Germany - Civil War Information

We don't often see articles in the news about dolls, but this past week that's exactly what happened. The dolls were probably used to smuggle medicines, such as quinine and morphine, for the Confederate soldiers. At that time, the doll making industry ...

The Dunkers or Schwarzenau Brethren are members of a branch of the Protestant church which was founded in 1708 in Schwarzenau, Germany. The term “Dunkers” is actually a slang word which was applied by other people, referencing their baptismal practices; some members ...

His dirigibles became known as Zeppelins and gained him world fame.. Zeppelin was born at Konstanz, or Constance, in southwestern Germany. During the American Civil War, while serving as a German observer with the Union Army, Zeppelin made his first balloon ascent, ...

Balloons have been around since 1783, when a pair of French brothers launched the first (unmanned) hot-air balloon. Abe Lincoln actually had his own balloon corps, and the Confederate forces also used balloons (until the Confederates ran out of silk dresses from ...

I love traveling on the train. It's probably because when I was growing up in St. Louis, my father and uncle both worked for Frisco Railroad. Also I took the train home from St. Louis to where we lived in Castlewood, Missouri. ...

Vignettes from scattered locales shed light on our polity.Location Matters! By Conor Friedersdorf, November 19, 2008 On a September morning several years ago, I knocked at the door of a new tract home in Rancho Cucamonga, California, having arranged to interview its ...

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