Our War
This blog is about my new Civil War history, Our War: Days and Events in the Fight for the Union.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
A riddle wrapped up in an enigma
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This monument in Canterbury honors many soldiers from Concord as well as Canterbury. One like it used to stand in a square in Penacook...
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
How Napoleon B. Perkins lost his leg
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In Our War I tell the story of Napoleon Perkins, a soldier from Stark, N.H. Perkins was under 18, the age at which a young man could enlist...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The Civil War: 'It was not my fault,' Buchanan insisted
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Except for the U.S. presidents who came from the same families, it is hard to think of two presidents more closely linked than New Hampshire...
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Front-page story
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In the fall of 1863, Private William S. Marston of the 3rd New Hampshire Volunteers sat down to write a letter home to Exeter. “Mother,” he ...
Friday, April 26, 2013
The generational history gap revisited
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The other day during a short trip to Washington, D.C., Monique and I revisited Camelot, provoking further concern about the generational his...
Sunday, April 21, 2013
History's touch
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Yesterday we took two of our grandchildren, Grace and Jackson, to Wild New Hampshire Day at the Fish and Game Department in Concord. The kid...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Did Abraham Lincoln really free the slaves?
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Thomas Ball's familiar statue of Abraham Lincoln freeing a slave. You probably learned in junior high school that he did. And even i...
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