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Though I have lived now within a few miles of Antietam for the past 18 years, and though I’ve been especially interested in this battle of the [...]
July 30, 2012
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I thought I’d pause from the historically-oriented post after post of late to write something about several of the most recent groups I’ve [...]
July 26, 2012
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< The following is from my research for a book I continue to threaten to someday actually finish! It is from a period of time where Abner [...]
July 23, 2012
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On this date 150 years ago – July 22, 1862 – President Lincoln announces to his Cabinet his decision to issue a proclamation of slave [...]
July 22, 2012
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At this point of the Civil War during this summer season of 1862, now 150 years ago, not only had the temperatures risen, so had the varied [...]
July 17, 2012
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Events of 150 years ago this week evidenced the gradually changing views of Abraham Lincoln toward the issue of slavery and emancipation. Clearly [...]
July 14, 2012
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On this date of July 13, 1862 occurred the FIRST Battle of Murfreeboro, Tennessee. In the South, the Battle of Murfreesboro is what the North [...]
July 13, 2012
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On this date of July 11, 1862 President Lincoln had returned to Washington from his visit with McClellan and the Army of the Potomac at [...]
July 11, 2012
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As was communicated in yesterday’s post, President Lincoln made a visit to the Army of the Potomac at Harrison’s Landing on these dates 150 [...]
July 9, 2012
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The site of the Berkeley Plantation – the ancestral home of William Henry Harrison, 9th US President – was the location for the Army of the [...]
July 8, 2012
Enfilading Lines 