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February 2019
Brass Napoleon Award Hoop Skirts: A Smuggler's Dream | The Ladies Tea - War from a Feminine Perspective
In the 1860's women's fashon left plenty of spaces to hide things you didn't want others to see!
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Brass Napoleon Award - Black Southerners and the Confederate Cause--What the newspapers said: 1861-1865 | Legends of Black Confederates
With all the discussion about whether black men served as armed soldiers in the Confederate Army, I wanted to bypass modern opinion and research real-time contemporary newspaper accounts from the war years, 1861-1865. Thanks to the Library of Congress and some University online archives, there...
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March 2019
Brass Napoleon Award - Nathan Bedford Forrest & Family | Larry Cockerham on Forrest
Anyone besides me interested in discussing this gentleman? He is by far the most popular folk hero among southern civil war buffs west of the Appalachians except possibly for John Hunt Morgan and Robert E. Lee. It intrigues me that this man who was one of the larger slave dealers in the mid west...
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Brass Napoleon Award Pets And The People They Allowed To Hang Around Them | Four Footed Friends
Period photos of favorite pets from the Civil War era, including mascots, and loyal companions.
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April 2019
Brass Napoleon Award - CWT Chickamauga 2018- We're going live | Traveler's Companion - Visit Historic Sites
@Buckeye Bill walking point at the Sherman Reservation on Missionary Ridge.
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Brass Napoleon Award French & Belgian Infantry arms of the ACW | Small Arms & Edged Weapons
Photo study and breakdown of the French & Belgian arms of the 1860's, with many helpful hints, drawings, and disassemblies.
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Brass Napoleon Award Favorite Facial Hair Contest! Selecting the winning photo. | Contests & Activities
The contest will be kinda/sorta/maybe like a 64-team college basketball tournament. For the first week I’ll post eight groups of eight photos. Then everyone votes for their favorite of each group. The four photos with the most votes from each group will advance to the second week. The second...
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May 2019
Brass Napoleon Award How to Fire a Civil War Cannon | Cannons & Artillery
Learn how Civil War artillery was manned & guns were fired, according to regulation & period drill employed by the armies of the North and South.
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Brass Napoleon Award Favorite Facial Hair Contest! Selecting the winning photo. | Contests & Activities
The contest will be kinda/sorta/maybe like a 64-team college basketball tournament. For the first week I’ll post eight groups of eight photos. Then everyone votes for their favorite of each group. The four photos with the most votes from each group will advance to the second week. The second...
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Brass Napoleon Award Cockrell's 1st Missouri Brigade | Regimental Histories
A complete timeline and history of the regiment, and any known artifacts that still exist from the unit, and photos of the men who served.
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June 2019
Brass Napoleon Award New guy needs help identifying items | Uniforms & Relics
Identifying a relic for authenticity can be a challenge. In this thread you can follow Taylor's journey to discover the authenticity of his relics.
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Brass Napoleon Award Who Here At CWT Shouldn't Be? " There But For The Grace.... Go I " | Researching Your Civil War Ancestry
Stories of how Civil War ancestors got lucky, made choices, and survived circumstances that might have radically impacted their family tree.
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July 2019
Brass Napoleon Award Would You Have Liked Living During the 19th Century? | Mid-19th Century Life
Even though the 19th Century seems like it was a simpler time, was living then really as easy as it seems? Weigh all the pros and cons to the idea.
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August 2019
Brass Napoleon Award - Act of Kindness: 132nd Pennsylvania & Lt. Col. Reuben B. Nisbet, 3rd Georgia Infantry at Antietam | Antietam / Sharpsburg
Mortally wounded, he was presumed dead for some time. At least until his wife received a letter from him.
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Brass Napoleon Award Last Words and Moments of Soldiers | Gettysburg
When mortally wounded, some soldiers reflected on thoughts of family, others of duty, or just the realities of a brutal conflict.
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Brass Napoleon Award Photos of The Reenactment of the Battle of Fort Blakeley, April 6th 2019 | The Event Wire: Reenactments, Walks, Shows, & More
See all the action at as it unfolded at Fort Blakeley in Alabama, including great shots of the Federal Assault, and Rebel Defenders!
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September 2019
Brass Napoleon Award Wilson's Creek National Battlefield (NPS Tour Stops) | Trans Mississippi Theaters
Follow along a guided photo tour of the entire battlefield with your guide Buckeye Bill, learn the battle history that led to Confederate victory.
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Brass Napoleon Award - Were Confederate Ironclads Worth The Effort/Cost? | Naval War - At Sea & Along Inland Waterways
It could be said that the great cost to create and maintain these great ironclad warships was never recouperated by their actions.
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October 2019
Lincoln - Brass Napoleon Award - Lincoln's First Inaugural Address and the South's right to secede | Famous People of the Late Unpleasantness
Lincoln contended in his address the the Southern States had no Constitutional right to Secede, but was he right?
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Brass Napoleon Award - Stories of D H Hill: Happy Birthday General Hill (12 July 1821–24 September 1889) | Other Soldiers, Politicians, & Men
When holding the pass at Boonsboro, his men told him they ran out of ammo. He said: "Well, what of it? Here are plenty of rocks!"
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November 2019
Brass Napoleon Award Interview: Longstreet says Lee's pugnacity got the better of strategy at Gettysburg | James Longstreet
In an 1893 interview with the Washington Post, Longstreet suggested that General Lee's pugnacity got the better of his strategy at Gettysburg.
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Brass Napoleon Award Sergeant Plunkett Goes Home | Soldier's Tales
Wounded at Fredericksburg by a Confederate Cannonball that took both of his arms, Sgt. Plunkett needs help getting back home...
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December 2019
Brass Napoleon Award Ulysses S. Grant's persistent negative press | Ulysses S. Grant
Even now, more than 100 years after his death, Grant can't get out from under the finger of the negative press. Does he deserve this treatment?
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Brass Napoleon Award William T. Sherman: Total War vs. Hard War | William T. Sherman
Did Sherman get a raw deal for his so-called "total war" on the south? Perhaps Sherman's strategy wasn't as total as some would have you believe.
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January 2020
Forrest - Brass Napoleon Award - Forrest's Cannae - The Battle of Brice's Crossroads, June 10, 1864 | Famous People of the Late Unpleasantness
The Battle of Brice's Crossroads, fought on June 10, 1864, in northern Mississippi was Confederate cavalryman Nathan Bedford Forrest's tactical masterpiece and has been favorably compared with the 216 BC victory of Carthaginian general Hannibal over his Roman enemies in the Battle of Cannae. In...
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Brass Napoleon Award Was "...like a stone wall" no compliment at all? | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
At 1st Bull Run, Gen. Bee said "There stands Jackson like a stone wall!" Did he mean it as a compliment or as an insult?
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