Tuesday, January 23, 2007

A Stillness at the War Memorial Opera House

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People needing to get that Civil War opera fix may want to travel to San Francisco this October for the premiere of " Appomattox ,...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Sometimes heroes sire scoundrels

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Federal artillery captain and Medal of Honor-winner Hubert "Leatherbreeches" Dilger died on May 4, 1911 (scroll down on this pag...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

My mailbox is regularly crammed with catalogs from several of the university presses that still do Civil War titles, Plains Wars and western history

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I look forward to seeing some of them more than others. I like to scan them to discover who's written one more of the books I forgot t...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Eicher and Eicher POD? I Say Nay

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Like everyone else in our little corner of the Civil War blogworld, I'm a regular reader of Dimitri Rotov's Civil War Bookshelf . ...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

The Battle of Santa Clara

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One hundred and sixty years ago today, men chose sides and squared off to determine the fate of Alta California. There's no trace of t...
Monday, December 25, 2006

Memorable Christmas gifts and "thank you" notes of the American Civil War

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General Sherman to President Lincoln (Telegram offering Savannah, Georgia as a Christmas present) —transcription of above— December 22...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Writing less than a year after the Civil War ended, Mark Twain had occasion to see a demonstration of the considerable skills of officers of the Signal Corps—the unsung masters of battlefield communication

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It’s more or less a lost art in this age of satellite communications, but the two in this account would make for some unbeatable charades p...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

"You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war."

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— Sherman to the mayor of Atlanta In July of 1864, W. T. Sherman's blue columns, after flanking Joe Johnston out of one position, th...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Reenacting and Me

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Over at the blog, My Year of Living Rangerously , Manny writes that he has "always been ambivalent about the hobby of reenacting....
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

I can see for miles and miles and miles

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— Pete Townshend Take the Greek "pan," for "all," and stick it on "horama," meaning view, and you get panor...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Letters Home

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One often reads that Civil War soldiers were the most literate in our history, a fact attested to by the voluminous letters, diaries, and re...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

The Art and Obligations of Criticism

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Some book reviews are so harsh, so thoroughly biting and dripping with such disdain, you figure either the reviewer has peeled away all of a...
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Monday, November 06, 2006

The year 1862 was a remarkably bloody time for the American experiment.

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[Photo: "People escaping from the Indian massacre, at dinner on a prairie," Library of Congress, details below] It's well ...
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