Our War

This blog is about my new Civil War history, Our War: Days and Events in the Fight for the Union.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

A gruesome death

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Two brothers from West Springfield, N.H., headed west in the late 1850s to seek their fortune in Minnesota. What drew them there is hard to ...
Monday, January 28, 2013

A hidden gem

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The statue that guards the Soldiers Memorial Building on a corner of the town common in Lebanon, N.H.    No landmark in New Hampshire ...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

How did Lincoln Republicans morph into Obama Democrats?

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Then-Sen.  Barack Obama and I during a 2007 Concord Monitor interview. He was running in the primary; I was editor.  During a busy we...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

My hunt after the story

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Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes The December 1862 edition of the Atlantic Monthly carried a long piece titled “My Hunt after the Captain.” ...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Reviews

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From William Craig's Concord Monitor review of Our War : "N o other writer could offer us Our War’s insightful recreation of th...
Friday, January 18, 2013

What I think happened

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Usually when I speak about Our War , my audience knows little about the book. My purpose is to describe its content, give listeners a taste ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Straight out of Dickens

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Several years ago I had the privilege of interviewing the late Donald Murray, the University of New Hampshire writing guru. Don sent me a la...
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