Monday, July 30, 2007

North versus South

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I went to the ballgame on Friday the 13 th . The Dodgers were in town to, unfortunately, sweep the Giants again (the woman in this photo was...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Location momentarily disclosed, and closed to the public

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Emerging from an undisclosed location, last month Vice President Cheney descended upon the battlefield at Kennesaw Mountain. American taxpa...
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

All Roads Lead To Fifty-Six

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I'm on the road for a few more days, deep in the tick-infested woods of North-Central Arkansas, not far from where J. O. Shelby spent t...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

American Heritage is History

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at least on paper Somehow I missed this notice when it came out in May. I grew up in one of those households that had stacks of hardcove...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007

We have confirmation that Halleck could accurately transcribe a note. . .

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The National Archives held a press conference today to announce they'd located an original, handwritten note from Abraham Lincoln to H...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Amateur Makes Good

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Some fellow bloggers weighed in recently on the distinctions between amateur and professional historians in the world of Civil War historio...

Getting off to a good start. . .

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I know people who managed to get all the way through college without reading a play by Shakespeare, or attending a course in American histo...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Atlanta, 1864

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Just a quick note to announce that registration is open for the 12th annual Civil War Forum Battlefield Conference, to be held March 27-30, ...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

This just in: medical science has advanced during the last 142 years

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(notwithstanding the calculated efforts of HMOs to restrict your access to it) Last week word came from the 13th Historical Clinicopathol...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Before Henry Hill, there was Vesuvius

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— Old Blue Light visits Old Europe If you think "Stonewall" Jackson covered a lot of ground in his celebrated 1862 Shenando...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Virginia is for lovers

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Blood-drenched landscapes of unspeakable slaughter don't have to be a buzz-kill. If you think Virginia's Civil War battlefields are...
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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...