Friday, February 23, 2007

"Make me a map of the Valley" (as a pdf I can view on my iPhone)

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In the comments section of one of the other Civil War blogs — I've forgotten how to find my way back to it — Drew Wagenhoffer posted a ...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

"Lincoln and Halleck are traitors and caterpillars..."

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— Major Henry Abbott, 20 th Massachusetts Caterpillars? All the talk of Harvard recently — and quite a few bloggers were speaking of it...

Manly Men in the Service of the Lord

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"The Civil War is our only 'felt' history," wrote Robert Penn Warren, and one can certainly feel that in the element of r...
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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Civil War Historian Boots Boring Economist From Ivory Tower

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Harvard set to name first female president . Noted historian, a Radcliffe dean, will succeed Summers Valerie Strauss, S usan Kinzie, Was...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

More Lies Across America, Civil War category

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About one year ago, I posted some comments on James W. Loewen's sequel to Lies My Teacher Told Me (see that post here ). I've g...
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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