NC historian uses Twitter to show Civil War life (AP)
RALEIGH, N.C. – A historian with the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources is informing the news of the Civil War, 140 characters at a time.
LeRae Umfleet is using a Twitter statement to verify the news of North Carolina civilians during the war, using their words to describe the struggle. Umfleet is starting with passages from 1861, and will continue finished the 150th day of the conflict.
A blog that goes along with the statement contains the flooded credit for apiece message. One past sound quotes a North Carolina blackamoor complaining that her miss is a constant supporter of the Union.
Umfleet says the concise messages of Twitter are a beatific way to help modern audiences see the personalty of the effort on civilians.
Her statement is twitter.com/civilianwartime.
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