by TeachCivilWar | Nov 30, 2017 | Teaching the Civil War
Finding rock carvings is a great way to explore the Gettysburg Battlefield. One of my favorites is the AL Coble rock carving in the area of Spangler’s Spring. AL Coble was 20-year-old Augustus L. Coble of Company E of the 1st North Carolina...
by beeghleytech | Sep 21, 2017 | Miscellaneous Civil War topics
Jenny Get Your Hoe Cake by the 2nd South Carolina String Band This song was written in 1840 by Joel Walker Sweeney. It was published with the title, “Jenny Get Your Hoe Cake Done, the Celebrated banjo song, as sung with great Applause at the Broadway...
by beeghleytech | Jul 26, 2017 | Miscellaneous Civil War topics
The song Buffalo Gals is a traditional American song that was popular during the Civil War. According to the Library of Congress, the song was originally called Lubly Fan Will You Cum Out To Night? and was written in 1844 by the blackface minstrel John Hodges,...
by beeghleytech | Jul 20, 2017 | Famous Civil War People, Teaching the Civil War
In late June 1863, Sallie Myers was a school teacher who had just turned 21. She was on summer vacation when Confederate forces invaded her hometown of Gettysburg and changed her life forever. She wrote in her diary that “on June 26 they came, spent...
by beeghleytech | Jul 6, 2017 | Famous Civil War Locations, Teaching the Civil War
Recently a friend of mine asked me to do a Then and Now overlay of some dead Confederate soldiers who were buried in the Rose Farm at Gettysburg. Based on some previous research, he was seeking out the original location where these brave soldiers were buried and...