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1/ THREAD #firepowerfriday #travel #tourism #history #USCivilWar - #Vicksburg, MS is the most interesting Civil War battlefield I’ve seen. @milmodelscene @PhilLoder @CivilWarHistory @CivilWarTrails @CivilWarTimes @CivilWarMonitor @uscivil

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Folks, if I’ve told you once, I’ve told you 100 times: “Don’t throw away old wallpaper.” Cuz you might turn it over and find that it’s actually a Vicksburg newspaper,

Robert Seidel Jr.

#APUSH220 I am currently rereading the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant and I want to share a few excerpts in which Grant offers his perspective on several important topics: 1/?

One month after Grant’s last attempt to carry Vicksburg’s defenses by infantry assault, James C. Christie, 1st Minnesota Battery Light Artillery, writes home about life in the trenches as the

Jezi Helle 🔥

Fuck it, might as well just randomly tweet this:I'm looking for friends of Andrew Olin, who died of AIDS in 88-89. Originally from Vicksburg, MS; spent much of his young

Today in 1865 the Steamboat Sultana exploded due to a faulty boiler which powers the vessel. It’s the deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history. It also has a special connection

Craig Bruce Smith

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1. The #LieberCode on the rules of war were released during the #Vicksburg campaign #grant 2. First formalized rules/laws of war #GeneralOrder100 #granthttps://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lieber.asp 3. Written by Francis Lieber, profes

Angry Staff Officer

Look, it's April 17, and that means we drink for Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, okI don't make the rules, I just enforce emNow, you might ask WHY we do

Dr Rob Thompson

Day 1. We begin the shaming of #ConfederateHeritageMonth with the First Battle of Boonville, Missouri on 17 June 1861. The U.S. Army under CPT Nathaniel Lyon routed the forces of

In light of Michigan @DaleZornSenate's recent donning of a Confederate flag mask, I decided to do some Resistance Genealogy inspired by @CleverTitleTK. (In case you hadn't heard, this gent from

Of the estimated 8,408 US soldiers wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, one man of the 11th Indiana Infantry “Wallace’s Zouaves” left an account of his experiences after receiving a

In 1879, author Kanagaki Robun & illustrator Kobayashi Eitaku published a paean to...Ulysses S. Grant. They did so following Grant's stop in Japan as part of a post-presidency world tour.

The fall of Island No. 10 on April 8, 1862, was a severe blow to Confederate fortunes on the Mississippi River. Although remembered as a largely bloodless affair, the joint

Joshua D. Rothman

Thread about the Lincoln “quote” deployed last night by Lara Trump. Which was, of course, not an actual quote. But the real quote comes from a speech where Lincoln condemned

Angry Staff Officer

Ok, overlooking that the author read one book and then decided that he now understands all historiography about Gettysburg, let's talk about why this title and this piece are incredibly

Dr Rob Thompson

Day 1 of Confederate Heritage Month. We honor then Captain David G. Farragut, a Southerner who remained loyal to the United States, for his defeat of Confederate traitors at the