Tuesday, October 17, 2006

When Jenny Reb Shipped Out for the Front

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Earnest defenders of the cause busy themselves in blurring the distinction between slaves impressed into labor for the army, and so-called...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

Mad Freak of Heroic Incompetence

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"The dense forests wholly or partly in which were fought so many battles of the Civil War, lay upon the earth in each autumn a thick de...
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Thursday, October 05, 2006

I'm just about the only person I know who has an abiding interest in the American Civil War, and yet has never taken the time to read Charles Frazier's spectacularly successful first novel, Cold Mountain (even as I typed this, I had to go back and change "Harbor" to "Mountain," a mistake I make every time I reference the book or movie).

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I can't satisfactorily explain why I haven't read it yet — I still plan to. Really. It's a little odd that I've put it off,...
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Monday, September 25, 2006

Behind the smokehouse we had a kind of map.

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Vicksburg was a handful of chips from the woodpile and the river was a trench we had scraped in the packed ground with a hoe, that drank wa...
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Thursday, August 31, 2006

"It is not hard to have mixed feelings about the American South."

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So goes the opening line to the preface of Edward L. Ayers book, What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History....
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

From Bloody Island to Bloody Hell, I mean Hill

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— tracing the Far West footprints of Civil Warriors A couple of weeks ago we returned from another glorious camping trip in secesh countr...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Talk thus to the marines, but not to me. . .

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There's nothing like a gang of vigilantes, scornful of the sheriff's office and taking the law into their own hands to begin to sti...
Monday, July 31, 2006

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new [military history] under the sun.

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Of course, that's not to say it can't be told in a more interesting, and accurate fashion. A couple of entries ago, I mentioned that...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

"Before leaving Washington I had been authorized to promote officers on the field for special acts of gallantry. By this authority I conferred the rank of brigadier-general upon Upton on the spot, and this act was confirmed by the president."

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— U. S. Grant, Memoirs For people fascinated by history — and I would hope a couple readers of this blog fit that bill — visiting the sit...
Sunday, July 23, 2006

Something Old, Something New, Something Gray, Something Blue. . .

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Many of my fellow Civil War bloggers have weighed in on the idea of a "New Military History," and the tension that some perceive...
Thursday, July 13, 2006

Don't know much about a science book / Don't know much about the French I took

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I watched Jeopardy the last two nights. How is it that the people who win so many thousands of dollars know everything about everything, exc...

I phoned James McPherson to ask what caused the war

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Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until a...