TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

First, a short primer.  Earlier this year, historian Tom Lowry was accused of altering a Lincoln pardon letter by the National Archives, who claimed Lowry grew “reticent” during what I assumed was a string of emails.  Lowry denied this accusation at a new blog, saying he had never been contacted about the pardon and had […]

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Historian Brooks Simpson at Crossroads today raised some good points here and here regarding Tom Lowry’s denial of National Archives accusations against him.  One key question is whether or not the National Archives tried to contact Dr. Lowry prior to knocking on his door one January morning.  Lowry says they did not at all contact […]

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Editor’s Note: This post was cross-posted at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. Microfilm Rolls Available for Purchase Online from the National Archives As my Siege of Petersburg site Beyond the Crater continues to expand, my research has often led me to exciting and useful new resources online.  One such recent example was […]

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The saga of historian Thomas Lowry, who had admitted falsifying a pardon signed by Abraham Lincoln earlier this week, got a bit murkier today when he denied doing it. In a phone interview Tuesday, Lowry recanted his confession and said he offered repeated denials to Archives investigators over the course of a two-hour interview but […]

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* Civil War telegrams from Abraham Lincoln. * Original signatures of Andrew Jackson. * Presidential portraits of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. * NASA photographs from space and on the moon. * Presidential pardons. What do these all have in common? They were all in the National Archives at one time but now are not, or at […]

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Air Date: 012006 Subject: Sex in the Civil War Book: The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War & Tarnished Eagles: The Court-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels Guest: Thomas P. Lowry Summary: Unlike the soldiers themselves, author Thomas Lowry, MD, is happy to discuss The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in […]

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