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Naming Over 800 Union Soldiers Who Supported the Poor of Ireland

Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:

A previous post examined the large sums of money that were collected from Union military personnel in 1862 and 1863 for the relief of the poor in Ireland. Despite the horrors of the ongoing war, the potential crisis in Ireland saw Irish Relief Funds emerge across the war-stricken North. Thousands of men in uniform took the time to make a contribution to save the vulnerable across the Atlantic, despite the fact that they themselves faced a...

Map of Wounded Knee and Its Maker – Second Lieutenant Sydney Amos Cloman, 1st Infantry Regiment

Originally posted on Army at Wounded Knee:

As Major General Miles contemplated an investigation of Colonel Forsyth and the 7th Cavalry Regiment’s actions at Wounded Knee, he knew he needed a detailed map depicting the location of the troops, the Indian council and their village, and the surrounding terrain, particularly the ravine. Late on 2 January 1891 he ordered Major Samuel M. Whitside back to the scene of carnage along with an engineer. In a letter to his wife, Whitside described his tas...

The Family Life of Ulysses S. Grant

Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:

Ulysses S. Grant was unquestionably a great general. He was also a great family man.

Ulysses Grant, surrounded by his wife Julia, and his four children: Fred, Ulysses Jr. (Buck), Nellie and Jesse.

Ulysses Grant: The Poor Family Beginnings

Financially, Ulysses S. Grant was not born to poverty. It was the family dynamics that were decidedly peculiar.

His father, was a tanner of solid financial means, but he was a bombastic, opinionated man, considered...

Fiddler’s Green – Richard Fitzgerald

Originally posted on Regular Cavalry in the Civil War:

Richard Fitzgerald was born in County Waterford, Ireland in 1838. After immigrating to the United States, he worked as a fireman prior to serving in the army. He was enlisted into the General Mounted Service by Lieutenant Magruder in Baltimore, Maryland on January 20, 1859. His enlistment documents describe him as 5’ 10” tall, with brown hair, hazel eyes and a ruddy complexion.

At this period, the General Mounted Service meant assignment t...

Civil War Medicine – Advances and the Rise of the Amputee

Originally posted on Civil War History:

The Civil War saw a great number of casualties and as doctors struggled to keep up with the number of wounded soldiers they slowly learned better ways to deal with injuries from experience and need. The Civil War saw the beginnings of reconstructive and plastic surgery as well as advances in the treatment of chest wounds which became standard medical practice. Battlefield surgeons learned the hard way and many advances came out of the horrors of war.

Acc...

St Mary’s Well, Cefn Meiriadog, Denbighshire, Wales

Originally posted on The Journal of Antiquities:

Ffynnon Fair at Cefn, Denbighshire (Photo Credit: Wellhopper)

Os grid reference:SJ 0292 7107.Some 2 miles to the south-west of St Asaph and hidden-away ina wooded areanear Cefn Meiriadog –stands St Mary’s Well (Ffynnon Fair) and its associated chapel (now in ruins), once a much-visited Roman Catholic pilgrimage centre. The site isof interest because of its ornate well-basin, considered to be very similar in design and age to the well-chamber at...

John Adams and The Validation of America

Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:

John Adams. First Vice President. Second President. One of the giants of American history.

March 4, 1797 is one of those barely recognized dates – but it is a pivotal one.

The Lonely Inaugural of John Adams

Inaugurals today are times of celebration: parades, parties, balls. People come from all over the globe to attend. It is hard to believe that poor John Adams had very little personal support to celebrate with him on the day he rose to the highe...

The First & Most Crucial Step to OWNING NaNoWriMo

Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:

No Spawn left behind!

I love all of you, so it might be best to hear this from me. Sit down. We need to talk. Writers are….”different.” This might not be news to some of you, but I imagine others of you are in denial. I know I was for ages. We try SO HARD to be normal, but normal is just so, so, so…BORINGnormal.

Our “differentness” weirds normal people out, because they’ve been trained by TV what the writer’s life should look like.

Just like DNA analysis...

War Horse Part 3: The Assyrians

Originally posted on If It Happened Yesterday, It's History:

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(A war horse being ridden by a cavalry archer, most likely to be an Assyrian warrior king.)

Legend states that the Assyrians were often, if not always, ruled bycruel kings. Their empire grew out of a state of unrest in Mesopotamia in around 2000 BC. In the tenth century BC, Assyria was a small kingdom that ruled over the flood plains of the Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia. A succession of tyrannical ruler, who often led their ar...

1864 September 24: Atlanta Occupied — “There was something soul-stirring in that one long, loud shout of victory”

Originally posted on The Civil War and Northwest Wisconsin:

The following letter describes the Union entry into Atlanta and what they found. It appeared in the September 24, 1864, issue of The Prescott Journal.

The 22nd Wisconsin Infantry included men from northwest Wisconsin, primarily in Company C but also scattered in other companies. Unfortunately, we do not know who the letter-writer “Fair Play,” was. General Joseph Hooker’s XX Corps, which gets a paragraph here, included the 3rd Wisconsi...