Month: September 2007
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Books and subjects in need of updating
As someone knee-deep into writing his first book, I have a new respect for those who have gone before me. Even though I’ve been researching the life of Everton Conger for almost 12 years now, my study has only scratched the surface. Much of that comes from the fact that very few letters written by […]
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Have a Happy: Celebrating the bloodiest day in American history
Kevin Levin at Civil War Memory has a bitter screed about people going to Antietam and enjoying themselves, damn it. It’s a battlefield! People died! Platitudes are being uttered! What do you see when you go to a national battlefield? If the NPS is operating it, you can bet its really clean. And tasteful. In […]
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Remembering, A special “band of brothers”.
As I type this, 145 years ago, , September 16,1862 the 30th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, better known as the 1st Pa Reserves were ordered from column of “fours”, the standard marching formation of the day, into battle lines. The regiment was now a veteran regiment. Tired and hungry it was given the chance to […]
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I could barely write my introductory post and now it wants a title?
I’ve tried to write this introduction at least 8 times – I’m just too rusty and can’t for the life of me get something down on paper that I like. So I promised myself, no matter what, this is the last attempt –I’m going to post this introduction even if it is so bad, it […]
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New to the Civil War? What do I tell “newbies” to read?
This is a question, that I think is a good one. And in a way its a tough one to answer. When I got started, there was a far greater emphasis on reading then there is today. And there were well less things to do. Also I sense that people in their teens don’t enjoy […]