Thursday, July 02, 2009

A brief follow-up to the query posted here last Saturday

›
-- whether our 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant, visited California suffragette Sa rah Wallis's (Mayfield, now Palo Alto) farm in 1877: ...
2 comments:
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

"worry-ye-not, fans of ponchos, big hats and spitting, 2009 just might be your year"

›
At last, a FPS game featuring Confederate deserters who head off to defend their home in Georgia and end up being chased through the greate...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Did President Grant really visit Palo Alto in 1877?

›
or is it similar to claims that "Washington slept here"? I went for a walk in the neighborhood the other night, specifically to...
6 comments:

Dead on June 25th

›
NEWSPAPERS RACE TO REPORT THE SHOCKING STORY Before Wolf Blitzer was interviewing holograms , before news apps for the iPhone, before Tw...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

"Seven Civil War Stories You Didn't Learn in High School"

›
Seeing the headline of this Wall Street Journal article piqued my interest. I was hoping to find some new tidbit, some edgy new interpr...
6 comments:
Monday, June 15, 2009

Putting one's money where one's mouth is. . .

›
Ed Bearss, left, and Brian Pohanka (photo by Rudy Perini) On this day, four years ago, we lost one of the best and most devoted histo...
1 comment:
Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Map Lovers Rejoice

›
The newly revamped website for The Civil War Preservation Trust has a beautiful, all-in-one map page , featuring their outstanding topo ma...
4 comments:
Friday, May 29, 2009

Way down in Mississippi / where the pine trees grow / deep in Jones County / where the leaf river flows

›
In May of 2008 I posted the transcript of a Q&A I conducted with Victoria Bynum, regarding her fascinating book, The Free State of Jone...
3 comments:
Thursday, May 28, 2009

The Making of the Revised Edition of Gettysburg: A Battlefield Guide

›
Civil War blogging doesn't get any better than the recent serial entries by Mark Grimsley (at Civil Warriors ) on the intriguing proces...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

›
David Herbert Donald, 1920–2009 "Professor Donald taught that truth comes before showmanship. Without theorizing or bloviating, and sim...
2 comments:
Monday, April 27, 2009

On this day, 144 years ago. . .

›
I swam about four miles and came to an island covered with timber. I climbed a tree, and the water surrounding it was about ten feet deep...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Walk to the Sea

›
In honor of John Muir's birthday today, I am reaching back three years into the archives to pull out one of my favorite, early posts in ...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Groom adds voice on famous siege

›
[ from an article today at Salon.com] By WALTER PUTNAM Associated Press Writer Apr 10th, 2009 "Vicksburg 1863" (Alfred A. K...
2 comments:
Saturday, April 04, 2009

a number of us set out last Sunday morning, on a spectacular Shenandoah Valley day

›
[ above : historic Pritchard House on the Kernstown Battlefield] With Scott Patchan's Cedar Creek issue of Blue & Gray in hand , a...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

saturday road notes

›
Lucked out on the rain again today, making for some fine touring. It's a powerful thing to see for the first time the results of preser...
3 comments:

friday road notes

›
Two experiences in Virginia Civil War history on the same day illustrate two ends of a spectrum. We got out our box lunches near some marke...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

thursday road notes

›
A rainy day in Winchester and environs. At noon, about 20 of us carpooled over to Charles Town, West Virginia for a stop at the Jefferson ...

John Hope Franklin, R.I.P.

›
Saturday, March 07, 2009

13th Civil War Forum Battlefield Conference

›
THE 1864 SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN We have 43 people signed up for what promises to be another deeply informative and memorable series...
1 comment:
Thursday, March 05, 2009

finger-lickin' dead

›
"It's about the torment of a southern officer who lost everything" Mel Gibson discusses trailer for his new Civil War movie...
1 comment: