A swerve, and a new adventure

My life has taken another swerve, which accounts for the slowdown in posting on this blog. Earlier this month I was hired as administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes with a Sept. 1 start date.

Given the responsibilities of this job, chances I can continue blogging about the Civil War seem slight. But I hope you’ll bear with me a bit longer and maybe check out some of the posts you've missed during the last 20 months. There are now more than 250 posts in all.

Perhaps a new blog will emerge with the new job, or maybe I will find a way to keep delving into Civil War subjects.

Meanwhile, here are the top 10 posts in hit count from the last two months – and below the top 25 all-time.

1. A printing town, 224 years of newspaper history

2. D-Day, then and now

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

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

5. A war relic comes home to New Hampshire

6. ‘No . . . man shall sit upon the throne of my mind’

7. Memorial Day in Canterbury

8. ‘I never imagined we should see such reverses’

9. Ordinary young men and the price of freedom

10 (tie). First edition: war news, a two-headed pig

      

              To Richmond at last (part one)

Readership has continued at a good clip, for which I thank you. The top 25 posts now range in hits from 1,030 to 208. One post – Why couldn’t Franklin Pierce keep his mouth shut? – zoomed up in the rankings during the last month, moving all the way to fourth place.

1. Killing the Southerners with kindness (1)

2. Urgent! Telegram from Gettysburg (2)

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

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

5. Farewell, my teacher (3)

6. Exeter’s Civil War general (5)

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

8. A Gettysburg journal (7)

9. Unpacking the new ‘Gettysburg’ (8)

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

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

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

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

14. A gift from the heart (13)

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

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

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

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

19. Backstage with Billy Collins (17)

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

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

              History’s touch (20)

23 (tie). A Gettysburg photo album (new to list)

           A Gettysburg Journal, part 4 (23t)

           Together again: They rode with Cross at Gettysburg (new to list)