Matt's Civil War Site

----THEME FROM THE 1993 MOVIE "GETTYSBURG"----

WELCOME TO MY WEB SITE - "MATT'S CIVIL WAR". I CREATED THIS SITE TO HELP THE AVERAGE PERSON,GROUP OF PEOPLE, OR EVEN THE CIVIL WAR BUFF LEARN ABOUT THE GREATEST WAR EVER FOUGHT IN THIS COUNTRY. MY SITE RIGHT NOW ONLY CONSISTS OF LINKS TO OTHER SITES ABOUT THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. IT IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING.YOU CAN FIND OUT: WHO REALLY WAS ABE LINCOLN. WHY GETTYSBURG WAS THE TURNING POINT OF THE WAR. WHY ROBERT E. LEE FOUGHT FOR STATE RIGHTS INSTEAD OF FIGHTING FOR THE UNITED STATES. HOW EFFECTIVE WAS THE NAVY ON BLOCKADING OTHER SHIPS. LEARN ABOUT DIFFERENT CIVIL WAR REENACTING GROUPS THAT TEACH ABOUT THIS WAR THROUGH REENACTING. LEARN ABOUT DIFFERENT RECIPES THAT WERE COOKED AND EATEN DURING THAT PERIOD IN AMERICAN HISTORY. I CAN GO ON OND ON. TO FIND OUT MORE, CHECK OUT THESES LINKS BELOW AND RELIVE IT. AS I SAID BEFORE, MATERIAL IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING AND BEING ADDED. COME BACK AND VISIT AGAIN. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SITE. MATT BUTTARO-WEBMASTER

DID YOU KNOW? -------------------- THE SONG "THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG" WAS BORROWED FROM THE OLD SONG "THE IRISH JAUNTING CAR." THE SONG IS HEARD TODAY FOR GEORGIA TECH'S FIGHT SONG. -------------------- BANDSMEN HAD INPORTANT DUTIES OTHER THAN FOR PLAYING FOR PARADES AND SERENADING THE TROOPS. THEY SERVED AS STRECHER-BEARERS AND ASSISTED SURGEONS WITH AMPUTATIONS AND OTHER SURGERIES IN FIELD HOSPITALS. -------------------- THE 3D CONFEDERATE NATIONAL FLAG, WHICH WAS A SHORTENED VERSION OF THE 2D WITH A VERTICAL RED BAR ADDED ON THE OUTSIDE, SAW LITTLE SERVICE BECAUSE THE WAR ENDED SO SOON AFTER ITS ADOPTION. -------------------- BELIEVING HIS LEFT ARM WAS HEAVIER THAN HIS RIGHT, "STONEWALL" JACKSON OFTEN KEPT IT RAISED SO THAT THE BLOOD WOULD FLOW OUT AND MAKE IT LIGHTER -------------------- THE RECORD FOR BOUNTY JUMPING WAS HELD BY JOHN O'CONNOR. HE ADMITTED ENLISTING AND JUMPING 32 TIMES BEFORE BEING CAUGHT; HE RECIEVED A 4 YEAR PRISION TERM. -------------------- DURING THE BATTLE OF BALL'S BLUFF, CAPTURED UNION SOLDIERS INCLUDED A GRANDSON OF PAUL REVERE, A SON OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, AND A NEPHEW OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. -------------------- DURING HER LIFETIME, THE CSS ALABAMA NEVER ENTERED A SINGLE CONFEDERATE PORT. -------------------- IRONICALLY, THE FIRST CIVILIAN KILLED BY JOHN BROWN'S RAIDERS AT HARPERS FERRY WAS A FREE BLACK MAN. -------------------- DURING GETTYSBURG, THE ARTILLERY EXCHANGE PRECEDING PICKETT'S CHARGE WAS HEARD 140 MILES AWAY IN PITTSBURGH, MAKING IT ONE OF THE LOUDEST NOISES ON THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT UP TO THAT TIME.

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR LINKS *The United States Civil War Center *The American Civil War Homepage *Civil War Week--What Happened? *Civil War In Miniature *Ulysses S. Grant Homepage *Sons Of Confederate Veterans *The Civil War Reenactors Homepage *Andersonville Civil War Prison *The Museum Of The Confederacy *United Daughters Of The Confederacy *Mort Kunstler-Civil War Art *The Civil War Music Site *Savage/Goodner Camp 1513 *Sons Of Union Veterans Of The Civil War*Capital District Civil War Round Table (Albany, N.Y.)*Civil War Interactive (Daily Newspaper of the Civil War)*Gettysburg Convention and Visitors Bureau*The Long Island Civil War Reenactors And Living History Alliance*The 9th Virginia and Soldiers Aid Society*Shamrocks Place (Great Reenactors Homepage)*The American Civil War-Dakota State University*War Between The States*Po'boys Civil War*Sharps Carbine*18th Virginia Cavalry By Jim*American Civil War (Your History Site On The Web)

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PROTECT OUR CHILDRENWhen his parents saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him,"Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you in great anxiety".Luke-2:48

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