#m: civil war

[memories-of-ancients]

A Fascinating Book I'm Reading

One of the best non-fiction reads I've read in a while, it's not a military history book, but details specifically the Confederate government, culture, society, the legal system, and economy.

What I find most fascinating about the book was just how fucked up the Confederacy became even from the early outset. Especially in terms of law and order. Due to the incredible manpower demands most men of military age either enlisted or were later conscripted into the army. This resulted in severe manpower shortages at home. When this happened, the system of slavery the Confederates were fighting for became a grave liability as there was no one left to control the millions of slaves that populated the south. As a result, whole plantations of slaves would run away and form free communities in the wilderness, surviving by pillaging plantations and farms, or robbing travelers on highways. In Louisiana there was a slave town hidden deep in the swamps that housed 2,000 people! At the same time thousands of Confederate soldiers were deserting as the war started going bad. Many soldiers found that their homestead and family was falling apart in their absence, so they deserted. These deserters were declared outlaws, and as a result many banded together, formed groups, and made a living as bandits and marauders.

At the same time many officers in the Confederate army who were garrisoned in specific places became de facto military dictators and warlords over the territory they controlled. They often disobeyed the law and refused to carry out orders issued by the Confederate government, but due to manpower shortages and the disorganization of the government there was little that could be done to reign them in. Often, these warlord Confederates acted as bandits, pillaging the territory they controlled not just for food and necessary supplies but for valuables as well. In many cases, whole towns and even counties rebelled against Confederate military authorities as they were sick of being pillaged by warlord Confederates. A good example was Jones County, Mississippi which actually seceded from the Confederacy as a result. Often, these rebel towns and counties survived by banditry and became marauders themselves just to make a get by.

According to the author, by 1863 much of the rural south was in a state of lawlessness and anarchy with the countryside controlled by bandits, marauders, independent towns or counties, pro-Union enclaves, and military warlords. Like bruh, this would be a good setting for an open world RPG game, perhaps something set in the Red Dead Redemption Universe.

Anyway if you are a Civil War buff I highly recommend this book.

#history #civil war

[skeletonsinboth]

@steggyfanevents Steggy Month – Week Two theme – Steve

Steve + text posts pt. 2/?

#steggymonth #steve rogers #captain america #the first avenger #the winter soldier #the avengers #age of ultron #civil war #avengers:aou #infinity war #ca:tfa #ca:tws #ca:cw #steve text posts #text post meme #marvel #mcu

[sersh]

Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Alex Garland and Kirsten Dunst behind-the-scenes on Civil War (2024) dir. Alex Garland

#cailee spaeny #wagner moura #kirsten dunst #alex garland #civil war #a24 #a24 civil war #civilwarcast #civilwarcastedit #minimal edit just wanted this on my blog tbh #my edit

[deadpresidents]

After President Abraham Lincoln was shot during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, several doctors who were in the audience and also enjoying the play rushed into the Presidential Box and began attending to the President. It was clear that Lincoln's wounds were almost certainly mortal, but the doctors still attempted to save his life. Originally thinking that the President had been stabbed, they soon found that he had been shot behind the left ear and the bullet -- a 43.75 mm ball which had been fired by John Wilkes Booth's .44 caliber Derringer -- had sliced through Lincoln's brain and lodged behind his eye sockets without exiting the skull. When Lincoln's breathing became more shallow, Dr. Charles Leale used his finger to remove blood clots from the wound, which immediately improved Lincoln's respiration.

The doctors decided to move Lincoln from the theater, but felt that the President's condition was far too weak to risk taking him back to the White House, which was several blocks away. A nearby saloon was considered just as unseemly of a place for the President to spend his last hours and likely die in as a theatre, so Lincoln was carried across the 10th Street to William Petersen's boarding house. When they brought Lincoln into the boarding house, they realized that the 6'4" President was too tall for the bed they found for him, so they laid him diagonally upon it.

It was obvious that Lincoln could not survive his wound, so the attending doctors simply tried to keep him comfortable in his final hours by clearing the blood clots in his skull that caused his breathing to become more labored. Throughout the night, the President never regained consciousness, but witnesses said that he looked peaceful as his life was drawing to a close. The only visible evidence of his mortal wound were the bloody pillows that his head rested on and the raccoon-like bruising around Lincoln's eye sockets due to the orbital bones fractured by Booth's bullet after it passed through his brain. Nine hours after he was shot, Lincoln died in Petersen's Boarding House at the age of 56.

Shortly after the President was pronounced dead, his body was placed in a coffin and transferred back to the White House in a carriage. Just a few hours later, one of the residents of Petersen's Boarding House, Julius Ulke, took a photograph (seen at the beginning of this post) of the room and the bed -- including a pillow soaked with the President's blood -- where Lincoln had died earlier that morning.

The room in Petersen's Boarding House where Abraham Lincoln died, pictured in 2007.

#History #Abraham Lincoln #President Lincoln #Death of Abraham Lincoln #Assassination of Abraham Lincoln #Lincoln Assassination #Presidents #Presidential History #Presidential Assassinations #John Wilkes Booth #Assassins #Assassinations #Political History #Civil War #Civil War History #Petersen's Boarding House #Ford's Theatre #Presidential Deaths #Our American Cousin

[telekinesis-mind-control-comics]

#sebastian stan #winter soldier #bucky barnes #gifs #marvel gifs #marvel comics #marvel #captain america #civil war

[animentality]

#twitter #civil war #us politics #us history

[wandanet]

ELIZABETH OLSEN as WANDA MAXIMOFF CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016) dir. Russo Bros

#wanda maximoff #wandamaximoffedit #marveledit #mcuedit #tuserlyn #useraurore #usersaoirse #usersalty #usertammy #userraffa #userzo #tuserhan #usermasha #tuseraud #womenofmcu #marvelladiesdaily #civil war #by ashley #ours

[caro-lines-blog]

#sebastian stan #sebastian stan edit #bucky barnes #white wolf #captain america #civil war

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

This was removed from all Gannett papers. It's a travesty for many reasons, + though GT is surely fine, it's another example of how conditions for cartoonists keep getting worse + worse: positions eliminated, cartoons with bite being purged, fees decimated, outlets disappearing.

[Ward Sutton]

#Doonesbury #banned in Florida #banned history #Civil War #public schools #history #censorship

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #nikki.mov #food #recipes #civil war #emancipation proclamation #african american history #happy new years #black history

[dailytonystarkgifs]

#big mood

#marveledit #tonystarkedit #rdjedit #ironmanedit #civilwaredit #tony stark #civil war #dailymcugifs #marveladdicts #dailymarvelheroes #dailymarvel #mcufam #marveledits #* #gif

[skeletonsinboth]

Steve Rogers + text posts ☆

#steve rogers #captain america #wanda maximoff #natasha romanoff #the first avenger #ca:tfa #the avengers #civil war #ca:cw #infinity war #marvel #mcu #text post meme #steggymonth #steve text posts

[animentality]

#twitter #us politics #donald trump #immigration #texas #civil war #national guard

[mediademon]

CIVIL WAR (2024) dir. Alex Garland

#civil war #civil war 2024 #civilwaredit #alex garland #a24 #a24 films #a24edit #a24 movies #*mygifs #filmgifs #filmedit #moviegifs #movieedit #dailyflicks #userstream #tvfilmsource #movie trailer #upcoming films #2024 films #userfilm #fyeahmovies #cinemapix #useroptional #userbbelcher #userthing #userrobin #civil war movie

[rogersideup]

Nice to be Kneaded

Series masterlist

Nomad Steve Rogers x Baker Reader

Almost every news station in the country was covering the chase for the missing superheroes post-raft-escape following the Civil War. Steve Rogers face had been plastered on the cover of every news paper, fliers stapled to street lamps, posted on bulletin boards in what felt like every coffee shop in the country. It had been just a few long months shy of a year, just long enough to grow out his hair and beard to make himself as unrecognizable as he could manage. Though he was still the poster boy of disorder within the states, he found himself in the scanty town of Greenwood in the house right next to yours.

Chapters 1-18

⋆｡°✩ Chapter one: Welcome to Greenwood

⋆｡°✩ Chapter two: Inhale, Exhale

⋆｡°✩ Chapter thee: Nice to be Needed

⋆｡°✩ Chapter four: Captain-What’s-His-Butt

⋆｡°✩ Chapter five: Absdoughlutely

⋆｡°✩ Chapter six: Sunflower

⋆｡°✩ Chapter seven: Beautifully Natured

⋆｡°✩ Chapter eight: The Brewing Storm

⋆｡°✩ Chapter nine: Doomsday

⋆｡°✩ Chapter ten: The Snap

⋆｡°✩Chapter Eleven: Courage

⋆｡°✩Chapter Twelve: Homecoming

⋆｡°✩Chapter Thirteen: Cardboard Castle

⋆｡°✩Chapter Fourteen: Cinnamon Roll

⋆｡°✩Chapter Fifteen: Everything will be Okay

⋆｡°✩Chapter Sixteen: Crawl Home to You

⋆｡°✩Chapter Seventeen: Endgame

⋆｡°✩Chapter Eighteen: Good Luck Charm

⋆｡°✩ More fun stuff extended masterlist ⋆｡°✩

#Steve Rogers #steve rogers fluff #captain america #captain america fluff #steve rogers x reader #captain america x reader #nomad steve rogers #civil war #baker reader #chris evans #mcu x reader #chris evans fluff #steve rogers x you #steve rogers fanfiction #captain america blurb #bucky barnes #steve rogers smut #rogersideup #mcu fanfiction #marvel #chris evans x reader #marvel x reader #steve rogers headcanon #Nice to be Kneaded #captain america x you #Captain America series #marvel fanfic writer #team cap #iron man #natasha romanoff

[queerism1969]

#blm #discrimination #defund the police #bipoc #black lives matter #civil rights #black lives fucking matter #lgbtqia #black lives movement #black lives have always mattered #black lives are important #black history #lgbtq #black liberation #african american history #civil rights movement #black community #civil war #civil liberties #black history month #black pride #black culture #black archives #black excellence