Once a school superintendent and a town clerk, his administrative expertise qualified him as General Gibbon’s primary assistant. No manual on military tactics ever stated that an officer should use hi… more →
Gettysburg Lessons In The Digital Agewrote 9 hours ago: Once a school superintendent and a town clerk, his administrative expertise qualified him as General … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Major Thomas Osborn commanded a Union artillery unit that was taking direct hits from Rebel cannons … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: In the early 1830s he was an artillerist, a college professor, and an Episcopal priest. Some members … more →
wrote 4 weeks ago: He was a pianist, boxer, fencer, author, and mathematician. With the highest grade-point average at … more →
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wrote 1 month ago: The Battle of Gettysburg Through a 13-Year-Old’s Eyes http://www.historic-restorations.com ^ | March … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Funny. The battle of Gettysburg, Pa. July 3d. 1863, depicting the Battle of Gettysburg, fought July … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Gettysburg, A Big Rock, and Bean Town On the morning we were to depart DC, we awoke to several inche … more →
wrote 2 months ago: As the ideal commander of all Union forces at Gettysburg, Major General George Gordon Meade had almo … more →
wrote 4 months ago: He knew how to manage people and identified an opportunity when he saw it. By the time the war bega … more →
wrote 6 months ago: English: Incidents of the war. A harvest of death, Gettysburg, PA. Dead Federal soldiers on battlefi … more →
wrote 6 months ago: More preview art for the only thing I’m working on this month. … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Having seen so much death, mutilation, amputation, sickness and disease, he was anxious to go home t … more →
wrote 6 months ago: He had a family and a thriving law practice. Men younger than he were available to do the fighting, … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Unlike many Union generals, Chamberlain had no military training. Fluent in several languages and a … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Gazing upon the Stars and Stripes, this twenty-six-year-old Harvard alumnus from Pennsylvania procla … more →
wrote 10 months ago: On this day in 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg came to an end, and in its wake were over 57,000 Union … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Last week a friend and I went to Gettysburg to tour the battlefield. It was bloody hot — aroun … more →
wrote 11 months ago: The Gettysburg National Military Park is replete with over 1,300 monuments designed to remember virt … more →