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Perhaps not so surprisingly, my post this week (and first new substantive post in awhile) is not on one of the topics I mentioned last week. Not directly anyway. Going back into “research mode” I’ve found some interesting letters online, … Continue reading
Title quote from Stanza 4 of the Civil War song “I’m going to fight mit Sigel” Going back to a previous posting of a winter letter , I am devoting this post to a quick review of the author of that … Continue reading
Harry Truman was a voracious reader; typically he would have five or six books, maybe more, that he would be reading at one time. Unfortunately, of all Truman’s traits, I most assuredly share this one. I have, I think, four … Continue reading
Winter arrived, albeit briefly, in the Shenandoah Valley this weekend. With that in mind, I offer, without commentary, a letter from Franz Sigel to President Abraham Lincoln (courtesy of American Memory from the Library of Congress), which provides one example … Continue reading
With the new school year starting, I’ll be switching over to semi-monthly postings. My next series of posts will deal with the 54th New York Infantry, another of von Gilsa’s units present at Blocher’s Knoll and East Cemetery Hill during … Continue reading
The 11th Corps of the Army of the Potomac 