This site is constantly being updated with new pages and pictures added all the time. Below, you'll find a list of the
updates so that you can easily find them. Just click on the links included in the individual updates to see what's new!
As this site evolves, some of the links below may change. If you find a broken link, I would be grateful if you let me
know. If you cannot find what you wish, please try to in-site search engine in the menu to the left.
April 2, 2010:
Added a photo to the page on
Kershaw's men at the Rose Farm.
January 10, 2010:
Revised the section on the fighting at Spotsylvania including a new page
entitled
The Reaper's Tally. Also updated one page on the
surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox.
August 2, 2009:
Added a pictures of the gravesites of
Major General John Fulton Reynolds and of
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock.
February 15, 2009:
Added to the
Video and other Media
section of the Resources and Links page, specifically adding links for podcasts.
January 17 - 19, 2009:
Made extensive revisions to the section concerning
The Battle of 2nd Manassas /
Bull Run including adding a page on
The Battle of Cedar Mountain.
January 1 - 12, 2009:
Made extensive revisions to standardize the menus of all pages on this site. Also added pages on
Monroe / Stuart Hill at the
Manassas / Bull Run Battlefield and the
Death of General JEB Stuart.
December 18 - 23, 2008:
Made extensive revisions to the sections covering all three days of the
Battle of Gettysburg and the
Battle of Antietam.
Also edited format to ensure consistency across pages.
December 12 - 14, 2008:
Continued to make extensive revisions / additions to the section on the
Battle of Fredericksburg
including adding two new pages. One page covered
CSA Major John Pelham
and the other
the infamous canal ditch.
Also continued updating the section on
Battle of Chancellorsville
and added a page to the Battle of Antietam section entitled,
Lincoln Removes McClellan.
December 6 & 7, 2008:
Added to and re-edited the section on the
Battle of Chancellorsville,
adding new images, quotes, and text.
November 28 - 30, 2008:
Added three pages to the Fredericksburg section:
Burnside Takes Command,
The Sacking of Fredericksburg,
and
The Impact on Civilians.
Added images to the pages on
The Upper Crossing and
The Ruins of Fredericksburg.
Also added text and quotes to many of the other Fredericksburg pages.
Validated all external web links and the html for the 173 pages changed since the last validation.
November 20 & 23, 2008:
Updated the pictures on multiple Battle of 1st Fredericksburg pages including:
Prospect Hill,
Meade's Pyramid,
Waves of Assaults,
the Town of Fredericksburg,
and
the Fredericksburg National Cemetery.
November 16, 2008:
Added a section on
the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House.
November 9, 2008:
Updated the photos on the
Fredericksburg panoramas page.
November 5, 2008:
Updated the photos on the page concerning
views at Arlington National Cemetery.
September 26 & 27, 2008:
Added a page concerning
Generals Meade's and Lee's offers to resign
after the Battle of Gettysburg. Includes the responses of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
Also continued to update images throughout the site.
September 15, 2008:
Re-editing and updating pictures throughout the site. Validated html for
the 400 pages changed / edited since March 9, 2008.
August 10, 2008:
Added a section on Finn's Point National Cemetery to the page on
Confederate Prisoners from the Battle of
Gettysburg at Fort Delaware.
August 3, 2008:
Added a page on
Confederate Prisoners from the Battle of
Gettysburg at Fort Delaware.
June 28 - July 20, 2008:
Added several pages, images, and panoramas concerning
Wolf's Hill,
Neill Avenue, and the
61st Pennsylvania Infantry.
Fixed an error on
Confederate Order of Battle
page, specifically under the section for Wofford's Brigade (For some reason I had the 10th Georgia listed twice under Wofford's
command and once under Semmes. The 10th of course belongs under Semmes.
Throughout this time, spent much effort correcting and adjusting the web
site's html for ease of search and web
site usage. (Not exactly exciting but I hope it proves helpful.)
June 22, 2008:
Added a page on
Five Forks.
May 27, 2008:
Updated the page concerning the conflict between
the 20th Maine and the 15th Alabama.
May 21, 2008:
Added a quote on
President Lincoln's definition of Liberty.
March 17 - 22, 2008:
Continued to update the sections concerning
Day 2 at Gettysburg,
Day 3 at Gettysburg,
Antietam,
and
Spotsylvania
along with the page concerning
Chancellorsville casualties.
Updated the Site Map page which lists the
images taken during or shortly after the war.
March 7 - 9, 2008:
Updated the pages concerning
Day 2 at Gettysburg
with updates specifically to the page concerning
Major General George Gordon Meade.
Also updated the section concerning
The Battle of 2nd Manassas.
These updates continue to involve the reformatting, adding, and repositioning of pages which include images from the 1800s.
Also validated the html for all 806 pages of this site.
March 2, 2008:
Updated the pages concerning
Day 2 at Gettysburg.
These updates mostly involved the continuing process of reformatting, adding, and repositioning of pages which include images
from the 1800s.
February 22 - 26, 2008:
Updated the pages concerning the
Death of Stonewall Jackson,
The Battle of 2nd Manassas,
The Battle of Antietam,
The Battle of Fredericksburg,
The Battle of Chancellorsville,
Day 1 at Gettysburg,
and those discussing
Perspectives of the Civil War.
These updates mostly involved the reformatting, adding, and repositioning of pages which include images from the 1800s.
February 16 - 18, 2008:
Updated the page concerning the
United States Colored Troops and added
two pages concerning slavery (
The Conflict over Slavery &
Slave Narratives ).
February 2, 3, & 10, 2008:
Began updating the section concerning
the 2nd day of the Battle of Gettysburg
Also checked and resolved broken links.
January 12, 2008:
Continued to update the entire set of pages for
the 1st day of the Battle of Gettysburg
January 4 & 5, 2008:
Updated several pages concerning the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg including the pages entitled
Setting the Stage for Conflict
and
General John Buford.
Also updated the
Sources page.
December 1 & 2, 2007:
Updated the entire
Perspective section
including adding a page concerning the
Hopewell Iron Furnace National Historic
Site. This includes multiple
new images and a
brief video clip
of their fully functional water wheel.
November 18 to 22, 2007:
Posted several new pages on the
Battle of Cold Harbor section.
Also validated and updated all the links throughout the entire site
including the
Links and
Resources section. {
Dead-links.com
is an excellent free resource for checking links over an entire site with
one click.}
November 11, 2007:
Updated photographs and content of the
Battle
of Gettysburg Panoramas: Day 3 section.
October 14, 2007:
Updated photographs and content of the
Battle
of Gettysburg Panoramas: Day 1 and
Battle
of Gettysburg Panoramas: Day 3.
September 29 & 30, 2007:
Updated photographs and content of the
Battle of Gettysburg: Day 1
section and the
Georgia and Texas Soldiers page on
the Battle of Antietam.
September 16, 2007:
Continued with the updating of the
Battle of Antietam
section and the
Eastern Theater Panoramas.
September 8, 2007:
Again updated the
Battle of Antietam
section and added more new
Antietam Panoramas.
September 1 & 2, 2007:
Updated the
Battle of Antietam
section and added
several new
Antietam
Panoramas.
August 22, 2007:
Updated the
Battle of Spotsylvania section.
August 18 & 20, 2007:
Updated photos and some text on the
Battle of the Wilderness pages.
Also added to the
Chancellorsville and
Spotsylvania Panoramas
and to the page on the
wounding of General Stonewall
Jackson.
Began the
Battle of Spotsylvania section.
August 11 & 12, 2007:
Revised the
Eastern Theater Panoramas
pages, adding pages on Petersburg and Appomattox and replacing several pictures
in the sections concerning Chancellorsville and the Wilderness.
Added a page about the
Final
Place of Rest for General Robert E.
Lee in the Chapel at Washington and Lee University. Also added some pictures to the
USCT page.
July 14, 2007:
Added a page which includes a portion of
Mary Bedinger Mitchell's writings
on the Battle of Antietam.
June 14 & 15, 2007:
Completely revised the
Perspective
pages, making several additions and updates, and combining the Honored Dead pages with that section.
Also updated many pictures throughout the site, including contemporary
Library of Congress images from the 1860s.
June 2 & 3, 2007:
Continued to update, revise, and add to the section concerning
Day 1 of the Battle of Gettysburg.
May 26 & 28, 2007:
Created a section for some of the web site author's
Original Short Stories
concerning the American Civil War. Also edited several pages and added a
page to the section on Day 1
of the Battle of Gettysburg.
May 06, 2007:
Added a page concerning the grim realities of war and the
casualties of the Battle of Gettysburg.
April 28 & 29, 2007:
Updated several pages in the
Antietam and
Gettysburg sections.
April 21, 22, & 24, 2007:
Made multiple, significant revisions throughout this
site. There are too many to list but most focus on the three days of the
Battle of Gettysburg and the
Resources and Links page.
April 08, 2007:
I've made some minor changes throughout the first several months of this year that did not bear listing. However, the section
concerning
Day 1 of the Battle of
Gettysburg has had major revisions and additions. These are not yet complete but
are at a point where they can be posted.
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showing the changes to this site back to
February 2005.
