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Entries from November 2007

How Everton Conger helped start the American Red Cross

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve been busy the past few weeks going through about 1,000 pages of documents surrounding Everton Conger’s suspension in 1883 from the Territorial Supreme Court bench in Montana, so I haven’t had time to do much in the way of blog work. But since I feel like I need to carry my weight here a [...]

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Categories: Civil War Individuals

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I love sarcasm!

November 24th, 2007 · No Comments

I am a political cartoon junkie! When I was a kid, I used to clip out the best cartoons from the local newspaper, the Zanesville (Ohio) Times Recorder. I grew up in the Vietnam War era –a time of long-haired sloppy-looking dropouts, fervent anti-war protestors, spaced out dopeheads, greedy TV preachers, frustrating Ohio sports teams, [...]

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Categories: Books - New

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A Veterans Day thank you to our vets!

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

I posted some comments regarding Veterans Day on one of my blogs today. I extend my personal thanks and my deepest gratitude to TOCWOC readers and contributors who have served in the armed forces. Thanks!

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Categories: Miscellaneous

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Sacred Ground

November 7th, 2007 · No Comments

I spent last weekend driving over a good bit of Warren, Loudoun, Fairfax and Fauquier counties with a tour group from Michigan. We were visiting Mosby sites, from the Oakham Farm, where Mosby’s partisan career started, to Salem (Marshall), where he disbanded the command rather than surrender it to the enemy. We did walking tours [...]

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Categories: Battlefield Tours · Campaigns & Battles · Eastern Theater

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Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States

November 1st, 2007 · No Comments

I’m not sure how I managed to miss this, but Gary Grigsby’s new Civil War game has received a title: Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States. A new forum is now available at Matrix games for those of you interested in tracking its final stages of development. In addition, an AAR thread has [...]

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Categories: Games - AARs · Games - New · Gary Grigsby's War Between the States · Wargames

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