<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Civil War Primer -- by Pat Granstra</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.civilwarprimer.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.civilwarprimer.com</link>
	<description>Learn about the Cival War</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:34:44 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Who Helped Annie at Vicksburg?</title>
		<link>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2013/04/who-helped-annie-at-vicksburg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2013/04/who-helped-annie-at-vicksburg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annie Wittenmyer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.civilwarprimer.com/?p=1787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Annie Wittenmyer helped Iowa soldiers wherever they needed her most during the first half of the Civil War. During the Vicksburg campaign, some of them returned the favor. In 1850 Sarah Ann &#8221; Annie&#8221; Wittenmyer and her husband William, an Ohio merchant, came to Keokuk, Iowa, a community in the midst of a decade of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2013/04/who-helped-annie-at-vicksburg/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Posthumous Journeys of Hiram Granbury</title>
		<link>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2013/03/the-posthumous-journeys-of-hiram-granbury/</link>
		<comments>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2013/03/the-posthumous-journeys-of-hiram-granbury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soldiers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.civilwarprimer.com/?p=1735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Civil War soldiers killed in battle were often buried twice,  first on or near the the battlefield and later in a family plot or national cemetery. Hiram B. Granbury, however, was buried three times in cemeteries to which he had no personal or military connection. &#160; &#160; On November 30, 1864, General John Bell [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2013/03/the-posthumous-journeys-of-hiram-granbury/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Most Unusual Wartime Wedding</title>
		<link>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2013/02/a-most-unusual-wartime-wedding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2013/02/a-most-unusual-wartime-wedding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Saunders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert E. Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Taylor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.civilwarprimer.com/?p=1646</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Four Saunders siblings from Norfolk, Virginia served the Confederacy: three brothers enlisted in the military, and their oldest sister worked for the government in Richmond. Elizabeth Selden Saunders was among hundreds of young women who moved into the South&#8217;s capital city during the war. In a wartime memoir, Richmond During the War, Sallie B. Putnam [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2013/02/a-most-unusual-wartime-wedding/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Christmas 1862</title>
		<link>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/12/christmas-1862/</link>
		<comments>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/12/christmas-1862/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.civilwarprimer.com/?p=1655</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Civil War grew at a monstrous rate during 1862, reaching across the Confederate states and  into the North. &#160; On December 7, Union forces quashed  Confederate plans to re-enter Missouri by turning back Major General Thomas Hindman&#8217;s poorly equipped Army of the Trans-Mississippi at Prairie Grove, Arkansas.  In the East the armies of  General [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/12/christmas-1862/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Opting Out at Appomattox</title>
		<link>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/08/opting-out-at-appomattox-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/08/opting-out-at-appomattox-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appomattox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R. E. Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Bowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U. S. Grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Taylor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.civilwarprimer.com/?p=1619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[             Generals expect staff officers to do their bidding, but at Appomattox Lee and Grant each excused an aide from a designated task.    April 9, 1865 marked the end of the Army of Northern Virginia.  Union infantry had joined General Phil Sheridan&#8217;s cavalry at Lee&#8217;s front in time to thwart General [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/08/opting-out-at-appomattox-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>An Unembellished War Story</title>
		<link>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/07/an-unembellished-war-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/07/an-unembellished-war-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan J. Oppedal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John H. Pritchard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.civilwarprimer.com/?p=1548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A short-term soldier from Illinois deserves recognition for what he didn&#8217;t do after the war.   I don&#8217;t know what initially attracted me to The Inevitable Triumph, a thick 6&#8243; x 9&#8243; paperback book by Alan J. Oppedal.  It may have been the title, a phrase borrowed from FDR&#8217;s &#8220;a date which will live in infamy&#8221; speech.  It may have [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/07/an-unembellished-war-story/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Loyal Soldier&#8217;s Legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/05/a-loyal-soldiers-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/05/a-loyal-soldiers-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 18:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Survivors' Legacies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[36th Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James E. Moss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lincoln Highway]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.civilwarprimer.com/?p=1432</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Union veteran found a unique way to honor his fallen Commander-in-Chief. Among the nearly five thousand casualties of the July 1861 Battle of Bull Run was the romantic notion that the conflict between the states would be short-lived.  President Abraham Lincoln responded to the disastrous first battle by issuing a call for 500,000 troops to serve a three-year commitment. An [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/05/a-loyal-soldiers-legacy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Horse Story or Tall Tale?</title>
		<link>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/04/horse-story-or-tall-tale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/04/horse-story-or-tall-tale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Horses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Whitey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zachary Taylor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.civilwarprimer.com/?p=1377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The September 1931 issue of The Palimpsest, a publication of the Iowa State Historical Society, includes an article by O. A. Garretson.  Entitled &#8220;A Famous  War Horse,&#8221;  it tells of soldiers from the Fouteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry removing a horse from a Louisiana plantation for use by their colonel, J. H. Newbold, whose horse had developed an eye infection.  Colonel Newbold was killed a few days [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/04/horse-story-or-tall-tale/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Hannah Ropes: The Other Woman behind &#8220;Little Women&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/03/hannah-ropes-the-other-woman-behind-little-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/03/hannah-ropes-the-other-woman-behind-little-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[... but did you know]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hannah Ropes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louisa Mae Alcott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.civilwarprimer.com/?p=1273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Louisa May Alcott&#8217;s brief stint as a nurse is well known, but did you know that another Civil War nurse played a crucial role in bringing the March girls to the nation&#8217;s bookshelves? &#160; The evening of December 13, 1862 volunteer nurse Louisa May Alcott reported for duty at Georgetown&#8217;s Union Hotel Hospital where she was received by the facility&#8217;s matron, Hannah [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2012/03/hannah-ropes-the-other-woman-behind-little-women/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>An Agriculturist&#8217;s Legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2011/12/an-agriculturists-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2011/12/an-agriculturists-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Survivors' Legacies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.civilwarprimer.com/?p=1247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Confederate veteran became a United States Congressman and agriculture&#8217;s most ardent ally.    William Henry Hatch passed the bar in 1854 and moved from his native Kentucky to Hannibal, Missouri.  There he practiced law, became a Democrat, and was elected a circuit attorney in 1858. In the early days of the Civil War, Hatch was commissioned a captain by the Confederacy; in 1862, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.civilwarprimer.com/2011/12/an-agriculturists-legacy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
