Friday, September 23, 2011

Remembering some Civil War Forum Battlefield Tours

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Bob Krick at Chancellorsville stylishly sporting a SF Giants ballcap and a 49ers logo shirt (2003)  Bob Krick at Fredericksburg ...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Horace Porter and John Paul Jones

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John Paul Jones was one of my first heroes. I loved the very sound of his name. I loved the images it evoked — all of the excitement and ...
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Monday, September 19, 2011

Letterman on the Civil War

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Thursday, May 15, 2008 TOP TEN SIGNS YOUR TEACHER IS DRUNK Number 9:   Insists the Civil War was fought between Jack Daniel and Ji...

Was Nicolas Cage a vampire during the Civil War?

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This imaginative eBay listing has since been removed. Perhaps the item was sold. The original auction was entitled, "Nicolas Cage is a ...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Reviews Forthcoming

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George Crook: From the Redwoods to Appomattox, Paul Magid (University of Oklahoma Press, 2011). Shooting Soldiers: Civil War Medical Phot...
Sunday, September 04, 2011

In the Cornfield

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Yes Virginia, you can produce regular, lengthy blog entries and still find time to write a book

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There are too many Civil War books to keep up with (or catch up with) these days, so one has to be fairly discerning about how to fill those...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Georgia Adds Swastika, Middle Finger To State Flag

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I don't know how I missed this controversial story from the late 1990s. It must have gotten lost in a busy news cycle. [News in Phot...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Ed Bearss' favorite Civil War books

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No, Ed did not mention a book on Glorieta Pass in his top five, but I'll bet you he read this one, and thought highly of it. On his tour...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

The Civil War Documentary - A Documentary

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"We were about one hour into the Civil War, we all figured things were going pretty well, but naturally we wondered how much longer it ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Hunley is Upright

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"The first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship is upright for the first time in almost 150 years, revealing a side of its hul...