U.S. Civil War History bits

Here's another statement during the period expressing similar thoughts (the first pivot concerned potato growing to sustain the Irish):

The second pivot of English industry was the slave-grown cotton of the United States. The present American crisis forces them to enlarge their field of supply and emancipate cotton from slave-breeding and slave-consuming oligarchies.

Do you know who wrote the above and when?

With that resolution adopted on the last day of 1862, was there a significant drop in raw cotton imported to Liverpool from the US in 1863 compared to 1862?

To inspire such a forceful statement at the end of 1862, those workers saw the role of cotton in the South's war effort. The South must have shipped out every bale they could before the blockade became effective. How would you compare 1862 cotton imports from the US to those of 1861? A little higher? A lot higher?

 

Think USMC Price partially answered your question a while back, but I'll look for figures for Liverpool-
http://www.ww2f.com/topic/39773-us-civil-war-history-bits/?p=447276
http://www.ww2f.com/topic/39773-us-civil-war-history-bits/?p=444266

Some general background on the British situation (Liverpool was formerly in Lancashire)-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_Cotton_Famine

 

The last letters of a Scot who fought in the war-
https://irishamericancivilwar.com/2016/06/30/my-own-dearest-maggie-the-last-letters-of-a-scottish-soldier-of-the-american-civil-war/

 

In a similar video to the shellfire one elsewhere, this time it's civil war cannon doing the bombardment-
http://www.wideopenspaces.com/this-is-what-it-was-like-to-be-shelled-by-civil-war-cannons-with-explosive-projectiles/

 

Shooting canister shot from an ACW Napoleon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k86XhYS8GJI

 

Sorry but that's a redundant redundancy.

 

That would be double-shotted canister

 

Nope. "Shot" is shot. Shell is shell. Canister is canister. Canister is not shot or shell. Although canister contains shot.

Never mind that technically it was case shot.

 

How about grape shot then?

 

Grape shot was a naval round.

 

That is interesting RichT. Have you got links explaining those types of rounds and stories where they were used in battle?

 

Wiki has a good accurate primer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_artillery_in_the_American_Civil_War

 

That was super interesting. Amazed at how advanced some rounds were back in the day. The science of killing.

 

Sickening.
"Every great historical site is at risk of looting by unscrupulous individuals who believe they can make good money off of what they discover. Looting is considered a serious crime and these people are at risk being fined or even jailed for stealing from protected sites.
[SIZE=18.2px]One particular site that is being investigated is Virginia’s Petersburg National Battlefield. Virginia’s National Park Service said that some of the field has now been officially declared as a crime scene after several areas were looted.[/SIZE]
The chief of interpretation, Chris Bryce, said that park officials were looking into how much damage was done to the field. He added that there were a number of areas around the ground that had been dug up."
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/08/09/battlefield-siege-petersburg-investigation-due-looters-area/

 

Found this fascinating.
In that Ken Burns series they discuss how hard it is to define exactly what it sounded like.
Well... Maybe from older throats, but there you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6jSqt39vFM

 

The Rebel Yell... Fascinating.

 

Billy Idol- Rebel Yell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdphvuyaV_I

 

I've read that a large number of these gents passed away on the trip home from the 1933 Gettysburg reunion. Some of them really seemed to be putting everything they had left into one last yell

 

Gettysburg reunions and the Grand Army:
http://mashable.com/2015/04/10/civil-war-oldest-veterans/#dScDUesmukqn

 

I have an old album, well it's really up at my Mom's house. It was my Dad's, and he'd listen to it (and others) after a hard day's work in the yard while sipping a few cool ones in the game room. It had many Confederate songs on it, a recorded speech of General Lee's address to the Army of Northern Virginia (recorded by one of his relatives), and at the end, several hundred old Johnny Rebs howling the Rebel Yell. Man I tells you it would make your hair stand on end listening to it. Of course the old man would crank the volume up to where it would rattle the windows, bringing the wrath of Mom down on us. After that album, he'd drag out the bagpipes albums, the Irish albums, the Cajun albums and finally the German marching music. Sometimes he'd get bogged down on the Peter, Paul & Mary albums before getting to the others. Then would come the war stories from Korea, then the old police stories from when he was with the city police. No matter what he'd drag out and put on the turntable, I will always remember the Rebel Yell above all. It was hard growing up at the house.