fort Dickerson Civil War Fort
Knoxville Civil War Roundtable

07/22/2016

Read this in CivilWar Times. Think it applies to today's political battle.
Abraham Lincoln in an 1855 letter:

"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.” When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy." [sic]

Today I might substitute Muslims for Catholics.

03/30/2016

Some updates. Not all are associated with the Civil War.

Harris/Meriwether Counties
Civil War Naval Museum
http://www.civilwarmarkers.com/Civil%20War/updates.htm

10/26/2015

Was watching the Ken Burns film (again!) and was reminded of the Sullivan Ballou Letter. It is worth reading again. But as it is read during the film it is very poignant.
http://www.nps.gov/resources/story.htm?id=253
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNfBdzpG6L4

TheTruthIsFullOfLies, when you find the truth, you will also find a lot of lies. I am going to do this until you either wake up or I die a martyr. If you don...

12/29/2014

I was at the National Gallery and was fortunate to see this: Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial