Question to you Yankees and confederates(civil war question) | Forums

[BenvZijl]

As a History teacher here in the Netherlands i have a hobby and that's the American Civil war.

Now i wonder if you know a Store who sells T-shirts, books etc about this era.

already got 1
http://www.civilwarstandard.com/
anybody know if they are trustable?

thnx in advance

Ben van Zijl
The Netherlands

[Zeus-cat]

I have never heard of the store you provided the link for, but like a lot of internet stores you sometimes have to take your chances.

Here is a link to some information provided by the U.S. National Park Service on the Gettysburg site. Many of the Civil War sites are managed by the NPS so you may find more information on specific battlefields by going to the site for that park/battlefield.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/main-ms.htm

http://www.nps.gov/ is the main site for the NPS.

The miniseries titled Gettysburg (starring Martin Sheen as General Lee) is an excellent movie. It is based on the book Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. His son, Jeff Shaara wrote a book that covered the civil war before Gettysburg and another book that covered the war after Gettysburg. I didn't think these were quite as good.

This site has a lot of info and links to stores selling t-shirts and books.

http://www.civil-war.net/

[Scharnhorst1943]

Look up the battlefield locations and you can order from the online gift shops.

[horseback]

Civil War T-Shirts?

I can see it now:

"My Great GrandDaddy Captured Richmond And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt"

cheers

horseback

[LEBillfish]

Not trying to slow down your interest as I think it's great you're looking into it....Yet in all honesty it is a subject as vast as any 4 year long war....You'd think not, yet I bet you could spend a lifetime studying itm and still not know it all.

The reason I say that is, your best bet to start might simply be prowling the web, then finding American Civil War discussion forums of which I'm sure there are many out there...The folks there could probably help you much more then most here.

[luftluuver]

books

http://www.historyofwar.org/bookshop...civil_war.html

[-HH-Quazi]

I am lucky to live in an area full of Civil War history & hard fought battles such as the Battle of Franklin. There is actually a slate rock wall built by the confederates less than 1\2 miles from my home and stretches for 8 miles just outside Nashville, TN. You see civil war history buffs with their metal detectors looking for metal objects such as rifle bullets, coat buttons, just anything metal dating back to that time. You can also go to Franklin TN and find old brick walls still standing with bullets holes\marks from that war. A fine place to live for anyone interested or intrigued by the Civil War.

[Copperhead311th]

If your intested in hearing the Confederate side of history rather than reading typical yankee propaganda being taught in th US today...

becuase unfortunatly history is often written by the victors.

i highly recomend this book:
The South Was Right! by the Kenedy Brothers

They lay it all out there in the open in black & white and they back up there research. every thing in the book is in the index. every claim they make can be prvoven factual. Since your from the Neatherlands i would expect you to have an open mind about the subject and not harbour any of the same rescenment & prejudaces that are still (sadly) Alive & well even today in our country.

as for t-shirts. hell i live in alabama they still play Dixie on the radio here. lol ya can get Confederate t-shirts in the corner store.
but for nice selection i recomend this site.

Dixie Outfitters

Been a while sicne i looked at that store. i didn't know HK Edgerton had his own T-shirt now. great man i got to meet him once here in Montgomery.




Living in the Home of the Civil rights movment & the 1st capital of the confederacy some times has it's advantages.

[Copperhead311th]

Just read up on HK's blog. and thought this was hysterical. this was what HK was doing on new years day.

New Years Day - January 1, 2008


New Years day would find me spending most of the morning at the computer reporting on the final days of the March Across Dixie Re-Union March. However, as I headed home, I decided that it would be a great afternoon to fly the Chrisitian Cross of St.Andrew over the overpass of Interstate 40; especially it being New Years Day. As I stood on the bridge, I would be approached by a young White lady, who would ask if she could take a picture of me.Before she could leave, a young man who apparently was with her, approached and asked if he too could take a picture with me. He told me that he was a soldier and had just returned from Iraq. He said that as he and his lady approached the bridge from the freeway below; seeing the Battle Flag flying swelled his heart with as much pride as any day he had stood and saluted the Stars and Stripes in Iraq.He said that he and many soldiers from both sides of the Mason and Dixon had spoken of me often, but he never thought that he would one day get the opportunity to stand beside me and have his picture taken. I told him just how honored that I was to find myself standing beside one of Americas heroes, and I thanked him for his service to our country.Just as I decided to furl my flag, a car would drive up with Illinois tags on it, an elderly White man was driving, with an elderly White female on the passenger side. She leaned over and said to me;damn, I thought that they had stopped all the White Thrash from flying that piece of garbage down her, and I'll be damn if we don't come here for the holidays and find you, a Colored man of all things, standing out here in the freezing cold, flying that flag! Before I could say anything, her companion said; Honey, just leave it alone, he's just Southern.


lol ROFL lol
give 'em Hell HK! lol

[Stiletto-]

I'm sorry Copperhead, I don't mean to start a flame war or anything, but from what I can tell about this H.K. Edgerton guy, he thinks the only people who cared about the slaves "were the southern white man" and that they were well taken care of. Apparently he also thinks blacks were brought to america as a gift from God? Have you ever seen the miniseries roots? If being brought over on a boat where slave drivers poor salt-water on your open wounds from being whipped, I wouldn't want that "gift from God" myself. Apparently he is a darling for the white supremasist movement?

I'm sorry I don't know much about this guy, but I doubt I would want his views taught to kids in the Netherlands, let alone adults in America.