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Tough we often think of 1862 prior to Antietam as a year of Confederate successes, the early portion was beset by a number of defeats. Blame for [...]
March 18, 2012
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In the week prior to this date of March 11, 1862, President Lincoln had summoned General McClellan to tell him rather bluntly that his lack of [...]
March 11, 2012
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On the 8th of March of 1862 (150 years ago yesterday), the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia had successfully assaulted a Union squadron at [...]
March 9, 2012
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An outnumbered Union army gained a victory in northwest Arkansas on this date of March 7th (and 8th) in 1862 at the Battle of Pea Ridge – also [...]
March 7, 2012
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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 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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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
Enfilading Lines 