PING: Civil War Buffs

[JPhillips]

Really cool project from the NYTimes.

One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Americans went to war with themselves. Disunion revisits and reconsiders America's most perilous period -- using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/disunion/

[DaddyTorgo]

Cool!

[JonInMiddleGA]

If they could maintain the project all the way through, it's got a lot of potential to be interesting.

I thought today's entry Head-Stompers, Wrench-Swingers, Egg-Tossers and Wide Awakes - NYTimes.com (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/head-stompers-wrench-swingers-and-wide-awakes/)
provided some particularly worthwhile perspective.

[JPhillips]

Today's story on the 54th Mass(the troops in the movie Glory) is great.

[MacroGuru]

Wow I missed this when it was originally posted, guess I have a lot of reading to do.

[DaddyTorgo]

I'd kinda forgotten about this. Bad on me!

[cody8200]

This is a pretty interesting set of pictures from the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg (1913).

Civil war veterans at Gettysburg anniversary in 1913 – in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2013/jul/01/civil-war-gettysburg-anniversary-pictures)

[JPhillips]

And today marks the 150th anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox Court House.