The Webster-Hayne debate was a series of back-and-forth speeches between Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Senator Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina in January 1830. #History #AmericanCivilWar #AndrewJackson #DanielWebster #JohnCCalhoun #RobertYHayne #StatesRights #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24196-en/

Denmark Vesey (c. 1767-1822) was a free Black man living in Charleston, South Carolina, as a carpenter and community leader. #History #DenmarkVesey #Abolitionism #AmericanCivilWar #AntebellumSouth #Slavery #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24133-en/

Well it took them 160 years, but the South has risen again.

This one hurts. Where's General Sherman when you need him?

American Photography: unforgettable images of the beauty and brutality of a nation https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/12/rijksmuseum-amsterdam-american-photography #Americancivilwar #Artanddesign #Photography #Exhibitions #Culture #USnews #Race #Art

"During the #Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the conflict ended, two women sought help from high places to track down their lost loved ones."

Robert Colby, author of "An Unholy Traffic," recounts the efforts of #JaneLyles and #PriscillaMarshall to re-unite their families

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/after-confederate-forces-captured-their-children-these-black-mothers-fought-to-reunite-their-families-180985994/?no-cache
#AmericanCivilWar #Gettysburg #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #FreedmensBureau #ThaddeusStevens @histodons

historic Southern ingredients inspire new Thanksgiving dishes https://www.diningandcooking.com/1855007/historic-southern-ingredients-inspire-new-thanksgiving-dishes/ #Abraham #AbrahamLincoln #American #AmericanCivilWar #Civil #Cooking #CookingU0026Recipes #cuisines #events #ga #Georgia #holidays #HolidaysU0026SeasonalEvents #lincoln #Overall #OverallPositive #positive #Recipes #savannah #seasonal #thanksgiving #ThanksgivingAppetizes #ThanksgivingDesserts #ThanksgivingFood #ThanksgivingRecipes #ThanksgivingSides #u0026 #War

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment ✧

Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Formed as Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Battalion, the unit consisted of men recruited in Missouri by Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo W. Slayback (pic...

#AmericanCivilWar #ConfederateStatesArmy #MissouriCavalryRegiment #Missouri #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slayback%27s_Missouri_Cavalry_Regiment

#RussianSailors in the #AmericanCivilWar

Surprised when I came across these photos so researched further ...

The Russia did support #TheNorth during the #CivilWar as a counterbalance to British + French reluctance do so. Russian + US interests coalesced around the prevention of French + British interference in the War. The British decision to declare neutrality opened the possibility of recognition of the South. It was believed France would follow suit.

TIL a man with the middle name Brutus (an assassin of Julius Caesar) "wrote many letters in fits of drunken anger and madness" in the 1830s to President Andrew Jackson, threatening to assassinate him. He was Junius Brutus Booth, the father of John Wilkes Booth.

https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/booth-letter/

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ George Norman Barnard ✧

George Norman Barnard (December 23, 1819 – February 4, 1902) was an American photographer who was one of the first to use daguerreotype, the first commercially available form of photography, in the United States. A fire in 1853 destroyed the grain elevators in Oswego, New York, an event Ba...

#UnitedStates #AmericanCivilWar #ShermanCampaign #PhotographicViews #MilitaryDivision #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_N._Barnard

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ battle of Cane Hill ✧

The battle of Cane Hill was fought during the American Civil War on November 28, 1862, near the town of Cane Hill, Arkansas. Union troops under James G. Blunt had pursued Confederate troops commanded by Thomas C. Hindman into northwestern Arkansas, and Hindman saw an opportunity to attack Blunt while the latter was i...

#AmericanCivilWar #CaneHill #Arkansas #Confederate #Union #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cane_Hill

"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song written by #RobbieRobertson. It was originally recorded by his Canadian-American #rootsRock group #TheBand in 1969 and released on their eponymous second album. #LevonHelm provided the lead vocals. The song is a first-person narrative relating the economic and social distress experienced by the protagonist, a poor white Southerner, during the last year of the #AmericanCivilWar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC-eDtV5O0Q

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Sherman's March to the Sea ✧

Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. The campaign began on November 15, 1864, with Sherman's troops leaving Atlanta, recently taken by Union forces, and ended with the capture o...

#AmericanCivilWar #UnionArmy #Georgia #Sea #Confederacy #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%27s_March_to_the_Sea

‘Political cesspool’: Lincoln, Davis and a battle with echoes for the time of Trump https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/07/abraham-lincoln-biography-book #Americancivilwar #AbrahamLincoln #Politicsbooks #Historybooks #DonaldTrump #Culture #Books

Civil war veterans’ remains buried after languishing in storage for decades https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/05/civil-war-veterans-buried-seattle #Americancivilwar #Washingtonstate #USmilitary #Seattle #USnews

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ USS Johnston ✧

USS Johnston was a Fletcher-class destroyer built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named after Lieutenant John V. Johnston, a navy officer during the American Civil War. The ship was laid down in May 1942 and was launched in March 1943, entering active duty later that year as...

#UnitedStatesNavy #AmericanCivilWar #ImperialJapaneseNavy #Johnston #PacificFleet #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Johnston_(DD-557)

George Armstrong Custer (l. 1839-1876) was an officer in the US Army, serving in the cavalry from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War and the wars against the Plains Indians 1866-1876. #History #GreatSiouxWar #AmericanCivilWar #USHistory #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/George_Armstrong_Custer/

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Jersey Act ✧

The Jersey Act was a 1913 regulation by the British Jockey Club and the owners of the General Stud Book that prevented most American-bred Thoroughbred horses from registering with them. It was intended to halt the increasing importation of racehorses of possibly impure bloodlines from America. The loss of breeding records during the...

#BritishJockeyClub #AmericanCivilWar #Thoroughbred #America #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Act

Photo of the Day

Divided loyalties.

It is September 3, 1861, and Kentucky’s neutrality in the American Civil War has come to an end.

While the six-month-old war had pitted state against state, in Kentucky, the war had turned brother against brother.

Both Lincoln and Jefferson Davis had been born in Kentucky.

Views on slavery varied.

Twenty percent of Kentuckians were enslaved people.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-9be?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web