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Fame at Shiloh
I think of her standing there, right arm outstretched, pen in hand, the tip not quite daring to touch the granite obelisk. Her left hand hangs back behind her, her fingers poised daintily, helping her...
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Day Five: Shiloh
Part twelve in a series The swhrrrr of cicadas rises and falls like the heartbeat of the battlefield. I stand on the edge of Shiloh’s peach orchard, gazing through the trees at nothing in particular in...
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The following was passed along by ECW’s friend William Underhill, one of the stalwart keeper’s of Ulysses S. Grant’s flame as a member of the Friends of Grant Cottage, the organization that staffs the...
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Draft Dilemma in Poweshiek County: The Murder of the Marshals
The newspaper clipping, “United States Marshals Murdered in Iowa” quotes the Chicago Tribune, but the printed source is the Pittsburgh Daily Post, 10/13/1864, located online at www.newspapers.com...
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Echoes of Reconstruction: The USCT Continued to Serve After the War Was Over
USCT monument Helena, Arkansas ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog July 18 was the 158th Anniversary of the assault of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer...
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Maine at War December 2022 blog posts
In December 2022 my Maine at War blog examined topics ranging from a sea chase off Cape Fear to how the war deeply affected an internationally famous poet who just happened to be Maine-born. The...
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May 2023 Maine at War blog posts
In May 2023 my Maine at War blog reported on the state’s connection with Grierson’s Raid, went with the sharpshooters and 3rd Maine Infantry into Pitzer’s Woods at Gettysburg, and reported on a July...
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