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This amazing castle was the last Royalist stronghold in the south west. It held out against the Parliamentarian forces (Roundheads) until betrayed by one of the officers. Lady Mary Bankes had held Corfe against two sieges but had to surrender when enemy troops had been allowed inside by her officer Colonel Pitman.
The Roundheads then spent some time using vast quantities of gunpowder trying to destroy it!
They allowed Lady Mary Bankes to go to her home at Kingston Lacey and was given the keys of the castle which can still be seen at Kingston Lacey.
Rockford National Cemetery
Kodak Ektar 100
Rock Island, Illinois
Sept 2017
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Confederates convinced themselves that if they showed up in force, Kentuckians would not be intimidated by the United States but would feel free to join the Confederate cause and would join in droves.
Kentuckians did not. Quite the opposite.
The border state had declared itself neutral at the outset of the secession of southern states in the hope of brokering a grand compromise between the North and South to prevent civil war. Kentuckians did not want war and did not want apocalyptic battles of carnage between their fellow countrymen in their own yard. Although a small minority, sizable and elite parts of the population in the state, supported the Confederacy, Kentuckians did not want citizens of their state to be at war with one another. That was not good state policy. So, neutrality.
Despite being part of a slave-owning state, when push came to shove, Kentuckians overwhelmingly felt more loyalty to the U.S. Constitution and the United States. "United we stand, divided we fall" had been its state motto since 1792.
Rural and urban Kentuckians–north, south, and east–joined overwhelmingly to fight on the side of the United States against the Confederacy. They voted for pro-Union state legislators so much that 4 out of 5* of Kentucky's legislators were pro-Union. Even before the Civil War pushed Kentucky to polarize even more in support of the Union, early in the war the state House of Representatives introduced and passed a law that made joining the Confederate army a traitorous act against Kentucky and illegal for Kentuckians in House Bill 36 of 1861. Regarding national congressmen at the outset of secession, Steven Bernstein in Kentucky in the Civil War 1861-1862 writes: "On June 20th, Kentuckians elected 10 Congressmen, 9 of whom were Unionist."
*Note: I'm going by memory on the 4:5 legislator data. I think this was from the book Kentucky's Civil War. I'm looking for the sources on this data now…
Supposedly taken during the Union occupation of Raleigh. Actually, it is a re-enactment of the establishment of the signal station on the dome of the North Carolina State Capitol. The original signal station was set up by 2nd Lt George C. Round of the US Army Signal Corps in April of 1865 during the occupation of Raleigh. This photo appears in the 27th Annual Reunion of the Signal Corps, USA, Washington, DC, October 1902, from PC.142.2. This copy negative is in the General Negative Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.
I took this photo while walking around a Civil Re-enactment that took place in a park near my home in NJ. I didn't arrange these items. This is exactly how I found them.
The New York Peace Monument located on Lookout Mountain features a Confederate and Union soldier shaking hands on the top.
Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga Tennessee.
Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The West Woods were the sight of a flanking assault by the Union army attempting to swing right and crush the Confederate left flank near the Dunker Church.
I have been recently working with a Civil War Re-enactment model who has been very patient and enthusiastic. Certainly not straight out of camera but I felt it appropriate to have the image look as period as possible.
I hope that this will draw some positive attention. Definitely a departure from my previous work. Another Flickr account is starting to become a favorable choice for my portrait and theme imaging.
Thank you all for your patience, understanding, favs and comments. You are all great artists.
[Explore] 11-08-2017 Totally unexpected recognition. I cannot begin to express my gratefulness to Flickr & "Explore". There is no end to your kindness. I'm so appreciative of your acknowledgment. Thank you!
Fall Colors near the 71st and 72nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Monuments at the Angle on the Gettysburg Battlefield.
1837-1861
Law clerk and friend of President Abraham Lincoln. First Union officer to die in the Civil War. He was killed while removing the Confederate flag from the roof of a Virginia hotel.
Kentucky civil war reenactment .
Approximately 620,000 soldiers died from combat, accident, starvation, and disease during the Civil War. This number comes from an 1889 study of the war performed by William F. Fox and Thomas Leonard Livermore. Both men fought for the Union.
Smoke fills the air after several cannons were fired during a civil war reenactment in Naperville, Illinois
In Explore: May 20, 2007
This photo was featured on Flickr Explore on August 6, 2013.
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5 of our 6 Lego Civil War Collaborative builders for Brickfair 2013, our first event. Couldn't find JP Preston around anywhere when we took this Sunday night. Hugely positive reception for this display, which was the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, plus some other Civil War displays to the side. We will definitely be doing this again for Scouting for Bricks and Brickfair 2014, only then we will be featuring MOCs of 1864 events. Huzzah!
Henry Hopkins Sibley
Henry Hopkins Sibley (May 25, 1816 – August 23, 1886) was a career officer in the United States Army, who commanded a Confederate cavalry brigade in the Civil War. In 1862, he attempted to forge a supply route from California, in defiance of the Union blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf ports, while also aiming to appropriate the Colorado gold mines to replenish the Confederate treasury.