History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » CWT Online Special http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 25 May 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Sites From the Battle of South Mountain, 1862 http://www.historynet.com/sites-from-the-battle-of-south-mountain.htm http://www.historynet.com/sites-from-the-battle-of-south-mountain.htm#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:37:40 +0000 Jennifer Berry http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685406 http://www.historynet.com/sites-from-the-battle-of-south-mountain.htm/feed 3 Union at Shiloh http://www.historynet.com/union-at-shiloh.htm http://www.historynet.com/union-at-shiloh.htm#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:48:34 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685106 A letter from Pvt. William Christie, 1st Minnesota Battery, to his father. Christie's battery lost three men killed and six men wounded.

I supposed you have heard of the great battle on the 6th and 7th of this month. …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/union-at-shiloh.htm/feed 1 Confederates at Shiloh http://www.historynet.com/confederates-at-shiloh.htm http://www.historynet.com/confederates-at-shiloh.htm#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:20:00 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685104 On April 6, 1862, following the first day of fighting, General Ulysses Grant ordered Union gunboats on the Tennessee River to fire broadsides all through the night, in an effort to unnerve the enemy. John S. Cockerill of the 70th …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/confederates-at-shiloh.htm/feed 0 Battle of Big Bethel http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-big-bethel.htm http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-big-bethel.htm#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:24:54 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683263 http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-big-bethel.htm/feed 2 Antietam Remembered http://www.historynet.com/antietam-remembered.htm http://www.historynet.com/antietam-remembered.htm#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:34:17 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682722 http://www.historynet.com/antietam-remembered.htm/feed 3 Lynchburg Town Song http://www.historynet.com/lynchburg-town-song.htm http://www.historynet.com/lynchburg-town-song.htm#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:51:51 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681779  

Lynchburg Town

chorus 1:

Going down to town,

I'm going down to town,

Going down to the Lynchburg Town,

To take my tobacco down.

 

chorus 2:

Times a-getting hard,

Money getting sca'ce,

Pay me for them tobacco, boys,…

]]> http://www.historynet.com/lynchburg-town-song.htm/feed 0 9th Massachusetts Battery http://www.historynet.com/9th-massachusetts-battery.htm http://www.historynet.com/9th-massachusetts-battery.htm#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:57:27 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681465
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This  monument marks the 9th Massachusetts Battery's initial position along the Wheatfield Road at Gettysburg. The artillerymen conducted a fighting retreat with their 12-pounder Napoleons to the Trostle Farm in the background. For more information visit:
http://home.comcast.net/~9thmassbattery/

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]]> http://www.historynet.com/9th-massachusetts-battery.htm/feed 0 Lincoln or Bust http://www.historynet.com/lincoln-or-bust.htm http://www.historynet.com/lincoln-or-bust.htm#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:36:46 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681462 Abraham Lincoln posed for several famous photographs at Alexander Gardner's Washington, D.C., gallery on November 8, 1863: one with his private secretaries John Nicolay and John Hay, and another full-face close-up that showed the steely-eyed president staring directly into the …

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