What you have done for me lately

My purpose in listing the most popular posts from this blog each month is to direct readers to the posts that other readers find most interesting. Since my subject is history, the longer I maintain this blog, the greater the advantage for older posts. The longer a post is up, the greater chance it will be read.

This month, I’ll give you a top 15 all-time ranking, as usual, but I want to begin with a different top 10: posts from the last two months that have attracted the most readers. Here they are:

1. Curses to to ‘Old Abe and His gang of cutthroats’

2.  (tie) The day they died like white men

     One school’s proud Civil War heritage 

4. From Fredericksburg to The Crater 

5.  “Doctress” Hawks? I don’t think so 

6.  A Confederate captain’s war diary (part 1)

7. The yeasty early years of Capt. Edward E.Sturtevant

8. A Confederate captain’s war diary (part 2)

9. (tie) Not too mean I hope

    Stand your ground, circa 1864

And here are the top 15 all-time, with a range of 150 to 480 hits. The numbers in parentheses are their rankings  a month ago:

1. Urgent! Telegram from Gettysburg (1)

2. Farewell, my teacher (2)

3. Exeter’s Civil War general (3)

4. Did Abraham Lincoln really free the slaves? (4) 

5. Faces of Fort Wagner, Olustee and Andersonville (5)

6. The Civil War: ‘It was not my fault,’ Buchanan insists (6)

7. Harnessing the power of the telling detail (7)

8. Gallery: Faces of the Fighting Fifth (part one) (9)

9. My friend Chester (8)

10. Kennedy gave FDR too much credit, shortchanged Ike (13)

11. Unpacking the new ‘Gettysburg’ (--)

12 How did Lincoln Republicans morph into Obama Democrats? (11)

13 (tie) History’s touch (10)

      The soldier’s story behind the love story, Part II (12)

15. The soldier’s story behind the love story, Part I (15)