Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Google Earth Quiz Number One

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Test your Aerial Reconnaissance Skills Amaze your friends If you're like me, when there are dishes to be done, or garbage cans wai...
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As if there weren't already a severe shortage of hours in the day

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to read all the things that pique one's interest, the editors of The Atlantic . com have opened the flood gates on a treasure trove of...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

This and That

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I’m guessing 17 days was long enough for regular visitors to grok my last entry, the cartoon I posted in the first week of this month? I’m ...
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Sunday, January 06, 2008

The Truth About Black Confederates

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Thursday, January 03, 2008

North and South

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Most of my life, when people ask me where I’m from, I have always said Iowa, because that’s where I spent my formative years, sixth grade t...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007

When Luck Runs Out. . .

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Some survived the war, but not the peace. Emerson Opdycke, at left, overcame a grievous wound at Shiloh — and was in the thick of things th...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Restless Conqueror, part one

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There’s something about Civil War veterans who go on to make their mark as explorers that really piques my interest. Two that have been th...
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Monday, December 03, 2007

Attorney at Law, Bigfoot Wrestler

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I stumbled upon a "huge depository of Unusual Links about Abraham Lincoln" here at the always engaging Grow-a-brain blog (there...
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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