Friday, September 03, 2010

It's the technology, stupid.

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Hat tip to Civil War Librarian for this update: Museum of the Confederacy Offers Online High Res Digital Images of its Collection . This i...
Monday, August 30, 2010

What do these three Civil War generals have in common?

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Monday Morning Trivia. . . Obviously we could make all kinds of tenuous connections between various Civil War generals, but I'm looking...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

State of Denial

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I just became aware of this essay by Professor David Blight in the online version of the Fredericksburg, Virginia Free Lance-Star. One R...
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Sunday, August 08, 2010

Northward to Capt. Jack's Stronghold

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I'm off once more to the Lava Beds for some R&R, this time determined to hike the trail to the Thomas-Wright battlefield . Full re...
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Sunday, August 01, 2010

Shipwrecked Twice in One Day

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Ansel Adams's view of the Golden Gate. Ft. Point is at the tip of the peninsula in the center-right of the image. On April 9, 1853, a...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive

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The University of Virginia has made available online quite a few bits of audio (with transcripts) from 1957 and 1958 when William Faulkne...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Brown was not a black Confederate

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One gets the feeling that if we had the resources to examine every case of a so-called Black Confederate in detail, their phantom numbers wo...
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Union Cemetery, Redwood City, California

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Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maine, New York, Michigan —  they are veterans of many ...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Battle of Duncan's Mills

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On the Russian River, just upstream from Jenner — that Battle of Duncan's Mills.  As a San Francisco Bay Area resident, and a self-ann...
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

We've all seen the stats.

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  Time and again you come across them. And yet, every time you take a moment to consider them thoughtfully, they seem even more remarkable...
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010

When anyone can be a published author. . .

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How do you find something good to read in a brave new self-published world? by Laura Miller [entire article can be read here] Read...
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Saturday, July 03, 2010

Gettysburg from a distance

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Recalling Longstreet's Assault 147 years ago today — also known as the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge, also known as Pickett's Ch...

on this 147th anniversary

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an account from the officer holding the left flank of the Union line at Gettysburg. . .   After-action report of Colonel Joshua Chamberla...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Welcome Varyag!

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The flagship of Russia's Pacific fleet has come to town and is docked at Pier 30-32. It is the first Russian warship to visit San Franc...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

The Battle of Brandy Station

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Today marks the 147th anniversary of what is frequently described as the largest cavalry battle on the North American continent. It's w...

A Stillness at Appomattox

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I'm back in the Golden State after a jam-packed Civil War weekend in Appomattox, and will take some time later this week to post some ph...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

He Ho'omana'o No

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You heard me. On this Memorial Day, 2010, the Honolulu Advertiser reports that "Henry Ho'olulu Pitman, the son of a Hawaiian high ...
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Texas textbooks and the truth

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Monday, May 31, 2010 19:01 ET Texas is right: We should teach kids about Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy. But let's tell the whol...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Tommy Lee Jones: "Am I dead?" John Bell Hood: "You don't look like it to me"

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Certainly Hood saw enough dead men to answer that question correctly. Back in 1994 I picked up a copy of James Lee Burke's In the Ele...
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