Sunday, April 26, 2015

No New Hampshire marker for Washington's slave

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From Christopher Klein's fascinating commentary in today's Boston Globe citing eight reasons that some major events don't ma...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

'How soon I am to fall only God knows': A soldier's account of The Wilderness and Spotsylvania

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Last year in this blog, I wrote about a project being carried out under Graham Warder, a Keene State College associate history professor. ...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

'Pen cannot discribe nor imagination picture . . .'

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Company nurses were firsthand witnesses to the carnage of the Civil War. The letter below provides a glimpse of that experience and the fra...
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...