In First State
I had the good fortune to speak Dec. 6 to the Wilmington, Del., Civil War Round Table: An attentive and inquisitive audience. Remy Caimi, with me before my presentation, gave a short informative take on Lincoln and the oaths of…
I had the good fortune to speak Dec. 6 to the Wilmington, Del., Civil War Round Table: An attentive and inquisitive audience. Remy Caimi, with me before my presentation, gave a short informative take on Lincoln and the oaths of…
If you think you know "the West" or if you think you know "the Civil War," of you think you both, well then Megan Kate Nelson, a writer and historian has an eye-opening, illusion-shattering surprise for you. Nelson's The Three-Cornered…
Illustration by Strother from Harper's Weekly; image of Strother from West Virginia Culture. David Hunter Strother was one of the nation's premier writers and illustrators before the Civil War. Although he was born and eventually was buried in the…
Thanks to Reverend Mark Tooley for inviting me to speak to this wonderful group of people. I talked about Matthew Fontaine Maury's role in the attempted hijacking of a Union warship weeks before First Bull Run [Manassas] that the Confederates…
During this weekend's Army Historical Foundation staff ride on Thomas Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign, we stopped at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. The statue, Virginia Mourns Her Dead, was done by Moses Ezekial, the first Jewish cadet to attend…
The painting is famous, but John Brown never did kiss a black child before he was hanged. Today is the anniversary of John Brown's execution in Charles Town, Virginia [at the time]. For almost 160 years, this collision of facts,…
Portrait of Charles Wilkes about the time he commanded The South Seas Exploring Expedition. Nathaniel Philbrick's "Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery" should be on every commander's reading list and also in every business and government schools' syllabus. The…
The cell were Beall was shackled at Fort McHenry, Baltimore Well, not quite, but I will be talk about John Yates Beall's days of raiding on the Chesapeake Bay at the May conference of the North American Society for Oceanic…