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It has been recently reported in various Historical magazines that a Blockade Runner named the Kate Dale has been located in the alligator infested waters of the Hillsborough River. This ship was known to carry Confederate Cotton to Cuba and Beyond, Returning to Tampa with rum, medicine and food until Unionists burned the ship owned [...]
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Was asked an interesting question the other day. I was asked why a battlefield for the War of 1812? Why not something from the Civil War due to Custer? Who would actually visit an 1812 site?
All good questions that I am sure have crossed the minds of other people in the area. My answer was [...]
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In answer to the question what party was responsible for freeing the slaves and saving the Union?
The Republican Party which grew out ot the resistance to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which overrode the Missouri-Compromise and allowed slavery to spread into the Western territory by popular sovereignty.
The Republican party absorbed anti-slavery Whigs and most Know-Nothings. [...]
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Let’s mix a little history with a little politics to show us all how politics has changed since the Civil War.
What political party was Lincoln apart of? The same political party that fought and freed the slaves. I’ll give you a day or two to research this one out. I would love to hear what [...]
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The Armies of the North and the South laid waste to thousands of miles of fencelines that seperated field from field, and kept animals from consuming the crops. This destruction can be noted as a major contributor to the collapse of the Confederacy. Because of the ease in construction of rail fences, they were also easy to tear down. One [...]
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Let’s see how many questions you can get right! Remember when our grandparents and great-grandparents stated they only had an 8th Grade education? This is the final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, and reprinted [...]
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In May 1861, the Confederate government placed all of its forces in the Southwest under the command of Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch of Texas. Thus, the military district of Indian Territory was created. McCulloch moved into the Indian Territory and organized immediately three Indian regiments and placed these three Indian regiments together with one regiment from [...]
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I apologize to all of you who have been following the Five Indain Nations series waiting for me to finish it up. But, like many writers we are inspired at weird times. I finally hit that moment when everything came together to finish Book two in Savannah Meade’s civil war trilogy “Only Ghosts Came Home” [...]
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As I said in the previous blog, the Five Great Indain Nations were Southern in their sympathies. The ideals, principals, customs and institutions of the Old South were brought with them on their journey westward and established in their own Indian governments. Because the forts were abandoned by the federal government, which violated treaty once [...]
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The country purchased by the Five Indian Nations was known as the Indian Teritory and comprised of the land now occupied by the state of Oklahoma, with the exception of the extreme northeastern corner now included in Ottawa County. When they arrived in their new home, each of the Five Nations organized their own governments [...]
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