Physically brave to the point of recklessness, thi... ...ponies and their military counterparts during the American Civil War .Like Twilight Sparkle, U.S. Maj. Gen. Henry Jacks... ...derstanding of the challenge.At the outset of the war , Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott was the senior general i... ...tates Army. He w...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/14/Ponies-and-Their-Matching-Civil-War-Generals/
Jefferson Davis, the first and last President of the Confederate States of America, advocated a paternalistic approach to slaveholding. He believed that white rule over black slaves was beneficial and benevolent toward b...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/11/Sketch-of-the-Emancipation-of-Jefferson-Daviss-Slaves/
During the American Civil War , the United States Navy blockaded Southern ports.... ...the Wright brothers flew, Powers tried to build a warplane :Although balloons were being effectively used for...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/19/The-Confederate-Helicopter/
From April 6-7, 1862, Americans slaughtered one another near a small log church i... ...re casualties those two days than in all previous wars combined. It was a horrible shock to the divided... ...there were worse to come.Giles Hellum, an African American employee of the Unio...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/05/Baseball-Recovered-from-a-Civil-War-Battlefield/
150 years ago today, the Army of the Potamac and the Army of Northern Virginia were locked in a bloody slaughter near Fredericksburg, Virginia. On the third day of the five day engagement, a Union assault on Confederate...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/14/Richard-Kirkland-The-Angel-of-Maryes-Heights/
Hugh Tudor, born in 1847, served in the US Army fr... ...d in the US Army from 1864 through the end of the war . In his seventies, he married and had two daughte... ...mber of United Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War and one of ten surviving daughters of Union vete...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/10/This-Womans-Father-Fought-in-the-American-Civil-War/
The stylin' Captain Samuel J. Richardson of the Second Texas Cavalry wore a standard issue hat and shirt. But his pants and his holsters were made of jaguar skin!Link -via Retronaut...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/03/Confederate-Army-Officer-Wearing-Jaguar-Skin-Pants/
The American Civil War ended in 1865, but as of last September, the Depa... ....Budahn says it's likely that the children of the Civil War veterans, who have wished to remain anonymous, bo...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/30/The-US-Government-Still-Pays-2-Civil-War-Pensions/
