Sunday, March 29, 2015

I have again met the enemy and am still unharmed

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View of and from Bolivar Heights One of the highlights of the shoe-leather research Mark Travis and I did for  My Brave Boys , our hist...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

Seven Days, one man's ordeal: 'No doubt you have thought of me, perhaps wondering whether alive or dead'

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Daniel K. Cross Until now, Daniel K. Cross was best known to me as the 5th New Hampshire soldier who helped the wounded Col. Edward E. ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Lovers reunited? A discovery

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This man is almost certainly George W. Ladd of the 2nd New Hampshire Volunteers. This blog was a retirement project, but I am no longer...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

As night fell on Fredericksburg

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Writing an official report of a Civil War regiment in battle was a daunting task. Battle was chaotic. No colonel could get all the facts or...
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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