The stone observatory on the Bloody lane is now finished and ready for visitors. The view from this point alone is worth a visit to the famous Bloody lane as you can take in the entire right to the left nearly four miles. There will be, when all planted, nearly four hundred markers, giving one a good idea of the entire battle field with the advantage of the good roads. Every body ought to visit it and make a study of this great battle.
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It’s time! Our First Bull Run Artillery Tour with Craig Swain and your humble host is this Saturday. Just a few quick reminders, nothing new. We meet at 9:00 AM at the Manassas National Battlefield Park visitor’s center parking lot. I think we’ll find each other OK. The forecast looks pretty good, mid-60s and overcast. […]
Here are Craig Swain’s handouts for our tour this Saturday, Oct. 20. Print them out, download them to a device, or ignore them. It’s your decision. Order of Battle Timeline Really Important Stuff
I Am Perhaps Dying: The Medical History of Spinal Tuberculosis Hidden in the Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, by Dennis Rasbach, MD, FACS, is a companion to Jan Croon’s The War Outside My Window, also from Savas Beatie. As the subtitle states, this is the back story of Gresham’s likely ailments, described but […]
New from Cambridge University Press is War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War, by Joan E. Cashin. We’ve often read of the Civil War being one of resources: specifically, the Union had more, and the outcome was, in that regard, inevitable, a question of time. In this work, […]
New from Savas Beatie is Lance Herdegen’s The Union Soldier in the American Civil War. This slim (154 pp) tome is touted as a “quick reference guide” to all things Billy Yank, and is divided into 34 chapters of varying focus. A sampling: A Concise Timeline of the Civil War Organization of the Union Army […]
The latest in Savas Beatie’s fine atlas series is The Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 – January 22, 1863, by Bradley Gottfried. I’ve previewed a all of these here before, and worked closely with the author and publisher on their First Bull Run volume. […]
September Mourn: The Dunker Church at Antietam Battlefield, by Alann Schmidt and Terry Barkley, is a book that I have been anxiously anticipating due to a familial connection. My great-grandmother Smeltzer’s brother, Pvt. James Gates of the 8th Pennsylvania Reserves, was mortally wounded on September 17th, 1862, as he and his regiment moved south towards […]
Craig and I are working out the mechanics of the tour, and this one looks pretty simple. Just a reminder on logistics. This is a free tour – you get what you pay for! We’ll meet at the Manassas National Battlefield Park visitor’s center at 9:00 AM. Remember, it’s rain or shine. Dress appropriately. […]
Sorry it’s taken me so long to put up this recap. Two weeks ago I was invited by the good folks at the Central Ohio Civil War Roundtable to go out to Columbus and talk with them a little about my views on “the future of Civil War history,” from a perspective other than the […]
Letter from a Marine who was at Bull’s Run I was in the fight at Manassas Gap or Bull’s Run, as it may be called. The place has two names but I think Bull’s Run is the right one, by the way they treated us there. Out of our band of 320 marines that entered […]
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