Unsuspecting visitors to the State Museum found out Saturday that 150 years after hoodwinking Confederate forces in Charleston Harbor, Civil War Maj. Gen. Robert Smalls is still a surprise.
While browsing the fourth-floor cultural history displays at the museum, some of the visitors were invited to participate in a scripted live play about the little-known hero who later became a Union general and a five-term U.S. congressman from South Carolina.
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In the PBS American Experience documentary “Death and the Civil War” premiering Tuesday night, bloated Union and Confederate bodies are shown scattered on battlefields and in trenches and bleached skulls and body parts are stacked like cordwood.
As the title suggests, death is the central theme of this moving,
extraordinarily graphic film based on Harvard University President Drew Gilpin
Faust’s acclaimed book “This Republic of Suffering.”
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“Joshua L. Chamberlain: A Life in Letters,” a handsomely produced volume introduced and edited by seasoned Civil War scholars James McPherson and Maine’s own Thomas Desjardin, provides some 250 previously unpublished communications relating to the state’s most celebrated fighting general.
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The first teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg‘s upcoming historical drama Lincoln has been released - and you can watch it here
on Orange Wednesdays & Film!
The 45-second clip, premiered on Google+, sees scenes of Civil War fighting
interwoven with a narration from Abraham Lincoln‘s famous
Gettysburg Address.
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Two treasured pieces f rom the Newark Museum ’s permanent collection will be on loan to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, for its exhibition The Civil War and American Art. The exhibition will be on view in Washington from Nov. 16, 2012 through April 28, 2013, after which it will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, N.Y., May 21, 2013 through September 2, 2013.
The first of the two paintings to be loaned for this major exhibition is
Winslow Homer’s “Near Andersonville,” a master work in the Newark Museum
collection and a favorite of visitors and students alike.
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Helping place a new Civil War monument in honor of the 513 Muscatine County soldiers who died in battle, is among Lee Miller’s fondest of memories.
It also inspired Miller to begin researching and writing “Triumph and Tragedy, The Story of the 35th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War.”
His research turned up a surprising local angle.
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Jason Patric will no longer play the lead in Copperhead.
The Killing’s Billy Campbell has replaced Patric in the Civil War-era feature from director Ron Maxwell (Gettysburg, Gods and Generals), which is shooting in Kings Landing, New Brunswick.
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The story of the American Civil War is forever graven on this nation’s history, told in so many different ways. The deadly conflict threatened to tear the American people asunder only 87 years after the nation’s founding. There are tales of the Battle of Bull Run, and stories abound about the Battle of Gettysburg, and Antietam, but how many people know about the actual soldiers who fought this war? In particular, how many people know about the Irish Brigade, known for its courage and ferocity in battle for the Union’s cause?
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