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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 [...]
February 28, 2012
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(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 [...]
February 27, 2012
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Jefferson Davis – from Mississippi – resigned from the United States Senate in January 1861 and was chosen President of the Confederacy by [...]
February 22, 2012
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The transcript below is the third of three documents found in the Antietam Battlefield file concerning General Joseph Mansfield and his mortal [...]
February 20, 2012
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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 [...]
February 18, 2012
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The first really significant major Union victory of the Civil War occurred 150 years ago today with the Confederate surrender of Fort Donelson on [...]
February 16, 2012
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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 [...]
February 14, 2012
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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 [...]
February 13, 2012
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Though I do tours at Antietam – situated just outside Sharpsburg, MD – I actually live about 5-6 miles from the Battlefield, closer to the [...]
February 11, 2012
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Folks who are only familiar with the stories of General Ambrose Burnside at Antietam and Fredericksburg often wonder why he was thought of highly [...]
February 8, 2012
Enfilading Lines 