Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Odds and Sods

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A number of the Civil War blogs listed in the lower right column covered the interesting discovery of what appear to be glimpses of Abraham...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Nearly Fired and Never Knew It

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Readers of the last blog entry here may have noted that the controversy over the Alacatraz photographs really took off in early August of 1...
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Monday, November 19, 2007

When Kingcome Came, Winder Took a Shot at Him, part two

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Just a quick follow-up to my last blog entry, in which I mentioned how Captain William A. Winder, commanding the Civil War-era garrison on ...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

When Kingcome Came, Winder Took a Shot at Him, part one

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Reading the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion , even at random, never fails to produce something of interest. Continuing the la...
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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Some of the greatest preservation "victories" were not even contested, but instead depended on something as tenuous as one man's opinion.

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Fort Point , in San Francisco's Presidio, was one of the 1850-1884 "Third System" harbor fortifications that included such we...
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Monday, November 05, 2007

About one year ago, in my October 30, 2006 blog entry I made passing mention of some Civil War-related "Roadside Attractions"

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inlcuding a reenactment of what is claimed to be the Civil War's first amputation in Philippi, West Virginia (scroll down at that link...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Where is the statue to Mrs. Arnold?

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Many a woman answered the call in the Civil War years, and devoted herself to taking care of wounded soldiers back from the front. In what w...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Flags of our (Great-Grand) Fathers

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I try not to blog about my political opinions here -- there are other venues where I let off that kind of steam. I find it jarring when hi...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

iTunes U

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Even though I did not own an iPod or other MP3 player until just recently, I have amassed a vast library of free podcasts — mainly of vari...
Friday, October 12, 2007

Buster Kilrain in Song...

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Steve Earle sings "Dixieland": a long introduction, but it's worth it, as Steve explains what the war was really about, and ho...
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"The Road to Appomattox"

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...one more Appomattox-related entry for now: Andrew McKnight sings "The Road to Appomattox," WUWF radiolive television concert, r...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

"Sholbit" = "the end"

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In August of 2006 I posted a blog entry with passing reference to the " Battle of Bloody Island ," in which Captain Nathaniel Lyo...
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I have never consciously avoided opera

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but somehow it took until 2007 for me to attend my first performance, at least a final dress rehearsal. Even then, incentives were required...
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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...