History Mystery: Painting of Woman in Black Dress (United Daughters of the Confederacy?)

August 13, 2014August 13, 2014
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For this month’s History Mystery, we have something a little different: a painting from our portrait collection! KHS needs your help in identifying this painting of a woman, who is wearing in a high-necked black dress, and a jeweled cross brooch. Both the dress and cross appear to be black, …

March 20, 2014
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Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy. By Roger Pickenpaugh. (2013. Pp. 320. $49.95. Hardcover. Lexington: University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0380. http://www.uapress.ua.edu/) ISBN: 978-0817317836. A follow-up to Pickenpaugh’s earlier publication, Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union (2008), this book uses soldier diaries, newspaper …

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