Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Mapping for Stonewall: THE CIVIL WAR SERVICE OF JED HOTCHKISS

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revisiting a favorite book a Q&A with Bill Miller Excerpted from an interview on September 4, 1997 William J. Miller is the ...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Last fall I wrote a blog entry remarking on the fact that with the passage of time, the U.S. Navy eventually began to honor certain leaders of erstwhile enemy forces from the Civil War era.

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 The U.S.S. Robert E. Lee was the main case in point. More recently I had occasion to ponder another celebrated enemy of the United Sta...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The Free State of Jones: MISSISSIPPI'S LONGEST CIVIL WAR

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revisiting a favorite book A Q&A with Victoria Bynum The saga of Jones County during the Civil War is one of the most intriguing a...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Some years back, in 1066, William the Conqueror defeated the British at the Battle of Hastings.

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Today, nine-hundred and forty-one years later, visitors can still see some of the actual battlefield, and visit the ruins of Battle Abbey. ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

For two hours, we had the Southern Museum to ourselves.

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Upon entering, we hightailed it straight to the auditorium where the two most popular people of the weekend were holding court, the caterer...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008

I've been to Kennesaw, Georgia twice now.

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The first time was in the mid-90's when I was traveling around the Atlanta area trying to get bookstores to carry copies of a book on t...
Monday, May 05, 2008

Sometime right after breakfast, I will endeavor to dispense with the final recaps from my recent Atlanta adventure

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— picking up after Kennesaw, and moving on to dinner at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, there to see a locomotive ...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Down the road at Kennesaw, things were really cooking.

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One glance at the Visitor Center parking lot and you could see that here was a major battlefield that tourists and locals alike had discove...
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Thursday, April 10, 2008

From Pine Mountain to Eternity. . .

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Atlanta Campaign continued : after a vigorous hike at Pickett's Mill, we boarded the bus again and headed more or less due east on the ...
Friday, April 04, 2008

Georgia Sojourn Continued

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More than any other place on the CW Forum's Atlanta Campaign itinerary, I was looking forward to my first visit to Pickett's Mill. ...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Resaca

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I had planned to knock out a quick travelogue of each day of my recent sojourn in Georgia, which would have required some fairly quick summ...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Not much time for an entry tonight. We'll be on the road at the crack of nuts tomorrow, 6:45 a.m.

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which of course, is 3:45 a.m. back home in the Trans-Sierra. What a day. We spent about four hours at the Atlanta History Center looking ov...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

"Well you can drop me off on Peachtree I got to feel that Georgia sun"

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. . . . Oh Atlanta, Oh Atlanta! Flew into William B. Hartsfield on Wednesday afternoon, caught a ride with my sister and brother-in-law ...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Beginning one week from tonight, the Civil War Forum will hold its annual conference/battlefield tour in Atlanta.

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 A handful of seats remain. See the previous blog entry for the bird's eye low-down. Atlanta, Ga., Soldiers on boxcars at railroad d...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Sherman’s 1864 Campaign for Atlanta

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12th Civil War Forum Battlefield Conference March 27-30, 2008 There’s still time to get one of the remaining seats on the bus for the...