Saturday, May 30, 2015

The short but deadly war of Orvis Fisher

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A Civil War letter came to hand this week that reminded me of a surprising, if macabre, discovery during research years ago. Mark Travis an...
Monday, May 25, 2015

A young veteran in Washington's whirl, 1866

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John Charles Currier was shot in the face not once but twice during 1864, the second ball shattering his jawbone. Somehow he survived to li...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Roll call of death for a company of the 7th New Hampshire

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Sergeant Teel was 21 years old when he was wounded at Fort Wagner. Evacuated to Hilton Head, S.C., he died the next day . He was from Wi...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Was James Buchanan really our worst president?

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James Buchanan My friend Michael Birkner posted the column below on Lancasteronline on April 23, James Buchanan’s 224th birthday. This ...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Summer of 1862: In a green regiment on Capitol Hill, it was all confusion for the boys from Sutton

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Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army chased George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac across the Virginia Peninsula in late June of 1862. ...
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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. ...