tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192956762024-03-06T20:50:49.311-08:00of Battlefields and BibliophilesReflections, observations, random thoughts and bon mots, relating to the literary and
geographic landscapes of American history. And book reviews too. dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.comBlogger573125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-80993669919502221082022-02-08T12:37:00.001-08:002022-02-08T12:38:45.329-08:00June 2022 tours with Bobby Krick, and Gordon Rhea<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKAzT9xAYdeK5mI1FcI3TenUqQ4mDnAhhYZFPEzr4vb1HS4OyOJu1m3jXtwsPm-uGgDYsu_S_fbwsnLtK1_HToTLHUBATAmwntN8EsPdbr-bkATzT11nMuWllc6WFoo5ZfAbv6KvmaMvbfdC9QZ88r2T3QJ5LYTs4irL22Fs_Dowj6da3-YiA=s1260" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="1230" height="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKAzT9xAYdeK5mI1FcI3TenUqQ4mDnAhhYZFPEzr4vb1HS4OyOJu1m3jXtwsPm-uGgDYsu_S_fbwsnLtK1_HToTLHUBATAmwntN8EsPdbr-bkATzT11nMuWllc6WFoo5ZfAbv6KvmaMvbfdC9QZ88r2T3QJ5LYTs4irL22Fs_Dowj6da3-YiA=w434-h445" width="434" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">https://whtours.org/index.html</span></div><br /> <p></p>dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-83493114571426367352020-05-02T00:09:00.004-07:002020-05-02T00:15:03.010-07:00Camp Grant Massacre, Arizona<div style="text-align: center;">
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Shortly before dawn on the morning of April 30, 1871, a group of Anglo
Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O'odham Indians from Tucson and
San Xavier del Bac attacked a would-be Apache Indian reservation
located along a creek bank in Arizona Territory's Aravaipa Canyon. This
incident, in which the raiders killed perhaps as many as a hundred and
forty Apaches, many of them sleeping women and children, has come to be
known <span class="text_exposed_show">as the Camp Grant Massacre after the U.S. Army base near which it took place. <br />[From <a href="https://www.brown.edu/Research/Aravaipa/index.html]">Shadows at Dawn</a> website] </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Today, the site of the massacre is on private property. </span></span><br />
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Read two landmark studies of this event: <a href="https://amzn.to/3bTFxXk"><i>Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History</i></a> (The Penguin History of American
Life), by Karl Jacoby. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Karl Jacoby discusses his book on <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycp3u7sn">NPR</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3aVCsEW"><i>Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History</i></a> (University of Arizona Press), by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Read on online article about the massacre (originally published by Wild
West magazine): "<a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8n2wnsc">Massacre at Dawn in Arizona Territory</a>," by Carol A.
Markstrom and Doug Hocking.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> See also, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ya77om7j">Camp Grant Massacre</a> — April 30, 1871 (Partnership with Native Americans). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The “<a href="http://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/pdf/camp_grant.pdf">Camp Grant Massacre</a>” essay by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh.</span></span><br />
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dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-49909168085203797702019-07-04T15:51:00.000-07:002019-07-04T15:51:50.441-07:00Civil War to Cold War in New Mexico tour (fall 2019)<div style="text-align: center;">
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dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-34001097036783873922019-07-04T15:50:00.000-07:002019-07-04T15:50:12.714-07:00The Apache Wars tour (spring 2020)<div style="text-align: center;">
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dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-53813353519442218952019-07-04T15:48:00.000-07:002019-07-04T15:48:36.096-07:00 Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War tour (summer 2020)<div style="text-align: center;">
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dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-3058558784464243242019-07-04T15:45:00.000-07:002019-07-04T15:48:25.874-07:00War on the Northern Plains Tour (fall 2020)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-72460348700766851432019-03-15T12:43:00.000-07:002019-03-15T12:51:17.862-07:00our new ad appearing in "True West" magazine<div style="text-align: left;">
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dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-75196911296410963162019-02-11T12:52:00.000-08:002019-02-11T12:52:27.832-08:00New Mexico road trip (October 2019)<div style="text-align: left;">
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am especially excited about this one, for a number of reasons. I love
New Mexico—its history, people, and landscape—and though we could spend a
week devoted to any number of subjects, this military history/war theme
allows us to take a comfortable loop beginning and ending in
Albuquerque, while time-traveling through very distinct eras of New
Mexico history. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In one picturesque, clockwise journey we’ll take in
Civil War battles from the Confederate invasion of New Mexico—Valverde,
and the Battle of Glorieta Pass, with a cast of colorful characters. Pat
Garrett and Billy the Kid, et. al., will feature prominently in our
coverage of the Lincoln County War. Likewise, we will literally visit
Ground Zero of the Cold War at the Trinity Test Site—where the United
States detonated its first atomic weapon (this site is only open to the
public on TWO days per year). Filling out our Cold War education will be
visits to Manhattan Project National Historic Park, and the National
Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque. When we return to
Albuquerque, the city's famous <a href="https://www.balloonfiesta.com/Event-Schedule">Balloon Fiesta</a> </span><span class="" style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">will be getting underway—so come for the history, and stay for the balloons. </span></span></span></div>
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dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-18132573053005938292018-12-12T12:42:00.001-08:002018-12-12T12:43:18.135-08:00Antietam Tour with Tom Clemens, May 2019<h2 class="wsite-content-title" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In the time that I am writing every stalk
of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as
closely as could have been done with a knife, and the slain lay in rows
precisely as they had stood in their ranks a few moments before. It was
never my fortune to witness a more bloody, dismal battlefield.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: medium;">—Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, USA, Commander,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: medium;">I Corps, Army of the Potomac</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Walk
the battlefield next spring with renowned Maryland Campaign historian
Thomas Clemens. Professor Clemens will conduct a comprehensive
examination of the sites and scenes of the bloodiest day of battle in
American history. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">We'll gather on
Thursday evening for a pizza reception at our hotel, and to hear an
orientation talk by our guide. Friday and Saturday will be all-day bus
and walking tours of Harpers Ferry, Sharpsburg and the Antietam
battlefield proper, and the Battle of Shepherdstown (aka, Battle of
Boteler's Ford). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Click <a href="https://whtours.org/antietam.html?fbclid=IwAR1mCkrWgtcV5r5WS7ihOAqW1ToUgB2aMK8bRl4-1zIsRaLDWos65ZR7tdU"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Here</b></span></a> for more information,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">and to reserve your seat on the bus. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8d2424; font-size: small;">General Itinerary</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b style="color: #2a2a2a;">THURSDAY (May 2):</b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> check into our headquarters hotel (Hampton Inn, Hagerstown: details below).</span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">6:30 p.m. Pizza Reception in the hotel meeting room: pick up your registration packets, and meet your host and guide. </span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">7:30 p.m. Tom Clemens will present an overview of the </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Maryland Campaign</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">, and </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Battle of Antietam</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><b>,</b> and set the stage of the next day's tour with a talk entitled: <br /><span style="color: #8d5024;">"Intentions; the Good, the Bad and the Unforeseen." </span></span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"></span><br /><b style="color: #2a2a2a;">FRIDAY (May 3):</b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> Board Bus at 7:45 a.m.</span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Bus departs hotel at: 8:00 a.m.</span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">8:30 am Arrive at </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Best Farm, Monocacy National Battlefield Visitor’s Center;</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> we'll cover the arrival in Maryland and campaign through Lee’s departure and McClellan’s arrival; discussion of the fateful </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Special Orders 191.</span></b><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Approx. 9:30 a.m. — Depart for </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Harpers Ferry</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">. We'll cover the siege and capture, </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Bolivar Heights, Schoolhouse Ridge, the cavalry escape</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">, and </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Maryland Heights</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">. </span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">11:00 a.m. — Depart for </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Crampton’s Gap</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">, cover </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Franklin’s march and approach</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">, drive by </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Brownsville Pass. Burkitsville, Gathland.</span></b><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Stop for lunch [provided]</span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Approx. 1:00 p.m. — Depart for </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Turner’s Gap</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">, stop at </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Mountain House. First Corps attack.</span></b><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Approx. 1:45 p.m. — Walk to </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Fox’s Gap</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> — </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Ninth Corps attack</span></b><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">4:00 p.m. — Bus picks up the group at Fox’s Gap; Drive through </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Keedysville</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> to </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Pry House</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> overlook</span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">5:00 p.m. — Day One tour concludes, return to hotel.<br />Dinner on your own. </span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> </span><br /><b style="color: #2a2a2a;">SATURDAY (May 4):</b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> Board Bus at 7:45 a.m.</span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Bus departs hotel at: 8:00 a.m.</span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">8:30 a.m. — Overview from Visitor Center at </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Antietam National Battlefield. </span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Poffenberger Woods</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> fight (September 16)</span><br /><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">North Woods</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Cornfield</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> and </span><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">East Woods</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">West Woods</span></b><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Lunch on the field [provided]</span><br /><b><span style="color: #8d5024;">Mumma</span></b> <span style="color: #8d5024;"><b>and Roulette farms</b><br /><b>Sunken Road<br />Middle Bridge</b><br /><b>Burnside Bridge</b></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> and </span><span style="color: #8d5024;"><b>Ninth Corps Attack</b><br /><b>Shepherdstown Ford</b></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> (if time allows)<br />No evening event scheduled. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #2a2a2a;">SUNDAY (May 5):</b><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> optional outing (via carpool) </span><br /><span style="color: #8d5024;"><b>The Battle of Shepherdstown (or Boteler's Ford) </b></span><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">10:00 a.m. for one-to-two hours. Adjourn by noon. </span></span><span style="color: #a85f2e; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt51FxOulMD3ukvk6R0gcK1cGQJGWgstmFuD9ZayskNrSE8qn9BxXPGufASYkycvtUR7PQdBKBvduX_n205JvWM6rPk0-iHT_B8qQRJ5sHwXuE3OLgZPErJKROISarzWxPdJVQ/s1600/clemens.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="441" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt51FxOulMD3ukvk6R0gcK1cGQJGWgstmFuD9ZayskNrSE8qn9BxXPGufASYkycvtUR7PQdBKBvduX_n205JvWM6rPk0-iHT_B8qQRJ5sHwXuE3OLgZPErJKROISarzWxPdJVQ/s400/clemens.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #a85f2e; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">About our guide:<br /><br />Tom Clemens is a founder and current president of the <a href="http://shaf.org/">Save Historic Antietam Foundation</a> and
has played a central role in helping preserve the field and associated
sites. His essential contributions to the literature on Antietam include
the monumental work as editor and annotator of the Maryland Campaign
study by Ezra Carmen, published in three volumes by Savas Beatie
Publishers. Tom is recognized as one of the foremost authorities
on Antietam, as well as one of the most engaging and entertaining tour
guides available. </span></span>dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-21548662379754060002018-10-10T00:12:00.003-07:002018-10-10T00:15:16.858-07:00The Call of the Bugle<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Call of the Bugle, painted by J.K. Ralston. This oil painting shows Custer rallying the
troops for the final defense of Last Stand Hill. The Custer Battlefield
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dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-70881596583956979662018-09-05T14:21:00.000-07:002018-09-05T14:21:52.855-07:00The Rock, and the Big Stick<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #8e8e8e; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;">"On a hot June Sunday in 1876, hordes of painted Indian warriors—perhaps as many as 4,000—swarmed over a treeless Montana ridge rising from the Little Bighorn River Valley. Five companies of U.S. Cavalry, about 215 blue-shirted troopers, contended briefly and hopelessly against overwhelming odds. When the guns fell silent and the smoke and dust of battle lifted, every soldier lay dead.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #8e8e8e; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;">This was "Custer's Last Stand" the most spectacular triumph of the American Indian in his four-century struggle against the relentlessly advancing European civilization that finally crushed him. It forms a chapter of American history that has inspired intense study and provoked intense controversy, that has been chronicled endlessly in prose and verse and enacted time and again on motion picture and television screens, and that has earned a lasting place in the Nation's historical annals and popular folklore. In total defeat and death, Custer and his men achieved an immortality that even the most dramatic victory could not have won them." </span><span style="color: #8e8e8e; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<em style="color: #8e8e8e; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; position: relative;">— Robert M. Utley, NPS Handbook, Little Bighorn National Monument.</em></blockquote>
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<br />dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-72599501361116261342018-08-07T21:22:00.000-07:002018-08-07T21:22:32.972-07:00Upcoming Tours . . . Little Bighorn, Antietam, Civil War to Cold War in New Mexico, the Apache Wars . . . <div style="text-align: left;">
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dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-38865293602992671402018-05-25T18:23:00.000-07:002018-06-01T18:06:46.058-07:00summer ad for Rosebud and Little Bighorn excursion<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look for this ad in an upcoming issue of <a href="http://www.historynet.com/august-2018-table-contents.htm" target="_blank">Wild West </a>magazine, and in various digital venues. See also the <a href="http://whtours.org/" target="_blank">new website</a> for WHT. </span></div>
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dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-36288202084274910352018-05-09T14:37:00.000-07:002018-05-09T14:59:35.735-07:00Bruce Catton<div class="tr_bq">
Photos from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center, Bruce Catton Papers. Text from New York Times <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1009.html?mcubz=3" target="_blank">obituary</a>, August 29, 1978</div>
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dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-62320116525638741342018-04-09T15:33:00.000-07:002018-04-09T15:51:15.586-07:00Charles P. Roland turns 100<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happy Birthday to Charles P. Roland, who wrote</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">—</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in my opinion</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">—</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the best <i>short</i>, single-volume history of the Civil War: <i>An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War</i> (University Press of Kentucky). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had the pleasure of sitting with Dr. Roland at dinner one evening, during a Jerry Russell-sponsored battlefield conference. When he learned I had attended college in Evansville, Indiana, it reminded him of his best buddy in WWII, who hailed from Evansville, and Roland related some stories from their adventures at the Battle of the Bulge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Roland is a great historian, a fascinating man, and a pleasant dinner companion. I'm glad to hear he's still going strong. Roland also wrote what used to me, and what may still be, the only scholarly biography of General Albert Sydney Johnston (<i>Albert Sydney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics</i>). While visiting the Shiloh battlefield last weekend, where Johnston was killed, I noticed that this (now revised) book is still in print (also from the University Press of Kentucky). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those are two great books from a great university press. Here's hoping Governor Matt Bevin's "petty and barbaric" (<a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/03/09/wendell-berry-defends-university-press-kentucky-state-budget/398922002/" target="_blank">quoting eminent Kentuckian Wendell Berry</a>) efforts to close the press are thwarted.</span><br />
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<br />dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-15447553622374101992018-03-21T12:59:00.001-07:002018-03-21T12:59:30.980-07:00The Power of History (Bay Area Book Festival)<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1309299028"><br /></a>
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Is best-selling history bad history? Does good history have to be dull reading? Four award-winning historians and biographers talk about the big questions of American history and reveal how they explore them through captivating narratives that win esteem in the academy yet appeal to wide audiences. Bancroft and Lincoln prize winner Edward Ayers (whose many works focus on the Civil War and Reconstruction), Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize winner Peter Cozzens (most recently “The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West”), Pulitzer and National Book Award laureate T.J. Stiles (most recently “Custer’s Trials: A Life on a Frontier of New America” and “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”), and Hastings Law Professor Joel Richard Paul (most recently “Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times”) talk with Steve Wasserman, executive director of Heyday Books, former editor at Yale University Press, and former book review editor of the Los Angeles Times.</div>
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<br />dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-7235243559176585812018-02-19T18:03:00.000-08:002018-02-24T13:28:22.366-08:00Rosebud and Little Bighorn battlefield tours (October 2018)<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm very happy to announce a new tour happening in October, covering the Battles of the Rosebud, and Little Bighorn, with some essential side trips. Neil Mangum, former historian at LBH, and author of the definitive work on the Rosebud, helped customize a unique 4-day outing that will comprehensively cover both battlefields, and take in many other important sites associated with those events, including Deer Medicine Rocks (where Sitting Bull described his sun dance vision of soldiers falling into camp like grasshoppers falling from the sky). See the flyer here for more details.</span></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From a recent post on one of my favorite <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Garry-Adelmans-Civil-War-Page-178968718823848/">Facebook pages</a>: </i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Wow, I have long liked this detail with General Grant at right at his new City Point headquarters, early summer 1864, but did not until just now did I notice the captured Confederate flag leaning against the tree at left! You can never scour the details of these photos too often."</span></span>dwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-23405645632445937202017-10-20T22:52:00.000-07:002017-10-20T22:52:21.191-07:00The Battle of the U.S.S. "Kearsarge" and the C.S.S. "Alabama"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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tourist attractions is the <a href="http://www.gettysburgbattlefieldtours.com/gettysburg-tours/jennie-wade-house/"><span style="color: blue;">Jennie Wade House</span></a>, at 548 Baltimore Street. It was
there that Mary Virginia Wade was killed while kneading dough in the kitchen,
the only known civilian to die in the Battle of Gettysburg. [Exploitation of that family is presumably lucrative, and <a href="http://www.gettysburgbattlefieldtours.com/georgia-your-sister-is-dead/"><span style="color: blue;">knows no bounds</span></a>.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It bears noting that it wasn’t
actually Jennie Wade’s house – it was the home of her older sister, Georgia
Wade McClellan (one might also note that Mary Virginia was called “Gin,” or
“Ginnie,” or "Jinnie” by her family, but Jennie is how she is remembered
today, and is the name that appears on her <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=1064&PIpi=76629"><span style="color: blue;">tombstone</span> </a>in Gettysburg’s Evergreen
Cemetery). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mary Virginia Wade and her mother had
taken refuge in Georgia’s house, where Georgia had just given birth to
her first child. On the third day of the battle, a wayward bullet entered the
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commemorations that I learned -- through a Civil War-related news item -- that Georgia Wade McClellan is buried in Denison. Georgia — who turned 22-years-old the day after her sister was
killed — served as a nurse for wounded soldiers after the battle. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not long after the war, Georgia and her husband, John L. McClellan, moved west, eventually
settling in Denison, where three of their children were born. Her husband
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awhile. After her husband died, she lived with a grandchild in Carroll, Iowa, down the road from Denison, where she died in 1927. She
was buried beside her husband in Denison's Oakland Cemetery on September 7 of that year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />. . . but he did own the land. Last month I journeyed to Iowa for a high school reunion, and I had a checklist of items I wanted to see—things I was oblivious to in my youth, and only subsequently learned about. One of the things I was curious to lay eyes on was a land grant to Abraham Lincoln. Quoting <a href="http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/sites/iowaland.htm">Abraham Lincoln Online</a>: "Lincoln's second [Iowa] parcel was 120 acres in Goodrich Township, Crawford County. It is seven miles north of Denison and one mile east of Schleswig, identified by a marker erected in 1923 by the Denison Chapter of the D.A.R. Warrant #68645 was issued on April 22, 1856, and Lincoln located the land while living in Springfield, Illinois, on December 27, 1859.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The patent for the Crawford County tract was issued to Lincoln on September 10, 1860, during his first presidential campaign, and sent to the Registrar of the Land Office at Springfield on October 30, one week before the election. The property eventually passed to Lincoln's only surviving son Robert, who sold the property to Henry Edwards for $1,300 on March 22, 1892."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another source, (on very handy site called <a href="http://www.iowacivilwarmonuments.com/cgi-bin/gaarddetails.pl?1210460311~2">Iowa Civil War Monuments</a>) asserts that "<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">When he visited Council Bluffs in 1859 to consult with Grenville Dodge about a future transcontinental railroad, he referred to his land here but said he couldn't take the time to see it."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I made the time, however, 40 years after I lived there. Thankfully, it's well marked. On Google Maps, you can find it here: 42°05'40.7"N 95°25'12.0"W<br /></span></span><br />
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