In preparing the previous four stories about U.S. Civil War sites and their histories, I gathered and posted a number of related photographs. And I was left with dozens more to choose from. If you’re one who believes the old adage that “a picture is worth a thousand words” and that photographs as well as […]
Second Bull Run Through Chancellorsville
Posted May 23rd, 2011 at 1:47 pm (UTC-4)
In our short course on the U.S. Civil War, we — or rather Union forces —made it as far as the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, in 1862. There the grinding war, barely a year old, might have been brought to a triumphant close had cocky, but overcautious, Union general-in-chief George McClellan pressed his advantage in […]
Fort Sumter Through the Peninsula Campaign
Posted May 20th, 2011 at 9:51 am (UTC-4)
As I told you when I first started this written adventure, I’d be asking you to put up with occasional sorties into American history as a backdrop to what our nation has become today. So pack your imaginary bags! I promised last time that I’d take you on a two- or three-part written and visual […]
A Poor Man’s Fight
Posted May 18th, 2011 at 12:19 pm (UTC-4)
The transcendent U.S. Civil War historian Shelby Foote came across a slogan used by southern opponents of secession and war — of which there weren’t many in a region that romanticized the rectitude of the cause. Poking the mighty northern bear, they warned, would lead to “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.” […]
