Dec 30, 2023 · Note that The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference tables "Selected Sickness and Mortality Statistics in the Union and Confederate Armies," while listing itch, nostalgia, inflammation of the brain, inflammation of membranes of the brain, gonorrhea, syphilis, scurvy, and insanity, do not list suicide. Other accounts indicate 13 ...

Jul 29, 2013 · I visited ZERO Civil War battlefields and sites in 2024, despite my interest being at a high level. I cherish the many such visits that I made in the past, but with my age in the late 70's and excessive tiredness due to cancer, I am lucky now to make it to family vacations each year (at which the family members' interests are Not history).

Mar 3, 2024 · For Civil War relics, I recently lost an auction for an excavated CSA wishbone buckle by just a few cents. Now I'm eyeing a French Revolution saber and 1810 pattern shako plate for my Napoleonic French collection, and I'm praying they don't go before I've got the funds to pick them up haha

May 5, 2019 · Thank you that sounds correct. In addition to living with terrible physical disabilities that society could understand and accept, PTSD was unknown and not understood. The Civil War casualty count should probably be doubled in my opinion taking this into account. Imagine just the deafness from being around artillery without ear protection.

Aug 13, 2023 · His bio: American polymath and acclaimed neo-Victorian Civil War scholar Lochlainn Seabrook, a descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens, John S. Mosby, Edmund W. Rucker, and William Giles Harding, is widely considered the most prolific and respected traditional Southern writer in the world today.

Dec 11, 2013 · SO funny- I was looking for documentation on this tradition linked to the Civil War- just posted this yesterday and keep getting brought back to CWT. The Andersonville Pickle An alternate theory regarding the history of Christmas pickles attributes the custom to Civil War solider John Lower.

Nov 18, 2024 · All arguments are over Slavery. Not the reason the North didn’t let the South go to begin with. Nations use their Military as an instrument for commerce. We have continuous done it. Civil War was no different. Other States would have chosen new alliances. What Lincoln feared. Yankeedom North East Business interests were Not going to let that ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The American Civil War, arguably the most traumatic event in the history of the United States, was fought from 1861 to 1865, and was the culmination of sectional issues which deeply divided the country between a pro-Federal government North and a pro-states rights, in the pro-slavery South, whose eleven states formed a breakaway government ...

Aug 22, 2024 · Your conclusion is based purely on assumptions. IMO, the South faced and even greater possibility of spiraling into another civil war. 1. 2/3rds of the population would soon be slave. 2. There were many areas of the south that supported the Union. (look up …

Feb 5, 2017 · From The National Museum of Civil War Medicine ** Odd because I was thinking about “water dressings” recently and this popped up. They were used in WW1 to great effect but were also difficult to manage in the field hospitals of the time then. They saved many a limb then during that time -...