Year: 2006
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Captain Morrison’s red day at Sharpsburg
In a December 1905 piece in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Senator John W. Daniel, introducing Emmett M. Morrison’s memoir of the Battle of Sharpsburg, wrote … In many a nook and cranny in Virginia, too, is a valiant leader of his neighbors, who commanded and guided them in the battle shock, and stepped behind the scenes…
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Merry Christmas via 1862
Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays! In my house that means Christmas and New Year’s. I wish you and your loved ones a joyous celebration in your traditions as well. St. Nicholas (Thomas Nast, c. 1880) Elements of the popular American Christmas celebration–trees, cards, Jolly Santa–are products of the 19th Century. Cut evergreen trees were popular…
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Instant digital history
This afternoon, thanks to Google’s blogsearch, I came upon something I haven’t seen before: a DIY instant history website. Wethersfield in the Civil War is apparently brand new from someone at the Wethersfield (Connecticut) Historical Society and looks like a transcription of the work of one Wes Christensen. The site is hosted on Blogger and…
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Confederate surgeon Simon Baruch
This is Assistant Surgeon Simon Baruch (‘ba-rook’) of the 3rd South Carolina Battalion. I found him by following a thread in a CW Society post, part of their recent conversation about Jewish Confederates. Among those prominent in that service it mentioned … Nahum Baruch, the father of financier Bernard Baruch, was a doctor and Colonel…
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Building on a CMS 1
In mid-2003 I completely reworked Antietam on the Web, dropping unmanageable static HTML and using a new database to store the contents. To create and deliver that content I built a rudimentary Content Management System (CMS) in PHP. Today I’d download a ready-made CMS and customize it to suit rather than build my own. No…
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Antietam art from Arthur Lumley
Where the Muse points, you shall go. I was in my local library Sunday and saw this volume* displayed on the wall. I was immediately drawn to the book by the face on the cover; also thinking, at first, that it was Harry’s tousled Senator Jim Lane. By the time saw it was otherwise, it…
