Our War
This blog is about my new Civil War history, Our War: Days and Events in the Fight for the Union.
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Four more faces of the Fighting Fifth
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Francis W. Butler of the 5th New Hampshire Volunteers, winter 1861-62 It has been 13 years since the publication of My Brave Boys , the...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Gotham greets Granite Staters
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A New York stopover on the way to war: https://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/http://node801.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default More on th...
Sunday, January 25, 2015
When a soldier's vote was a loyalty test
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Sgt. Wesley Knight, loyal Republican Can you imagine a military unit off at war in which American soldiers care deeply about who is ele...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
The new bride
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Julia Jones was an eloquent and sometimes saucy letter-writer. When she came through Concord, N.H. after her winter wedding, she was perh...
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Short letter, tragic story
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Capt. John A. Cummings Sometimes a short letter says a lot if you know the conditions under which it was written. Here is a letter from...
Thursday, January 1, 2015
New Year, a thank you to readers
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Looking down from Broadway at W. 96th St. on one of the last days of 2014/ Just after midnight, New Year's fireworks over Manha...
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...
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