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Monthly Archives: February 2012

  • Imagine if one of the Obama daughters were to contract some dreadful disease and die. It would be all over the news, cameras would follow the [...]

    150 Years Ago: Burial of Willie Lincoln

    February 28, 2012
  • (As I have written in the page you may reference at the top of the blog, I have a special research interest in Abner Doubleday. This material is [...]

    Abner Doubleday’s Winter of 1861-62

    February 27, 2012
  • Jefferson Davis – from Mississippi – resigned from the United States Senate in January 1861 and was chosen President of the Confederacy by [...]

    150 Years Ago Today: Jefferson Davis Inaugurated

    February 22, 2012
  • The transcript below is the third of three documents found in the Antietam Battlefield file concerning General Joseph Mansfield and his mortal [...]

    General Mansfield’s Final Hours, by Captain Dyer

    February 20, 2012
  • Once in a while at Antietam while doing tours – like maybe once a year – I meet someone who has a very strong and passionate feeling that the [...]

    324 Years Ago Today: The Germantown Protest Against Slavery

    February 18, 2012
  • The first really significant major Union victory of the Civil War occurred 150 years ago today with the Confederate surrender of Fort Donelson on [...]

    150 Years Ago Today: The Capture of Fort Donelson

    February 16, 2012
  • The collection of letters of John B. Noyes at the Houghton Library of Harvard University contains one written on 2/22/1862 that speaks of a [...]

    150 Years Ago Today: The Williamsport Ladies Grand Concert

    February 14, 2012
  • In 2007, one of the very first tours I ever did involved an older couple who arrived with a family heirloom paper mentioning the history of a [...]

    The 60th New York Ancestor at Antietam

    February 13, 2012
  • Though I do tours at Antietam – situated just outside Sharpsburg, MD – I actually live about 5-6 miles from the Battlefield, closer to the [...]

    150 Years Ago In Williamsport, MD

    February 11, 2012
  • Folks who are only familiar with the stories of General Ambrose Burnside at Antietam and Fredericksburg often wonder why he was thought of highly [...]

    150 Years Ago Today: The Battle of Roanoke Island

    February 8, 2012

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