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Thanks for continuing to read this blog during a stretch when I am too busy to post. If you are a pack-rat like me moving out of a house you’ve lived in for 36-plus years, you’ll understand my problem. How long the hiatus will last, I can’t say. I continue to find fodder for posts on the Civil War and other topics but just don’t have the time to write and illustrate them.

Here are the top 25 posts, which now range in hits from 1,056 to 217. Numbers in parentheses are last month’s rankings.

1. Killing the Southerners with kindness (1)

2. Why couldn’t Franklin Pierce just keep his mouth shut? (4)

3. Urgent! Telegram from Gettysburg (2)

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

5. Farewell, my teacher (5)

6. Exeter’s Civil War general (6)

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

8. A Gettysburg journal (part 3) (8)

9. Unpacking the new ‘Gettysburg’ (9)

10. The soldier’s story behind the love story, Part I (10)

11. Faces of Fort Wagner, Olustee and Andersonville (11)

12. The Civil War: ‘It was not my fault,’ Buchanan insists (12)

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

14. The rise and fall of James Willis Patterson (15)

15. A gift from the heart (14)

16. Gallery: Faces of the Fighting Fifth (part one) (16)

17. Gallery: Old soldiers (2), a New England brigade (18)

18. The soldier’s story behind the love story, Part II  (17)

19. ‘The reputation of a regiment if always made by the worst men in it’ (20)

20. Together again: They rode with Cross at Gettysburg (23t)

21. A Gettysburg Journal, part 4 (23t)

22. My friend Chester (returns to list)

23. Backstage with Billy Collins (19)

24. A Gettysburg photo album (23t)

25. Kennedy gave FDR too much credit, shortchanged Ike (21t)