Thursday, April 26, 2007

It really does take a rocket scientist

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References to signal rockets in the Civil War era are not uncommon, and I know the British really did employ rockets (perhaps even causing...
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Sunday, April 15, 2007

A Digital Feast

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If you're like me, when the O.R. Atlas — after a long stretch out of print — became readily available again about fifteen years ago, y...
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Either With it or Upon it

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A long-time link at the Soldiers and Sailor's site bears mentioning. If you haven't seen it already, take a moment to view the flag...
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Monday, April 09, 2007

Brogans in Baghdad

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It was only a matter of time, I suppose. Once the reserves are exhausted, where does the Commander in Chief drum up fresh recruits for ove...
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

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Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Everything you know is wrong. . .

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Two entries below, I posted a map of the battles for Atlanta ( here ). I wonder how many die-hard students of that campaign went rushing to...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

A year in the planning, and now it's time to board the airplane for Dulles

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and a weekend at Appomattox for the 11th Civil War Forum Battlefield Conference . I'll be back online in a few days with photos and ta...
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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