I added General William Dorsey Pender's name and info to my Gettysburg Dead list today. I knew things about him... I knew where he was mortally...
What do you all think will happen with the passenger airline just shot down today in Ukraine? More tensions with Russia and the world as a whole, or...
The more I work with my Gettysburg death roster, the sadder I get to see the ages of a great number of the soldiers. Some enlisted at age 15 and 16....
I've worked with a POW/MIA group in the past and always knew that there are still many people who have not been accounted for. In all that time,...
Someone on the forum asked about Mosby's Raiders a week or so ago... &Thomas Pendrake , I think. Anyhow, I was watching a documentary today and the...
Anyone who knows about the Battle of Gettysburg knows about "Pickett's Charge." I've never been able to understand the reasoning behind Lee's...
Maryland was a slave state when the Civil War began. And a border state. While it's known that brother fought against brother in the war, I have to...
I always smile when I try to figure out where someone lives by how they refer to the Civil War. Sometimes it's easy... sometimes not so. I'll list...
This isn't a biography book that's been written yet, but I wasn't sure where to post what I want to say. And when her book *is* written, it will be...
Two things of note happened on July 4 during the Civil War... and both in 1863. The first that is most well known is that it's the day Lee started...
I know very little about the Korean War... so any bit of information I pick up is generally new to me. (That's my disclaimer in case this question...
Next month will mark the "anniversary" (hate using that word for something like this!) of the atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945....
There were other things happening on 3 July 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg, but they were for the most part overshadowed by "the big one", the...
Today's date is when fighting happened at places like the Peach Orchard, Devil's Den, the Wheatfield, and Little Round Top as Lee tried to keep up...
Much of Gettysburg is being restored to the way it was in 1863. Last week I saw that what used to be the old Visitor Center parking lot was being...
Today marks the opening of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. Before Lee's troops retreated south, the fields were covered with many thousands of...
One of my goals for my trip to Gettysburg last week was to meet or catch a glimpse of Ed Bearss. His name has come up for years every time I did...
Tomorrow (July 1) marks the date of the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg (not counting the few small clashes that happened as the troops were...
I'll be out of touch and in Gettysburg for the next few days. My focus this time will be on the field hospitals and gathering all the information I...
Seems strange that the horrors of WWII were as "recent" as 70 years ago, doesn't it? Well anyhow, today is June 20, and 70 years ago today is when...
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