#American Civil War

[jamescanningauthor]

The raid on St Albans, Vermont, in the American Civil War! It is my favorite fact to tell people about, and I have single-handedly gotten more people into this obscure historical incident than anyone else I can think of. I even told Brandon Fisichella about it this morning when I met him at Lex250, he was very nice :)

(okay no, but put in the tags something youre the unofficial influencer of. Like something youve purchased enough, used enough, bragged about and endorsed enough to others that you should be an influencer for)

[batboyblog]

work.

[dear-ao3]

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE UNION BOYS DOWN IN RICHMOND FOR THEIR VICTORY IN CRUSHING THOSE DAMN REBS. EQUALITY AND LIBERTY WILL ALWAYS REIGN TRUE!!!!

[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

[dustzvacuumcleaner]

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

Keep doing illustrations for two days omg I made it

[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!

[chaotic-archaeologist]

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

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[citizentaleo]

Draws I did years ago about Lincoln and Seward

[frogersonlydotcom]

“A muss at headquarters” (Colorized)

Falmouth, Virginia, April 1863

Taken by: Mathew Brady or an associate

[blondebrainpowered]

A WWII vet, WWI vet, Spanish American War vet, and American Civil War vet (1861-1945)

Top left to bottom right: Pearl Perry "Jack" Jackson (1923-1997), Hilyeard H. "Red" Young (1895-1965), Oscar P. Puth (1872-1961), Andrew Jackson Everist (1849-1945).

[ripstefano]

“Save the Colors!”

Men of the 5th New York (Zouaves) attempt to recover their colors at the Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), 1862. The Regiment would lose 332 out of the 525 men engaged, and would never serve in the battle line again. [Keith Rocco]

[angryrdpanda]

Whitfield Lovell's "Passages" exhibit, which just made its final tour stop in San Antonio, TX.

Deep River

Evokes Civil War-era Camp Contraband (Chattanooga, Tennessee), once the location of a vibrant community of more than 5,000 freedmen and escaped slaves whose labor created much of the city's infrastructure.

During the Civil War many runaway slaves made the dangerous journey across the Tennessee River to a Union Army site referred to as “Camp Contraband.” There they were given asylum and shielded from being captured or returned to their owners.

A spiral of 56 circular wooden foundry molds of various sizes bears the true-to-life portrait (1860s - 1950s) of an African American whose identity has been forgotten. In the center of the room, a large, fragrant mound of earth is strewn with personal effects suggestive of the artifacts carried and left behind by people inhabiting transitional, liminal spaces. Large video images of the Tennessee River cover the walls of the space.

“I see the so-called ‘anonymous’ people in these vintage photographs as being stand-ins for the ancestors I will never know. I see history as being very much alive. One day, 100 years from now, people will be talking about us as history. The way I think about time is very different – I don’t think it really was very long ago that these things happened, it wasn’t that long ago that my grandmother’s grandmother was a slave.”

Visitation: The Richmond Project

Pays tribute to the African American community of Jackson Ward (Richmond, Virginia). An exquisitely rendered mural-sized tableau suggests some of the individuals who inhabited this community. Boxes of Lincoln pennies on the floor reference Jackson Ward's St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, the 1st bank to be founded by an African American, and the 1st bank to be founded by a woman. The bank provided Black-owned businesses with an avenue to success, despite Richmond's oppressively discriminatory practices.

Entering the furnished parlor/dining room transports visitors back in time. Newspapers are stacked on a piano bench, a stack of letters waits to be opened, the table is set for supper, and a radio plays quiet, period music. Drawings of a smartly dressed man and woman on the walls of the room suggest the inhabitants of this intimate space. You feel as if you're in the presence of ghosts.

The Reds (2021–22)

Drawings of Black individuals rendered on vibrant red paper in black shadowboxes. They are presented alongside a red rotary telephone that allows visitors to listen to the Black National Anthem; composed in 1900, the hymn's lyrics speak to adversity, optimism, and triumphant resilience.

“The ancient Native American principles say it takes seven generations to overcome a tragedy, so in this context of generations we can begin to grasp why we are at this point we are living in now.”