Thursday, October 04, 2007

"I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood. . ."

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Way back at the end of January I posted a short blog entry on the forthcoming Philip Glass opera Appomattox , scheduled to open in San Fran...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Once upon a time he commanded a fearsome army against the armies of the United States

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sending thousands of U. S. soldiers to their graves in a series of punishing battles. He led hostile forces within striking distance of W...
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Friday, September 14, 2007

"a superior bastard. . ."

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Following up on my two Jesse James entries (and not yet prepared to critique the two biographies mentioned earlier), here's a little not...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

“The Centennial is worth celebratingbut there is a ghost at the feast.”

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—Walker Percy on the Civil War centennial As promised , a few more comments and quotes from Walker Percy. The two essays of his that I’ve...
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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Walking away from a mountain. . .

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"The truth of it is, I think, that the whole country, South included, is just beginning to see the Civil War whole and entire for t...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Who needs a boat, if skillets float?

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I only drop in occasionally on the U.S.S. Monitor Center Blog , to see what’s new, and it’s usually rewarding. The August 8 th entry show...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007

One more post on my new Jesse James fixation

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— a long-dormant interest brought to the fore again by a recent road trip through Missouri. The fact that there is some fairly recent schola...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Late on the afternoon of July 11, after two weeks revisiting some familiar and familial locales in Northern Arkansas and Southern Missiouri . . .

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I was transporting my brood northward in a rented Pontiac Torrent en route to Kansas City, there to catch a flight to San Jose. We had a li...
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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Ghost Writers Keep it all in the Family

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I don't mean ghost writer in the sense of someone hired to write a celebrity's memoirs. I mean the supernatural kind of ghost, the k...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

"a wicked scramble that could have passed for a goal line stand or the attack on Little Round Top."

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So said reporters at SFGate.com tonight, the online venue for the San Francisco Chronicle, describing people in the centerfield bleachers...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Not your father's Civil War. . .

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A columnist I enjoy reading in the San Francisco Chronicle , Jon Carroll, had a piece published on July 31st talking about culling his burge...
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Bill Walsh, 1931-2007 : "The Genius"

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“Here’s my game plan.” This is what Bill Walsh reportedly told a friend of his upon giving him a copy of Carl von Clausewitz’s, On War . Ac...
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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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