Coming soon: The story of Dr. Livingstone's son

The story of the son of David Livingston (“Dr. Livingstone, I presume”) is coming soon to this blog. It turns out the younger Livingstone fought in a New Hampshire regiment under an alias. The next post will most likely include a wonderful letterhead showing a bird’s-eye view of Newport News on the Virginia Peninsula.

That said, the blog is likely to slow down with the advent of the New Hampshire summer.

Here are the 10 entries posted during the last two months that have attracted the most hits. They include three posts from the memoir of Henry S. Hamilton, an English-born horn player who served in the 3rd New Hampshire, two from the recent series on newspapering in Concord, N.H., and two from Sgt. Richard Musgrove’s sad account of 12th New Hampshire at Chancellorsville.

One post on the list – A farmer goes to war, his family bears the brunt – and another more recent one – “Life after death for a good soldier’s intentions” – show from different perspectives the effect of the war on families left behind.

1. So what became of Henry S. Hamilton?

2. A printing town, 224 years of newspaper history

3. An immigrant bandsman in the face of battle

4. The terror of reading the casualty list

5. D-Day, then and now

6. Concord, N.H., May 1864: Endless war, boom times

7. An immigrant’s first taste of camp life in South Carolina

8. Touched with Fire: Holmes on Decoration Day in Keene

9. Chancellorsville: ‘We did not know enough to retreat’

10. (tie) A farmer goes to war, his family bears the brunt

              Chancellorsville:In the aftermath of battle

And here are the all-time top 25, with hits ranging from 194 to 993. The post at No. 15 had the fastest rise on the chart during the last month. Also new to the list (tied for 24th) is a post from my journal series from the battlefield at Gettysburg, 

1. Killing the Southerners with kindness (1)

2. Urgent! Telegram from Gettysburg (2)

3. A Gettysburg veteran who knew the battlefield by heart (4t)

4. Farewell, my teacher (3)

5. Exeter’s Civil War general (4t)

6. Did Abraham Lincoln really free the slaves? (7)

7. A Gettysburg journal (6)

8. Unpacking the new ‘Gettysburg’ (8)

9. The soldier’s story behind the love story, Part I (9)

10. Faces of Fort Wagner, Olustee and Andersonville (10t)

11. The Civil War: ‘It was not my fault,’ Buchanan insists (10t)

12. One school’s proud Civil War heritage (12)

13. A gift from the heart (13)

14. Gallery: Faces of the Fighting Fifth (part one) (14)

15. The rise and fall of James Willis Patterson (new to list)

16. The soldier’s story behind the love story, Part II  (16)

17. Backstage with Billy Collins (15)

18. Kennedy gave FDR too much credit, shortchanged Ike (17)

19. Gallery: Old soldiers (2), a New England brigade (19)

20. History’s touch (18)

21. As its centenary nears, the Easter Rising provokes debate (23t)

22. July 2, 1863, Rose’s Woods, Gettysburg (21)

23. (tie) A souvenir from Harpers Ferry (22)

             Harnessing the power of the telling detail (20)

              A Gettysburg Journal (4) (new to list)