Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Just Finished Reading - The Quarters and the Fields

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While recent years have produced a significant amount of scholarship on how slavery differed out in various regions of the United States, ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Just Finished Reading - Hard Marching Every Day

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If you're a Civil War enthusiast and you've read your fair share of published soldier letters, you likely know that not all soldie...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Just Finished Reading - Lincoln and the Abolitionists

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A welcome addition to the ever-growing Concise Lincoln Library collection, published by Southern Illinois University Press, is noted abo...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Just Finished Reading - Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom

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While the majority of the the accounts that historian Calvin Schermerhorn uses in crafting his Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Sl...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Just Finished Reading - God's Almost Chosen Peoples

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While both sides called upon the Almighty to assist the successful pursuit of waging war for their respective causes, it could not be so. ...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

Recent Acquisitions to My Library

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Well, another month flew by and my library continued to increase by a few more books. Its growth has almost become as inevitable as death...
Monday, April 1, 2019

Courage Under Fire: Lt. Gardner C. Hawkins, 3rd Vermont Infantry

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I apologize for the lack of posts during the last week of March. My work responsibilities were such as to leave little time for anything o...
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Saturday, March 23, 2019

How the Colored Troops Fight: Incidents of the Attack on Petersburg

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Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, Vermont), Tuesday, July 5, 1864, Describing the fighting of the United States Colored Tro...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Union Prisoners Captured in Grant's Second Petersburg Offensive

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Monday, March 18, 2019

Just Finished Reading - Oberlin: Hotbed of Abolitionism

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Few if any communities can claim the level of influence and the diverse associated personalities in the abolitionist movement that Ober...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Just Finished Reading - Embattled Freedom

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While seemingly almost every aspect of the Civil War-Era has received a fair share of scholarly examination, one significant yet largely...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

USCT Prisoners from the Battle of the Crater Listed as Runaways

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Browsing through some editions of the Richmond Daily Dispatch  while searching for information on Union prisoners cap...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Recent Acquisitions to My Library

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Count me in for just about anything that William J. Cooper, Jr. is associated with. Along with John M. McCardell, Jr., Cooper co-edits In...
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Monday, March 11, 2019

Just Finished Reading - The Good Lord Bird

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From time to time I'll delve into a historical fiction book. I do it for entertainment value more so than for gaining knowledge. For m...
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Thursday, March 7, 2019

Runaway Slave Ad Linked Flight to Wilson-Kautz Raid

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The other day, while I was searching for some Confederate newspaper accounts of Union prisoners captured during Grant's Fourth Offens...
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