Posted in Just A Bite, tagged a journey in the seaboard slave states, allen c guelzo, fateful lightning, frederick law olmsted, william howard russell on June 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“For ‘the first time in the States,’ wrote English correspondent William Howard Russell as his train crossed into North Carolina in 1861, ‘I noticed barefooted people’ and ‘poor broken-down shanties or loghuts’ filled with ‘paleface… tawdry and ragged’ women and ‘yellow, seedy-looking’ men.” – From “Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged allen c guelzo, battle of seven pines, civil war nc, fateful lightning on February 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“Many of the Civil War’s legendary charges in the face of the enemy were made by soldiers who had been drugged into near insensibility by the liberal dispensing of hard liquor…. “The 16th North Carolina went into action at Seven Pines [Henrico County, Virginia] after the company commissary ‘hobbled down with several canteens of “fire [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged allen c guelzo, civil war blockades, fateful lightning, wilmington nc on January 20, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“One sailor stationed off Wilmington, North Carolina, explained in his diary how adventurous blockade duty really was: ” ‘I told her [his mother] she could get a fair idea of our ‘adventures’ if she would go on the roof of the house, on a hot summer day, and talk to half a dozen hotel hallboys, [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged allen c guelzo, fateful lightning, nathaniel macon, slavery on October 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Slavery became the lens through which Southerners looked at every question, the red dye that tainted every American conflict…. “North Carolina senator Nathaniel Macon suspected, as early as 1818, that ‘the passage of a bill granting money for internal improvements’ would also make ‘possible a bill for the emancipation of the negroes,’ and he ‘desired [...]
