Laid out the scope of my research (its grown and shifted a bit). Feel free to contribute if you are able so I can take the time from the day job to research.

https://ko-fi.com/post/July-1863-Changed-the-War-T6T8P3IUR

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One of the most difficult and confusing things to try to understand about anti-fascism is its history. 
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https://weantifascists.com/history-of-anti-fascism-part-1-pre-fascism/

#FamilyHistory This dignified plaque honors #MilitaryVeterans from Bethlehem, Connecticut who served in #WWI and served in the #USCivilWar - part of @HeatherRojo's #HonorRollProject making names searchable by transcribing and posting online.

Who is the worst general on the union side during the US Civil War and why is it Burnside?

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I found the band. No seriously I found the band. It was bugging me how a band got on board AFTER the Constellation sailed. Check it out: https://ko-fi.com/post/I-Found-the-Band-Q5Q8NTI0X

Kick in a few bucks so I can keep posting breaking news from events 160 years ago, if you are so inclined and able.

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My research is kinda everything, everywhere all at once. Then I found this cool parallel to Gettysburg. Check it out, like boost, comment, donate if you are so inclined so i history can be my day job. https://ko-fi.com/Post/THE-UNION-AND-CONFEDERACY-BUMP-INTO-EACH-OTHER-W7W6NHTVN

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I just wrote the words "general got the yips." So how is your Friday night going?

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"The Post-Civil War Opioid Crisis" - JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/the-post-civil-war-opioid-crisis/ #HistMed #HistGender #masculinity #addiction #WarAndSociety #USCivilWar #postwar #histodons HT @black_intellect

Everything about the #lincolnMemorial communicates to me "Be the union Lincoln knew you could be." Whether or not you would agree with Lincoln (especially concerning the Dakota War https://www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-native-americans), we might be in a better place as a nation if more politically inclined folks were "dedicated ... to the unfinished work which [the soldiers who] fought [at Gettysburg] have thus far so nobly advanced." #architecture #USCivilWar #gettysburgAddress

ERRGGHHH. My project started with a ship and a navy diary. Taking that to show what navy life was like versus army life. From the personal standpoint. The problem? Tons of army diaries. Not so much Navy. SURELY some Navy guys kept a diary too?

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My partner and I have been thinking today about all the different narratives we were told about the civil war and the north/north’s soldiers/generals while growing up.

Outside of Abe Lincoln, I can’t think of a single positive thing. Grant was a drunk and won because he was a butcher. All the other generals were just trash. The north just had more people. The north only fought because they were snaky capitalists that wanted the south’s land (this is the most bitterly amusing one to me now, who is the most naked of all capitalistic money hungry bean counting violent money grabbers than a fucking ENSLAVER?????). And I grew up in a solid blue state that had multiple stops on the under ground railroad and was home to multiple formerly enslaved people that helped organize resistance to slavery and then troops for the civil war!

Dear partner and I have worked very hard over the years to undo and then relearn a proper civil war history- this holiday break we’re going to be watching civil war movies and laughing at the loser confederacy and doing research to find more truth.

What are the narratives you grew up with around the US civil war? And what is a truth you’ve since found out that you think the entire world should know???

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Why don't people think of the historians when writing in their diaries - use a good writing implement and write clearly - https://ko-fi.com/Post/Frustrations-of-a-Researcher-Z8Z4M6HM7 Feel free to buy me a cuppa tea to soothe away my frustration.

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You are supposed to have a thesis in mind when you start writing. I did I swear I did. But .... it keeps GROWING. Read the current timeline here. https://ko-fi.com/post/Timeline-R6R2LQI4I

Thoughts? Boosts and comments appreciated. Feel free to buy me a cuppa tea so I can actually do this.

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Random musings while researching. I'm traking a time period on ship and in the land war of the Civil War. All the battles I'm looking at "Confederate Victory" like even in 1864. And Big Battles too, not just troops bumping into each other and skirmishing. How the hell did the Union win? I mean other than Sherman burning Atlanta?

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Even on a diplomatic mission, the sea is dangerous. https://ko-fi.com/post/Fair-Winds-and-Following-Seas-I2I8KVKPR

Please support my research by donating, boosting and commenting. Thank you.

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@oliphant I mean, it's pretty obvious if you read the articles of succession, what rights were most important to those #racist morons. It's in the first paragraph of the South Carolina secession declaration.

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Sauce: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp

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2nd Fort Donelson - (wait there was a first one?). You have to read the whole thing (its public) to see my sarcasm about not holding the high ground. Support my continued sarcastic research by buying me a cuppa tea. Like, boost, comment.

https://ko-fi.com/post/Second-Fort-Donelson--The-Confederacy-Didnt-Lea-G2G4KGPVE

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This week's posting will involve a small battle in which Nathan Bedford Forrest himself is involved. He asked the Union Troops to surrender - rather politely. To paraphrase the Union response can I say "F' off Bedford?"

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The #USNavy has finally shed the last two ship names that honored the Confederacy — & renamed one of them in honor of a man whose life story reads like an action movie hero. The USS Chancellorsville is now called the USS #RobertSmalls, the Black Union hero who stole a #Confederate steamer loaded with guns & delivered it to the Union #Navy, delivering himself & 16 other crew & their families from slavery.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1165998167/a-navy-ship-named-for-a-confederate-victory-now-honors-a-black-union-hero

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THE CIVIL WAR TO FIGHT A CIVIL WAR: SOUTHERN PATRIOTS VS THE CONFEDERACY

Tom Cleaver tells the story of the US Civil War in a way you've probably not heard before. He tells the truth.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tcinla757/p/the-civil-war-to-fight-a-civil-war?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android

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