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Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost:...
Part four in a series. This series was put together from one of my extended graduate school research papers. The sources used were the current research between 2007-2008, obviously the historiography...
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Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost:...
Part five in a series. This series was put together from one of my extended graduate school research papers. The sources used were the current research between 2007-2008, obviously the historiography...
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“Sherman Ponders the War Ahead From St. Louis”
Researching Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is never dull. He is colorful, intelligent, and sometimes wise. And very rarely does he hold back; in writing, as with his conversation, he says exactly...
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The Second Seminole War as a Civil War Training Ground
In the popular narrative of the coming of the Civil War, the U.S.-Mexico War is often identified as the military crucible through which many of the war’s most famous battlefield leaders first...
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Echoes of the Reconstruction Era: The 1876 Election—“A Dead Radical Is Harmless”
The cartoon “A National Game That Is Played Out” by Thomas Nast appeared in Harper’s Weekly Dec. 23, 1876. The cartoon depicts the ballot box as a football being kicked around by politicians. ECW...
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Maine at War September 2022 Blog Posts
In September 2022 my Maine at War blog examined topics ranging from the shoe salesman misidentified by “friendlies” to a small that sent almost 90 percent of its men to fight for the Union. Located in...
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