2023年12月30日 · 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 ...

2019年5月5日 · 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.

2024年3月3日 · 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

2023年8月13日 · 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.

2012年8月25日 · I have researched Michigan Civil War era newspapers and in most cases beer seemed associated with the local "Germans'. However it is probable that many others drank beer as well. I understand Birch beer is made from black Birch trees but have never tied it. I assume it has a peppermint type taste.

little direct patient care. Throughout the Civil War, most nurses in the Confederate hospitals were hired slaves, free blacks, or convalescent soldiers. Matrons were almost always white women. 5 Previous Historiography Several important works examine Civil War hospitals and their personnel.

2025年1月5日 · War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.” -Conversations with General Grant. Reactions: Grant's Tomb , Gavrilo Sartorys , wausaubob and 2 others

2012年5月5日 · From Kautz´s "Customs of Service for NCOs and Soldiers": 114. Orderlies are soldiers selected on account of their intelligence, experience, and soldierly bearing, to attend on generals, commanding officers, officers of the day, and staff officers, to carry orders, mess &c.

2005年8月17日 · The heavy work of the war is over, and we have now to secure the fruits of the past labors, dangers, and sacrifices by a few months more of service, and then it is believed the regular forces will be equal to any remaining task, and you …

2024年9月10日 · Newbie here so Hello to all in this community. This is an ambrotype photo which was taken circa 1860-1865 which was acquired uncased from Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It appears to be a Civil War era crossdressing female who is wearing some type of buttoned double-breasted clothing along with what...