#American Civil War

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Extremely awkward typo from this article about the 72nd Pennsylvania monument at Gettysburg.

[mimi-0007]

Photo is from the newspaper. I fixed it to be a little clearer. I hope it's ok.

Sylvester Magee (allegedly born May 29, 1841 – died October 15, 1971) received much publicity as the last living former American slave. He was accepted for treatment by the Mississippi Veterans Hospital as a veteran of the American Civil War. Very interesting story.

[kornwulf]

If you know me, you know one of my favorite things is low stakes historical mysteries. The one I'm currently enamoured with is this thing

It's referred to as the Bayou St. John Submarine. We know it was found by a dredge deepening Bayou St. John outside of New Orleans in 1878, and then dragged out of the water... And that's pretty much it. For about a century it was thought to be a different submarine named the Pioneer, which was a prototype for the infamous, ill fated Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley.

However, it's features do not square in the slightest with the surviving documentation we have on the Pioneer, which, when combined with period newspaper reports that the Pioneer was scrapped in 1868, means it's now widely held that it's an *entirely different* Confederate submarine *also* built in New Orleans during the civil war, which as far as anyone can find doesn't appear in the historical record anywhere prior to its (re?)discovery in 1878.

So what we're left with is an intriguing shipwreck, with absolutely no knowledge as to how, when, and why it was built, or by whom.

[daguerreotyping]

Carte de visite of a dashing young Union soldier with pomade in his hair and worry in his eyes, c. 1861-65

[clove-pinks]

I've had this sitting in my drafts for a few weeks, as I thought it might be poor taste to make a jokey poll about a second (third? fourth??) USAmerican civil war; but my curiosity will not be denied!

[dustzvacuumcleaner]

Why the New York Tribune for a morning tea that’s unhealthy lol

Keep doing illustrations for two days omg I made it

[charlesoberonn]

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[omgthatdress]

[vexwerewolf]

Wilmer McLean is one of the funniest and unluckiest historical figures to me because his house got fucked up by a cannonball during the first major battle of the American Civil War, and so he moved to a completely different city to be safe from the war, but 4 years later, the very last battle of the war occurred in and his house was commandeered by the Union army as a place that Lee could formally surrender, after which the army just stole all his shit.

"The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor."

[anim-ttrpgs]

History (Optional) Skill from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy.

Optional Skills always have to be +1 or more. If the investigator doesn't have the optional Skill, but tries to do something that would require it, then they use the most relevant Skill that they do have, but with a -3 penalty to it.

[allysah]

the old gorilla president and his most trusted incompetent puppy advisor

-general george b mcclellan

[eleanorcrane]

my love for you is deathless

[dustzvacuumcleaner]

New York Whigs

Seward and Weed and Greeley back in 1838

They got a Brutus!Greeley/Caesar!Seward for the election of 1860 so I drew heheh

Then a non-relevant Vidal Lincoln scene bc I dunno when to post this fheidhwhcgd