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Artillery Cache Discovered at Lovejoy

danelliott wrote 2 months ago: Mark Pollard, Henry County Historian and the guiding light for the Nash Farm Battlefield Park, unear … more →

Tags: archaeology, Georgia, artillery shells, battle of lovejoy, Civil War, Lovejoy, Mark Pollard, Nash Farm

Kennesaw Mountain

jollyjam1 wrote 7 months ago: Last weekend found my honey and I down at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield.  Every time I go I … more →

Tags: Travel, US Civil War, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta Campaign, US History, Georgia, Atlanta, Joseph E Johnston

Beer and Donuts1 comment

padresteve wrote 7 months ago: Tonight after a hard week for Judy and a reasonably sporty week on the ICU for me, Judy and I went o … more →

Tags: Baseball, Religion, Loose thoughts and musings, Beer, Norfolk Tides, donuts, Scranton Wilkes-Barre Yankees, harp lager, krispy kreme donuts

Cry Havoc!2 comments

Dr. Spots wrote 7 months ago: This, although not completely original, has been EXTENSIVELY rewritten in the commentary following t … more →

Tags: doctorspots, Antony, attrocity, collateral damage, Dresden, hell, Hitler, human shields, Julius Caesar

April 13th in the American Civil War?

tellinghistory wrote 8 months ago: What happened on this day during the Civil War – April 13th? Saturday, April 13, 1861 – … more →

Tags: 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, , Did you know?, Bayou Teche, Gen David Hunter, Nathan Bedford Forrest

On This Day, March 27: Alaskan Earthquake

Randy Roberts wrote 8 months ago: March 27, 1964 Earthquake rocks Alaska The strongest earthquake in American history, measuring 8.4 o … more →

Tags: History, NASA, Ulysses S. Grant, president-lincoln, U.S. Navy, Alaska

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! Let's not talk about this . . .8 comments

cenantua wrote 8 months ago: The following post is actually a re-post (having originally appeared on August 27, 2007) from Hill C … more →

Tags: Alabama Unionists, Confederate conscription, descendants of Southern Unionists, Mississippi Unionists, Southern Union soldiers, Southern Unionists who became Union soldiers, 1st Alabama Cavalry, Alabama, Civil War draft dodgers

Trinity College Civil War Trail Marker

macwhatley wrote 10 months ago: In December Randolph County’s first Civil War Trail marker was installed in Trinity at the Tri … more →

Tags: Randolph County, nc, Civil War, Trinity College, Civil War Trails, General William J. Hardee, Carolinas Campaign

Screenwriting from Hell 2 comments

Scott W. Smith wrote 1 year ago: “There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. … more →

Tags: Screenwriting, Screenwriting Road Trips, Iowa, University of Iowa, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Cruise, Hitler, Script Magazine, Apocalypse Now

Civil War "forgetfulness?" Ummm, sure... so "where did the love go?"7 comments

cenantua wrote 1 year ago: Noting a remark in a post made on Richard William’s blog that demonstrates Richard’s bel … more →

Tags: American Civil War, Re-inventing CW memory, "Shuffled" CW memory, Civil War Memory - General, "Personal" CW memory, Ancestral tidbits, Civil War memory, Confederate ancestors, Robert E. Lee

On This Day, 8-4-08: Anne Frank

Randy Roberts wrote 1 year ago: Anne Frank and her family arrested by Gestapo On this day in 1944, a German-born Jewish girl and her … more →

Tags: History, George Washington, World War I, Anne Frank, John Peter Zenger, Lizzie Borden, Alexander Graham Bell, Michael H Schwerner, James E Chaney

On This Day, 7-22-08: INF Treaty

Randy Roberts wrote 1 year ago: Gorbachev accepts ban on intermediate-range nuclear missiles In a dramatic turnaround, Soviet leader … more →

Tags: History, Mikhail Gorbachev, Cold War, Roanoke, Richard M. Nixon, Saddam Hussein, John Bell Hood, USS Constitution, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces

On This Day, 7-20-08: One Small Step

Randy Roberts wrote 1 year ago: At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words t … more →

Tags: History, Soviet Union, Cold War, World War II, Apollo 11, united states, Adolf Hitler, Neil Armstrong, John F. Kennedy

Saturday in the park with Grand-paps

Helen wrote 1 year ago: After doing the Early Show on Saturday morning (where I met Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning) I walked … more →

Tags: central park

O Captain! My Captain!2 comments

Mark Grannis wrote 1 year ago: It’s April 14, and on this day in 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theate … more →

Tags: Arts and Letters, Citizenship, History, Poetry, Abraham Lincoln, appomattox, Civil War, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee

One Union soldier's reflections on the Lost Cause

cenantua wrote 1 year ago: The following is from Chapter 12 of the History of the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry (by William He … more →

Tags: Lost Cause, 12th West Virginia Infantry, William Hewitt, Jubal A. Early, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Charlottesville Chronicle, Lexington Virginia

104th Ohio soldiers writes in late November 1864

tellinghistory wrote 2 years ago: 4pp. letter from John D. Messinger of the 104th Ohio Infantry, Company D. Written in ink and datelin … more →

Tags: John Bell Hood, Army of the Cumberland, Army of the Ohio, Ohio

December 5, 1864 . . . . bold affair at Franklin

tellinghistory wrote 2 years ago: Kingston NC December 5 1864 My Dear Lizzie, [In part.....] I receive a letter last week from Joab da … more →

Tags: letter, CSA, Army of Tennessee, cavalry, Battle description, Atlanta, North Carolina

Article from TN Encyclopedia of History and Culture1 comment

tellinghistory wrote 3 years ago: Following the evacuation of Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood formulated an elaborate plan … more →

Tags: John Bell Hood, Army of Tennessee, Carter farm, Spring Hill, John M. Schofield, Patrick Cleburne, John C. Brown, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Casualties


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