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wow someone email more on the ex-gettysburg park chief-they told me it was over 30,000 porn images on his work computer 3,400 just being really hard-core. plus he used funds from the gettysburg found...
the weekend of nov 1st and 2nd i attended a david ward cw tour led by the great ed bearrs.it started on friday night with talks by jeff wert and ted alexander.mr wert spoke of jeb stuart's controvers...
here is the segment on President and Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant from the 2008 WMHT documentary Presidents in Our Backyard. This focuses on the last weeks of Grant's life in S...
i was wondering how many satues exist that portray lincoln in some form or another,there must be thousands.as for davis not nearly as many but still a good amount im sure.there is one of davis with t...
the gettysburg electric map might reopen one day in gettysburg,someone wants to buy it fix it up and let the tourists come see it.i myself went and saw the map twice once in the 1970s and again in th...
i love visiting cw sites.i love walking the ground it gives me a better understanding about what happened there.antietam.chickamauga,shiloh to name a fewnatl parks you can go back in time.droop mount...
About six years ago, I was giving a private tour of the Cold Harbor Campaign which took place in Hanover County, Virginia in June 1864. One of my first stops was on the Studley Road just east...
150 years ago today sunday us marines on a signal by jeb stuart batter down the arsenals engine house door and sieze john brown theres a number of good books to tell the particulars of the raid on ha...
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You will find below an absent soldier father’s wartime Christmas letter to his young daughter. The power and simple eloquence of these words and the writer’s ability to ...
150 years ago today mr issaac smith rode into harpers ferry,about 5 miles away friends had rented a small farm house and this is where he was bound for.with him were two men.mr smith was an interesti...
2oo years ago feb 12th abe lincoln was born and people will be celabrating around the country,fords theater in dc on the 12th is a good place to start with a wreath laying ceremony.a band playing,peo...
1859 browns festering an idea.hatching a plot.its going to explode apon a nation divided on certain issuesany day now brown will act
went to dc feb 12th,tried to get to linc memorial for wreath laying but misjudged rush hour and then missed exit for arlington bridge driving up on geo washington parkway ended up at fort marcy park,...
Had I lived in that era, service aboard Union gunboats would have attracted me.
They didn't have it easy, as shown by damage inflicted by shore cannon when they got in close, but overall I think t...
Surfing the net I came across this discussion about the relative differences between Lincoln and Roger B. Taney on the slavery issue.
Taney wrote the opinion for the Supreme Court in Dred Scott ...
Found this sad blog.
I will not bring it to you but send you to it, so that you can appreciate it for what it is.
Just a reminder that fighting an dying for a cause is still ongoing, and sadly, ...
Schmucker hall, that was was previously known as Gettysburg's Old Dorm, since it was a dormitory for seminary students, was transform during the civil war into a field hospital, and is currently hous...
Jim Smidt, Author of Civil War medicine and Writing, is now the Proud author of a new book, that has not hit the shelves yet - L incolns labels: Americas Best know Brands and the Civil War. ...
if this was 1859 and say if a man wanted to free all slaves in the south,say arm them give them weapons but of course not to do any harm unless forced to where could someone go espe...
last week i attended the naacp ceremony in charlestown wva marking the 150th anniversary of hanging john brown. i got there early enough to mingle with reenactors portraying citizens and soldiers-i h...
every time I turn around, something new is going on about the civil war. a ranger told me at Spotysvania next year a new monument to south Carolina's McGowan's brigade will be placed at the mule shoe...
Cenantua raises a very interesting point about the Headstones that are being put up for civil war soldiers in the last couple of decades, especially for the Confederate soldiers.
At first I was...
The Civil War Gazet is running a series of letters by A.A. Harrison, a Company D 4th Regiment, Kentucky Calvary Volunteers soldier (union) I recommend going over to read them. They give you a feel ...
as the days pass,men begin to show up at the kennedy farm north of harpers ferry in maryland soon 22 men will hide in this farm house all believeing like captain brown in the cause but maybe not all ...
President Lincoln's Cottage opened a new exhibition called " A Deep and Subtle Expression: Lincoln in Sculpture - Works from National Trust Collections" on July 4th. The Exhibition will close on ...
once again the casino at gettysburg idea has come up again,the site this time might be on emmittsburg road south of town at the eisenhower complex which used to be the international village and close...
oct 16th,17th,18th harpers ferry will host alot of talks,walks and whatnot on mr brown.at 8pm from the kennedy farm you can walk the same route he took to the town .its ten dollars to sign up in...
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