Our War
This blog is about my new Civil War history, Our War: Days and Events in the Fight for the Union.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
'No man . . . shall sit upon the throne of my mind'
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The remarkable Marilla M. Ricker wanted nothing more than to break glass ceilings. “Let come what will come, no man, be he priest, minister...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
The alarming decay of Old North Cemetery
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Nathaniel Peabody Rogers edited the Herald of Freedom, Concord's abolitionist newspaper. My wife and I had guests during Memorial D...
Sunday, June 1, 2014
'I never imagined we should see such reverses'
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[Charles A. Hale’s Gettysburg scrapbook was the subject of posts here and here . The National Park Service has now posted photos from the...
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
Framed and delivered
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After reading my series on the 150th anniversary of the Concord Monitor , old friend Chuck Douglas brought in this framed copy of the May...
Friday, May 30, 2014
Touched with fire: Holmes on Decoration Day in Keene
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For more than a century Memorial Day was observed on May 30 to honor America's war dead. It was originally called Decoration Day. The h...
Monday, May 26, 2014
Memorial Day in Canterbury
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Today, my friend Mark Travis is giving the Memorial Day speech in his hometown of Canterbury. Together years ago, Mark and I wrote My Brave...
Sunday, May 25, 2014
A printing town, 224 years of newspaper history
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This timeline of newspaper history in Concord, N.H., compiled from various sources, ran in the Concord Monitor with my recent three-part s...
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