Saturday, April 03, 2004

Added the following image pages:
1. Warrenton Court House. Retreat of the Army of the Rappahannock through the town
2. A rainy day. The army on the march
3. Five vignettes on one sheet; incl. A Negro cabin. The old grist mill
4. Charge of Hancock's Corps in front of Spottsylvania [sic] Court House
5. Bealton Station, on the Orange and Alexandria R.R.; Depot of supplies
6. Scene in Baltimore, Md. Citizens building barricades on receipt of the news of Gen. Lee's march into Penn.
7. The battle of Cold Harbor, throwing up breastworks

Added the following to Skedaddle

  • Domestic Economy in the Confederacy - An 1886
    article on the the economic impact on the general population (here split
    into multiple web pages based on topic; note: this segmentation did not
    exist in the original document)

    Of all the states,
    the article is most specific to North Carolina, but the content also
    applies, to one degree or another to all of the "blockaded states."


  • Domestic Economy in the Confederacy


  • Speculators

  • Salt

  • Shoes

  • Iron

  • Cotton Cards

  • Clothing

  • Coffee, Tea,and Sugar


  • Paper and Ink

  • Newspapers

  • Confederate Currency

  • Economic Hardships

  • Blockade Running

  • Taxation

  • Incontestable Facts

  • Tuesday, March 30, 2004

    Chivalrous And Semi-Chivalrous Southrons - added the following sketches, the final ones from the two articles written by J. W. De Forest:

  • A Unionist Widow

  • Unionists as a Party

  • Southern Individuality
  • Found a new template for the web log and implemented it. This provides a better demarcation between messages and allows inclusion of links for the Skedaddle site and for useful on-line links. It also allows visitors to post comments.

    Monday, March 29, 2004

    Chivalrous And Semi-Chivalrous Southrons - added the following sketches:

  • Generosity

  • Honor

  • Intellectual Traits

  • Political Opinions

  • Political Feelings

  • Financial Condition

  • Southern Loyalists

  • The Mountaineers
    During the War

  • A Union Soldier
    of the Mountains

  • A Planter Unionist


  • m.....

    Chivalrous And Semi-Chivalrous Southrons - added Courtesy
    m.

    Sunday, March 28, 2004

    Created the following pages:

  • Chivalrous And Semi-Chivalrous Southrons - A series of "sketches" of the
    southerners, primarily in the vicinity of Greenville, South Carolina, during
    the time just after the war.

  • Our index pages of Edwin Forbes images that have not been linked to the site map:
    index-1
    index-2
    index-3
    index-4
    (under construction)
    m.

    Rearraged the articles by state in the "Life in the South—Before, During and After the Confederacy" index

    BLOGGER - Knowledge Base�-�What is BlogThis! ?

    Because some of the material that will be incorporated looks at the south before and after the war, we changed the title of the "Life in the Confederate States of America" section to "Life in the South—Before, During and After the Confederacy." - m.