Most popular posts

Last month, I compiled a top ten list for readership of posts on this blog. Here are the rankings a month later with the April rankings in parentheses:

1. My friend Chester (1)

2.  How did Lincoln Republicans morph into Obama Democrats? (2)

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

4.   A love of music, a way with words (3)

5.  Emails from afar and a happy coincidence (4)

6.  Exeter’s Civil War general (10)

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

8. History’s touch (new to list)

9. The ever-changing past (6)

10. The soldier’s story behind the love story (part 1) (new to list)

Just missed: Capt. Butler, saved for posterity (7), Did Abraham Lincoln really free the slaves? and A kick in the pants at Chancellorsville