Our War
This blog is about my new Civil War history, Our War: Days and Events in the Fight for the Union.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
'The sand here blowes like snow in N.H.'
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Brig. Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s Expedition was an early Union effort to cut off access to North Carolina seaports through which the Confedera...
Saturday, December 27, 2014
'Even wretched looking hovels are draped in mourning'
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The Colby family of Springfield, N.H., sent three sons to fight in the Civil War. One of them was stationed in Washington, D.C., when Presi...
Thursday, December 25, 2014
New York haiku, Vol. 6
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Laura and Yuri, in our NYC apartment, before a night on the town. Here’s another batch of New York haiku. One is the latest in a series...
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Saturday, December 13, 2014
New York haiku, vol. 5
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With winter and the holidays coming, here is the latest installment in this series of short takes from a non-New Yorker living and learning ...
Sunday, December 7, 2014
6th New Hampshire Volunteers in pictures and stories
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For pictures of members of the 6th New Hampshire Volunteers, look here , here and here . And here's the story of a prison escape by ...
Thursday, December 4, 2014
New York City haiku, vol. 4
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More haiku from Gotham, with apologies to William Carlos Williams for (guess which) one. Also two of these rise from a new strain about peo...
Monday, December 1, 2014
The first casualty
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Col. Enoch Q. Fellows, 37, cross-eyed and deaf, was from Centre Sandwich, N.H. A chapter in Our War followed the fortunes of a Civil W...
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