Story of the Steamboat Sultana - the most lethal maritime accident in American history - a hellish boiler explosion that killed over 1100 former Union POWs in 1865.

#USCivilWar #americanhistory

https://youtu.be/TySA8ViKjCo

Some men wish evil and accomplish it
But most men, when they work in that machine,
Just let it happen somewhere in the wheels.
The fault is no decisive, villainous knife
But the dull saw that is the routine mind.

John Brown’s Body
Stephen Vincent Benet

There’s something of the “banality of evil” in this. Dutifully carrying out the task assigned without consideration of its consequences. Something of denial of culpability. For all the big evil men of history there are throngs of unexceptional box checkers and water carriers of doom.

#JohnBrown #USCivilWar #History #Literature

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The First Emancipation Proclamation - General Orders No. 11
The three States...having taken up arms against the said United States...to declare them under martial law...Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The persons in these three States—Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida—heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared forever free
DAVID HUNTER, Major-General Commanding...
#Juneteenth #Slavery #USCivilWar #SouthCarolina https://node801.blogspot.com/2013/05/may-9th-1862-first-emancipation.html

#photography #photographybw #reenactor #uscivilwar

The US Civil War can be fruitfully seen as a dispute between capitalists over which was the more sustainable system of labor control. Northern capitalists won, which proves they were right about the nonsustainability of slavery.

Slavery isn't sustainable compared to coerced wage labor, but while it works it's way more profitable. Which doesn't mean they wouldn't chain you up in their fields and factories tomorrow morning if they could pull it off. They can't, but that's the only reason they don't.

#Slavery #WageLabor #WageLabour #Capitalism #Labor #LaborControl #CivilWar #USCivilWar #NineteenthCentury #Abolition

History lesson time: US Civil War and the unambiguous reason given by the states who seceded from the Union. Follow >>>> @duaneaubin and get your Friday #history hit.

#USCivilWar @histodons #UShistory #FollowFriday

Found this by our house today, Columbia, SC, USA. Initial interpretation is a #cannonball - US Civil War era? Either that or one hell of an ooid ironstone. Welcome all thoughts from those with experience in #archeology #artillery #USCivilWar. I apologize the ruler is in inches, it’s was the nearest at hand.

And today #FortRichardson - the #TexasStatePark in #Jacksboro - not the active one in Alaska.
Samuel was last there when he was barely walking. Despite a big interest in forts and the #USCivilWar (yes just before the Fort was founded), Covid meant most of the buildings were closed for an extended period. We finally made it and he had good fun, and we left with a Union cap (from the shop - not the one in the photo!)

And today #FortRichardson - the #TexasStatePark in #Jacksboro - not the active one in Alaska.
Samuel was last there when he was barely walking. Despite a big interest in forts and the #USCivilWar (yes just before the Fort was founded), Covid meant most of the buildings were closed for an extended period. We finally made it and he had good fun, and we left with a Union cap (from the shop - not the one in the photo!)

Gettysburg 2022
#USCivilWar #Gettysburg

Gettysburg or Antietam?
#USCivilWar

The Bloody Lane, Antietam
#USCivilWar #Antietam

Things you might not know:
How Slavery Almost Didn't End in 1865
https://open.substack.com/pub/kevinmlevin/p/how-slavery-almost-didnt-end-in-1865?utm_source=direct&r=1dsqn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#SlaveEconomy
#Emancipation
#USCivilWar
#KevinLevin

Things you might not know:
How Slavery Almost Didn't End in 1865
https://open.substack.com/pub/kevinmlevin/p/how-slavery-almost-didnt-end-in-1865?utm_source=direct&r=1dsqn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#SlaveEconomy
#Emancipation
#USCivilWar
#KevinLevin

Unfortunately the Compiled Military Service File for Peter Weiss isn't super useful to me. For instance, this inventory of his effects could have told me whether a family member received his belongings, but it doesn't.

#GenResearch #Genealogy #ParenthesesGen #USCivilWar

A German Regiment's Charge Helps Win Victory at Chattanooga's Missionary Ridge - Long Island Wins

#history #uscivilwar

https://longislandwins.com/columns/immigrants-civil-war/german-regiments-charge-helps-win-victory-chattanoogas-missionary-ridge/

First casualty of the #USCivilWar was an Irish soldier | irishcentral #irishhistory https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/daniel-hough-irishman-first-casualty-us-civil-war

Oh, it’s Bruce Catton’s “Terrible Swift Sword” #History #USCivilWar

It being #VeteransDay in the US & #RememberanceDay in the UK you might enjoy this story of two 2nd great grandfathers. One a #texas #confederate w. the #cavalry and one a #Ilinois #Union volunteer in the #civil_war #USCivilWar "A Tale of Two Soldiers. We can be on different sides and still come together. ⚔️🪦🇺🇸 https://wheatonwood.com/legends-lies-liberties-family-stories-in-perspective/a-tale-of-two-soldiers/

La più grande democrazia del mondo di #giggino

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23 June 1865: #Confederate General and #Cherokee Chief Stand #Watie surrenders the last sizable Confederate #army at Fort Towson, in the #Oklahoma Territory. #USCivilWar #history #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2zZAM0U

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/URDailyHistory/status/1540034199263973376