Monday, May 12, 2014

"I was always careful after that about joking with Johnnies"

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Recent spasms of old-school racism – L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s bizarre recordings, and the musings of freeloading anarchis...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

150 Years Ago -- reaching the tipping point

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Already by May 11, 1864, those of us looking back in hindsight can see the fortunes of war tipping inexorably toward Union arms. Gene...
Sunday, May 04, 2014

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Hunley finally ready to reveal itself The Post and Courier by Brian Hicks Today, scientists at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center...
Friday, April 18, 2014

18th Civil War Forum Conference (April 4-5, 2014) -- Ball's Bluff and Monocacy (Early's 1864 raid)

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Fort Stevens, where Lincoln was almost shot. On the left, R. Keith Young, former Commander of the sub U.S.S. Silversides, and right, hist...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Police blotter on the night Lincoln was killed

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This Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department logbook for the night of April 14, 1865 records the news of the Lincoln assassinat...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Maryland man may have found two lost or forgotten photos of Lincoln’s funeral procession

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From the Washington Post. . . Mathew Brady/The National Archives -  This quad photograph is believed to show President Abraham Lincoln...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Indiana University Press book sale

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Good deals on some good books.  http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/
Monday, February 17, 2014

150 years ago: Hunley sinks the Housatonic

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(CNN) -- Born and built amid gray-cloaked secrecy during the American Civil War, the H.L. Hunley — the first submarine to sink an enem...
Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Ball's Bluff and Monocacy -- 18th Civil War Forum Reunion

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18th Civil War Forum Battlefield Conference Ball’s Bluff, and Monocacy (with a side trip to Antietam) Leesburg, Virginia, April 3-6, 201...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

‘History of the Slave South’ Online Course Taught by Penn’s Stephanie McCurry Starts Jan. 20

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[press release] In the world of the Internet, slavery and the American Civil War are explosive topics of debate, so Stephanie McCurry ...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Excerpt from Smithsonian's, "Last of the Blue and Gray"

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The last veteran who said he fought for the Union was Albert Woolson; Walter Williams said he was the last Confederate. One of them ind...
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Saturday, December 07, 2013

Travelogue: Battle of Apache Pass

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In September I attended the 34th Annual Order of the Indian Wars Assembly in Tucson—“On the Trail of Geronimo"—for a few days of ...
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Friday, November 29, 2013

Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan slept here. Joe Hooker and Kit Carson too. . . my kids are unimpressed

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The operative phrase is, "according to local tradition." But it could have happened. Blue Wing Inn, across the street from t...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Review: Voices of the American West

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Voices of the American West, Volume 1: The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919 , by Eli Ricker, edited by Richard E. Jenson...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

150 years ago -- the Gettysburg Address

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One of only five known copies of the Gettysburg Address written in Lincoln's hand, this one resides at the Cornell University Library . ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

We pass over the silly remarks of the president

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Timely retraction. . .  In the editorial about President Abraham Lincoln’s speech delivered Nov. 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, the Patriot ...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Strolling down memory lane: South Bay Civil War Roundtable

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DW, left, and TPS, August 24, 2013 Way back in 1988, my wife and I flew from San Francisco to San Diego where I was excited to attend t...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Indians and Braves, but no 7th Cavalry

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from the Times-Georgian . . . . . .   the Heard County High School football team is hoping to rebound from a frustrating opener this week ...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Review: Smithsonian Civil War

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Smithsonian Civil War, Inside the National Collection, edited by Neil Kagan and Stephen G. Hyslop (Smithsonian Books, 2013). Establ...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Gettysburg Magazine acquired by University of Nebraska Press

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The University of Nebraska Press will take over publication of Gettysburg Magazine in 2014. They're looking for a new editor . 
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