Saturday, September 14, 2013

Capt. Sturtevant: 'Before this rebellion is crushed out I fear a great many more of us will be in the sacred soil.'

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Edward E. Sturtevant Edward E. Sturtevant, a Concord police constable, joined the 1st New Hampshire Infantry in April 1861, becoming th...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The yeasty early years of Edward E. Sturtevant

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The place was wall-to-wall dealers of Civil War relics: muskets, banners, canteens, uniform coats, dog-tags, buttons, letters, photographs....
Monday, September 9, 2013

Curses to 'Old Abe and His gang of cutthroats'

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I love old New England cemeteries, especially those hidden away on back roads. Over the Labor Day weekend Monique and I took four of ou...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

From Fredericksburg to The Crater till the war's end, Private Don E. Scott believed God was by his side

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During a recent interview for The Daily Beast, Marc Wortman asked the Civil War historian James M. McPherson what stood out from his readin...
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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Captain Gordon's war: 'There is more fighting to be done and hard fighting too and many lives will be lost'

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“Shell fragment” is a phrase you see in books about Civil War battles. For years when I read it, I thought of a sliver of metal that by dar...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

What became of that glorious banner?

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William B. Reynolds In late July of 1862, a group of young men fresh from Kimball Union Academy marched into Lebanon, N.H., under a 5-fo...