Friday, August 9, 2013

A Confederate captain's war diary (2): 'The Confederate states will be successful and independent yet.'

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This installment of the Civil War diary of Capt. Robert Emory Park of the 12th Alabama Infantry covers his weeks of captivity at Point Look...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

A Confederate captain's war diary, 1864-65 (Part 1): 'I loathe the idea of confinement in a Yankee prison'

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Capt. Robert Emory Park of the 12th Alabama Infantry was wounded and captured at the third battle of Winchester on Sept. 19, 1864. This pos...
Monday, August 5, 2013

Give me Winslow Homer anytime

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Winslow Homer's "Thanksgiving in Camp," was published Nov. 29, 1862, in Harper's Weekly.  Winslow Homer entered the A...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Little lady, big voice

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The other day I found a photograph of Anna E. Dickinson taken closer to the time she helped Republicans win perhaps the most important guber...
Monday, July 29, 2013

A Yankee sergeant's great escape

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The resourceful Charles W. Thurston of the 6th New Hampshire often donned a Confederate uniform and  "played Rebel" to help hi...
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Saturday, July 27, 2013

"Doctress" Hawks? I don't think so

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As I write this, I am sitting just a few miles from Newport, N.H. Newport is an inland town – not a port at all. It is a former mill town o...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Stand your ground, circa 1864

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Point Lookout, Md. The prison camp is at upper right, with the tents of the enlisted guard members outside the fence. At about 5 p.m. o...