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Short Takes

June 23rd, 2012 · 1 Comment

A large group of scholars and enthusiasts are gathering Tuesday at UNC Wilmington for a symposium on the remnants of the blockade runner Modern Greece. Sorry, it’s sold out. From the archives of the Manchester Guardian comes an editorial from 1861 about the impending “war to the knife” in the US. Like most of the […]

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Categories: Anecdotes · Civil War Memory · Military History · Political History · Social History

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You Learn Something New…

October 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

I just happened to read about a new preservation effort concerning the tomb of Winfield Scott Hancock’s wife this evening in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story. It seems that the W.S. Hancock Society of Norristown, PA wants has offered to help preserve Almira Hancock’s tomb, now in poor condition in St. Louis’ Bellefontaine Cemetery. I […]

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Categories: Civilians · Generals · Preservation

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