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The Southern city of New Orleans was defended downstream by two forts – Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip. For several weeks, U.S. Navy Flag [...]
April 25, 2012
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On this date in 1862, President Lincoln signed a bill entitled “The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act.” Though this [...]
April 16, 2012
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As I’ve written in recent days, I would have rather put this in the blog a year ago – though no blog yet existed. And as well, the following [...]
April 14, 2012
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This is again some information I would have rather had in this blog last year, but alas, I was not writing it back then … so here it is for [...]
April 13, 2012
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Today, April 12, 2012, is a sort of convergence point for a number of my most valued hobbies and interests. As a Civil War history enthusiast, it [...]
April 12, 2012
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Today is the sesquicentennial of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point (almost one year after the inception at Fort Sumter). It [...]
April 6, 2012
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As McClellan began the Virginia Peninsula Campaign by pushing his large army (about 120,000) from Fort Monroe, his troops soon encountered a [...]
April 4, 2012
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After months of preparation (along with criticism for the inaction of The Army of the Potomac), McClellan himself departed Washington (“that [...]
April 1, 2012
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A battle often dubbed as “The Gettysburg of the West” was fought 150 years ago today in the New Mexico territory at the base of the Sangre de [...]
March 28, 2012
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The hamlet of Kernstown, Virginia was just to the southwest of Winchester and is in fact considered essentially a part of Winchester today. This [...]
March 23, 2012
Enfilading Lines 