Posts Tagged ‘Civil’
This 58.5 m/l acres is located just south west of Galena, Missouri bordering Blunks Road on the south side. Galena lies nestled in the heart of the Ozark Mountain country on minutes away from Silver Dollar and all the Branson attractions. The Blunks Ford property has history that goes back before the civil war. This property is located on the dividing line of Table Rock Lake and the James River. This property is remote, scenic with end of the road privacy, yet right on the edge of all the action. This property offers hunting, trapping, fishing, camping, direct access into the water ways with the only boat ramp for many miles.
With approximately 800 ft of Corps of Engineers water frontage, Paved roads and a concrete boat ramp, this property has commercial income potential. North of Blunks Ford on the James River you will enjoy floating on tubes, canoes trips, fly fishing and watching the eagles fly up close and personal. Go South from the boat ramp, Table Rock Lake has about any freshwater fish you can name.
Table Rock Lake is a recreational lake with scuba diving down to over 200 ft., fishing, water sports, tour guide events and breath-taking Ozark Mountain views. The Blunks Ford Property has mountain top views looking down on the river and lake from over 290 ft above, bottom land along the corps of engineers property, Power Mill Creek is crossed several times along the western boundary. This creek still has dams in place from an old Trout hatchery – Can be a hatchery again. Virgin Timber — some over 3ft in diameter — with white oak, black walnut, red oak, dogwoods, red buds etc. Hunters, photographers and nature lovers will enjoy the bountiful wildlife. Property is teaming with whitetail deer, turkey and other animals and birds. Property is bordered by very large land owners adding to the seclusion and privacy, not to mention placing you right in the middle of paradise. Are you a splunker? This property has a cave that opens up into approximately a 500 sq ft cavern with stalagmites and stalactites’. More caves are believed to be on property, yet to be discovered. Water well and electricity is on property at the old Blunk homestead with other utilities available. This property is perfect for retirement, vacationing and year around living and it is well suited for those looking for a quieter, simpler lifestyle away from the hustle and bustle of the city. This is a great Stone County investment with a REDUCED sale price of $238,000. Don’t miss this opportunity at your dream. MOTIVATED SELLER!!! MAKE OFFER!! Owner financing with 25% down and terms.
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This historic film is a bonus feature on the Struggle for Vicksburg DVD and is available on location and from www.finleyholiday.com. This historic film documents the salvage of the Civil War Gunboat Cairo, the first warship ever sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo. The Union gunboat was raised 100 years after it was sunk from the Mississippi River in 1963. The full-featured Struggle for Vicksburg DVD tours Vicksburg National Military Park today and recounts the dramatic siege for Vicksburg during the Civil War in 1863.
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Housed in the 1858 Barrows Mansion in Galena, IL, the Galena-Jo Daviess County History Museum features exhibits about lead mining, geography, transportation, Native Americans, and agriculture in the Galena area. Upstairs, the Museum is proud to display “Peace in Union” by Thomas Nast and “General Grant on the Battlefield” by John Antrobus, as well as artifacts from the Civil War and from Grant’s life in Galena.
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The American Civil War (1861–1865), amongst other names also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as “the Confederacy”. Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all the free states (where slavery was abolished) and by half the border slave states.
In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. In response to the Republican victory and the long-term threat it posed to slavery, seven states declaring their secession from the Union before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and Lincoln’s incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion. The border states remained neutral at this point.
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a US military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property. This led to declarations of secession by four more slave states and the war had begun. Both sides raised armies as the Union assumed control of the border states early in the war and established a naval blockade. In September 1862, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation made ending slavery in the South a war goal, and dissuaded the British from intervening.
Confederate commander Robert E. Lee won battles in the east, but in 1863 his northward advance was turned back with heavy casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg. To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after their capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, thereby splitting the Confederacy in two. The Union was able to capitalize on its long-term advantages in men and material by 1864 when Ulysses S. Grant fought battles of attrition against Lee, while Union general William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia, and marched to the sea. Confederate resistance collapsed after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars in human history. Railroads, steamships, mass-produced weapons, and various other military devices were employed extensively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, and of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years of age died, as did 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40. Victory for the North meant the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877.
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This is a trip we took to Rodney, Mississippi. You would never guess it now, but Rodney was once a bustling and thriving river port town. It missed becoming the state capital by only three votes. However, today it is pretty much in ruins. There are still a few people who live there but most of the town itself is abandoned. There are empty buildings, houses and churches lining the main street in Rodney. One of the churches still bears the scars of a Civil War gunboat attack and even has a cannonball stuck in the wall. Rodney is an absolutely amazing place to visit filled with history and reminders of those that lived before us.
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WABC Travel Show Host Erik Hastings tours Jackson, Vicksburg, and Natchez, Mississippi. Jackson, the cultural center of the state, is known for metropolitan sophistication, culinary surprises, museums, and family-oriented recreation. Vicksburg’s National Military Park and museum chronicle the 47-day Civil War siege of this famous antebellum town. Natchez has preserved much of its pre Civil War aura, and carriage tours make it easy to see historic homes built by some of the wealthiest families in the nation. Fun family vacation.
Duration : 0:4:55
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRiZiVvdX4g
LYRICS:
Dare’s an ol’ man cal’d de Mississipi
Dat’s de ol’ man dat I’d lek to be
Whot does he care
iv de world gets trauble
Whot does he care iv de land lev’s free.
Ol’ man river,
Dat ol’ man river
He mus’know sumpin’
But don’t say nuthin’,
He jes’keeps rollin’
He keeps on rollin’ along.
He don’ plant taters,
He don’t plant cotton,
An’ dem dat plants’em
is soon forgotten,
But ol’man river,
He jes keeps rollin’along.
You an’me, we sweat an’ strain,
Body all achin’ an’ racket wid pain,
Tote dat barge!
Lif’ dat bale!
Git a little drunk
An’ you land in jail.
Ah gits weary
An’ sick of tryin’
Ah’m tired of livin’
An’ skeered of dyin’,
But ol’ man river,
He jes’keeps rolling’ along.
[Colored folks work on de Mississippi,
Colored folks work while de white folks play,
Pullin’ dose boats from de dawn to sunset,
Gittin’ no rest till de judgement day.
Don’t look up
An’ don’t look down,
You don’ dast make
De white boss frown.
Bend your knees
An’bow your head,
An’ pull date rope
Until you’ dead.)
Let me go ‘way from the Mississippi,
Let me go ‘way from de white man boss;
Show me dat stream called de river Jordan,
Dat’s de ol’ stream dat I long to cross.
O’ man river,
Dat ol’ man river,
He mus’know sumpin’
But don’t say nuthin’
He jes’ keeps rollin’
He keeps on rollin’ along.
(Long ol’ river forever keeps rollin’ on…)
He don’ plant tater,
He don’ plant cotton,
An’ dem dat plants ‘em
Is soon forgotten,
but ol’ man river,
He jes’ keeps rollin’ along.
(Long ol’ river keeps hearing dat song).
You an’ me, we sweat an’ strain,
Body all achin an’ racked wid pain.
Tote dat barge!
Lif’ dat bale!
Git a little drunk
An’ you land in jail.
Ah, gits weary
An’ sick of tryin’
Ah’m tired of livin’
An’ skeered of dyin’,
But ol’ man river,
He jes’keeps rollin’ along!
Duration : 0:4:30
On April 27th 1865, the overload steamboat Sultana, carrying upwards of 2,400 passengers and crew, mostly Union Prisoners of War returning home from Confederate POW Camps including the Andersonville Death Camp, was torn apart by a boiler explosion in the resulting fire storm 1,900 sick and wounded soldiers, women and children parished in the worst maratime disaster in United States History
Today the tragedy of the Sultana is completly forgotten overshadowed by the end of the Civil War and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln a few weeks before, dispite the fact more people died in the Sultana Disaster then on the Titanic, or the Lusitania, the only memorials are a few obscure plaques in forgotten cemetaries
I apologize for the lack of variety among the pictures in this video but that should serve as a testimant to just how forgotten the Sultana and the 1,900 who died on that horrible night truely are.
Music: Sleeping Sun
Artist: Nightwish
Subject: The Sultana
Duration : 0:2:59
From a performance on 10 Nov 2007 at Woodson Regional Library, Chicago, IL
Presented by Chicago Area Friends of SNCC and the SNCC History Project
Duration : 0:5:2