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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce

Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; Reprint edition (January 1985)
Language: English
ISBN: 0803260717

Brett’s Horror Book Collection

This is a recurring weekly series covering around ten short stories of Ambrose Bierce, Civil War veteran and well known satirist. This week we’ll start to take a look at Bierce’s war short [...]

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August 31, 1864
Skirmish near the Davis House, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
Skirmish at Martinsburg, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War per the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Order [...]

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People are talking about books and sales, so I may as well add my $.02.
Drew Wagenhoffer is blogging about POD (Print on Demand) books. I had some advance copies of the sharpshooter book made up that way, which looked better than bound galleys, and was amazed to see how far the process has come. The [...]

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August 30, 1864
Brig. Gen. George Crook, USA, is assigned to the command of the Dept. of West Virginia, vice Maj. Gen. David Hunter, USA, is relieved.
Skirmish near Smithfield, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological Tracking of [...]

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Yankee Autumn In Acadiana: A Narrative of the Great Texas Overland Expedition through Southwestern Louisiana October-December 1863. David C. Edmonds. Lafayette, LA: Center For Louisiana Studies, 2005.
495 pp. 21 maps, numerous illustarions.
The term “narrative” is a fitting one for David C. Edmonds’ Yankee Autumn in Acadiana. This book is at its heart a story of [...]

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August 29, 1864
Skirmish at Charlestown, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
Engagement at Smithfield Crossing of the Opequon, WV, with Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, USA, defeating Lieut. Gen. Jubal A. Early, CSA.
Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological Tracking of the American Civil [...]

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August 28, 1864
Skirmishes at Leetown and Smithfield, WV, as Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, USA, marches towards Charlestown, WV.
Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War per the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Order the [...]

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My little sister is off to Penn State to start her career as a History grad student. Thanks to Fred for keeping the blog going in my absence. I intend to slowly ease back into regular blogging over the next week or so. You should see a book review and probably one or two other [...]

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August 27, 1864
Maj. Gen. Edward O. C. Ord, USA, is temporarily in command of the Army of the James, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
Skirmish at Duffield’s Station, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
Skirmish at Nutter’s Hill, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with [...]

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August 26, 1864
Affair at Williamsport, MD, as Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA, crosses back into Maryland.
Skirmish near Charlestown, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
Action at Halltown, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological Tracking of the [...]

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