Monday, August 18, 2008

On this day, August 18, 1862

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At Redwood Ferry, Minnesota, nineteen soldiers of forty-six survived a Sioux ambush. Around Ft. Ridgely houses were in flames, victims were...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

John Y. Simon, R.I.P.

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The Grant project consumed him. . . . He worked on it every day, his wife said. “It was daily, it was weekends and it was most holidays,” s...
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Friday, July 04, 2008

Civil War Sacrilege

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One of the most controversial Civil War books of the past 15 years is a thoughtful 1991 treatise on Robert E. Lee by the Indianapolis atto...
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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. ...