Brian Tomlin | July 2, 2012
What were the most popular given names during the Civil War period? This is the second part of a three part study of that question. Part 1 looked at the most popular men’s names of U.S. men born during the period 1811-1850, the broad period that made up the vast majority of Civil War Soldiers. […]
Brian Tomlin | June 18, 2012
What were the most popular given names during the Civil War period? This is the first part of a three part study of that question. Today we will look a the most popular men’s names of U.S. men born during the period 1811-1850, the broad period that made up the vast majority of Civil War […]
Brian Tomlin | June 4, 2012
1860s Photographic Techniques daguerreotype. Library of Congress collection and description of daguerreotype method calotype. University of Oxford website describing this process, with examples ambrotype. site discussing photographic process popular during civil war, using positive images rather than the familiar negatives tintype. Video showing how this variation of the ambrotypes were made. carte de viste (CDV). […]
Brian Tomlin | May 21, 2012
Chesnut, Mary. A Diary from Dixie. Written 1860-1865. Today we can only imagine living through a war taking place inside our own country. Mary Chesnut of South Carolina, married to Confederate General James Chesnut, was forced to live through the Civil War and had the forethought to keep a diary, which she began on November […]
Brian Tomlin | May 7, 2012
President Lincoln created the U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 15, 1862, referring to it several times as the “people’s department.” To understand that comment, we have to remember that about 25% of the U.S. population lived on, worked on or owned farms in the 1860s (compared with less than 1% today). Lincoln wanted to […]
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